Chaminade Resort & Spa Participates in Relay for Life  This year' Relay For Life®, the American Cancer Society's signature event, was a fun-filled overnight experience designed to bring together those who have been touched by cancer. Last year, Team Chaminade collected over $3000.00 in donations through the efforts of their dedicated team. This year's goal was - $5000.00. Team Chaminade participate in the Relay for Life event at Cabrillo College July 17th- July 18th. In preparation of this event, the Culture Committee has held two successful fundraisers by partnering up with Center Street Grill where 15% of all dinner proceeds from April 28th and June 25th went to Team Chaminade. During the events at Center Street Grill, they held two silent auctions and raised over $1200 towards Team Chaminade! Team Chaminade's final total was $3500.00.
Annual Clothing and School Supplies Drive  Edith Macy would like to thank all of the employees that helped to make the annual clothing and school supplies drive a success. Edith Macy was able to dress and prepare 7 children this year. The Peekskill CAP was very appreciative of Edith Macy's efforts and expressed how thankful the families were to receive all the clothes and supplies for the new school year. A special thanks to the employees that donated their money and time to shop for those less fortunate: Brian McEvoy, Wendy Fay, Brad Matos, Tracy Marchena, Dave Vogt, Lillian Murphy, Paul Gibson, Peter Stafford, Sherri Hoy, Jennifer Alexander, Kathy Fosse, Roger, Primrose, Suzanne Dugan, Angela Noriega, Gaston Monsalve, and Danielle Anaides.
Turtle Bay Resort Delivers "Hometown Hospitality"  Turtle Bay Resort, Turtle Bay Golf and Spa Luana at Turtle Bay Resort employees have been busy handing out checks to a local charity and to the local library. Turtle Bay was approached late spring by some prominent local residents for a donation of cash. Director of Sales and Marketing Mike Wilkins and Vice President, General Manager and Regional Director of Operations Bob Boyle suggested something that would potentially bring in more than the resort could have actually donated in cash. Matt Hall, Director of Turtle Bay Golf, donated a golf tournament. Sales Manager Bonnie Holmbeck and Public Relations Manager Keoki Wallace helped to locate sponsors and sell tickets to the inaugural "Legends Celebrity Charity Golf Tournament." With only six weeks to work on it the tournament was still a success, bringing in $5,000, which was donated to the Ko'olauloa Educational Alliance Non Profit Corporation, an entity that assists local schools and community organizations supporting children's education and career planning. Spa Luana Director Becky Leuluai and the masseuses at Spa Luana gave chair massages in exchange for donations during the Community Fourth of July Celebration held at Turtle Bay Resort. Four hundred dollars was raised through this process, which was given to the local Kahuku Library. The library plans on using the funds to purchase new children's books that otherwise had been cut out of the library's budget. Mahalo to all those who helped us help our community.
The Chattanoogan Shows its Hometown Hospitality at Two Local Schools  The Chattanoogan employees assisted Bess T Shepherd Elementary School in getting ready for the new school year. Valerie Brown, School Principal was there to cheer them on. They painted and moved mulch and more mulch to help get the playground ready. The employees also assisted Barger Elementary School to prepare for the new school year by cleaning, painting, washing windows, organizing and setting up classrooms, getting paperwork ready for the teachers, disassembled aging equipment.
Marrow Me?  This is the Marrow Match way of asking you to be a donor. Hotel Contessa's monthly sips and salsa event introduces San Antonio's newest and most exciting charity foundation. The Marrow Match is the passion of local San Antonio athlete, actor, and model Jason Cox. This is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the pressing need for bone marrow donors. Everyday 6000 people wait on a list for their perfect match - a marriage - to save their life. When they ask "will you marrow me?", they are quite literally asking "will you save my life?" It's as simple as that. Hotel Contessa donated to the Marrow Match a package including overnight stay, breakfast and dinner, valet and spa treatment to raffle off at this month sips and salsa. Marrow Match sold tickets and collected over $450 for the cause as well as signing up 25 donors. Get Engaged! Please visit www.themarrowmatch.com for more information.
Habitat for Humanity   
For the past ten years the Romero's have been living in a small mobile home with their 2 children and Mr. Romero's mother. The children have no play space inside and the outside is unsafe for them to run around. Our full day of hard work put this family one day closer to moving into their 4 bedroom, 2 bath home. It is very rewarding to see the difference one can make in someone else's life. On May 14th the Home Office truly made a difference for the Romero family. Cheyenne Mountain : Swim & Spin-a-thon  September 2009. CMR Team: I am pleased to announce the results for the 1st annual "Mountain of Hope" Swim & Spin-a-thon fundraiser September 12 - 13, 2009 where all proceeds benefited the Marian House Soup Kitchen. As you know, Catholic Charities has been serving the Colorado Springs community since 1968 and has been operating the Marian House Soup kitchen since 1985. In June 2009, the new soup kitchen opened its doors and the number of people coming to them for a hot meal has increased over 40% in just the past 12 months to over 500 a day. The Marian House is the only soup kitchen in the Pikes Peak region that offers a hot meal 365 days of the year.
Thank you to the creative organizers on CMR's DELIGHT team, the tenacious fund-raisers in Aquatics and Fitness, the high-energy Instructors in Fitness, the hard-working mountain-building/bike-hauling/can-toting executers in Operations.. and all those who volunteered their time, money and energy toward this event. I am pleased to say we raised ~$5500 for this wonderful cause. Special appreciation goes to all those who woke at 4:30am and were there Pushing/Swimming/Spinning/Can-handling for this event in 50 degree temperatures yesterday. Your good work will feed nearly 2000 hungry COS citizens. Thank you all. Laura - Spinners/Swimmers/Can sales $4340
- Sunday Brunch proceeds $800
- LT Car Wash $250
- Private auction $150
 Sunday, September 13, Jose Mercedes and Hector Lopez, (AV Technicians) participated in the 2009 Susan G. Komen New York City Race for the Cure. More than 25, 000 participants gather for a 5K walk/run to support Komen's vision, and together they did their part. It was a thrilling to feel the park overflowing with such positive energy. They were delighted by the support, good will and joy they felt wherever they went on the Race Day.
FACT: According to the American Cancer Society, Men don't like to think of it, in fact they don't think of it at all - that they can get breast cancer. People are for more aware of breast cancer in women, which is no surprise because they are 100 times more likely than men to get the disease. Sept 13's NYC Susan Komen walk/run race raised over $6 millions for breast cancer research and community outreach programs. Both men has participated in the Breast Cancer Race twice and it will definitely not be their last. They had a wonderful and rewarding experience at the Race working together to manifest the shared vision of a world without breast cancer. It is truly inspiring to see so many people give so freely of their time, energy and money to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease once and for all...  Benchmark Racine (The Council House and Wingspread) has partnered with their local year round school for the past two years. For the Second year, they provided a bouncy house and a game as well as selling cookies to aid the school's budget for the "extras" needed in an elementary school. It was a great success as well as a ton of fun!!
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