Christmas Carousel

Sunday, December 22

4:00-7:00pm

a festival of trees

@ Palmyra Community Center

Sponsored Trees will be Raffled

(decorations, prizes and trees)

Food will be Sold

(chile's, cocoa & various choices)

Musical Performance @ 6pm

Bonfire

(weather permitting)

Admission is Free

Donations are welcomed

Raffle tickets will be available for purchase.

www.midmainelacrosse.com

Saturday, November 9th 11:00am-2:00pm

Native Athletic Contests

Stone Soup

Field Lacrosse/Trashcan Demo

@

Palmyra Community Center

Palmyra, Maine

see

www.midmainelacrosse.com

10 Calendars Sold = $50

25 Calendars Sold = BREAK EVEN for Raffle

300 Calendars Sold = $1250 Tournaments, Clinics, Referee's 

! WOW !

http://www.midmainelacrosse.com/MMLax_-_2013_Calendar_Raffle_form_REV1.pdf

Thank you

WORK HARD

Calendar Raffle Tickets

1. Gretchen, Karen and Kris sold them @ Nokomis Craft Fair.

2. Players are to sell AT LEAST 5 each. 

    If you can sell more...down load them from

    

    http://www.midmainelacrosse.com/html/fund_raising_.html

3. Please sign up for a 2 hour shift to sell @ Bud's Shop n' Save       Newport 

    Saturday Nov. 16th 8:00am-8:00pm

   or

   Friday Nov 22nd 3:00pm-8:00pm.

Sign up @ Trashcan 

or 

president@midmainelacrosse.com

We must earn money now to support our spring season. This is an easy fund raising project. 

Please contribute & Do your part!

We need your help. 

If you play fall, winter or spring lacrosse, 

or plan to play, 

WE NEED your help now.

1. Sell Calendar Raffles for $5.00. You can download them from the website under fundraising. Each calendar sells for $5.00. The purchaser is then entered into 4 Raffle Drawings during December for cash prizes. MidMaine Thunder Lacrosse Players MUST sell at least 5 calendars. There is a prize of a Hickory Lacrosse Shaft for the Top sales. Turn in sales @ Trashcan Lacrosse Thursday, November 7th.

http://www.midmainelacrosse.com/html/fund_raising_.html

2. Sell CD stories from Greathall Productions. Each CD sells for $13.00. We keep $4.00 profit. They make GREAT gifts. We are adding forms (asap) to the website for you to record and turn in your sales. We have brochures available. Contact Gretchen. Sales amounts  and dollars are to be turned in Thursday, November 7th @ Trashcan.

http://www.greathall.com/

3. Community Carousel. Sunday December 22, 4:00-7:00pm @ Palmyra Community Center

Out BIG BIG Fundraising Event

We are asking area businesses  to sponsor and decorate Christmas trees or just to sponsor the trees for school clubs & sports teams to decorate.
Dalhou Farms  http://www.daloufarms.com  is generously discounting tree prices to MidMaine Thunder. They are lending us display racks. We will seek lighting supplies. We will charge $30 for tree sponsorship (our cost of tree and lights.)

The trees will be set up @ the Palmyra Community Center for Sunday, December 22.
Businesses and clubs may arrive between 11 and 2pm to decorate 'their' trees.
The public is welcome to view the decorated trees from 4:00pm until 7:00pm. 

We will sell tickets @PCC  ($1.00 each or 6 for $5.00). Tickets may be placed for tree and decoration raffle or tickets may be used to purchase food.
Chili's, cocoa, sweets and various foodstuffs will be sold.
Purchased tickets will be used as currency.
We will have two bonfires to keep folks warm.
Two musical slide shows ongoing from 4-7pm.


At 6:00pm we will have a 45 minute production outside (unless weather too too bad then we will head inside) including a Christmas Show Chorus, Brass Quartet and a Piano ensemble tune. There will be a holiday theatrical reading, perhaps a moment of ballet and more.....

At 6:45pm we will award prizes for the best trees.
We will raffle trees and decorations.
We will announce the final winner of our Calendar Raffle (ongoing throughout December).


We need EVERYONE's help to see this succeed. We NEED to earn money for equipment, balls, referees etc.....We cannot wait until spring. The season is too short.

Please get on board. Sell 100 Calendars if possible. Spread the word....Save the Date, Sunday, December 22nd.
If you play more than one sport....volunteer to decorate a tree representing your other sport. Compete for the "Best Decorated Tree Prize" and then encourage all your teammates to attend our Community Carousel.

Community Carousel

ps. what is a Festival of Trees

Festival of Trees

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

is the name taken by a number of (apparently independent) charity events/organizations that hold annual events around Christmas time to raise money for some local charity.

·         Sponsors are obtained who agree to cover costs of advertising, hiring a hall or convention center, obtaining undecorated trees (or wreaths or other traditional holiday decorations) or the cost of a particular tree's decorations, producing a program, or covering other costs.

·         Designers are engaged to decorate/design the trees. Often elaborate theming is employed. Sometimes clubs, schools or other organizations participate as well as professional designers.

