Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2002. Mattie was two months old and as you can see he was already in a very contemplative state, even at that early age! It looks as if Mattie was staring off at something in the distance, as to try to assess and analyze it! Meanwhile, the expression on Peter's face was just as priceless... that of a proud dad!
Quote of the day: The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Tonight's Foundation Walk photos feature our raffle! Within our Walk, we have a raffle. Running a raffle is actually another full time job because it takes time soliciting companies and organizations for items, staging these items in baskets, and then wrapping them. Not to mention advertising the raffle and selling tickets. Thankfully I have a devoted and dedicated raffle chair, Carolyn, who has been helping the Foundation with our raffle for the last six years! Carolyn keeps us organized, running efficiently, and contributes greatly to our success. Carolyn also maintains our data on ticket sales from year to year and thanks to her handiwork, I am proud to report that we sold 1,900 raffle tickets this year and the raffle generated $6,060! This $6,060 goes toward our overall Walk goal, and therefore contributed to the $78,389 fundraising total.
We had nine wonderful raffle baskets on display this year and the raffle tent was well visited at the Walk!
The lady on the left with the white t-shirt is Carolyn, our Raffle Chair. The lady in pink on the right is Tricia. Tricia was Mattie's favorite HEM/ONC nurse. Tricia and her family comes to our Walk every year. It is a tradition. Tricia helped us call the raffle this year. She was reaching into the box to pick out a winning ticket so that Peter could then announce who won one of the raffle baskets!
This is Mark. Mark won our "Dining Around Town" raffle basket.
This is Robin and her family. Robin won the "DC and the Arts" raffle basket.
This is Gavin and Gavin won our "Money Tree" raffle basket.
We congratulate all 9 of our raffle winners! The beauty of our raffle is you do not need to be present at the end of our event to win. Therefore, we will be hand delivering baskets this week to several of our winners.
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