Transfer of Power

Becky has transferred the RWR email account to my name. If you have any questions regarding RWR, please address them to me. 

We have great news----We will be doing a staggered awards ceremony this year! Per your requests, we will award our top finishers in each age bracket a nice prize (still TBD). We will award you in front of all! So, when the 5K race finishes, we will do the 5K awards ceremony; when the 10K race finishes, we will do the 10K awards ceremony, etc...

It is almost April, so the workload is beginning to pick up. I have a lot of calls to make, and a lot of advertising to do. Don't forget to pre-register online! Once I hit 200, it will be cut off...no if's, and's, or but's.

Big Changes

Today, I received some very "earth shattering" news....Becky has resigned from Habitat. Now, a lot of the responsibility has fallen on me to plan RWR. I have become the new contact person for all of the people involved. It's time for me to step up into this new role.

In our internship class last night, our advisor, Jeff, talked about how this was a great opportunity for me. It would allow me to experience more of a supervisory role, and it would be something great to put on my resume. Right now, it doesn't feel like an internship anymore...it feels like a new job. I knew that I should have went part time this semester.

Today, I am picking up the yard signs and will be delivering our banner for them to fix the dates. I also have decided that since I have more responsibilities, I need to set aside time every day to RWR. Time to contact vendors!

Don't forget to register online! You are only eligible for the pre-registration goodies if you register online!!

Faith Relations Committee

On March 13th, I met with Susan Chambers who is the Chairperson for the Faith Relations Committee; they are in charge of the Apostle Builds with Mac Habitat. There are 6 churches in the area, and we are hoping to have each church create a team for this year's event. Susan will be the main contact for all the captains of church teams. We also decided that the only responsibility for those captains is to be the contact person.

Last year, Susan wrote a letter to the churches to talk about RWR and to create teams. That did not work. So this year, I am creating a half page brochure that will be put into their newsletters. It has a space for their captain's name and contact information and the team name! We are hoping the churches will be more involved this year. I mean, after all, they are churches. By their very being, they are supposed to support the community...

T-SHIRT DESIGN!

Ron has done a great job transforming our poster image into a t-shirt design containing 5 colors :). The image has been sent to John in the hopes of getting an estimate on cost and a mock up done. I don't know what the back will look like just yet, but hopefully that will be done soon. It will have all of our sponsors: Master Carpenter, Journeyman, and Apprentice. Here's the design!

What do you think?

Team Captain!

How does Run, Walk, Ride get the participants it gets?? Because of the wonderful community members and businesses that decide to create teams (under a TEAM CAPTAIN).

I have recently created a flyer on how to become a team captain and what it means to be a team captain. I will be distributing them to local businesses around the city.

The flyer that will be around McMinnville advertising the job of a team captain.

I will also begin to create an insert that churches in our community can place in their newsletters for April and May (or just May--hopefully April too). We really want our churches to get involved. I will be meeting with Susan Chambers tomorrow to discuss fully what it is that we can do to get our churches more involved!