Fund Raising Efforts

As you might have suspected, there is a benefit dinner coming up soon. We plan to have tickets available next week. We expect over 80 tickets to be available. Many thanks for the great ideas and generosity of those that have contributed time and money to this cause. Here are some of the details...though we need to finalize a few other specifics:

Todd Smith Benefit Dinner

Food, Live Music, and Raffles

Friday, October 17, 2008, 6-10PM

East Cove Restaurant, 3873 State Route 9L, Lake George

$25 per person (price includes food and entertainment)

Donations can also be made to:

TD Banknorth

Todd Smith Fund

54 Quaker Road

Queensbury, NY 12804

We hope to have more detailed information on ways people can help, but here are a few of the details we have so far:

• Envelopes: We could use some (100-500) pre-addressed envelopes with the TD Banknorth address information above to give to people that would like to make a contribution to the benefit fund at the bank - just to make it easier for them. You could leave the pre-addressed envelopes at Fitness In Motion, so we can each take a few just in case we know others that would like to use the envelope to make a donation.
• Blood Drive: The family suggested an honorary blood drive as a service to the community. Please let us know if you would like to organize this blood drive and help spread the word.
• Raffle Donations: We want to be careful not to cover the same businesses and individuals that have approached us with donations for the raffles that will be part of the benefit dinner, but if you want to donate something for the raffles, please let us know through a comment on this blog or by contacting sam.brayton@gmail.com.
• Selling benefit dinner tickets: We may need a hand selling tickets for the benefit dinner. We will keep you posted.
• Contacts at Post Star or Lake George Chronicle: If you have a contact at one of these local newspapers, please comment on this post. We have a small ad that we would like to place in each of these local papers to provide information about the benefit fund.
• Master of Ceremonies: We may need someone to be the MC for the benefit dinner. Duties may include announcing each phase of the evening’s activities and announcing each of the raffle winners.