Monday, May 27, 2013

Panties Across the Bridge

We are so excited for our upcoming Panties Across the Bridge!! This is our 3rd Annual event and we have some new  events to add to the days schedule! 

As many of you know we are lighting the bridge TEAL!! We are taking awareness to the next level! Teal will be seen from Newport and Cincinnati all through the night. You do not want to miss this!!!

This year the bridge is taking a health and wellness turn! We will have St Elizabeth's Cardiovascular Mobile Unit on site for screenings. All screenings are $25! St Elizabeth's Mammography Mobile Unit will be there with free screenings thanks to Komen for the Cure! We will have other health and wellness booths from 12-6pm. We will also be holding a Zumba-thon!

From 4-10pm we will have different bands and performances as well as speakers. Christina Klein from the Make a Noise for Ovarian Cancer will be a guest speaker. We are very excited to hear her speak again. Several of us from the Foundation had the pleasure Listening to her speak at "An Inspirational Night with Shannon Miller" last fall. She was amazing and we would love to share her story with you!

We are working on gathering panties
For the bridge. A new idea this year was to have celebrities sign panties, and hang them along the bridge. We sent out several requests to celebrities. In October Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller autographed a pair. Then this weekend another pair arrived! Teen Mom 2 Star Leah Calvert sent her autographed pair! How cool!!!

Please help us gather panties! Go to a Reds game and have players autograph a pair! Have your family members send a pair from another state! How many states can we get? Decorate a pair! Help us donate a pair to make women aware! 

We are still accepting vendors for the bridge. We are still accepting donations for our raffle. We are still accepting lighting sponsors. If you or your company sponsors $1,000+ you will have your name lit up along the Newport on the Levee buildings! How cool is that!?

We are So excited for this event! I hope you can bring your family and friends out to enjoy our event and help make all your loved ones aware of gynecological cancers!

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Teal Off to Cancer Golf Outing

The 2nd Annual Teal Off to Cancer Golf Outing was a huge success! Thank you to all the golfers, volunteers and sponsors! 

We had 36 hole sponsors totaling $4,300! Thank you to the following sponsors:

Tom Belcher's Auto Shop
Declaire's Insurance
Atkins and Stang
Dr Michael Lee
Martini Tees
Merchants National Bank and Trust
Butterbees
Amy Ostigny
Healthsource
Sharefax Credit Union
Glenna's Greenhouse
Ohio Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons 
Greene County Insurance
Tree House Learning Club
Shanna Pope Realty
Avis/Budget Car Rental
Georgetown Villa
Family of Peyton Rice
Family of Jo Wallace Schneider
Family of Jaymie Jamison
Friends and family of Gene Hammons
Friends and Family of Bob "Groundhog" Conner

Longest drive sponsor: Adams County Cancer Center
Closest to the Pin Sponsor: Greene County Insurance
Longest Drive Women: Hydro Systems

Beer Donation: Taylormade Inspections Beer

Hotdog and hotdog bun donation: Sams

Dinner provided by Jeff Knight

Photographs provided by Alicia Eads Photography

Thank you to Dixon Golf and all who participated in the Dixon Golf Challenge. We hope you all walked away with free prizes!

We made $13,500 from the outing this weekend! With all of these proceeds we will be able to fulfill our mission of supporting families by making a donation of comfort kits to women battling gynecological cancer at the Adams County Cancer Center May 31st. Helping us support Hospice of Hope by presenting them with a check on June 16th. And presenting a check for research on July 13th. This could not be made possible if it were not for our sponsors, golfers, and volunteers. Thank you for all your continued support! 

Thank you again from the bottom of our heart. We hope you will join us again next year! Thank you! Thank you!