Hot Off The Presses!

Good morning Everyone!
Yesterday was a great day! There was no real “appropriate” time to make special thank you mentions as people attended at different times, etc. so I’m doing it via Shelley (aka Blog Queen) and the blog!

First, thank you so much to everyone who attended. The blood drive was so successful that in the end, people had to be turned away! (No worries, you can always donate at a Blood Source location). In addition, the bake sale and silent auction? WOW! Your purchases made our event very profitable – thanks so much! I know you are all wondering how we did, but we don’t have that all down yet – just know we did a LOT – thanks to you!

OLG (Our Lady of Grace) - we thank you! Vanessa Scroggins (The "Lollipop Lady" and my partner in crime!) and Rich, "The Main Man of OLG - thank you for ALL that you did! Donating your wonderful environment, "delegating" jobs to your kids, ETC. - thank you so much!

I’d like to request that you remember to support the local businesses that donated items to our event. PLEASE! J They don’t want to see us coming in to ask for donations and then NEVER seeing us again – that’s not fair – so support them! We had many great donations – and please know that NONE was considered small in our book – they were all important in doing what we wanted to do!

Scrapbook Addict – thank you for not only donating a silent auction gift but for allowing us to use your store as “Robynn Headquarters” for our meetings! We are not done yet, so you will be seeing us again soon! In addition, Sarah and Helen (owners) have plans for their customers and the public to help create a few special scrapbooks for Robynn! Be watching the fundraising blog for details on that next week. And DON’T tell us that you’re not creative enough – we’ll help you!

Okay back to the business at hand - we’ve established that we couldn’t do it without the donations… but the other end of that were the people who went out and requested those donations! We had many great people gathering donations but two women REALLY hit the pavement hard! At our event, two ladies were wearing silver “Angel of Friendship” pins – they didn’t know why, I just told them to put them on and I’d tell them why later. WELL – let’s put it this way, if we were selling Girl Scout Cookies – Emma Arias and Nicole Winger would have been competing for the prize! I cannot stress enough how crucial it was for those girls to do what they did. HUGE! So thank you girls – you earned your “wings” for sure by supporting Robynn in the way you did! (They will also be receiving the Robynn car magnet as well – see our fundraising blog next week for details on that!). Thank you thank you thank you.

Bloodsource – Wow, what can we say? Kate Blake and the Bloodsource team were awesome as were our donors!!! The blood drive was a great success! Thanks so much! (If you want to host a future drive – it is soooo easy to do – Kate and the team did ALL of the work – trust me on this!).

And for the rest of you… whether you helped by baking for our sale, donating blood, hanging flyers and spreading those lengthy emails, or you helped “man” or set up tables, or you stayed at home watching kids so that WE could attend, or if you PRAYED that our day would be a success… whatever job you took on as yours – you KNOW who you are, you KNOW what you did, and we are eternally grateful to you ALL.

Gratefully,
Kim Funk
And the “West Sac Girls”