The Fall 2007 Calendar Raffle is underway. Click Here to view the prizes!

Raffle Ticket Sales - a big THANK YOU to all the players and families who sold raffle tickets.
Raffle Ticket Prizes - a big THANK YOU to all the players, families, and companies that donated all the great prizes for the raffle.

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2007 Calendar Raffle Information

Date: September 25, 2007
Subject: Walpole Soccer Raffle Fundraiser – Prizes Needed – We could use some help

Hi Walpole Soccer Families, Coaches & Volunteers

Walpole Youth Soccer is a 501c3 non-profit, all volunteer organization supporting over 1,100 players, playing on over 80 teams, from grades K through high school. WYSA has over 175 volunteer coaches, parent managers, field helpers, coordinators and directors. 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 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.

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 $500. 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 - and can train our players to be even better players, and to help upgrade the uniforms for all the players. Over the past 2 months we have also offered free goalie training to u10 intown players, and travel players, and offered a special coaching class to coaches on how to better coach defending.

We would also like to ask everyone to really help us, have a great RAFFLE fundraiser this year, as we are continuing our plans to expand our field space at MYLOD, so that more of our teams can get to spend more time at MYLOD Field. This field expansion will be costly, but well worth it for all our soccer players. Hopefully this expansion will be starting over the winter or in early spring after we get plans finished and go through the appropriate process to get everything started.

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 resteraunt 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.

Past items that have been donated include the following:

Clothing, Savings Bonds, Premium Corporate Items, Gift certificates (restaurants,retail shops, services),Tickets for sporting events - RedSox, Patriots, Celtics, Bruins, College Teams, 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.

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 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 – Mary Garrity
mailto:garrity6@comcast.net

2). Coordinate with Mary Garrity when you have your prize, to drop off the prize at her house, or arrange for pickup, at any nearby location. Mary Garrity 660-2769 or mailto:garrity6@comcast.net

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 in late October
- Raffle winners will be picked for every day in November

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 so they can coach – volunteer directly to your teams coach

Field Helpers – Help line fields, cleanup fields, fill in potholes, fix nets, empty trash cans, and generally help with anything needing to be done at a field

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

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