·         The hall is opened to the designers or organizations who decorate and arrange the trees.

·         The hall is opened to the general public, often for an admission charge. The public may be able to bid or buy raffle tickets for the trees or other decorations, or for prizes also donated. (typically one of the event goals is to sell every tree that is on display)

·         At some point there may be a black tie gala for contributors or supporters. Presentations about the charity supported are often made.

·         The event usually gets a lot of local media attention before and during the public visitation period

·         There may be other attractions such as children's play areas, craft areas, visits with santa and so forth

·         The event winds down and the purchasers of the trees pick them up or make arrange for delivery

Depending on the size of the municipality where the Festival of Trees is held, there may be several hundred trees of all sizes on display, and the amounts raised can be in the hundreds of thousands USD.

Are you woundering?

Stone Soup & Native Games is a fun lacrosse event. It is not necessarily any large fund raiser. It occurs @ Palmyra Community Center on Saturday, November 9th from 11:00 until 2:00. There is no fee. Donations are welcome. We have invited a few quests from area clubs. There will be items for sale. We will have face paint to prepare for the Great Game.

A. We willl start with six or eight native contests. For example:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuOZs2HFNFs,
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rxgtiHgszY
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQEWYZu9Ki8
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92xoRyE3x-g
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixRqCRaZiO8
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BV8dl0HBA
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liC0CsKA6vY.

B. We ask that everyone bring one serving of a vegetable ALL prepared to boil. We will add all the vegetable to a beef broth. We will serve the Stone Soup near 12 noon.

C. We will play a full field lacrosse game @ 1:00. Teams configuration will depend on who participates. We will also demonstrate Trashcan Lacrosse for visitors.

D. Sale items include
    1. 18 Hickory Lacrosse Shafts $20.00 (our cost including shipping)

     2. Stone Soup Pinnies $10.00 (colored with game color rad)(our cost)

   3. MidMaine Thunder Candybars, 

       MidMaine Thunder Calender Raffles ($5)  

       Greathall CD Stories ($13)  http://www.greathall.com/, 

       MidMaine Thunder Canndy Bars

                                     Ornaments ($10), 

                                     Posters ($TBA), 

                                     Water, 

                                     Car Decals (?$) and Bracelets ($2)

Girls Lacrosse

We should be working on creating a program and attending events such as this.

Any takers...and we will make it happen!

the Fastest Growing Sport in the USA

This is my niece  She played High School Lacrosse and then went on to play college lacrosse for Hobart & William Smith.  Her coach is among the NCAA's active winningest coaches in Division III. Megan was one of a select few, not recruited, who 

walked onto the team, tried out and made it. Lacrosse is a great girl's and woman's athletic opportunity.

TONIGHT 

Hickory Lacrosse Shafts

for sale

@ 

cost

(no profit to MidMaine Lacrosse)

$20.00

Join us for

Stone Soup & Native Games

Saturday, November 9th 11:00-2:00

@

Palmyra Community Center

see www.midmainelacrosse.com

proof

MidMaine Thunder Car Decals for Sale soon.....

The Board of Selectmen representing the Town of Palmyra, Maine, 

per recommendation of Mr. Robert Kreider, Recreation Director, 

has just sanctioned building a working relationship with 

MidMaine Lacrosse. 

This is a wonderful development for MidMaine Lacrosse. 

Thank you very much.

Now, Players.....Please sell CALENDARS!

We have lots more work to do this fall to build spring success.

and Hartland, Etna, Corinna, Pittsfield, Detroit,  Burnham, St. Albans & Newport

RAFFLE

We need ALL  fall/winter or SPRING players to sell 5 calendars @ $5.00 per calendar. Fill out the name and address of the purchaser. We will hold 4 drawing for cash prizes in December. We are begging each player to sell 5. We are hoping someone sells 100. 

We will gift the top seller with a Hickory Lacrosse Shaft.

 

Print and sell 5 Calendars (or MORE).  See attached. Turn in Calendars @ Fall Trashcan Play Thursday November 7th.

Be in touch with Gretchen if you need calendars or to turn in money if you cannot play 11/7. 

We need to support our program! 

Equipment, Uniforms, Referees, Balls, etc....

WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW FOR SPRING LACROSSE

 CD StoryTime 

We need ALL fall/winter or SPRING players to sell taped stories. We have brochures. see www.greathall.com. The stories sell for $13.00. We make $4.00 per CD. They make GREAT holiday presents. Turn in sales Thursday, November 7th @ Trashcan play.

We need to support our program! 

Equipment, Uniforms, Referees, Balls, etc....

WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW FOR SPRING LACROSSE

PLAYERS & PARENTS

WE NEED YOU!

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!

Stone Soup

Great Inaugural Board of Director's Meeting.

Thanks to All

Registration for Trashcan Lacrosse

Sunday October 6th

 2:00-4:00 or 5:00-6:30

@ Plamyra Community Center

$30 Grades 7/8

$50 High School

see

www.midmainelacrosse.com

for further information.