September Meeting Notes

*LOVE Club MeetingSeptember 6, 2008Mimi’s Café**

*Hello everyone,

We had a good, well-attended meeting. Here are notes from the items we discussed.Cathy Mancuso’s surgery went well. She will be at Baylor for several weeks trying to rehabilitate her knees. Raelene is sending some flowers for her from the LOVE Club. We took up a collection for that today.

*Cookbook:*Please try to send in another 5 recipes per person for the cookbook. We must send them in to the printers by 9/20/08. There will be a “Continuing to inspire” section with information on the deceased children and all that we have done in their honor. Karen will contact the Saxons regarding a family update and photo.We will also try to add a celebrity cooks section, so if anyone knows of any professional chefs, please get them involved.It would be great if we could each contact schools in our areas about their yearly book fairs. This would be good opportunity to sell the Cookbooks to a wider audience.

*Ajla will likely be going through MIBG. We may need to help raise money for them as her dad will be out of work for a good month in order to travel with her and Sadie. They may be able to have treatment in Houston, but will know more on Monday.

*Calendar:*We need to find a sponsor or sponsors for each month. Raelene is going to try to work up the cost so that we will know how much it will cost to sponsor 1 month of the year.If you have not sent photos to Shannon, please do so soon. She’s 3 children short of having a feature child for each month.

*A New Year of Hope*This is the name of the foundation that Heather has started. Part of their mission is to help families who are battling NB. This foundation is a great fit for the LOVE club and they are willing to help us fulfill that aspect of our mission. So, here are some fund raising ideas so that we could begin to raise money to start our birthday club and help families who may need to travel for treatment.Applebees Pancake Breakfast: This is a fundraiser in which you and you friends/school/church sell tickets for a pancake breakfast. Applebees makes the pancakes, does the preparation, provides coffee, sodas, OJ, and a one-time serving of sausage. You can serve breakfast from 8-10:30am. They ask for $2 for each ticket and we set the price. So, a $7 ticket would yield $5 per ticket. One suggestion was to have a birthday breakfast for your child. The restaurant’s rules vary from place to place, but check at your local Applebees.A New Year of Hope will also have a golf tournament and walk event in November.Sadie’s husband’s company is having a company picnic on 9/21. She would like for us to use that as a fund raising opportunity. If anyone has ideas or wants to help, please contact Karen for more information.

*Stand up for Life*At the Improv in Addison on September 24 there will be a CNCF fund raiser. Please see www.nbhope.org <http://www.nbhope.org/> or www.improv.com <http://www.improv.com/> for more information.

*Cure Search*Do a virtual walk. Brandi will e-mail us more information.

*Birthday Club*We would like to get it going, but need to get some money in our account at the NYofHope foundation. Raelene has a number of the posters that Brandi used for Caleb’s rodeo. Please let us know if it’s OK to use it for A New Year of Hope events.

*Our next LOVE club meeting will be on Monday, October 6 at 11am at Fudruckers on the south side of I20 and to the west of Bryant Irvin Rd. Last time we met there, we sat out on the patio and were able to have a lot our own space. Please let me know if your planning to attend.

Thank you all!
Karen