Fundraising with Handbands

The friends of Joey Frase, who died Jan. 20 after succumbing to hypothermia, will be selling remembrance wristbands at Something's Brewing Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. A fundraiser for the family of Grayslake resident Joey Frase, who died of hypothermia on Jan. 20 after going missing from a party in Round Lake's Madrona Village, has been organized by his friends. Continue reading →

Members of the local club soccer community are helping a fellow coach after his wife was killed in a car accident in Milam County last week. 28-year-old Kirsten Salerno died last week after DPS troopers say another driver veered into her lane. She and her husband A&M Consolidated Soccer Coach Stefano Salerno are both originally from Malta. Friends are helping collect money for travel expenses so that several family members can travel here for the funeral. The local U.S. Club Soccer teams launched a $5 wristband fundraiser Monday in memory of her. Continue reading →

Fundraisers and shows of support for Brooke Healey, the 4-year-old daughter of a Madison teacher and coach, have been springing up around Madison at wrestling meets, the bowling alley and in schools and shops. Brooke, the daughter of Steve Healey, a teacher in Madison for more than a decade, is undergoing a series of radiation treatments in New York to shrink a tumor on her brain stem. After the radiation treatments, she is expected to undergo experimental treatments in hopes of beating the disease. Healey, an assistant coach for the high school football, wrestling and track teams, has been a math teacher at Madison High School the past two years, and taught math at Madison Junior School the 10 years before that. While Healey has been on a leave of absence exhaustively researching the disease and treatment options, fundraising efforts for Brooke were set in motion by family friends. Continue reading →

GREENVILLE, N.C. - It's been a long road to recovery, but Nathan Rimpf sure does make it look easy. The Army Ranger and ECU grad lost both his legs last July, during combat in Afghanistan. Since then, he's learned to walk again on his prosthetic legs. But that's not all. He's completed 5K races, biked in half marathons, and he's...

St Benedict's Primary is a small school with some smart ideas. They want their kids to be healthy and fit and they want to raise funds... so they've combined the two ideas and challenged their kids to  walk for sponsorship - the more they walk, the more money they raise. Part of the marketing plan includes handbands printed with the school logo and 'Walk' to encourage the children and legitimise the activity in the minds of various sponsors. A win win! Running a big conference? Many companies or industry groups do, and one of the ways to promote the theme is with custom silicone wristbands - much like General Practice Registrars Australia did for their national conference in Canberra. It's a handy way to Continue reading →