As I reflect on the things I am grateful for, I realized that I
wanted to thank you to each of you for your participation in this year’s Light
the Night walk. Team Firefly was again
the top Friends and Family team for the Seattle walk. This is the 4th year in a row that
we have claimed that honor and I thank each and every one of you for your help
in raising over $22,000 to fight blood cancers.
We were the 2nd place team overall, chasing the
incredibly impressive Seattle Genetics team who raised over $49,000 with 157
team members. As I talked to their team
at the awards ceremony, each of them was incredibly impressed with all that our
team has been able to do without the backing of any corporate sponsor.
Did you know? When LLS
was founded in 1949, a blood cancer diagnosis was almost always fatal. Thanks in part to innovative research funded
by LLS, survival rates have improved dramatically. Today, an estimated 274,930
people are living with or are in remission from leukemia.
FUNDRAISING
CLUBS:
This is
the first year that we have had 6 team members joining the Bright Lights
club. Do you think we can break that
record again next year??
TEAM
FIREFLY BRIGHT LIGHTS (Raised over $1000)
- Christine Watson - $1691.46
- Carrie Numata - $1472.46
- Ken Mock - $1121.46
- Andrea Coughlin - $1079.51
- Becky McLellan - $1053.71
TEAM FIREFLY CHAMPIONS – THE 100 CLUB!
-
Vivian Oehler - $936.71
- Ceci Rozendaal - $806.46
- Celeste McArthur - $521.46
- Bonnie Rydman - $506.46
- Carol Bonenko - $491.46
- Scott Bledsoe - $453.71
- Paul Giering - $426.46
- Thelma Westberg - $371.46
- Mackenzie Martin - $366.46
- Debbie Carroll - $252.46
- Erin Aten - $205.46
- Hans Loland - $203.71
- LeAnn Miller - $201.60
- Zea Carter - $123.71
- Dorothy Gorman - $106.46
- Benjamin Bonenko - $103.90
- Aleksandra Bonenko - $103.71
- David Bonenko - $103.71
- Jacque Bonenko - $103.71
- Laura Mitchell - $103.71
- Steve Mitchell - $103.71
- Jennifer Hugill - $103.71
- Libby Dermenstein - $103.71
- Bethanie Roddy – $103.71
- Amy Donlan - $103.71
- Cynthia Loland - $103.71
- Michele Bleser - $103.71
- Dave Carroll - $101.60
- Lauren Schepman - $100
- Lynn Roediger - $100
Thank you
for all that you have done to help fight cancer. I’m deeply touched by the fact that family
and friends continue to join me each September in my current version of the
Bledsoe Battle – my efforts to fund a cure for blood cancers.
Registration
for next year’s walk begins in February.
I hope that you will consider joining Team Firefly again. Invite your friends and neighbors and
coworkers to join us in fundraising. Let’s
give those corporate teams a run for their (research) money again next year!
Thank you from
the bottom of my heart,
Mandy
Bledsoe
http://bledsoebattle.com
