Showing posts with label volunteer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label volunteer. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

My 2nd Dog and Pony Show

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Telethon 2012 for Lollypop Farm was a great success thanks to the Rochester community and beyond.  Our goal of $210,000 was exceeded as we reached 237,230!!!  Here's a WHAM 13/Rochester CW interview.


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Info in case you didn't see it earlier


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Setting up for the big show


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The phone bank volunteers I trained.  They did an awesome job this year.  They had very nice handwriting, which was complimented on by a lot of people


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Not-so-behind the scenes at Eastview Mall


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The kissing booth


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Our first customer!


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Mercy the Mini Horse!  She's already a star at Lollypop, but the pink shoes really capture the diva in her.


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Joanna doing an awesome job training more phone bank volunteers.  TEAMWORK!


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Busy answering the phones


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Behind the scenes with all the "overflow" phone bank volunteers.  That's a lot of phone calls!


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The show's over...


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The set was taken down in a matter of minutes.  As Karen said, "It's like Christmas.  You spend months shopping and weeks to get everything ready and then all the gifts are opened and forgotten about within five minutes."


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Another great Telethon!  Lots of "good jobs" and "congrats" to go around.  The Rochester community for their support of our animals.  To all the volunteers who poured their time and energy into this effort.  To all the staff that dedicated countless hours during the Telethon and year-round.  It's moments like this that show why Lollypop Farm is such a wonderful and unique place for animals!

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Cats of Minor League Hockey

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This is Moxie the Desk Cat.  I've been volunteering at Lollypop Farm, the Humane Society of Rochester and Monroe County (http://www.lollypop.org/), which is a wonderful organization.  They have all kinds of animals out there from cats, dogs, goats, chickens, horses, snakes, turtles and I'm sure much, much more.  I have to say that I've never had pets at work before, but they are great co-workers.


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DiBella's is a local sub shop chain (Friends and family: they have one in Ann Arbor, MI if you want to try).  Some really good stuff.  Megan and I went there for the first time last week after a young professionals get together downtown because so many people showed up that we weren't going to eat.  In Chicago, you're lucky if 15 people show up for a young professional event.  Here in Rochester, there were nearly 1,000.  It was pretty intense and we were wholly unprepared for that.  So, we had subs instead.


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HOCKEY!!!!  HIT HIM!!!!  For Christmas, Megan got me a ticket package for the Rochester Americans (Amerks for short) (http://amerks.com).  They are a part of the American Hockey League (AHL) (they play the Grand Rapids Griffins on 1/26).  They are an affiliate of the Florida Panthers .


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DEAL OF THE WEEK:  Two Zweigle Hot Dogs (Red Hots), Four Molson Canadians, Only $6.  


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The Amerks played against the Lake Erie Monsters out of Cleveland.  


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FIGHT!!!


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He was alright, but it looked like they were selling a lot of hockey equipment at a yard sale.


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Intermission entertainment!  It seemed that they put kids from the ages of 4-6 out there.  One kid was the best.  He would skate, stop hunched over, skate, fall, skate, stop hunched over, repeat.  It took him the whole intermission to get to the other side of the rink and then the coach carried him off the ice when the Zamboni was ready.


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Not sure if this ended up being a goal...


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This is R. Thunder.  You would think he's the main mascot, but he isn't.  You will see him next.  


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This is the Moose, which is the main mascot of the Americans.  I guess they got him from a local radio station and somehow it became permanent.  I think their mascot should be something like George Washington with a black eye and a missing wooden tooth.  Just a thought...


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Oh the Nutty Bavarian.  


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"Don Stevens is the man of the hour (but not this hour)."  He's their play-by-play announcer.  So, I have no idea what this is about...


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BEER GUY!!!  Famous in the Bell family.  So, the next time you see Megan you should ask her about the "Beer Guy Wedding."


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The American Spirits with the Moose.  It seems they are looking for new cheerleaders and if you are interested, visit http://amerks.com/fan/spirit/.  


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GENNY LIGHT!  The local brew of choice.  Interestingly enough, they don't seem to serve it at the War Memorial at Blue Cross Arena; they just advertise there...


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THANKS MEGAN FOR A WONDERFUL DATE!  I'll see you there for game 2: against the Manitoba Moose (again the Moose is the Amerks mascot, which seems more Canadian)


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More cold and snow recently.  It's been bitter, but not nearly as bitter as we've gotten use to in Chicago.  So, we took a walk to check out the snow and all at Linear Park (aka Channing H. Philbrick Park) in Penfield, NY


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Ducks found something good to eat


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My "National Geographic shot"


That's it from the hamlet of Rochester.  Not too much going on in the next week.  Just volunteering at Lollypop, Megan's going to New York for a conference this weekend, and job hunting. 

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Radiothon and more Sox Baseball

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In the Little Village neighborhood for La Que Buena Radiothon for work last weekend. And yes, that is the
Cook County Prison in the background

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This is where I spent most of my time counting cash. Tons of cash. Piles and buckets of it everywhere.

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Andrea (If I remember correctly), her boyfriend and my co-worker, TJ, and Mauricio

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Just like last week, I got free tickets to a Sox game. This time, I was in the Sky Deck Club seats, which
feature such amenities as cushion seats, waiters from Levy's Restaurant, specialty food, and my favorite
private bathrooms. It's the first time I didn't have to wait in a line to pee in a stadium.

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Mike Nummerdor

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The hall connecting the skyboxes. It's like a hotel. A baseball hotel...

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This is the food vendor? Gourmet cookies!

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My seats from the opposite side of the stadium

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Welcome to Navy Night

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They graduated from the Navy college here and are being shipped to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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So, I'm getting pretty spoiled these days. I'm going to be pretty grumpy the next time I buy my own
baseball tickets. "How much? I got better seats for free! And, I got a baseball, cushioned seats,
waiters, and was on the Jumbotron. What the hell?" Man oh man...

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