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Click Here — for the “2009 Raffle Calender” which includes all winning ticket numbers and winners names
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Prize Winners: You will be contacted [phone/email] by Sue Knight to confirm addresses for delivery of prize. Checks will be sent out by the end of the month if you won a cash prize.

A big “Thank You” to everyone who helped run the very successful Calendar Raffle. A big thanks to all our prize donors, ticket purchasers, raffle ticket sellers, coaches/raffle ticket coordinators, and parents for all your support.

Top Raffle Ticket Seller - Jenna Swanson — 55 tickets

Winners of the Team Pizza Parties -
GU12 Tigers - Coach Tom Grimes
GU12 Eagles - Coach Carl Swanson
BU10 Vipers - Coach Callum Maclean

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

—————- A BIG “Thank You” to our sponsors. —————————

Walpole.org
Maples Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
Verizon Foundation - Volunteer Incentive Program - Paul Sem
Carl Swanson Construction
Forekicks
Verderber Real Estate Inc.
Walpole Cooperative Bank
TrueTownWear
Grimes and Company
Get in Shape for Women
The Vein and Aesthetic Center of Boston
Daisy Nails

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Date: September 22, 2009
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 this Fall, playing on 85+ teams, from grades K through 8th grade. 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, u10, Travel u11-u12-u14] 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 - for example one item is this Falls Free Skills clinics for all age-groups where we being in professional soccer coaches to run skills clinics, are not covered by registration fees, but are an extra for the kids. http://www.walpolesoccer.org/

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 have more fun and to be even better players, and to help upgrade the uniforms for all the players. This Fall we have
offered FREE skills clinics for all age-groups, with over 500 players attending at least one session so far. We are also offering “Save the Day” keeper training - which will be FREE for all keepers who attend all 4 sessions. http://www.walpolesoccer.org/

We will be offering more training for the players and also more training for the coaches this spring as well. We are also continuing to work through the process of expanding/optimizing 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 /Patriots / Bruins / Celtics / Revolution Tickets
BC Tickets - football, hockey, basketball
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)
Theamed 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/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/wysacalendarraffleprizes2008final.doc

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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 - Janet Nevin and let her know what you have to donate. This will allow us to start building our prize calendar. Janet’s email is: jbnevin@yahoo.com

2). Janet will then coordinate with you to arrange a pick up/drop off when you have your prize ready to donate. Her phone number is 508-668-7763 if you have any questions.

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The rest of the raffle info
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Kathy Moser is the Raffle Calendar Coordinator. She is in charge of the distribution and collection of the raffles tickets. Her email is: kathy@moserfamily9.com. Her phone number is 508-668-3104 if you have any questions.

- We are starting to gather raffle prizes and are adding them to our raffle prize calendar.
- The Raffle tickets are being printed now and will be distributed to coaches or their raffle team coordinators about the first week in October.
- Raffle tickets will be sold in October
- Raffle tickets will be collected by October 25, 2009.
- Raffle winners will be picked in November and posted to the website. Winners will also be contacted by phone.

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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. — Please just let your coach know
you can help.

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
mgallivan@walpolesoccer.org

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

—————- Thank you in advance for all your help —————————

Thanks to some of our past sponsors

Walpole.org
Carl Swanson Construction
The Analog Group
National Fitness
E.P. Cotter Oil Company
Rodman Ford
The Vein and Aesthetic Center of Boston
Bikramyoga
Maples Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
Verizon Foundation - Volunteer Incentive Program - Paul Sem