Registration is OPEN!

Hi everyone!

Did you hear that registration is OPEN for our 5^th annual event?! Don’t waste any time and sign up today to join us in the fight against lung cancer on Sunday, September 7^th! It is never too early to register, start a team, recruit team members and begin fundraising! You can run OR walk the 5K, and we also have the 1 mile route again this year! We’ll also have a silent auction, and are hoping to have some additional kids’ activities available for the families! This year’s event is shaping up to being the best yet, and we can’t wait to see you all on September 7^th (not that we’re wishing the summer away! We can’t wait for the warm weather… and hope that it sticks around for our event this year too!!!!)

Best of all, along with all of these great activities, you get to help out a great cause. 

As you may know, lung cancer claims more lives each year than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined, yet doesn’t receive nearly as much funding. Free to Breathe is dedicated to changing these staggering statistics. Their mission is to ensure surviving lung cancer is the expectation, not the exception and their vision is to double lung cancer survival by 2022. With your help, we can make this vision a reality! 

Join the movement today to help double lung cancer survival by 2022! Visit www.freetobreathe.org/chelmsford for more information about registering and donating!  

Ten Day Countdown!

Hard to believe there are just ten days left until event day! Are you ready? Getting team tee shirts sorted? Asking for last minute donations? Planning your carpool? So many last minute things to do as the event nears!



And don't give up your efforts on September 22 -- fundraising will stay open until November 6th!

One of our last few Welcome Wednesdays

A big welcome to our two new teams: Grandpa's Gang and Linda's Crew!

We're so excited to still be welcoming teams with less than three weeks to go! We're well on our way to having a historically successful event, thanks to our participants and volunteers.

Speaking of event day, did you check out this awesome new addition to the silent auction? Get your bids ready for an autographed 2012-2013 Celtics basketball! How cool is that?



Don't forget to invite your friends and family to "Like" our page on Facebook to stay updated as it gets closer to event day, and good luck in the last weeks of fundraising! See you on September 22.

Welcome Wednesday and Countdown!

Wow! Can you believe we are less than a month away from event day? I think we can all agree that this summer has flown by, and now it's time to kick our fundraising into high gear to get ready for Free to Breathe Chelmsford!

We'd like to welcome the following teams to our event -- glad you could join us! We'll see you in less than a month!

• Team Charlie
  
• Team Corracio
  
• Kim Lab

Welcome Wednesday

Hey everyone! Hope you were able to make it to our British Beer Company fundraiser last night. It was great fun and hopefully very successful. If not, don't worry -- you can purchase a paper lung at BBC for either $1 or $5 during the entire month of August! Proceeds go directly to Free to Breathe Chelmsford.

On another note, we'd like to welcome Team Susan to our event! Good luck fundraising, everyone -- it's hard to believe that Free to Breathe Chelmsford is only just about a month and a half away!

Announcing...

Here is the moment you've all been waiting for! The announcement of our new addition to this year's Free to Breathe event. We are really excited about it because not only is it a great way to have all teams represented and appreciated, but we think it will be pretty easy to organize and pull together, too!

We've noticed that most teams create their own tee shirts to be recognized as a group and to send their message. This year, we will be having a tee shirt display! We're going to ask Team Captains to bring us one extra tee shirt from their team so we can string up all the tee shirts together. This will make a visual model of all the people coming together to fight lung cancer at Free to Breathe Chelmsford. Here's an example of what it will look like:




Feel free to give us extra shirts from previous years if you have them, as well! Team Captains, look out for a message from Free to Breathe event chair Becky Jacobson with more information about logistics of tee shirt collecting.

And of course, don't forget that our British Beer Company fundraiser is today! Print the flyer in the below post and bring it in anytime today, and 15% of your total check will be donated to Free to Breathe.

British Beer Company Fundraiser

Happy Monday! You may have heard about our upcoming fundraiser at the British Beer Company of Westford! BBC has generously agreed to host a Free to Breathe give back night this Tuesday, August 6th. (Yes, that's tomorrow!!) Print the flyer below and present it to your server, and 15% of your total check (including alcohol) will be donated to Free to Breathe Chelmsford! There are 2 flyers included in the document below, so invite a friend -- we hope to see you there!

BBC Give Back Flyer Aug6

While you're there, pick up a paper lung (Blue = $1 and Multicolored = $5), as these proceeds are also donated to Free to Breathe. Thanks, BBC!

British Beer Company of Westford is located at 149 Littleton Road in Westford.