Let’s Do Lunch!!
What: Planning meeting for Kick Off for Cancer
When: This Saturday, November 22nd @ NOON!
Where: Krista Wagner’s Home
RSVP: Krista for more details
Blessings,
Krista
krdwagner@sbcglobal.net
18 November 2008
10 November 2008
Lucky Dog
I received this in an email today and thought it was really sweet...wanted to share.
LUCKY DOG
Mary and her husband Jim had a dog named 'Lucky.' Lucky was a real character. Whenever Mary and Jim had company come for a weekend visit, they would warn their friends to not leave their luggage open because Lucky would help himself to whatever struck his fancy. Inevitably, someone would forget and something would come up missing. Mary or Jim would go to Lucky's toy box in the basement and there the treasure would be, amid all of Lucky's other favorite toys. Lucky always stashed his finds in his toy box and he was very particular that his toys stay in the box. It happened that Mary found out she had breast cancer. Something told her she was going to die of this disease....in fact , she was just sure it was fatal. She scheduled the double mastectomy, fear riding her shoulders. The night before she was to go to the hospital she cuddled with Lucky. A thought struck her...what would happen to Lucky? Although the three-year-old dog liked Jim, he was Mary's dog through and through. If I die, Lucky will be abandoned, Mary thought. He won't understand that I didn't want to leave him! The thought made her sadder than thinking of her own death. The double mastectomy was harder on Mary than her doctors had anticipated and Mary was hospitalized for over two weeks. Jim took Lucky for his evening walk faithfully, but the little dog just drooped, whining and miserable. Finally the day came for Mary to leave the hospital. When she arrived home, Mary was so exhausted she couldn't even make it up the steps to her bedroom. Jim made his wife comfortable on the couch and left her to nap. Lucky stood watching Mary but he didn't come to her when she called. It made Mary sad but sleep soon overcame her and she dozed. When Mary woke for a second she couldn't understand what was wrong. She couldn't move her head and her body felt heavy and hot. But panic soon gave way to laughter when Mary realized the problem. She was covered, literally blanketed, with every treasure Lucky owned! While she had slept, the sorrowing dog had made trip after trip to the basement bringing his beloved mistress all his favorite things in life. He had covered her with his love. Mary forgot about dying. Instead she and Lucky began living again, walking further and further together every day. It's been 12 years now and Mary is still cancer-free. Lucky? He still steals treasures and stashes them in his toy box but Mary remains his greatest treasure. Remember....live every day to the fullest. Each minute is a blessing from God. And never forget....the people who make a difference in our lives are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care for us. If you see someone without a smile today give them one of yours! Live simply. Love seriously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
Dear God, I pray for the cure of cancer. Amen
15 October 2008
Meeting Minutes--October 8th
Meeting Minutes
October 8th, 2008
Brainstorming/Planning Meeting
At VMCC
1) Event will be Sunday, January 11, 2009 at VMCC in the Family Life Center
a. We will begin at 1pm and leave the end time open for now.
b. Indiana state law regards venue for hair cutting: we agreed that because we are not establishing a business or requiring payment for the haircuts, this doesn’t apply to us. However, Loretta will check with her neighbor that is a hairdresser and Jenny will check with Sean to see if we need to investigate it further.
2) Krista will check with local cancer support organizations to:
a. Find out about planned activities around the same time as our January event To boost visibility of our event
b. To see if they have any “games”, etc. available for our use.
3) Recruiting stylists
a. We will have a group of women cutting off the donated ponytails—we talked about asking cancer survivors that we know to do it.
b. How to handle $ for haircuts—actual styles—there will be a donation jar at each stylist’s station. There will be no set/suggested amount. Many felt that posting a suggested amount would actually hinder those who would normally give “more” for a nice haircut. Angie Martin will provide glass jars to use for these donations.
c. Loretta Matesick has agreed to begin collecting names of stylists who are willing to volunteer to provide new haircuts for those donating their ponytails on 1/11. She will remain in contact with this women through the day of the event checking on what they need for the need, their availability, etc.
d. We discussed having stylists specific to children. Someone mentioned checking with a place such as Cookie Cutters. I thought this was a GREAT idea!! Anyone willing to do this??
4) Recruiting Donors
a. Angie Martin volunteered to begin contacting area high schools to see if/how they would allow us to communicate with students about our event.
b. Girl scout/brownie troops: Loretta will talk to Darla (her daughter) about the best way to contact the Girl Scouts organization in the Indianapolis area. Krista will talk to Lisa Jordan and Dawn Seyerle (Moms with daughters in Girl Scouts!)
c. Permission slips to have hair cut at the event will be required for anyone under 18 years of age!!
d. Area churches—Tawnya Nall agreed to begin contacting Indianapolis area churches regards promoting our event. Krista will talk to Jennifer VanHooser about being the contact person for Mt. Gilead. Heather Blewett volunteered to contact Grace church.
