Over $1000 from 1945 and 1965!!

We are so excited to announce that collectively our 1945 and 1965 JDRF Team has bought tickets for over $1000!!!
Will John Muir Team surpass that benchmark by next Thursday? We will find out soon!

Our 2009 JDRF Baskets

We will update the list if more baskets will be donated, but look what we have so far!!
A great Big THANK YOU to all for your wonderful support!

Tickets are available at the 1945 Building with Jennifer Novack and at 1965 with Lauri Hanesworth (for second shift Sue Wandell will be selling tickets).

The baskets will be at the 1945 building through Friday, May 22nd then they will come to John Muir. (Details of the John Muir sales TBD.)

Ticket prices:
1 Ticket=$1
10 Tickets = $5
25 Tickets = $10
60 Tickets = $20

THE BASKETS

Catering Package by our own Bill Priester for up to 25 people!

Golf Outing + 1 Vacation Day (HR)




Gift Certificates Extravaganza: 18 certificates, (Buffalo Sales & Sales Support)


...including two necklaces by Victoria’s Designs -






Panera Bread – bagels (unfortunately, not beagles) for a year (solicited by Pam Dunbar from Sales Support)


Nook N Cranny basket of home coziness (solicited by Pam Dunbar from Sales Support)


Individual or Family Photo Session (Marketing, Elena)




Bookworm Basket (Marketing, Kristie)




LocalEdge Brand Yourself Basket
















Google Brand Yourself Basket


2 Lottery Baskets (Accounting, Payroll & Cathy Bradosky from Credit)


Delta Sonic (Production)


Gap/Banana Republic/Old Navy $50 (Production)


Bowling Basket (courtesy of Michele and Jim Reese)




Bath & Body Basket (Production)




Home Essentials Basket (full of tools and $50 to Home Depot) (Collections)


35 Minutes Massage with soft towel basket by Pecoraro Salon & Day Spa (solicited by Pam Dunbar from Sales Support)


Lunch Basket (IT) including $5 to $10 dollar certificates to all kinds of lunch places




Juice Spa Basket, including $ 100 to Excuria Salon and Day Spa (Marketing)


2 Sports Fans baskets (solicited by Kristine Gurz, donated by Try-It Distributing)


Fitness Basket (including pedometer, water bottle and an iPod Shuffle)(Marketing)


Summer Sunday Basket (Customer Service)


Anchor Bar Basket (includes $50 to Anchor Bar) (National Sales Department)

Our Sales and Sales Support Team ROCKS!

Just a quick note to pass a big THANK YOU to our Sales and Sales Support JDRF fundraising team headed by Pam Dunbar. They ROCK! For the Baskets Raffle they have already collected over $300 (!), that will be converted into numerous gift certificates to stores and restaurants we love. Can't wait to see their "Gift Certificates Extravaganza"!


The list of our baskets so far:

• LocalEdge basket – featuring cool LocalEdge branded items
• Google basket – including many cool items like Google Jenga!
• Spa package – includes luxurious lotions and $100 gift certificate to Excuria
• Bookworm Basket
• Golf & Vacation Day package (HR)
  
• Gift Certificate Extravaganza package (Sales and Sales Support)
  
• Necklace from Victoria’s Design (Sales)
• Family Photo Session basket – professional family photo shoot!
• Lottery Basket (Accounting & Payroll)
• Delta Sonic Basket (Production)
• Bath and Body Works basket (Production)
• Home Essentials Basket (Collections)
• Bowling Basket (Production)
  

2009 Talking Phone Book JDRF Campaign is officially open!

Once again The Talking Phone Book is proud to participate in The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Walk to Cure Diabetes.

THE CAUSE
Diabetes cuts a person’s life short on average by 10 years. Amazingly, the cure for this life-changing disease is within our reach! The purpose of our campaign is to help find the cure faster. 85% of JDRF funds go directly to support the research and we are glad to contribute to this dedicated organization and the cause.

THE MONEY
We are proud to announce that this year again Talking Phone Book will donate $5,000 in addition to the employees’ contribution!

THE WALK

This exciting family oriented event will be held at Martin’s Fantasy Island on Grand Island on Sunday, June 7^th. Save The Date!

