Organizational Meeting for KARING FOR KARSYN KAMPAIGN

Organizational Meeting - Karing for Karsyn
The organizational meeting for the Karing for Karsyn Kampaign was held at 7 p.m., April 28, 2011 at Bachelor Creek Church of Christ. Fourteen people were in attendance.
Recap of the meeting includes:
WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED:
Richvalley Tenderloin/Lions Club secured from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on 6-11-2011
Fundraiser to take place in parking ...lot of 807 North Cass Street.
Upper level will be for the foodl; lower level will be for the bands and eating area
Checking account has been set up at CONCORA (Container Corp. Credit Union). Please have checks made payable to KARING FOR KARSYN KAMPAIGN when selling tickets.
A Penny Pitch will begin on May 2 at Sharp Creek Elementary. Rhonda Birk Dale reports that the kick-ff will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 2. The competition between classes to raise the most money in classroom containers will end May 20., The official color for the Kampaign is pink and pink flowers will be sold by the student council for 25 cents each, for boys who won't wear a pink shirt!!! The winning class will be rewarded with pizzas donated by Lee Ann Pefley and Rhonda Birk Dale. This is an officially sanctioned Student Council activity.
Rhonda reports that she has been contacted by Metro North parents interested in doing the same at their school, and since both schools will be integrated for the 2012 school year, everyone involved thinks Karing for Karsyn Kampaign is a good way to get students to get to know each other.
For full accountability, there will need to be two signatures on all checks paid out from the fund. A final recap of the fundraiser will be available online to anyone interested by June 30, 2011.
COMMITTEE CHAIRS:

Rhonda Birk Dale: Auction for the Vera Bradley purse filled with candles, Tastefully Simple and other donated items. Contact Rhonda if you would like to buy tickets. I will have more info available on the Blog and this site by tomorrow.....Signage for Entrance off Cass and Exit to Alber for the day of the event to keep traffic from backing up on Cass Street.

Ron Garlits: Coordinate Small Town and God's Country, both local bands who have volunteered to play on June 11. Ron may try to get another band or two also. All tips given to the bands will be donated back to the Karing for Karsyn Kampaign.

Sheryl Bishop: Make a list of all electronic signs in the city/county by next week so that businesses may be contacted regarding putting info on signage about the fundraiser.

As of this moment, tickets are available at these locations:
Ford Meter Box - HR and Credit Union
Paperworks - HR and Credit Union
Wabash County Historical Museum - Front Desk
Midwest Eye Care - Front Desk
The Noisemaker
Kitchens Plus
Family Physicians - See Tiffany Thomson Barton in Radiology
Get Nailed - Lauren Graf


and through the following individuals: Becki Wagoner, Mike Ridenour, Angela Kay Miller, Rhonda Birk Dale, Diane Guenin, Kathy Eviston, April and Emily DeVore, Judy Miller, Shirley Mackey, Alecia David, Angie Fordyce Brewer, Sheryl Bishop, Melinda and Mick Walters, Ron Garlits, Hayley Pence, Monica Sparling.

The pork chop dinner, being held by the Somerset Lions Club on Saturday night, has offered to donate a portion of their proceeds to Karing for Karsyn. Thank you to Pat Knoblock for his generous donation, representing the Lions Club. If you are free on Saturday, it would be nice to support this group since they are supporting us!!!

To date, Milliner Printing has donated tickets and fliers. Poole Foods, Smith Street, will supply buns and chips at a reduced cost.

WHAT NEEDS DONE?

Cases of soft drinks can be donated and delivered to Visionary Web Design on Stitt Street, Wabash IN. We will need at least 300 cases of soft drinks (12 per case) donated for the Kampaign. Also, packaged desserts....such as Little Debbies, etc. donated and delivered to the same location. Again, we will need approx, 300 boxes of pre-packaged desserts donated.

We need 2500 sacks donated. We can advertise for anyone willing to donate the smaller bags that carry-out food comes in. We didn't have a volunteer for this tonight, so if you know of any place that would donate the bags, please contact me. Also: Napkins, condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayo).....Disinfectant towels to wipe off tables the day of the fundraiser....trash cans and liners....

We would like to do a 50/50 drawing but need someone to sell 6 tickets for $5 in the parking lot when cars come in. If you are a natural at getting $5 from a total stranger, give me a FB heads-up!!! This job is not for the faint of heart. It takes a real go-getter with no shame to hawk these tickets!! I know SOMEONE out there is a natural for this job!!!! FB me, please!!! Good money in this!!!