5) Use of media to promote our event—This is a HUGE piece of making this event a success. Tawnya N. offered to contact Angela Kane and WGNR. Heather Blewett mentioned a small magazine that is published in the Mooresville area. She was going to pick one up and contact them. Krista is pursuing other possible contacts (see below) at this time.
a. Mooresville/Decatur Times
b. Indianapolis Star
c. KLove
d. Channel 6
e. Emmis
6) Getting printing services for posters/flyers/brochures donated!! We discussed using areas hospitals as resources for printing posters. Starr Meiring graciously agreed to take on this part of the project…contacting area hospitals and keeping this area of printing “organized”. Angie M. was going to check at Wishard, We were going to talk to Jennifer V. about Clarian, and Cindy S. about St. Francis. We mentioned a lot of places to approach, but really didn’t resolve this topic completely. Printing is a big expense and it would be nice to hit this one pretty hard.
7) Supplies needed for individual stylists. We discussed the following items and agreed, aside from the seating and styling products, each stylist would be asked to bring what she normally uses.
a. Barstool/seating—discussed using individual riser pieces from the church sanctuary and placing a chair on top. We also talked about covering these (they are carpeted) with carpet tape—the clear sticky plastic people often use when they are moving to protect their carpet. Anyone have a connection at Menards or Lowe’s? This would be a great donation item for them!!
b. Scissors
c. Spray bottles
d. Hairdryers
e. Smocks
f. Combs/brushes
g. Styling products—COME ON PANTENE!! I haven’t had any luck with getting ANYTHING from Pantene. I did wonder about asking them to donate some styling products for the stylists to use. We also discussed going to individual salons, etc. and asking for these to be donated.
8) VMCC will provide the following for us:
a. Tables
b. Power Supply
c. Microphone
d. Projector
9) Donation request letter—we discussed this but did not talk about specifics as to what needs to go into it and no one person assumed this responsibility. I’m thinking we may need some slightly different variations on this depending upon who we are approaching for what. I will work on getting a donation letter worked up.
11) Event Insurance??
a. Do we need?
b. How do we get? The general agreement on this was that we would be covered under the church insurance. Jenny was going to double check with Sean, just to be sure.
12) T-shirts
c. With Sponsors to sell: there was discussion heading in a couple of different directions here….1) Every business who sponsored us in any way would be added to the T-shirt. 2) Making levels to donations…for example: bronze, silver, gold. Then, the gold member donors would be on the T-shirts. These would be the T-shirts that we could actually sell at the event. I would, personally, like to work with someone to designs these…something unique!
d. For stylists/volunteer workers to wear—We discussed having T-shirts or football style jerseys made for stylists/volunteers to wear. Again, it would be great to find a place that would charge us minimally for these. A couple of names were mentioned, including Carol Curl.
13) We have adopted the Slogan: Kick Off for Cancer: Kick Off the
New Year with a New Look. A couple of other options were
discussed; but, in wanting to stick with the football theme this
is the slogan I have started putting on flyers, etc. I hope
everyone likes it!!
14) We will be offering the ability for people to “pledge” to give their ponytail at a
later time as we realize not everyone’s hair will be long enough to cut (and still
have enough hair to cover the head!) in January…I may be one of those people!!
15) Our goal will be to recruit as many stylists as possible for the event. What we plan
to do, then, is schedule people in for haircuts. For example: Sally Sue would be
scheduled to arrive to have her ponytail cut off at 1:45 and her haircut would be
scheduled for 2:00. The more stylists we have, the shorter that part of the day will
be. We did discuss having some walk-in times built in.
16) We discussed some ideas on how to make this a family event and not just a bunch
of women getting there hair cut…..not that there’s anything wrong with that!! Some ideas are as follows:
a. Jenny will talk with Lisa Abney about helping set up an area where people
can make cards/write notes of encouragement to people undergoing cancer treatment. There would be a $2 charge for each one created. This would not be specific to women, but to women, men and children. We talked about contacting the American Cancer Society to see if they might have a list of people who may benefit from receiving something like this.
b. A coloring station for the kids—with pictures to be taken/mailed to cancer
patients
c. Games
d. Game food—for the wonderful men in our lives to prepare and sell!!
e. Having whatever game is being played on televisions wherever activities
are going on. I will check with Brian on licensing issues for showing the game(s).
e. Tawnya mentioned knowing of a not-for-profit make-up company that she would try to contact regards coming to do mini make-up make-overs.
f. I have been thinking some more (so, this isn’t from the meeting) maybe we could find volunteers to: do eyebrows, pedicures, manicures, massages, etc.
17) Krista has been in touch in Conner’s Vine regards any donations/a pre-event concert, etc. Angie is contacting the DJ that she used at her wedding regards music/entertainment.
18) Tawnya mentioned offering videographer services for the event and we also talked about having someone volunteer to take photographs.
19) I suggested doing pre-event interviews with women at different stages of the cancer treatment process and survivors, having T-woman videotape them and then cutting it up and splicing it together (I don’t know the lingo!) to show at the event. I still LOVE that idea!!:) HINT!! HINT!!
20) We discussed having a woman or two give her personal testimony.
