You've seen the posters on the walls! It's the Ninth Annual Ephrata Dodgeball Tournament benefitting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Eleven of your classmates in the high school are affected by Type 1 Diabetes, and now is your chance to help them out. For more information check out the blog at www.dodgeballfordiabetes.com, you'll find everything you need there!
I don't usually write editorials, or political missives. Not in this space anyway. I'm letting you know now though that what falls beyond the "read more" link reeks of editorialism, and politicalness, both of which are not words. Now really ... how can you keep from clicking?
I don't have my official documents back from the District Office yet, but I've been assured that the date for the third annual Dodgeball Tournament is secured. We've moved to the Fall to kickoff the Basketball Season. It's a time of the year that we originally tried to get, but were unsuccessful due to scheduled events at the Middle School.So I can safely tell you that we will be at the Senior High School again, and that the "near-set-in-stone" date of the tournament will be November 10th, 11th and 12th. The Sunday the 12th date will be reserved for the Adult Tournament. Mark your calendars now for the quiet week between Football and Basketball season. Don't worry, when the Football team makes the playoffs ... we'll figure something out for that!
Over $8000 was raised for Juvenile Diabetes last year, and I'm hoping we can push over the $10,000 mark this year. I'd like some input from you as players though ... what prizes do you really want? We want to make the reward worth the effort. I've set up a post in the forum, and I'll consider any realistic wishes. As of now, I'm sticking with the prizes we offered last year (JDRF bands, beanies, shirts) and I'm hoping to find a senior (the one and only Babin perhaps?) that would like a fun senior project and give tournament DVDs out to the top Middle School and High School team fundraisers. We'll try and have something fun for the overall top fundraising team as well.
Remember to post your suggestions to the forum, you must be logged into the site.
You don't have to be very observant to notice the recently added photos on the right side of the website. I recently created a photo pool on the popular flickr website. Anyone can join flickr for free, but if you upload a considerable amount of photos, you may want to pay a nominal $24.95 yearly fee, which will allow you to upload 2GBs (that's a lot) of photos per month.With the 2006-2007 season approaching, I'd like to take a look back at the accomplishments that we enjoyed last season.
We here at www.ephratamounts.com are proud sponsors of the Dodgeball for Diabetes tournament.