Relay ‘07 Recap

The Shiawassee County Relay For Life 2007 has come to a close! Things overall went fairly smooth and good. So far, the running total for the Relay is $134,000 and money is still coming in until August 31. Last year over $12,000 came in after Relay was over, I’m hoping for similar or better results! As a team we were just under our goal of $5,000 – which is totally okay because we worked out butts off this year! We also have money coming in from a fund raiser put on by a local elementary school, I’m excited to see the ending numbers though!

I updated my twitter pretty much every hour or at least attempted to. I hope people got a better idea of what we were doing at Relay from this and hopefully inspires others to do this as well for their upcoming relays.

I took around 1.5gigs of pictures and video during the 24 hours! That was pretty shocking to me! I can’t wait to sit down and begin to create something sweet!. I’ll post whatever I create in the coming weeks in the VIDEO SECTION on the forum, as well as Karen’s Kids personal blog (www.karenskids.wordpress.com).

Back to Relay… There were many new first year teams participating, which is great to see. We also grew to have the most teams every this year! Our team was also featured in the Argus-Press Newspaper (not sure how long the link will be active…)

A lot of silliness happened at our campsite as you can see if you check out our pictures on flickr. Our campsite was known for the flamingos all around and the lively energy from passionate team members.

So, I’m (again) leaving out so many things that happened, but you can fill in the gaps by visiting my twitter page and flickr page!

Thanks to KinnicChick and TrishSnyder for all the comments on twitter and the forums during our relay, my team really enjoyed to hear that others hundreds of miles away were thinking about us and interested in what we were doing! Also thanks to all our sponsors: Mancino’s Pizza & Grinders, QD Scrubs, Central Elementary School, Phi Sigma Sigma Theta-Iota Chapter, University of Michigan-Flint Radiation Therapy Student Organization, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Michigan Delta-Omega Chapter, and HostXM Web Hosting.

LINKS:

Karen’s Kids Blog

twitter page

Karen’s Kids flickr

Karen’s Kids Website

SPONSOR LINKS:

Mancino’s Pizza

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Michigan Delta-Omega

HOSTXM

University of Michigan-Flint Radiation Therapy

Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority

Central Elementary School

QD Scrubs

Site Updates

I created a new layout for the media page, now the videos link directly to the Youtube source instead of having them embedded. I also centered all the pages (except the blog page, it’s being a pain in the…) so they look better in your browser.

Enjoy!

Relay Badges

I added the Relay For Life badges to the following pages:

• Blog-About
• Website-Blog
• Website-Contact

Meet the Captains

I got bored and make a quick meet the co-captains of Karen’s Kids video. Facebook gives great information for making this kind of stuff! The video will be added to the media page shortly.

Sponsor Video

We put together a short promo of this year’s sponsors as another thank you for helping Karen’s Kids this year!

Youtube link here

Media Section

There’s a new section on the website called Media. This is where any videos or photos are embedded and then linked to the original source. Right now I’ve embedded the sidewalk chalking video and last year’s slide show, along with the pictures on flickr. The new section replaces the photos section, and adds video, thus Media.  I’m thinking of maybe doing the same to the blog section, seeing that it’s being hosted elsewhere…

Sidewalk Chalking

As promised, here’s the link to the sidewalk chalking that was done outside our co-captain Megan’s house.

Karen’s Kids embedded link: http://karenskidsrelayforlife.org/media.html
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T9XfDjeRWI

Thank You!

Thank you to QD Scrubs Medical Uniforms of Owosso for sponsoring Karen’s Kids! QD Scrubs is located at 201 W. Main St., Owosso, Michigan 48867, click here for a googlemap. Their hours are Monday – Friday 9 am – 6 pm, Saturday 9 am – 5 pm and Sunday 11 am – 4 pm.

Their logo isn’t on our site yet, because my scanner doesn’t play nice with my iMac, but the logo will be up shortly!

Thank You!

Thank you to Mancino’s Pizza and Grinders in Owosso for supporting Karen’s Kids again this year!

The Mancino’s logo will be added to the Thank You page very soon!

Thank You!

Thank you to the Michigan Delta-Omega chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon for their support of Karen’s Kids! The Michigan Delta-Omega Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is located on the campus of Central Michigan University.