21) We will be giving away Donor Door Prizes: How this works…..give a monetary donation and receive a ticket to a drawing. No set amount for the donation. One ticket per person.
a. The following people offered to contribute a door prize: Tawnya Nall, Jenny Olson, Loretta Matesick, and Angie Martin. Angie will also check with her sister and brother-in-law who own Culver Lodging.
b. Other places mentioned to approach for door prizes/food items included: Damon’s Grill, O’Charly’s, Chick Filet, Jimmy John’s, Sam Club, GFS, Barlows, and Starbucks.
c. I would really love to have one person take charge of the donor door prize event and a second person take charge of all other donations.
22) Angie’s dad is an amazing cookie maker and is famous for his baked yummies in Culver. He has agreed to make cookies for us!! We can use these for lots of different things…to sell, for our volunteers, for our ponytail donators…..YUM!!
23) Jenny asked Mike Cowper to give us his ponytail and he agreed!!! HOORAY!! I’m not sure how many inches he has back there, but that’s pretty cool!
24) In attendance: Krista Wagner, Angie Martin, Heather Blewett, Loretta Matesick, Jenny Olson, Tawnya Nall, Starr Meiring, Tasha D., …I think that was it. I didn’t write them down…sorry if I missed you!!
October 8th, 2008
Brainstorming/Planning Meeting
At VMCC
1) Event will be Sunday, January 11, 2009 at VMCC in the Family Life Center
a. We will begin at 1pm and leave the end time open for now.
b. Indiana state law regards venue for hair cutting: we agreed that because we are not establishing a business or requiring payment for the haircuts, this doesn’t apply to us. However, Loretta will check with her neighbor that is a hairdresser and Jenny will check with Sean to see if we need to investigate it further.
2) Krista will check with local cancer support organizations to:
a. Find out about planned activities around the same time as our January event To boost visibility of our event
b. To see if they have any “games”, etc. available for our use.
3) Recruiting stylists
a. We will have a group of women cutting off the donated ponytails—we talked about asking cancer survivors that we know to do it.
b. How to handle $ for haircuts—actual styles—there will be a donation jar at each stylist’s station. There will be no set/suggested amount. Many felt that posting a suggested amount would actually hinder those who would normally give “more” for a nice haircut. Angie Martin will provide glass jars to use for these donations.
c. Loretta Matesick has agreed to begin collecting names of stylists who are willing to volunteer to provide new haircuts for those donating their ponytails on 1/11. She will remain in contact with this women through the day of the event checking on what they need for the need, their availability, etc.
d. We discussed having stylists specific to children. Someone mentioned checking with a place such as Cookie Cutters. I thought this was a GREAT idea!! Anyone willing to do this??
4) Recruiting Donors
a. Angie Martin volunteered to begin contacting area high schools to see if/how they would allow us to communicate with students about our event.
b. Girl scout/brownie troops: Loretta will talk to Darla (her daughter) about the best way to contact the Girl Scouts organization in the Indianapolis area. Krista will talk to Lisa Jordan and Dawn Seyerle (Moms with daughters in Girl Scouts!)
c. Permission slips to have hair cut at the event will be required for anyone under 18 years of age!!
d. Area churches—Tawnya Nall agreed to begin contacting Indianapolis area churches regards promoting our event. Krista will talk to Jennifer VanHooser about being the contact person for Mt. Gilead. Heather Blewett volunteered to contact Grace church.
5) Use of media to promote our event—This is a HUGE piece of making this event a success. Tawnya N. offered to contact Angela Kane and WGNR. Heather Blewett mentioned a small magazine that is published in the Mooresville area. She was going to pick one up and contact them. Krista is pursuing other possible contacts (see below) at this time.
a. Mooresville/Decatur Times
b. Indianapolis Star
c. KLove
d. Channel 6
e. Emmis
6) Getting printing services for posters/flyers/brochures donated!! We discussed using areas hospitals as resources for printing posters. Starr Meiring graciously agreed to take on this part of the project…contacting area hospitals and keeping this area of printing “organized”. Angie M. was going to check at Wishard, We were going to talk to Jennifer V. about Clarian, and Cindy S. about St. Francis. We mentioned a lot of places to approach, but really didn’t resolve this topic completely. Printing is a big expense and it would be nice to hit this one pretty hard.
7) Supplies needed for individual stylists. We discussed the following items and agreed, aside from the seating and styling products, each stylist would be asked to bring what she normally uses.
a. Barstool/seating—discussed using individual riser pieces from the church sanctuary and placing a chair on top. We also talked about covering these (they are carpeted) with carpet tape—the clear sticky plastic people often use when they are moving to protect their carpet. Anyone have a connection at Menards or Lowe’s? This would be a great donation item for them!!
b. Scissors
c. Spray bottles
d. Hairdryers
e. Smocks
f. Combs/brushes
g. Styling products—COME ON PANTENE!! I haven’t had any luck with getting ANYTHING from Pantene. I did wonder about asking them to donate some styling products for the stylists to use. We also discussed going to individual salons, etc. and asking for these to be donated.
