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Tickets available at Frontrunners, or at the door.
More information: dickbeardsleyfoundation.org

We'll be running Tibetan flags down to the Peace Walk again this year.

Start: Prayer at Mile Zero, 11:30 AM
Arriving City Hall at 12:25.
More info - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=336496511746

Here is the email message from Foundation for the Children of Haitii (30/01/2010):

Hello Janice,

I received your donations yesterday.

Thanks to all of the people at Runners of Compassion for your concern for Haiti.

Your support is greatly appreciated and will make a difference in Haiti.

Please pass on my thanks to all those who participated in the run.

This morning we rasied $2500 ($5000 if you include Gov Canada's matching funds) for the Canadian Foundation for the Children of Haiti (http://www.cfchcanada.ca/).

We also collected 5 boxes of goods for the Compassionate Resource Warehouse (http://www.crwarehouse.ca/):

These 64 run/walkers are wonderful and loved: donald petersen, lynda veilleux, chiarina loggia, cynthia lauder, sylvia bernat, sue vanderwilt, jan henry, dominique quillevera, rumon carter, jen mclean, kyle read, sean bruce, harrison nguyen, giovanna greco, joan hougan, muira lowdon, john schmuck, fern esau, terry turcotte, trish fougner, danielle burton, david burton, holly burton, bridget burton, delores fraser, jim fraser, charlie vanderwilt, sue vanderwilt, freeman/raine/duncan, maia watson, lucy smith, chark nipp, kris swanson, jared ludlow-carroll, nina ilnyckyk, doug pearce, susan enefer, stefan porteous, matthieu adam, chelsie charles, jenni funk, darryl woodley, don moffatt, holly hamilton, aviva carter, mike newton, michelle coccola, ida von schuckmann, krista kitsan, krisat lauole, nina forsyth, brenda thomson, don terlson, dave pennington, naiomi pitt,tiffany buttler, laura morehouse, elizabeth robertson, corey rich, matt yee, nicole mcfadden, megan cronkite

... for Haiti Relief - THIS SATURDAY!!!!!

Attend the Event - Facebook Page!

Join Our RofC Facebook Group!

Purpose: to raise funds for the Canadian Foundation for the Children of Haiti.
Date: THIS Saturday, January 23rd 2010
Time: Registration 8:30 am at Ogden Point Café deck.
Start : 9am on the sidewalk by the Café
Course: 6K. Ogden Point to Clover Point, and back.
Frills?No frills! (No Entry Fee; No Marshals; No Aid Stations; No Water Stations; No Muffins at the End; No medical personnel). Well, we may have some snacks... and you can always grab a nice moka from the Ogden Point Cafe!
Teams or Singles:Teams* and Single Participants welcome. Only Teams will be eligible for prizes and need to register. *A team is made up of two runners who will be tied together at the wrist with a ribbon.
Prizes: 3 Awards - Awarded to the top three Teams who best predict their finish time.
Time Prediction? Each runner or team will predict their time for the 6K. No watches allowed on the route! (No cheating please!) RofC can tag and store your watch but will not be responsible if it is lost. (Please no Rolex’s, Timex fine).
Fund Raising: Please bring a cheque payable to Canadian Foundation for the Children of Haiti (website).
Goods Collection: We will also be collecting material goods to give to the Compassionate Resource Warehouse (website), Victoria, BC, Canada. Please check their website to see what items to drop off to be sent in a container at the end of the month. List of items: Click Here

== Foundation for the Children of Haiti Website==

"Since 1981, Le Fondation pour les Enfants d'Haiti (FEH) in Port au Prince, Haiti has been working to change the lives of needy children, by replacing poverty and despair with love, health and hope."

CFCH is a Registered Canadian Charitable Organization. Donations to support the work are tax deductible in Canada.

One of the CFCH's guiding principles is that resources will, to the greatest extent possible, be made available directly for the children cared for by FEH. CFCH has very limited administrative overhead, mainly confined to corresponding with donors. Our administrative expenses run about 1% to 2% of total donations. CFCH does not expend any funds for advertising or promotion, nor has it ever done so.

== Esquimalt News June 6, 2001==

"Helping the Planet's Poor
Mark Browne
Esquimalt News

"Sending relief shipments off to third world countries is keeping Dell Marie Wergeland rather busy these days. Wergeland volunteers as the coordinator of the Compassionate Resource Warehouse, located on Devonshire Road. For the last couple of years, Wergeland, and about 30 volunteers, have been collecting everything from school supplies to medical supplies and shipping it all off to the less advantaged of the third World.
"The office in the warehouse is covered with pictures of people in far away places, including a young disabled Haitian girl. The images show the recipients of the assistance made possible by the local humanitarian organiztion.
"Those are just some of the pictures. It really gets you going - you see the need," says Wergeland.

Father time delivered up some perfect west coast soft misty running conditions for the Runners of Compassion's 20th Run Through Time on 31st December 2009, 6PM, at the University of Victoria's McKinnon Athletics Complex / Ring Road.

Post-race, the crowd enjoyed hot chocolate and cookies, and discussed missed opportunities at 2009 personal records and speculated on who would win the HUGE chocolate Santa. Here's some stats:

160 entrants helped us raise enough funds to cover donations to:
YWCA/YMCA Camp Thunderbird - $300
UVic Student Services - $300
Victoria Foundation (Every Step Counts) - $300
Woodwynn Farms - $300

THANK-YOU PARTICIPANTS!

And a big thank-you to all the volunteers - you are wonderful and much loved.

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!

The Runners of Compassion present the 20th Annual Run Through Time on Thursday December 31st @6pm in the McKinnon Building Lobby-UVic.

Participate in the 5K run, 3K Walk or 1K kids run to start off the New Year with a bang! All proceeds go to UVic Staff Student Services & Runners of Compassion Supported Programs.

Register Early!

Adults before Dec. 27 - $10, after Dec. 27 - $15
Children (under 17) - $5
Family (max 5) - $30