As you’ve probably already read on Sockii’s post, the walk is on April 5 this year. Our happy little group had a great time last year. What we lacked in numbers we made up for in enthusiasm. Plus we raised a fair bit of money (thanks to so many of you
) for the Melanoma International Foundation. So, it was a no brainer when the topic of whether we’d walk again this year came up.
We walked under the team name Friends of Leroy Coolbreeze. As most everyone knows Stewart’s beloved brother Ian lost his battle with melanoma in 2006. Thus we set up the Leroy Coolbreeze Fund for the contributions from our walk to go to.
Recently, Laurie, known to most of you as Copelandgirl_5, was diagnosed with melanoma for the third time. Betsy (aka Policerule) and I were talking about the walk in general and she suggested that we walk on Laurie’s behalf this year. A lot of the teams at last year’s event were walking in someone’s memory. While we think that’s a wonderful thing to do, it would be much more appropriate for us to focus our walk on celebrating life. Laurie was truly touched when we told her what we proposed and she’s fine with the idea.
We’ll need to decide if we want a new name or if we want to keep Friends of Leroy or a combination. Whatever. Discuss. We can register once we get our team name settled.
MIF added a new twist this year. They’re having a T-shirt contest. Each team is to design their own shirt. I knoooooow we’ve got a slew of creative Nutters who can drum {heh} up some great ideas for T-shirts! Knowing our name will help here too.
We’ll keep updates with registration status and when people can start contributing, etc.