8) VMCC will provide the following for us:
a. Tables
b. Power Supply
c. Microphone
d. Projector
9) Donation request letter—we discussed this but did not talk about specifics as to what needs to go into it and no one person assumed this responsibility. I’m thinking we may need some slightly different variations on this depending upon who we are approaching for what. I will work on getting a donation letter worked up.
11) Event Insurance??
a. Do we need?
b. How do we get? The general agreement on this was that we would be covered under the church insurance. Jenny was going to double check with Sean, just to be sure.
12) T-shirts
c. With Sponsors to sell: there was discussion heading in a couple of different directions here….1) Every business who sponsored us in any way would be added to the T-shirt. 2) Making levels to donations…for example: bronze, silver, gold. Then, the gold member donors would be on the T-shirts. These would be the T-shirts that we could actually sell at the event. I would, personally, like to work with someone to designs these…something unique!
d. For stylists/volunteer workers to wear—We discussed having T-shirts or football style jerseys made for stylists/volunteers to wear. Again, it would be great to find a place that would charge us minimally for these. A couple of names were mentioned, including Carol Curl.
13) We have adopted the Slogan: Kick Off for Cancer: Kick Off the
New Year with a New Look. A couple of other options were
discussed; but, in wanting to stick with the football theme this
is the slogan I have started putting on flyers, etc. I hope
everyone likes it!!
14) We will be offering the ability for people to “pledge” to give their ponytail at a
later time as we realize not everyone’s hair will be long enough to cut (and still
have enough hair to cover the head!) in January…I may be one of those people!!
15) Our goal will be to recruit as many stylists as possible for the event. What we plan
to do, then, is schedule people in for haircuts. For example: Sally Sue would be
scheduled to arrive to have her ponytail cut off at 1:45 and her haircut would be
scheduled for 2:00. The more stylists we have, the shorter that part of the day will
be. We did discuss having some walk-in times built in.
16) We discussed some ideas on how to make this a family event and not just a bunch
of women getting there hair cut…..not that there’s anything wrong with that!! Some ideas are as follows:
a. Jenny will talk with Lisa Abney about helping set up an area where people
can make cards/write notes of encouragement to people undergoing cancer treatment. There would be a $2 charge for each one created. This would not be specific to women, but to women, men and children. We talked about contacting the American Cancer Society to see if they might have a list of people who may benefit from receiving something like this.
b. A coloring station for the kids—with pictures to be taken/mailed to cancer
patients
c. Games
d. Game food—for the wonderful men in our lives to prepare and sell!!
e. Having whatever game is being played on televisions wherever activities
are going on. I will check with Brian on licensing issues for showing the game(s).
e. Tawnya mentioned knowing of a not-for-profit make-up company that she would try to contact regards coming to do mini make-up make-overs.
f. I have been thinking some more (so, this isn’t from the meeting) maybe we could find volunteers to: do eyebrows, pedicures, manicures, massages, etc.
17) Krista has been in touch in Conner’s Vine regards any donations/a pre-event concert, etc. Angie is contacting the DJ that she used at her wedding regards music/entertainment.
18) Tawnya mentioned offering videographer services for the event and we also talked about having someone volunteer to take photographs.
19) I suggested doing pre-event interviews with women at different stages of the cancer treatment process and survivors, having T-woman videotape them and then cutting it up and splicing it together (I don’t know the lingo!) to show at the event. I still LOVE that idea!!:) HINT!! HINT!!
20) We discussed having a woman or two give her personal testimony.
21) We will be giving away Donor Door Prizes: How this works…..give a monetary donation and receive a ticket to a drawing. No set amount for the donation. One ticket per person.
a. The following people offered to contribute a door prize: Tawnya Nall, Jenny Olson, Loretta Matesick, and Angie Martin. Angie will also check with her sister and brother-in-law who own Culver Lodging.
b. Other places mentioned to approach for door prizes/food items included: Damon’s Grill, O’Charly’s, Chick Filet, Jimmy John’s, Sam Club, GFS, Barlows, and Starbucks.
c. I would really love to have one person take charge of the donor door prize event and a second person take charge of all other donations.
22) Angie’s dad is an amazing cookie maker and is famous for his baked yummies in Culver. He has agreed to make cookies for us!! We can use these for lots of different things…to sell, for our volunteers, for our ponytail donators…..YUM!!
23) Jenny asked Mike Cowper to give us his ponytail and he agreed!!! HOORAY!! I’m not sure how many inches he has back there, but that’s pretty cool!
24) In attendance: Krista Wagner, Angie Martin, Heather Blewett, Loretta Matesick, Jenny Olson, Tawnya Nall, Starr Meiring, Tasha D., …I think that was it. I didn’t write them down…sorry if I missed you!!
08 October 2008
One in three women will be diagnosed with cancer in her lifetime and nearly 60% of women regard hair loss as the single worst side effect of cancer treatment.
