What are you doing May 14th? If you don't have plans, you do now! The Bounty Room in the Holiday Inn off Exit 4 is going to be the place to be that night! What could be better than a night of fun in a pirate ship raising money for a great cause?!
The Cup Crusaders are hosting a fundraising bash there to push us toward our goal of raising $200,000 for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure this year!
Join us and three bands -- The Risen, The Pop Farmers and Corolla DeVille -- for a night of great music, dancing and a lot of fun and surprises!
We'll have raffles, oh boy will we have raffles! You could win an iPad, an iPod nano, Red Sox tickets, Kenny Chesney tickets, Meadowbrook Pavilion tickets to the show of your choosing, a cbseball autographed by Rico Petricelli & Luis Tiant, four Opening Day tickets to the Fisher Cats, 1 month at Golden Crane Tai Chi & Karate, Gift certificates for great restaurants like: Saffron Bistro, McGurks, Stella Blu, San Francisco Kitchen, Kendall Pond Pizza & many more... 
And the raffle prizes are still rolling in.
We'll also have drink specials, light appetizers, and Captain Morgan and Budweiser will be there. Most importantly, don't forget to wear your pink and show support for the cause. A little birdie told me that we will be giving away a special prize to one lucky pink-wearing attendee!
Many thanks to our growing list of sponsors: Frank FM - 106.3, Carew & Wells, Concord, The Golden Crane, Windham, The Bittersweet Bake Shoppe, Tyngsboro, Mass., The Holiday Inn of Nashua, The Nashua Telegraph and Amherst Family Chiropractic and Wellness Center!
If you would like to join our list of sponsors or donate a raffle prize, please contact me at [email protected].Tickets for this fun-filled night are $20 a person and ALL of the proceeds from the night will go to the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure! Tickets can be purchased from me or online at http://rockonforthecure.eventbrite.com. If you are coming from out of town and need a place to stay, the Holiday Inn is offering our guests a special room rate of $84. This Holiday Inn reservation link will bring you to the page you need to reserve a room.
We hope you'll join us for a night of fun for a great cause!

So, it's March. There are 141 days until the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure in Boston. I need to get my butt in gear. These past few weeks have been so crazy, I haven't really done anything. I haven't walked, I haven't fund-raised. Nothing. Talk about not being the greatest role model for Monica and Jess who joined to walk with me this year.
One thing I have done though, is joined a larger team. A MUCH larger team.
A couple weeks ago, Monica, Jess and I decided to join The Cup Crusaders. Last year, volunteering at Getting Started Meetings in the Nashua area, I met Sharyn. I describe Sharyn to my friends as a 3-Day rockstar. And she really is!
Sharyn started walking in the 3-Day the year she turned 60. She decided since she was turning 60, she would set a goal of raising $6,000 for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. She came just shy of her goal, but well surpassed the 3-Day minimum, then $2,200. Since that first year, she's walked in multiple cities, crewed in multiple cities, worked with Event 360 to help promote and provide support for hundreds of 3-Day walkers. This year, she's walking in three cities -- which I believe are her 11th, 12th and 13th walks (maybe 10th, 11th and 12th? Sharyn, if you read this, set me straight.) Regardless, this woman know what she's doing, she's such a positive energy and she is a great example of someone who leads by doing. Oh yeah, did I mention she's already raised all of her money for Boston?! Go 
She is a member of the Cup Crusaders, one of the largest walking teams in Boston. She suggested we consider joining a bigger team, and we thought it would be really fun and a great way to really get to know some other walkers. I know I'm really excited to walk with this team. I met Kathy for the first time at a training walk in Nashua during my first walk in 2008. She's kind of hard to forget. Every year, she dyes her hair bright pink (when she sent me a Facebook friend request a couple weeks ago, I saw a picture of her without pink hair and if I didn't know I was on her page, I would never have known it was her.) She's got an infectious personality and a great sense of humor.
As far as I know, they're the only two on the team that I've met (I may be wrong on this) but the opportunity to fundraise and train with these women and the rest of the more than 50-person team is very exciting.
Now, as I said in the beginning, it's time to get my butt in gear. This weekend, I WILL finally send out my fundraising letters. I've only raised $195 so far, and that's without really trying, so I know I'll hit the minimum and HOPEFULLY my goal with ease!
This year, for the first time I decided to set my goal higher than the $2,300 minimum. Taking a cue from Sharyn, I decided I would go for $3,000 this year because just two weeks after the walk I will celebrate my 30th birthday! It's also my third 3-Day. So I decided to go bigger. $100 for each year I've been alive? OK! I'm game. 
So, here's to a big and bold 3-Day! It's going to be a blast! 

Till next time!
Carolyn