• Register: visit www.jdrf.org and register for the walk. Our team name is Talking Phone Book.
• Raise money: once you are registered for the walk online, you will be able to create a personal fundraising page from which you can send out e-mails to your friends and accept donations.
• Walk and have fun with you family and friends at Fantasy Island!

A walker registration will give you a right to use all park venues except for riding the rides. You will be able to purchase a ‘Ticket to Ride’ for only $10.00 (lower than ANY admission price) or it is free if you raise $200.

Results and Thank Yous

$ 6,597.00 !!!!

The efforts of many people resulted in the figure above!

From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to thank all of our employees that contributed and participated in the Basket Raffle and the Walk.

Our final result would not have been as impressive without the donation from our company - $ 5,000! - Thank you very much for such generous support!

A VERY special thanks to Lou Lou Henderson and to Jen Novack, our wonderful receptionists. Without these ladies help with sales of the Raffle tickets our final number might have been very different.

There are two more people that need to be mentioned in this note. These two individuals stayed behind the scenes this year, but our entire campaign depended on their expertise and support. Kristie Laettner and Greg Northway have been Talking Phone Book's JDRF Walk captains for 5 years (!!) and finally trusted the campaign to the next several pairs of eager to help hands. Greg now continues to be involved with Western New York Chapter of JDRF, playing a key role in organization of the JDRF Celebrity Golf Classic. Thank you very much guys!

With that said, our blog goes into hibernation until the next year campaign. However it is already exciting to anticipate JDRF Walk 2009, since we would apply what we learned this year and make the drive even more successful! Any ideas are encouraged and considered.

Finally, THE WALK. It was so much fun!

June 8th happened to be the day when the sun decided to saute all the people under it, but its efforts didn't stop thousands of people to show up for the JDRF walk at Martin's Fantasy Island. Our team brought together experienced walkers and walkers "in training" to support a great cause. :) Martin's Fantasy Island was a perfect place for the walk including colorful carousels, themed shops, statues, ducks in the pond, and Indian village on the riverbank. These surroundings kept it fun for the kids and a bit nostalgic for the grown-ups .

The Winners Have Been Drawn!!

Thanks to Dolores Wagner, Dawn Zamorski and Katie Trombley for holding the drawing!

The Winners are:

Basket #7 - Manor Lanes Bowling - C. Novack - ext 80348
Basket #3 - Home Depot Gift Card - Gregg Moore - ext 80109
Basket #16 - Picnic Tub - Denise - ext. 80157
Basket #15 - Blanket/Perfume - KG ext 80250
Basket # 21 - Night In Basket - J. Novack ext 80590
Basket "Take a Gamble" - Barb ext 80537
Basket #19 - Day Off - Darien Lake - AJ in Production
Basket #2 - Olive Garden - Heather ext. 80401
Basket #25 - Doggy Basket - Mike DiSalvo
Basket #23 - Talking Phone Book Basket - Amy at ext 80119
Basket #1 - $100 Excuria - Mark Swiatek
Basket #13 - IPOD - Sue Smyth 80175
Basket #14 - Bath and Body - Sheenan
Basket #17 - Bag of Bath Products - Sharefa
Basket #10 - Visa $25 - ext 80133
Basket #8 - AB Nails - Colleen
Basket #5 - Starbucks and Blockbuster
Basket #12 - NY Hair And Spa - ext 80133
Basket # 4 - TOPS - Pam Dunbar
Basket #6 - Applebees - Pam Dunbar
Basket #9 - Photo Session - Cell number - last four digits - 5737
Basket #11 - Cut and Color - Ardana H - ext 80147
Basket #24- Jeff Folckemer
Basket #27 Darien Lake Passes - David 80364
Basket #26 - Bisons - Dan Kulczyk - #80306
Basket #28 - Delta Sonic - Rachel Amico Ext. 80191
Basket #18 - Bowling Bag - Linda Ext 80455
Basket #22 - Wreath Basket - Sherie Garmone ext 80322
Basket #20 - Grilling Basket - C. Prenatt ext. 80165

~~~Congratulations to everyone and thanks for your support of JDRF~~~

The prizes will be distributed to all the winners by the end of the week or sooner.