Pantene Beautiful Lengths was created to bring people together to share their strength and donate their beautiful, healthy hair to create free wigs for women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment. A group of women from the Indianapolis area has come together to organize a ponytail cutting event to provide Pantene Beautiful Lengths with ponytails needed to create these wigs.
This event will take place at Valley Mills Christian Church on Sunday, January 11th, 2009. Our goal: a football field length of ponytails to send to Pantene. That is 450-8in. ponytails!! Six ponytails are used in creating one wig. Won't you join with 5 people you know to provide a beautiful woman with a simple gift that means so much??
We realize not everyone will have eight inches of hair by January. We will be accepting "pledges" to donate your ponytail once it has reached the required 8inches needed by Pantene. Additionally, donating hair may not be for you; but, there are many, many other ways for you to help! Much help will be needed to spread the word, collect donations, man the event, recruit stylists, etc. Any and all help and support for this event is very much appreciated.
For now....GET THE WORD OUT!! We need everyone telling their friends about this day. They don't even have to live in Indianapolis to participate. We have already received a ponytail all of the way from Oregon and know of other women who will either be traveling here to participate on January 11th or will be sending us their ponytails to be counted into our goal.
One in three women will be diagnosed with cancer in her lifetime and nearly 60% of women regard hair loss as the single worst side effect of cancer treatment.
Pantene Beautiful Lengths was created to bring people together to share their strength and donate their beautiful, healthy hair to create free wigs for women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment. A group of women from the Indianapolis area has come together to organize a ponytail cutting event to provide Pantene Beautiful Lengths with ponytails needed to create these wigs.
This event will take place at Valley Mills Christian Church on Sunday, January 11th, 2009. Our goal: a football field length of ponytails to send to Pantene. That is 450-8in. ponytails!! Six ponytails are used in creating one wig. Won't you join with 5 people you know to provide a beautiful woman with a simple gift that means so much??
We realize not everyone will have eight inches of hair by January. We will be accepting "pledges" to donate your ponytail once it has reached the required 8inches needed by Pantene. Additionally, donating hair may not be for you; but, there are many, many other ways for you to help! Much help will be needed to spread the word, collect donations, man the event, recruit stylists, etc. Any and all help and support for this event is very much appreciated.
For now....GET THE WORD OUT!! We need everyone telling their friends about this day. They don't even have to live in Indianapolis to participate. We have already received a ponytail all of the way from Oregon and know of other women who will either be traveling here to participate on January 11th or will be sending us their ponytails to be counted into our goal.
Please pray for this event, that we will keep God center in it. Also, pray for your own participation in the event, letting God guide you as to what your level of involvement should be.
For more information:
http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/index_home.jsp
http://indylocks.blogspot.com/
krdwagner@sbcglobal.net
Meeting Tonight!!!
You're Invited to a Brainstorming/planning meeting tonight at 6pm at Valley Mills Christian Church (5555 Kentucky Avenue) regards the Ponytail Drive taking place at VMCC in January.
Attending the meeting in no way commits you to ANYTHING....This meeting is being held to discuss ideas regards recruiting stylists, recruiting ponytail donars, collecting donations to support the event, advertising, networking, etc. I need lots of good ideas!!
If you can/would like to help in any way, please let me know. There are lots of behind the scenes things that will need to be done and any and all help would be appreciated.
We will be meeting in the Kid's Zone area.
For more information about Pantene Beautiful Lengths: http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/index_home.jsp
Please forward this information and any or all information regards the event on to family and friends!! We are looking forward to this event being a HUGE success!!
Hope to see you tonight!!
Krista
Attending the meeting in no way commits you to ANYTHING....This meeting is being held to discuss ideas regards recruiting stylists, recruiting ponytail donars, collecting donations to support the event, advertising, networking, etc. I need lots of good ideas!!
If you can/would like to help in any way, please let me know. There are lots of behind the scenes things that will need to be done and any and all help would be appreciated.
We will be meeting in the Kid's Zone area.
For more information about Pantene Beautiful Lengths: http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/index_home.jsp
Please forward this information and any or all information regards the event on to family and friends!! We are looking forward to this event being a HUGE success!!
Hope to see you tonight!!
Krista
17 September 2008
Meeting Scheduled!!
Here is the email I sent out today about the meeting scheduled for Wednesday, October 9th. Please feel free to pass it along to friends, family, neighbors, teachers, etc.....
Hello Friends!!
I am starting to panic...just a bit! I would really like to make a good meeting happen and get hopping on making some big headway for the January 11th Pantene event.
SO, I have put a meeting on the calendar for Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm. It will be taking place at Valley Mills Christian Church (well, I hope it will...have to ask:). For those who are making the drive to the southwest side, this will shorten your trip a bit.
I feel like if we sit down and make some plans and some decisions, then I will feel like the ball is rolling and can check in with people individually on progress in different areas.
If you cannot make the meeting, but wish to participate, PLEASE let me know. All help is much appreciated!!