Tiffany Thomson Barton has volunteered to work with KISS 105 RADIO on free advertising for the Kampaign. Thank you, Tiffany!!!

There are three more possible areas for fundraisers which I cannot announce at this time. They were discussed this evening and I will be able to enlarge on them at next Thursday's meeting. Same time and place.

Many, many of you who have wanted to be part of the Kampaign could not be present this evening. I totally understand how hard it is to attend a meeting when you have children involved in sports, work late, etc. But please....if you wil FB me with how many tickets and fliers you would like....I will deliver them to you on Friday and Saturday!!! If you don't like to sell, then subcontract the tickets out! We all have a church affiliation, clubs, busineeses we cater to, a friend of a friend...while you are responsible for the tickets you take, any way to sell 2,000 is open for possibilities.

I have established a blog, KARING FOR KARSYN. I can send this Blog to you if I have your e mail address.

PLEASE....WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! It would be wonderful to present Karsyn's mom and stepdad with a check for thousands of dollars. Even then, it is like spiitting in the ocean when you consider the costs involved in her illness and care....but.....

By July 4, you are most likely going to be paying $7 for a gallon of gas....Which makes you feel better....giving $7 to the big oil companies, or $7 for a ticket to help a little kid who is fighting for her life???? I thought so.....call me!! Or anyone above!!

Becki Wagoner
571-4988
782-2192
msvid2007@gmail.com

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KARING FOR KARSYN

This little girl is named Karsyn Bratch. She is not my grandchild, or my niece, or a cousin or a distant relative of any kind. She is just a little girl I have known for a few years that I feel and care very deeply about.

Karsyn is just like most other eight-year-old girls. She loves tattoos's, picking on her little "brother", FLARP (an obnoxious form of silly putty that sounds like....you guessed it!). But, Karsyn is different than my little eight-year-old grand daughter, Gabi. She is different from my little niece, Abby, who lives in Miami.

Karsyn is blind....and she has cancer. And, she has had cancer since she was so little she probably can't remember a time when she could see well or didn't have to undergo chemo or radiation. What a crappy life for a little kid, right?

That's exactly how I feel about it! I truly believe God put Karsyn on earth to teach us all the importance of living for NOW...of being grateful for TODAY! That being said.....how can I help this child, this family?

In Mid-May, Karsyn will be undergoing her 4TH round of PROTON RADIATION and/or CHEMOTHERAPY! That is 5 weeks of grueling days of lying still while a radiation beam tries to kill the cancer growing around your spine. That is 35 days of keeping up confidence and hope and joy and thoughts of the promise of a future....Could you do it? Could I?

I would like to think that if I were placed in the position of Karsyn that I could be positive. That I could inspire others to want to live each day to the fullest. I don't know if I have it in me.

But, I do know that Karsyn Bratch does! Everytime I see her....she is an eight-year-old. I would like to forget how ill she is. When I talk to her mother, I see incredible strength coming from inside an absolutely beautiful woman. If you visit her at home, the family is so "normal" you wonder if she could possibly be so ill!!!

So, this is my commitment to Karsyn and Linette. I will help you in any way that I can to at least alleviate financial worries from your life. I will provide any substenance that I can to make your life easier.

That being said....A benefit to raise money to help offset the ancillary costs of Karsyn's illness will be held JUNE 11, 2011 in the parking lot of Wabash Realty. 807 North Cass Street....yeah, it used to be Video Sideline!! We will be serving RICHVALLEY TENDERLOINS with chips, a drink, a dessert....there are bands playing that day....a clown doing balloon magic...all for $7.00 a person.

After tomorrow night's organizational kick-off meeting (which you can attend if you would like to help Karsyn)....7 p.m. at Bachelor Creek.....tickets are ready for purchase!! Or, you can donate your time. Maybe a couple cartons of soft drinks....anything to help raise funds for her.

Why is this so important to me? Three words: Gabrielle, Izabielle, Alison Rebecca. They are perfect little girls. No tumors growing in them. A lifetime ahead of dreams...goals...a future.

Help me help Karsyn. All I am asking is the price of one ticket....Seven bucks. Think of a gallon of gas by July 4 or a ticket for a little child who has been dealt an absolutely crummy hand. Which makes you feel better paying out???? I thought so......Call me!!!

Becki
260-571-4988
260-782-2192