IL-Pekin/61554- Marigold Festival September-7,8-2013

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BLUERAM
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IL-Pekin/61554- Marigold Festival September-7,8-2013

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We were asked early on in the planning of this one to help out. I spent many nights working with the Marigold Festival committee on helping plan our involvement on the festival. It was a lot of hard work for everyone involved but the results were well worth it! We escorted the Star Wars guests of honor Tom Kane and Daniel Logan during the Parade on Saturday morning. The crowd cheered as the massive amount of Star Wars characters walked along the parade route. Saturday afternoon we spent posing for pictures, we setup the Star wars academy game for the youngling to enjoy while raising $101.38 for Childrens hospital of Illinois(CHOI), We also help a fine young man propose to his girlfriend with the help of Tome Kane as the voice of Yoda! On Sunday morning the festivities continued starting with the Celebrity guests Q&A with the Help of Jimmy Mac of the Forcecast.net podcast. We spent Sunday afternoon posing for pictures and running the game Blast-A-Trooper where we raised another $66 for CHOI. Both days were rain free although just a little too warm for comfort, but that did not stop us from having fun and putting smiles on the faces of those in attendance. I have been informed that the Marigold festival Committee added to our total raised to CHOI, the total now comes to $2700! THANK YOU to everyone who helped make this event the success it was, it would not have happened without YOU! We currently have members working on an in character presentation of this check. looks like January 16th is the day we are blasting for, MWG members keep an eye on the planning section for more details when they are available.

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Saturday 9-7-13 Attendees
Mark Berry (4265) Boba Fett (Coordinator)
Kent Heath (1692) Scout
Phyllis Schulte (1951) RFT
Ryan Sommers (2428) Darth Maul
Steve Szyndrowski (3052) RFT
Roland Batrouni (4186) Stormtrooper
Steve Mammen (7345) X-wing pilot
Jeremy Wilcox (7503) Stormtrooper
Matt McDonald (8148) Stormtrooper
Jessica Hudak (8238) Scout
James Uphoff (8596) Revan
Matt Frysztak (8596) Stormtrooper
Keven Marion (9255) Imperial Crew
Kevin Skiera (9336) Stormtrooper
Chip CHildress (9965) Vader
Tyler Meier (50488) Tusken
Nicole VanBrooker (57412) Juno Eclipse

Mercs
Jake Townsend
Marc Casey
Adam James
Jim Lawver
Michael Snyder
Adam James

Rebels
Dylan Van Horn - Jek Porkins
Patrick Klehr - Chewiee


Unofficial and future members
Ed Betzelberger as Imperial crew
Daniel Maloney as Snow trooper
Brian Bebee as scout

Sunday 9-8-13 Attendees
Mark Berry (4265) scout (Coordinator)
Kent Heath (1692) Scout
Matt McDonald (8148) Stormtrooper
Jessica Hudak (8238) Scout
Matt Frysztak (8596) Stormtrooper
Kevin Skiera (9336) Stormtrooper
Nicole VanBrooker (57412) Juno Eclipse
Nick Letcher (70th)

Mercs
Jake Townsend
Marc Casey
Jim Lawver


Unofficial and future members
Daniel Maloney as Snow trooper

I'm sorry if I missed anyone!

With only counting the time of official members, the planning meetings, and the promo events the total for this event comes to approximately 120 hours.

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Schph Gochi
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Re: IL-Pekin/61554- Marigold Festival September-7,8-2013

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This was indeed an AWESOME event.
Thank you Mark for all of the hard work you put into this!
I am so glad that the organizers of the event were pleased with the support we were able to provide.

Sending to the Charity Blog and adding to Charity totals...

gonna have to "hip shot" the hours...

:D

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Runnin'6712
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Re: IL-Pekin/61554- Marigold Festival September-7,8-2013

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ToD updated. Great troop!! :thumbs:

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