We had about 40 people at the team captains meeting last night. I want to thank everyone who was able to make it.


MEETING NOTES:
1. We started with some committee information. Billy Reese, our publicity chair, compiled a list of local media and ways to get information about your fundraisers or team events in with those places. Billy even set up a permanent spot with the Olympian, so you just log in and add your Relay related information. For a copy you can email Billy Reese.

2. The American Cancer Society is hosting a Fundraising Forum this Saturday from 9:30-11:00AM at Group Health where we hold our meetings. This is a semi-regional event so people from all over the South Sound are invited, its put together by the American Cancer Society's divisional team to help people build up their Relay fundraising abilities. It would be worthwhile for anyone who might want to meet some other team captains and get some new ideas.

3. The American Cancer Society also brought their Quality of Life staff, Jessi Sanders, down to talk about patient services in Thurston county. More on that in another post!

4. We encouraged everyone to use this blog. Which I suppose if you are reading this, totally worked.


EVENT UPDATES:
The goal this year, is to KEEP EVERYONE at the track as much as possible and providing high levels of entertainment and food to make it happen.

1. We made sure you knew that this year, there would be a major upgrade in the way we do food service. Dirty Dave's will be putting a spaghetti feed for the event on Friday night, there will be a Pancake feed on Saturday morning, and a Red Robin chicken bbq on Saturday afternoon. All of this has been donated, the fee for the meals (about 5 dollars) goes right to the Relay. We're hoping this cuts down on the people hauling grills and tons of food to the event and instead, focuses on the things that help continue to push us to our goal and support our sponsors.

2. There will be RELAY OLYMPICS. An event hourly that will require you to field a team member in order to qualify. Those will be set in advance and can be part of your night planning.

3. There will be a DJ this year to play all night and MC a lot of our events. We're looking to cut back on the bands.

4. Getting to your tent site will be easier than ever be for. Paulsons will be donating some ATV's to help us get your stuff to your tent site, and we will be opening another gate, allowing you to pull up at a set time, unload and then move your car. No more dragging things down the dirt road.


I spent a bit of last night putting together a workshop on team member recruitment. I will post this seperately.