The 3rd Annual Purple Ribbon Cancer Ride held on Feb 5th, 2011 was a huge success.

  We had 151 snowmobiles participate.  We left the Boar's Nest in 4 seperate groups.  The weather was perfect for riding and the trails were awesome.  Kudos go out the the Kingsbury Barnstormer and Hartford Ridge Rider Groomer Crews. 

The trails were marked with special Cancer Ride signs. We started our journey out on  "Early Detection Highway" and continued up over Mammogram Mountain.  We proceeded through "Colon Valley" and across "Brain Bridge".  Some groups made their way down the "Chemo Trail" and ventured through "Radiation Woods" 

It was snowing quite hard as we headed over to The Hartford Tavern.  Randy and staff had a nice sign welcoming the Cancer Riders and provided a snack table for our riders all afternoon.  As we made our way back to the Boar's Nest down "The Road to Recovery" we were really enjoying the ride back toward "Pancreatic Parkway" when it started to rain. 

By the time we made our way back to the Boar's Nest it was raining hard.  Thank you to the Boar's Nest Staff for another delicious buffet dinner.  A cake beautifully decorated with our logo was desert.  Thank you Jennifer Hoag the cake was so good it was gone in a matter of minutes.

After dinner and desert we got the auction started with the first item...the Pink "Save the Boobies" shirt..Dave Rosick our fill in auctioneer wore it with pride for the rest of the evening.  The auction was quite competative as we proceeded with the remainder of auction items donated by generous members of our community.  The last item raffled was the Kayak that was hanging from the ceiling of the Boar's Nest.  Congratulations to the winner (Gary Monrian).  Karen Rosick won the 50/50 drawing and generously donated back to the cause. Thanks Karen.  After the auction Country Express provided the entertainment.  When the bank took a break we held a couple cool hoola-hoop contests which got pretty interesting as we rolled hoola-hoops across the dance floor and participants were diving through them.  A bit more interesting than the usual hoola-hoop contest.  What a blast. 

When all was said and done....we had collected $8,000 to donate to our local "Cancer Patient Service Programs" through the American Cancer Society to make available  "Early dectection Screening" for all types of cancer to people in our community.

 

I am living proof that "Early Detection Saves Lives" and I would like to personnally Thank all of you that helped make this event such a success.  Because of your generosity together we can make a difference and save more lives through early detection screening.  Watch the website for details on the public presentation of our donation.  Date to be announced soon.

 

Hope to see you all again next year for the 4th Annual Ride to be held on the First Saturday of February 2012... 

                                                                       Sincerely,

                                                                       Donna Brockway