2008 Prize Calendar with WINNERS - WYSA reserves the right to add / combine prizes up to the drawing date. The prize winners will be updated every Sunday evening.

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A BIG “THANK YOU” to all WYSA Soccer Families, Coaches, Coordinators, Sponsors, Ticket Purchasers, Prize Donors, raffle calander fundraiser team - We have raised over $29,000 for all the soccer players of Walpole. As an all volunteer organization - Thank you for helping us provide the best soccer experience possible for all the kids.
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Raffle Calendar Winners will be contacted by Sue Knight sknight666@comcast.net to confirm their address, and make arrangements for you to pick up your prize or for her to drop it off. Anyone who won a cash prize - your check will be mailed in early December.
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Pizza Party Winners - Teams that average selling 10 or more tickets per player win a pizza party. Winners are:
u14 Boys - Walpole Fire - Kathy Moser
u14 Boys - Walpole Huskies - Joe Weinacht
u11 Boys - Walpole Badgers - Jim D’Ovideo
u14 Girls - Walpole Cougars - Dan McMackin
u11 Girls - Walpole Eagles - Carl Swanson
u11 Girls - Walpole Tigers - Tom Grimes
u10 Girls - Purple - Jim Clancy
Checks for the pizza parties will be mailed directly to the coaches house - each team will receive $7.50 for each rostered player.
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Individual Player Ticket Sales Prize $100 - for being the top ticket sellers
Jenna Swanson - 65 tickets sold
Phillipe Gomes - 100 tickets sold
Shawn Bradley - 60 tickets sold
Checks for the individual ticket sales winners will be mailed directly to the winners house.
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Date: September 24, 2008
Subject: Walpole Soccer Raffle Fundraiser – Prizes Needed ASAP– We could use some help

Hi Walpole Soccer Families, Coaches & Volunteers

We are gearing up our WYSA Raffle Fundraiser - and need some quick help to line up some great Raffle Prizes ASAP. Read on for more information about the WYSA, our Volunteers and the Calendar Raffle.

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Walpole Youth Soccer is a 501c3 non-profit
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WYSA is an all volunteer organization supporting over 1,000 players, playing on 80 teams, from grades K through High School. The WYSA has over 175 volunteer coaches, asst coaches, parent managers, field helpers, coordinators, directors and other volunteers. All the volunteers willingly give their time to help the soccer players of Walpole have the best possible experience while out on the soccer fields. We are always seeking additional volunteers who have experience as coaches, and those who just want to help out - see the volunteer section below if you would like to give us a hand.

The registration cost varies by program, [In-Town K, u8, In-Town u10, Travel u11-u12-u14, and High School] depending on a variety of factors including, uniforms, level & number of referees, number of practices per week, which fields used, field maintenance costs, professional coaches [K & u8] and so on. Scholarships/Fee Waivers are available to those families who need them to make sure that all the Walpole soccer players who want to play soccer, get that chance.

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Calendar Raffle
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But - registration does not cover all of the things we would like to do for our soccer players. So our big additional fundraiser is the Fall “Raffle Calendar”. Every day during the month of November, someone will win a prize or series of prizes generally worth over $100, and sometimes well over $250. Over the last several years, this extra money has been used to make sure that our fields at Mylod & Ellis are maintained at a very high level, also to help train over 80 soccer coaches and pay for them to get Mass Youth Soccer Licenses - so that they are better coaches for the players - and can train our players to be even better players, and to help upgrade the uniforms for all the players. Just last week we offered free goalie training to u10 InTown players, and u10-u14 travel players and over 85 players attended. We will be offering more special training for the players and also more training for the coaches. We are also working towards expanding our field space at Mylod and even more importantly our parking at Mylod so that we can better utilize our existing field space.

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How can you help - you ask?
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The success of our RAFFLE Calendar is dependant on what prizes we have to offer. So we are asking everyone to try to help us find some great items for the raffle. Maybe you have a great item or sports tickets you can donate, or maybe the company you [or your friends or relatives] work for has a great item, or maybe your favorite restaurant will be willing to donate an item the next time you go in. The better the items are the easier it will be to sell raffle tickets. Every day we would like to have a prize or group of prizes worth well over $100.

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Past items that have been donated include the following:
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RedSox Tickets
Patriots Tickets
Bruins Tickets
Celtics Tickets
BC Tickets - football, hockey, basketball
Revolution Tickets
Savings Bonds
Cash Prizes
Clothing
Premium Corporate Items
Gift certificates (restaurants,retail shops, services)
Theatre tickets
Movie Tickets, [Note that if tickets are for a specific show/event they should be dated 12/1 or later)
Themed gift baskets. Cash prizes
Wine and Spirits
Autographed and non-autographed sports memorabilia.
………………..All these have been very well received by the winners when notified.
To see last years prizes - click here http://www.walpolesoccer.org/F07/calendar.html

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When you have a Raffle Item for us.
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SO - Please help us this week - help us make the RAFFLE CALENDAR a huge success, by donating a great prize, or soliciting a great prize from a local business that you know, or by having your company donate a great prize for the raffle. Here is what to do now:

1). Send an email to our RAFFLE PRIZE COORDINATOR and let her know what you are able to help us get a prize, this will allow us to start building our prize calendar – Janet Nevin jbnevin@yahoo.com

2). Coordinate with Janet Nevin when you have your prize, to drop off the prize at her house, or arrange for pickup, at any nearby location. Janet Nevin jbnevin@yahoo.com or 668-7763

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The rest of the raffle info
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Kathy Moser kathy@moserfamily9.com is the Raffle Calendar Coordinator.

- We have started to gather raffle prizes and add them to our raffle calendar
- The Raffle tickets are being printed now and will be distributed to coaches or their raffle team coordinators around Columbus Day Weekend
- Raffle tickets will be sold in October
- Raffle tickets will be collected at the end of October
- Raffle winners will be picked for every day in November, and posted over the weekend

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Volunteers
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We are always looking for volunteers to help make our program better for the kids – here are a few opportunities – please let me know if you would like to help out.

Team Raffle Coordinator
– Help your teams coach out by handling the raffle tickets, collecting raffle tickets so they can coach – volunteer directly to your teams coach. This is an easy way to help your team and the WYSA in a short period of time.

Raffle Volunteers
– help support the volunteers who are running the raffle, distributing & collecting tickets, be an agegroup coordinator, put together raffle packages – if you can help contact Kathy Moser directly at kathy@moserfamily9.com

Thank You
Mark Gallivan WYSA President - for the WYSA Board
508-878-8261, micmarkg@aol.com

Walpole Youth Soccer Association is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization incorporated under MA General Laws, Chapter 180. All donations are tax deductible as much as permitted by law.
Visit our website at: www.walpoleyouthsoccer.org

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