Skip to main content

Golf for a Cure & Other Fundraisers

Fundraisers & More:

 Yesterday was a great day! Andrew and I attended the Suzanna Lee Memorial Silver Cup Challenge, Golf Outing for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. It is one of the Peoria CFF Chapter's yearly events and this year was the Golf Outing's 15th year!

Everyone arrives around 11am for the grilled outdoor lunch before Tee time starts at noon. The Golfers are out for 4 hours golfing, some of the holes have competitions at them (like longest putt). During the golfing volunteers help set up the banquet dinner hall. There are over 100 silent auctions, chocolate fountain, hors d'oeuvres, followed by the dinner served between 5:30-6:30pm.

Andrew loved golfing and I enjoyed helping set up the silent auctions. I was the speaker this year and was very honored to the speaking about my life with Cystic Fibrosis. The Golf Outing was started 15 years ago in memory of Suzanna Lee (a girl who went to my CF Clinic and was from Peoria). Her parents host it every year and it raises a lot of the money for the CF Foundation!

I've uploaded my speech to YouTube here and I will be posting the Golf Outing Album in the next few days on my CF Facebook Awareness Page, make sure to check it out!

Now that the Golf Outing is over, it is time for me to hardcore focus on the Princeton CF Walk! We still need a few more teams to sign up. We lost 2 big teams from last year ( do to moving, etc). I'm excited for their new chapters in their lives, but we could use some help in reaching our Goal Amount! We have brought in around $5,000 so far online, but at this time last year we had raised over $10,000. We raised $23,000 last year and this year we are projected to only raise around $8,000-$10,000 this year!

Some ways you can help is donate, share, or join us walking and form your own team! Also, hosting a secondary supplemental fundraiser is very helpful. My uncles host a dessert party every year. They make some dessert, get some wine, and ask friends to bring checks made to the CF Foundation. They raised $375 in the past! My Aunt makes homemade Jam and sells it in her town & through me on Facebook, she raised almost $300 last year.  Here is the link to her Facebook event she made for it this year!

Also, contests work: For example: I will shave my beard off for $1,000! Really anything could be made into a fundraiser, so please consider doing one and help us out! I have some great ideas for next year to change it up & raise more, but we need to succeed this year in order for us to remain a CF official Great Strides Walk site!

Here is the online link to the CF Princeton Walk registration & info page: http://fightcf.cff.org/PrincetonGS

If you can help or want to start a team in Princeton please let me know! I can help you :-)

Thank you!!!!

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Updates Galore!

Big News, Big Times, Big Change: I had my post hospital Doctor's appointment on April 21st and it went well. I posted a video on my CF facebook page. My weight is back on track, heading up. Also, my lung function was around 55%, so that's almost my baseline. I got to take my needle out that night. OH BOY!! I loved being needle free! Whoohoo no more IVs!!!!! In the last week I have been super busy with a few different things. 1. Work. I have a new client AND I had all my post licensing webinars & exams this last week! 2. More CF Foundation Volunteer work. I held a presentation in my home town, where I discussed CF, the different mutations & severity of classes, as well as fundraising for great strides. I talked about the history of the CF foundation, care centers, and more about our local IL CF fundraisers. Overall, it wasn't a big turn out, so I was a little bummed. My hometown has always supported my CF cause, so it was disappointing not to have a good numb...
Post a Comment
Read more

Updates!

 Hey everyone! Sorry it’s been a while. Covid struggles have been all around and we have been focusing our on our kiddo and current life situations (jobs, home, everything really). We have been posting regularly on the Facebook page (www.facebook.com/CherizCFPage). We will keep you updated on there for now,  because we are doing some big changes to our current blog! Stay tuned!  In meantime, message our FB page if you need anything. Keep safe and stay happy.  We will be back. Promise! 
3 comments
Read more

Today's BIG Appointment

 I discussed last week about my recent struggles & goals. I have been dealing with a lot all at once! Family planning (update on that in 2 weeks), my Grandma's funeral, lower lung function. Through it all I have remained very compliant with my meds! My health is VERY important to me. So this last weekend I took my vest machine, wabi sterilizer system , and packs of ensure to my parent's for the weekend. I wanted to make sure I did everything. While it was a sad occasion, it was still pleasant seeing almost all of the family together again. Actually 27 out of 29 of the cousins made it to the funeral. Grandpa is in the middle of the picture (can you find me?) LOL   On top of my medications I have been doing some dancing & walking, but no jogging or anything. I'm still counting calories on my fitbit (hitting over 3000) a day (& 40 grams of protein, 50 grams of fat at least). I knew I was feeling a bit better than before, but wasn't sure what to expec...
18 comments
Read more