Don't forget about our blog: http://indylocks.blogspot.com/
I have put an email into the Mooresville/Decatur Times regards getting an article in the paper about the event/requesting donations and volunteers AND I emailed the Colts organization....it's a long shot, but....it never hurts to ask!!
Blessings,
Krista
krdwagner@sbcglobal.net
3173410892
Hello Friends!!
I am starting to panic...just a bit! I would really like to make a good meeting happen and get hopping on making some big headway for the January 11th Pantene event.
SO, I have put a meeting on the calendar for Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm. It will be taking place at Valley Mills Christian Church (well, I hope it will...have to ask:). For those who are making the drive to the southwest side, this will shorten your trip a bit.
I feel like if we sit down and make some plans and some decisions, then I will feel like the ball is rolling and can check in with people individually on progress in different areas.
If you cannot make the meeting, but wish to participate, PLEASE let me know. All help is much appreciated!!
Don't forget about our blog: http://indylocks.blogspot.com/
I have put an email into the Mooresville/Decatur Times regards getting an article in the paper about the event/requesting donations and volunteers AND I emailed the Colts organization....it's a long shot, but....it never hurts to ask!!
Blessings,
Krista
krdwagner@sbcglobal.net
3173410892
My Original "Informational" Letter
So, I started thinking about it and I realized that I never posted here the original letter that I sent out to family and friends regards the January event, SO....here it is!!
One in three women will be diagnosed with cancer in her lifetime and nearly 60% of women regard hair loss as the single worst side effect of cancer treatment.
I think it is nearly impossible to find someone who has not been personally touched by the devastating effects of cancer. My personal experiences include: loss of a beloved co-worker in the past year, diagnosis of another co-worker during the last months, another dear friend and co-worker who will live out her life with cancer as a chronic illness, a grandmother who underwent a double mastectomy almost 25 years ago!, a cousin with thyroid cancer, multiple friends/acquaintances at our church, and I, myself, am a survivor of 17 years.
While my cancer treatment did not involve the loss of my hair, I was struck recently while talking with a friend at work who had recently been diagnosed with breast Cancer. Alonez was talking about her plan of treatment and began talking about her hair. It had been suggested to her that she cut her hair before treatment began--that would be easier for her than waking up and finding large amounts of it on her pillow or just having it come out in pieces in her hand. As women, we do treasure our hair, don't we? It speaks so much to our personality....it can express how much time we had had that morning to get ready, how "sassy" we are feeling that evening, and so on.
With this in mind, I decided to grow my hair out for donation to be made into a wig for women going through this experience. I came upon the Pantene Beautiful Lengths website (http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/index_home.jsp) and my vision quickly grew!!
After reading that it takes six 8 inch ponytails to create one wig, I didn't feel like I could, or should! stop with my one little ponytail. SO.....
The date has been set!! On Sunday, January 11th, 2009 there will be a ponytail cutting event at Valley Mills Christian Church in Indianapolis. The goal: a football field length of ponytails to send to Pantene Beautiful Lengths to be used to make wigs for women undergoing cancer treatment. That is 450 ponytails!! I NEED YOUR HELP!!!
Things I need help with:
I NEED YOUR PONYTAIL!
Planning and organizing the event
Collecting donations
Recruiting stylists and event workers
THE LIST GOES ON!!
I'm really excited about this, albeit, feeling a bit overwhelmed! If you are willing to help in anyway, PLEASE let me know!! It could be as simple as taking flyers to your salon or around your neighborhood. Also, if you are growing your hair for the event, I am going to start making a list of names and contact information so we have some idea of where we stand with our goal.
This will still be football season, right? So, I would LOVE to play off of that with the COLTS--GO COLTS!!
Please pray for this event, for the lives that will be touched, and for all women and families touched by this devastating disease!!
For more information, please contact:
Krista Wagner
krdwagner@sbcglobal.net
317-821-0752 (home)
317-341-0892 (cell)
http://indylocks.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http: //www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/index_home.jsp (website)
One in three women will be diagnosed with cancer in her lifetime and nearly 60% of women regard hair loss as the single worst side effect of cancer treatment.
I think it is nearly impossible to find someone who has not been personally touched by the devastating effects of cancer. My personal experiences include: loss of a beloved co-worker in the past year, diagnosis of another co-worker during the last months, another dear friend and co-worker who will live out her life with cancer as a chronic illness, a grandmother who underwent a double mastectomy almost 25 years ago!, a cousin with thyroid cancer, multiple friends/acquaintances at our church, and I, myself, am a survivor of 17 years.
While my cancer treatment did not involve the loss of my hair, I was struck recently while talking with a friend at work who had recently been diagnosed with breast Cancer. Alonez was talking about her plan of treatment and began talking about her hair. It had been suggested to her that she cut her hair before treatment began--that would be easier for her than waking up and finding large amounts of it on her pillow or just having it come out in pieces in her hand. As women, we do treasure our hair, don't we? It speaks so much to our personality....it can express how much time we had had that morning to get ready, how "sassy" we are feeling that evening, and so on.
