DFW National Cancer Survivors Day Car Show
Sunday, June 1, 2008
The Filling Station,
Plano, TX

As some of you know, there is a pre-existing weekly car show at this
location, promoted by Jared with
RiceKiller.com. Therefore, I
have adopted the agenda to compliment the existing times, but these
times are subject to change.

Agenda - Sunday, June 1, 2008

• 1.00p - 2.00p: Car Show Participant Registration and Vendor Setup
• 2.00p - 2.30p: Event Opens to Public, Presentation of Event,
  Explanation of Car Show Judging, and Thank You to Volunteers
• 2.00p - 5.00p: Car Show Judging (5.00p - 5.30p: Tally Votes)
• 5.30p - 6.00p: Awards Show (Car Show, Door Prizes, Silent Auction,
  etc.) and Closing Presentation

At this point, there will not be categories in the since that each
category winner will receive a prize. We will however, organize the
participants in similar gruops.

Car Show Groups

• Car Cancer Survivors (must include picture of car prior to
  restoration from rust)
• Modern Cars
• Classic Cars
• Trucks/SUV's
• Motorcycles/ATV's
• And more...

The charity for this event is
Virginia R.
Cvetko Patient Education Center and their program that they are
in the process of developing. Below you will find a brief overview of
this program. All of the money raised at this event will be donated
directly to this program to help offset the costs involved to create
and implement this program and to provide longevity to continue this
program for years to come. Based on the information that I have read,
most of which is provided here, this program addresses true concerns a
cancer survivor faces, and I feel that it will be a huge benefit to
those that are both recently cured and to those who have been cured
for many years.

The information below was received directly from Mr. Greg Powers, with
the Virginia R. Cvetko Center, but has been edited to fit within this
post.

***
The LLS chapter in San Antonio developed this transition program. It
will probably be revised before being instituted at the Virginia R.
Cvetko Center, but this is a pretty good outline of what is planned.

Transitions: Life After Cancer

• Session 1: Fear of Recurrence - MD speaker
• Session 2: Psychosocial Issues around Survivorship - Social Work speaker
• Session 3: Long-Time Side Effects: What They Don't Tell You - MD speaker
• Session 4: Sex After Cancer - RN speaker
• Session 5: Nutrition and Complementary Therapies - Nutritionist speaker
• Session 6: Celebration of Life - Chaplain speaker

Sessions
would be held for two hours, every other week. The first part of the
program would be a speaker for approximately one hour. The second
part would consist of a support group type meeting to discuss the
information from the talk or any other issues from the group.
***

This show cannot happen without volunteers, so I am asking for help
from anyone willing and able to donate their time to help make this
show a great success. Below you will find some specific areas that I
need help with, but if you can only give a few minutes a week, let me
know, and I'm sure I can find something for you. Some of these
volunteer opportunities do not take place on the day of the show, so
if you're not going to be in town for the show and still want to help,
there are plenty of options

General Event - To oversee the general progress of the event

• Organize vendors and sponsors
• Collect donations
• Organize individual volunteers

Car Show - To plan and
organize the car show

• Gather support from local car clubs
• Organize the categories
• Plan voting procedure
• Run table at event (at least 2 at all times for entire
  event)

Additional Volunteers

• Pass out fliers
• Make phone calls

Thank you all for your continued support.

An edited version of this is available on the main page of the Google
Groups website for NCSD
DFW. Please contact me directly if you would like to help out
in any way. Also, please pass this information along to anyone who
might be interested in attending, helping, or sponsoring/donating.

Thank you all for your time.

 

We're less than a week out, who's going to this?

 

I'll be there with a VERY FAST 4 DOOR! ha ha ha

 

I should be there.

 

I'm gonna try to make it out.

 

I will be there!

 

Good to hear, look forward to seeing y'all there.

 

5 days remaining...

Two quick things:

1. The Filling Station is in Dallas, not Plano, same address though.
2. The per car donation is $10. You may still bring out your car and show it without entering in the show, the donation simply gives you an opportunity to win a trophy and donate to a good cause.

 

This shows getting a lot of positive responses, hope to see y'all there, only 4 days left.

 

I'll be getting to The Filling Station around 11.30a for lunch and will start setting up around 12.30p for anyone who's interested in helping out. Looking forward to see y'all there.

 

Today turned out to be an amazing success. We raised over $2,500 and it's grown since I got home, family and friends have sent me some checks. Again, every penny donated was given to the Cvetko Center.

Exhaustion doesn't quite cover it right now, so I'll leave this update short. However, I will have a more detailed report of today's events and hope to get pictures up as well.

I would like to thank each and every one that showed up and donated to this cause, without you, this would have been a lonely event. I would also like to thank the volunteers that made this show run so smoothly. This was my first time out, and I would have been completely lost without help from y'all.

 

For those that took pictures at the show, would it be possible to get a copy of your pictures (in original format)? I need to send them to NCSDF and the Cvetko Center for their respective stories. I will credit you if you would like. Please PM with your contact information and we can coordinate a time to meet. Thank you in advance.

 

Took these with my camera phone, but you should be able to sharpen them up with Photoshop.

99 FRC

 

Many thanks, I'm at work now, but I'll pull them off when I get home tonight. If you would like credit, please PM your name so I can provide that with the pictures.

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/andrew.w.janke

Please feel free to add comments as necessary, just keep them clean and positive.

Also, check back often as I'm still collecting more pictures. I am also still collecting donations for those that were not able to attend and would like to donate. PM me and I'll send you the necessary information.

 

The link above is currently holding 127 pictures, go check them out. I'll have 200+ by the end of this weekend.