The 2008 Cystic Fibrosis Strides for Life Walkathon...

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:57 pm

The 2008 Cystic Fibrosis Strides for Life Walkathon kicked off this morning at 0900 hrs. Team Alyssa (as usual) set up the entire get together and Gas City donated water, donuts and ice. Pizza Hut donated over 15 pizzas.

The city of Sierra Vista raised a little over $26,000+ grand total. Team Alyssa and ValiantFans.com was responsible for $18,250 of that total. We kicked *SQUEE* folks !!!!!!! As a whole, VF.com raised $14,500 is a mere six months... awesome job guys.

I want to thank Greg for allowing me to conduct the fund raiser in such a GREAT place. I want to thank Ric (Byrneout) for his fund raising that he did last October which netted us over $9,000+. I want to thank svair and all of his contacts that made the Shadow Man VfVSS a possibility, there was A LOT of hard work that went into that and believe me, it is not forgotten. I want to thank dellamorte for running the zombie project that got the fund raiser a load of money (exact amount is unknown at this time), also to be thanked are ALL the other board members out there who helped in some way. I cannot mention them all and I certainly do not want to leave anyone out so I want to say thank you to EVERYONE who helped us attain our goal and once again.

Next years fund raiser is going to be AWESOME and I will be making the goal quite a bit higher as we will have all year to do things here and there instead of a huge rush towards the end.

I will post pics tomorrow... as it is right now, we normally walk 5 laps, today... I walked 15 laps and am pretty tired and tore up.

Men... thank you for all that you have done this year. It NEVER ceases to amaze me at how much all of you support this event every year.

THANK YOU.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:00 pm

Make sure to put yourself on the back Brother.

If I drank.... I'd raise a glass to ya.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:03 pm

Elveen wrote:Make sure to put yourself on the back Brother.

If I drank.... I'd raise a glass to ya.

I'll take care of that for you. And another one for me.

Smashey · Post by **Smashey** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:19 pm

Way to go knightt. Very impressive.

Dr. Solar · Post by **Dr. Solar** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:24 pm

Awesome!

I love hearing good news like this.

R Daneel · Post by **R Daneel** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:30 pm

Awesome - glad to hear things went well!

wallywest · Post by **wallywest** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:47 pm

That is awesome...all I can say is

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:13 pm

Elveen wrote:Make sure to put yourself on the back Brother.

If I drank.... I'd raise a glass to ya.

Hey sure I do 'stuff'... but without this message board and the amount of support and caring that comes from here, in comparison, what I do is minimal. But thanks Elveen.

BTW, once I find it... I have GREAT news about CF Cure Research. As in Milestone news.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:25 pm

Knightt wrote:
Elveen wrote:Make sure to put yourself on the back Brother.

If I drank.... I'd raise a glass to ya.

Hey sure I do 'stuff'... but without this message board and the amount of support and caring that comes from here, in comparison, what I do is minimal. But thanks Elveen.

BTW, once I find it... I have GREAT news about CF Cure Research. As in Milestone news.

Well, get to lookin'.

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:28 pm

worldsbestcomics · Post by **worldsbestcomics** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:38 am

Elveen wrote:Make sure to put yourself on the back Brother.

If I drank.... I'd raise a glass to ya.

I'll drink twice. Thanks for the news knightt

TKWill · Post by **TKWill** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:45 am

Congrats to everyone here that helped in some way.

Thanks Geo gor bidding on my little auction.

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:41 pm

That's excellent! Way to go Knightt

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:57 pm

Elveen wrote:
Knightt wrote:
Elveen wrote:Make sure to put yourself on the back Brother.

If I drank.... I'd raise a glass to ya.

Hey sure I do 'stuff'... but without this message board and the amount of support and caring that comes from here, in comparison, what I do is minimal. But thanks Elveen.

BTW, once I find it... I have GREAT news about CF Cure Research. As in Milestone news.

Well, get to lookin'.

Not actually what I was looking for but this showed up in todays newspaper. The actual newspaper edition should have more. As typical the newspaper had it all backward, they had 'Nancy' as being the coordinator when it was Team Alyssa and also had no mention of our monumental fund raising but then again, as long as the money gets to where it needs to go and a cure is found, that is really what I care about.

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2008/0 ... 893902.txt

There is also an area in which to leave comments, I am asking you guys to go ahead and make a comment supporting what we have done and Team Alyssa. I think that the town of Sierra Vista will be impressed by what we have done (i.e. ValiantFans.com and Team Alyssa).

Another thing is that the city of Sierra Vista has announced during this week of March, it will be forever know as Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Week !!! Awesome...

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:08 pm

99 views and 13 responses (and four of them from me) ?

Ben(inabox) · Post by **Ben(inabox)** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:05 pm

This is really amazing. Thank you so much!

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:07 am

Snotdrip ended the fund raiser with a HUGE (i.e. more than his winning $400 bid for the Platinum book) donation to our CF website, bringing our total even HIGHER but the Website alone lists :

Fund-raising Summary for 2008 Sierra Vista - Veterans' Memorial Park Bandshell
My Fund-raising Goal: $15,000.00
Funds Raised:
Online Donations*: $2,445.00
Other Funds Raised**: $11,192.00
Your Contribution: $3,040.00
Total Funds Raised: $16,677.00

And that is just ONLINE donations it does not include the donations that we were able to pick up locally. I will have to run all the numbers by my boss up in Tucson and will post that finale when I get it !!!!

GREAT JOB MEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:25 am

Wow.

It is such a great feeling to be a part of something bigger than I am.

Congrats to all the dudes that bid on books, that paid more than they needed to, and, to the dudes that auctioned off stuff.

Really cool. SUPER COOL.

Knightt my friend, I have a big smile on my face right now.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:29 am

WOW !!!

Thats pretty amazing stuff dude.

Congrats to everyone involved.

IanAlexavier · Post by **IanAlexavier** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:10 am

A ton of work on your part Knightt! Well done!

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:28 am

Magnificent. Many congratulations to all who donated and a BIG

to Knightt. Job well done

worldsbestcomics · Post by **worldsbestcomics** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:07 am

R Daneel · Post by **R Daneel** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:18 am

Wheeeeee! Nice job.

greg · Post by **greg** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:19 pm

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:29 pm

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