How your dollars make a difference

The title "How Your Dollars Make a Difference" is a direct link to the American Cancer Society's page that informs its Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walkers how the donations they collect are used.

• Help people to stay well: Offer tips to prevent or detect cancer early, when it's most treatable
• Help people get well: Offer free programs and services in more then 3400 communities across the country
• Finding cures: Invest more in breast cancer research-to better understand, prevent and cure the disease-then any other solid tumor site.
• Fighting back: Work with legislators to pass laws advocating all women to have access to mammograms and lifesaving treatments.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Welcome to October!
Officially October is Breast Cancer awareness month. You'll see pink everywhere! Even the NFL is getting involved. The Patriots were wearing pink sneakers and pink gloves today. The Hershey Bears will wear pink jerseys this month, and then they'll auction them off!
The American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk is two Saturday's from now, October 17th. If you haven't yet, please take a few moments to donate a few bucks to a worthy cause.
Why is it worthy? Well practically thinking, everyone has breasts. Both men and women can be afflicted with breast cancer. Men with breast cancer can go undiagnosed until it's too late.
Men, you all have one or more of the following: mothers, wives, daughters or grand-daughters. Any one of them are at risk.
We raised a nice amount of money this year, even with the rain. Hopefully next year will be even better.
We again want to thank everyone who came out, who donated items, our sponsors and our friends and family for helping out.
Crossing our fingers for a sunny day for a walk!
Sharon & Jason

LostDogPhotos Link!

Here are the details:www.lostdogphotos.com
Events - Dub & Rub
Password - 2009


Thanks again for all the great pictures!
Remember, if you purchase photos from them a portion of the proceeds will go towards the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk

I still have t-shirts. $15 for the 2009 version (all sizes available), $5 for the 2008 version (limited sizes). You can paypal me at sbutz01@yahoo.com I'm asking to you to include shipping/paypal charges...an extra $2.75 should cover it. Email me at sharonpowley@gmail.com to let me know that you sent money!
Thanks,
Sharon & Jason

rain 1 boobies $1100

sorry about the delay in getting info out...It's been a crazy crazy weekend.

So it rained, a lot on Saturday. A lot. But we had 40 registered cars and raised $1100. VERY AMAZING.

Thank you everyone who braved the weather.

LostDogPhotos.com will be posting the pictures they took of the show on their website, and then if you order pictures through them, the proceeds will go towards the walk.

I have plenty of t-shirts...plenty. They are $15 each. Email me sharonpowley@gmail.com and we'll figure out postage and such and I can mail them to you or meet up with you locally, if you're interested.

We had great sponsors this year with HA Boyd, AP Tuning, Volksride, DHP, Chirco, DubKorps, ShedPress, NGP, OBrian Audio, Save the TaTa's, VWRenegade.com, thesamba.com, Autozone, Advanced Auto, PepBoys, Jcaps, Airheads, A&A, S&P Auto...please look under 'Some of our favorite things' for all the companies!
The people at Twin Grove were wonderful. We'll be there again if they'll have us!

Here are the winners, listed 1st place then 2nd place:
Most Saggy: Chad Stokes 2006 VW GTi 2.0T
Kevin Cristini 1968 Beetle
Perkiest: Ryan Rupp 1991 VW Golf
Zack Miller 2002 VW GTi
Best Topless: Nick Stroble 1992 16V Cabriolet
Amanda Mills 1986 Cabriolet
All Natural: Dustin Todd 2001 Audi A4
Becky Himmelberger 2003 VW GTi 20th
Inner Beauty: Brian Shertzer 1985 Jetta (two toned) :)
James Hinrichs 1998 VW GTi
Best Cleavage: Dana Kerrigan 2002 VW Beetle
Rich Long 1987 VW Jetta CP
Junk in the Trunk: Todd Burke 2001 VW Jetta
Zach Miller 1992 VW Jetta GL
Best Supporting: Ashley Ney 2002 VW Jetta
Candi Cooper 1999 VW Jetta

I have no pictures of the day. :(
So I'm counting on you to send me pictures and I'll post them.

Thanks again to everyone who came out. I know that the weather was horrible, but the day itself was a lot of fun for Jason & me. We enjoyed seeing everyone.

donations

We had a question about where people could make donations if they can't make the show. We attached a link to the word 'donations' in the title. Click on that and you will go directly to Sharon's page on the Making Strides website. You can also take the long route and go to http://www.cancer.org/ look for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in Harrisburg on City Island, then type in the name Sharon Powley and donate that way.

Thank you, and we'll see you tomorrow!

Sharon & Jason

Blame it on the rain...yeah yeah

USPS delivered the posters (which are freaking awesome!!) and FedEx delivered the bags from Airhead.
The awards should be done June 19th, and are going to be picked up by myself in New Cumberland.
UPS swears the t-shirts will be delivered on June 19th. (I am still not 100% sure why it took 2 days for the t-shirts to go from CO to IL, but it may have something to do with UPS requiring their drivers to backpack part of the way. Just a guess on my part.)

On a more show related note:
**Brian Yohn (ShedPress) is going to be donating t-shirts! Thank you very much Brian.
**The guys at NGP are hand delivering their donations to us on the day of the show! Thanks again guys. NGP is a great bunch of people, and I have had great experiences working with them.
**LostDog Photos has something pretty cool worked up for the show. Thank you again!

**Eurotuner may do a small little blurb...it depends on how quick I can get them the info and pix. Still it's pretty cool they're even asking!

I believe that I've covered everything...less then 48 hours away, and the weather report is not all that favorable...

but we're going to have fun regardless!

Sharon & Jason

dumdumdum....5 days

5 days...am I panicking that I have no t-shirts?? no.
5 days...am I freaking out that the awards will be done on June 19th because in our house moving glaze they got forgotten about?? no.
5 days...am I losing sleep over the fact that the vinyl isn't here?? no.
5 days...am I considering hari-kari because the goodie bags aren't here?? no.
AM I A BIG FAT LIAR?? slightly. Hari-kari is a little extreme over some bags. *shrug*

yes, yes...5 days away and a few of the "major" items are not here. BUT, what can I do? I have contacted all of the people involved, and all have promised me that they'll be here before June 20th. Any of the above begins occurring, and I'll end up on Haldol in a white padded room wrapped up like a bug in a rug. Crossing my fingers and hoping for the best!