With this in mind, I decided to grow my hair out for donation to be made into a wig for women going through this experience. I came upon the Pantene Beautiful Lengths website (http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/index_home.jsp) and my vision quickly grew!!
After reading that it takes six 8 inch ponytails to create one wig, I didn't feel like I could, or should! stop with my one little ponytail. SO.....
The date has been set!! On Sunday, January 11th, 2009 there will be a ponytail cutting event at Valley Mills Christian Church in Indianapolis. The goal: a football field length of ponytails to send to Pantene Beautiful Lengths to be used to make wigs for women undergoing cancer treatment. That is 450 ponytails!! I NEED YOUR HELP!!!
Things I need help with:
I NEED YOUR PONYTAIL!
Planning and organizing the event
Collecting donations
Recruiting stylists and event workers
THE LIST GOES ON!!
I'm really excited about this, albeit, feeling a bit overwhelmed! If you are willing to help in anyway, PLEASE let me know!! It could be as simple as taking flyers to your salon or around your neighborhood. Also, if you are growing your hair for the event, I am going to start making a list of names and contact information so we have some idea of where we stand with our goal.
This will still be football season, right? So, I would LOVE to play off of that with the COLTS--GO COLTS!!
Please pray for this event, for the lives that will be touched, and for all women and families touched by this devastating disease!!
For more information, please contact:
Krista Wagner
krdwagner@sbcglobal.net
317-821-0752 (home)
317-341-0892 (cell)
http://indylocks.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http: //www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/index_home.jsp (website)
How Real Hair Wigs Will Help Women
A real-hair wig allows a woman to look in the mirror and at least see a familiar face while she fights to regain a sense of normalcy in her life.
The Entertainment Industry Foundation is pleased to collaborate with the American Cancer Society to distribute the Pantene Beautiful Lengths real-hair wigs for cancer patients around the nation. While this program aims to assist as many cancer patients as possible, ultimately the number of free wigs that become available will depend entirely on the number of ponytail donations received.
Go to Make the Cut to find out how you can donate your hair. Creating a real-hair wig takes approximately three to four months, and each wig requires at least six ponytails to make.
As Pantene Beautiful Lengths wigs are created, they are distributed for free through select American Cancer Society wig banks across the country. Women facing cancer can find out about the availability of a Pantene Beautiful Lengths wig by calling the American Cancer Society at 1-877-227-1596. The Society can also help callers with a number of resources providing educational and emotional support.
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. Visit the Society's website at www.cancer.org to learn more about its mission and activities.
**Taken from the Pantene Beautiful Lengths website**
The Entertainment Industry Foundation is pleased to collaborate with the American Cancer Society to distribute the Pantene Beautiful Lengths real-hair wigs for cancer patients around the nation. While this program aims to assist as many cancer patients as possible, ultimately the number of free wigs that become available will depend entirely on the number of ponytail donations received.
Go to Make the Cut to find out how you can donate your hair. Creating a real-hair wig takes approximately three to four months, and each wig requires at least six ponytails to make.
As Pantene Beautiful Lengths wigs are created, they are distributed for free through select American Cancer Society wig banks across the country. Women facing cancer can find out about the availability of a Pantene Beautiful Lengths wig by calling the American Cancer Society at 1-877-227-1596. The Society can also help callers with a number of resources providing educational and emotional support.
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. Visit the Society's website at www.cancer.org to learn more about its mission and activities.
**Taken from the Pantene Beautiful Lengths website**
Multiple Myeloma
Following is an email that I received from one of my FAVORITE girls, Dione. If you are able and feel so moved, click the link at the end of this post OR the title of the post "Multiple Myeloma" to show your support for Dione and her family. They truly have a precious family and this has been a scary experience for them!
Hello Everyone,
My family and I are participating in a walk to support research for blood cancers. This includes Multiple Myeloma which is the type of cancer my dad has but is currently in remission (Yeah!) I am asking for support to sponsor me in the walk. It takes place Oct. 11th which happens to be Brady's birthday! I am sending the link to the website (in the subject line) where a donation can be made. I appreciate your support and ask for continued prayers that my dad remains cancer free!
Here is the link: http://www.active.com/donate/ltnIndian/2456_Dionet
Hello Everyone,
My family and I are participating in a walk to support research for blood cancers. This includes Multiple Myeloma which is the type of cancer my dad has but is currently in remission (Yeah!) I am asking for support to sponsor me in the walk. It takes place Oct. 11th which happens to be Brady's birthday! I am sending the link to the website (in the subject line) where a donation can be made. I appreciate your support and ask for continued prayers that my dad remains cancer free!
Here is the link: http://www.active.com/donate/ltnIndian/2456_Dionet
"Making Strides Against Breast Cancer"
This is an email from one of the ladies I attend church with: Loretta Matesick. She is a breast cancer survivor. Please read and contac Loretta if you would like to participate. Also, post a note here if you are going to join the group...it's fun to know what everyone is doing!!
