[Trdma-l] Fw: [ARDM-L] More Volunteers Needed for Mush for Kids

[Tom McGrane]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Orbison" <daisyacres at mosquitonet.com>
To: "List for ADMA" <adma-l at lists.uaf.edu>; "List for ARDM" 
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Cc: "Melody Sayles" <melody.sayles at alaska.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:03 PM
Subject: [ARDM-L] More Volunteers Needed for Mush for Kids


> Permission to Cross Post (please!)
>
> With the expected warm temperatures this weekend we're looking for 
> additional volunteers to assist with giving dog sled rides at Mush for 
> Kids on Saturday at Pioneer Park. This is the largest annual fundraiser 
> for the Alaska Children's Trust. They support MANY nonprofit organizations 
> in our community and around the state and work tirelessly to end child 
> abuse and neglect. The dog sled rides are offered free to any 
> child...businesses sponsor the event because it is a free community 
> service.
>
> The rides are scheduled from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The dogs will overheat 
> quickly and most won't be able to participate continuously all day. But 
> the warm weather will likely draw out even larger crowds so even more kids 
> will looking for free rides!!!
>
> So if you have the time and the inclination, your participation would be 
> most appreciated.
>
> If you have reasonable dogs perhaps you could bring them and offer to 
> handle and "swap them out" with another musher??? Or, if you even just 
> wanted to come and help handle so that we can do dog swaps more 
> efficiently and keep more teams on the track longer, that would be a HUGE 
> help too.
>
> Remember, you can volunteer on the dog yard end of things and avoid the 
> endless line of small people completely! Or, you can volunteer at the 
> loading and unloading chute and help explain the ins and out of our sport 
> to the youth of our community and help promote humane and loving handling 
> so that up and coming mushers learn to love and respect the dogs as much 
> as you do.
>
> If you are interested in volunteering (partial shifts are available---you 
> don't have to get sucked into playing all day!) please contact:
>
> Melody Sayles at <melody.sayles at alaska.edu>
> daytime 450-8339
> home 452-5452
>
> We're working on having water available for dogs, and lunch provided to 
> volunteers. The more dog capable volunteers we have, the better the day 
> will go for the dogs, and thus for all of us.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> -lynn orbison
> community volunteer
>
> p.s. If you'd like to participate in the Musher Olympics, I'd love to hear 
> from you! We'll pair kids from the crowd with adults to run an obstacle 
> course that demonstrates some of the skills required to be a musher. If I 
> don't have enough mushers available, I may just use any willing adult...so 
> if you have a handler or friend that would like to participate, please 
> send them my way!
>
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