Blessings,
Krista
Below is a letter explaining the "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" walk. Kim and I are organizing a team "Girls and Guys with a goal". If you are interesting in joining our team or donating see the link below. I hope you decide to join us. If you want to email me about information my email is lmatesick@yahoo.com. Thank you for considering. The walk is on Sat. Oct. 18. Registration is at 7:30 am at White River State Park in Celebration Plaza.I will be ordering T-shirts. If you want one I will need your $10 before Wed., Sept. 24 along with your size.
From: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer gldonline@cancer.org
Subject: Forward to your friends
To: lmatesick@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 2:16 PM
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
Dear Coworkers, Friends and Family,
This year, hundreds of thousands of people will hear the words,"You have breast cancer," and there's a good chance that some of them will be people we know and love. I have chosen to fight back against this disease and help make a difference by participating in the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, and I hope you will join me. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is our opportunity to honor and celebrate breast cancer survivors, educate women about early detection and prevention, and raise money to fund lifesaving research and support programs to help fight breast cancer. But Making Strides is more
than just the name of a walk, it describes the amazing progress we can make if we work together to defeat this disease. Below is a link to my personal page. I hope you will visit mysite and sign up to join my team. If you prefer, you can start your own team, sign up to walk as an individual, or make a donation. Hope starts with me and it can continue with you. Please join my team and walk with us to experience an incredible day of inspiration and meaning, and to provide hope for all people facing breast cancer.
To donate now, use this link to visit my personal pagehttp://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/MakingStridesAgainstBreastCancer/MSABCBlueprint?px=8038278&pg=personal&fr_id=11667.
Sincerely,
LorettaMatesick 2007 MSABC Icon (15pxl)
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Blessings,
Krista
Below is a letter explaining the "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" walk. Kim and I are organizing a team "Girls and Guys with a goal". If you are interesting in joining our team or donating see the link below. I hope you decide to join us. If you want to email me about information my email is lmatesick@yahoo.com. Thank you for considering. The walk is on Sat. Oct. 18. Registration is at 7:30 am at White River State Park in Celebration Plaza.I will be ordering T-shirts. If you want one I will need your $10 before Wed., Sept. 24 along with your size.
From: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer gldonline@cancer.org
Subject: Forward to your friends
To: lmatesick@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 2:16 PM
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
Dear Coworkers, Friends and Family,
This year, hundreds of thousands of people will hear the words,"You have breast cancer," and there's a good chance that some of them will be people we know and love. I have chosen to fight back against this disease and help make a difference by participating in the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, and I hope you will join me. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is our opportunity to honor and celebrate breast cancer survivors, educate women about early detection and prevention, and raise money to fund lifesaving research and support programs to help fight breast cancer. But Making Strides is more
than just the name of a walk, it describes the amazing progress we can make if we work together to defeat this disease. Below is a link to my personal page. I hope you will visit mysite and sign up to join my team. If you prefer, you can start your own team, sign up to walk as an individual, or make a donation. Hope starts with me and it can continue with you. Please join my team and walk with us to experience an incredible day of inspiration and meaning, and to provide hope for all people facing breast cancer.
To donate now, use this link to visit my personal pagehttp://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/MakingStridesAgainstBreastCancer/MSABCBlueprint?px=8038278&pg=personal&fr_id=11667.
Sincerely,
LorettaMatesick 2007 MSABC Icon (15pxl)
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Notices.
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12 August 2008
Saturday Meeting
There will be no meeting this Saturday...I haven't spoken to anyone yet who can make it for sure...I'll check the calendar and come up with a new date. THANKS!
Some Thoughts....
So, I thought I would just take a few minutes to put down a few of my thoughts/ideas for the big day in January. As I mentioned above, I would really love to make our January (Super Bowl month!) event to be focused around collecting a football field's length worth of ponytails. We're all Colts fans, right? So tying this all together sounds like a lot of fun to me! GO COLTS!
So, I was thinking there were a couple of ways that we could do the ponytail cutting....we could cut each others (fun!) or, we could have people we know who are currently battling CA and/or who have been through this battle in the past be our ponytail cutters. Then, it would be cool to have something "visual" to add to or take away from as we "cut" to show how close we are to meeting our goal.
Next, we are going to need several stylists to volunteer their time to cut some cute short haircuts! Pantene accepts cash donations used for expenses involved in processing the hair and making the wigs, so I thought each person getting a cut from our stylists could make a cash donation to Pantene.
Other thoughts: T-shirts to commemorate the day, a raffle, having food and drinks available, gift bags for hair donators, photos, music, a couple of speakers?, reps from cancer treatment centers, reps from other non-profit organizations related to women's cancer/health issues.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions!
A Football Field of Ponytails!!
On January 11, 2009 a group of women in Indianapolis, IN will be holding a hair cutting event at Valley Mills Christian Church. Our goal is to collect a football field length (100 yards!) of ponytails to send to Pantene Beautiful Lengths to be made into wigs for women undergoing treatment for cancer.We will be using this blog to post additional information, recruit hair donators/stylists/volunteers, communicate with one another regards planning the event, and to share personal stories along the way.
Any and all help/ideas are welcome!!
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