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In just four summer Saturdays,
you helped Kelly's Ride raise
enough money to build a home for little girls at
Amigos de Jesus Orphanage, enhance holistic healing at Robins' Nest, Inc., and sustain scholars at
Philadelphia University.
We invite you to join
together one more
time for a fifth & final victory ride!
Mark Your Calendars & Save the Date!
Kelly's Ride
June 5, 2010
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Over the last four years the three agencies supported by Kelly's Ride have greatly benefited from the generosity of event sponsors, volunteers and riders, despite tough economic times. Many riders and volunteers have told us they enjoy this first metric of the summer cycling season. The route, the finish line party, the safety measures, the friendliness of the riders...all combine in one of the best rides in our region.
Kelly's Ride was designed from its beginning to be an intimate, friendly experience for a maximum of 500 riders, with lots of cheering volunteers, friends and relatives. While the number of registered riders has increased annually, we have never reached the goal of 500 participants. We hope you and your friends will join us on June 5, 2010 and help make the fifth Kelly's Ride, your personal favorite. |
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Did you participate in other summer rides? Did you participate in the MS150 City to Shore Ride? If so, invite five fellow cyclists to participate in Kelly's Ride 2010. Register early online at www.kellysride.com and form your own team! Take a picture of your group and send it attached to an an email telling your story to info@kellysride.com, and we will share it with others online. |
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Kelly's Ride is an affordable cycling event, designed with moderate registration costs and a achievable fundraising goal of $100 per rider, yet ost of our riders do not bring in donations to the registration tables. Participants may not realize how much it costs to launch this event each year.
If you have had a hard time raising $100 in support in the past, take five in 2010.
- Put $5 a week into an envelope beginning today and by January or February you'll reach your fundraising goal.
- Wrap Halloween treats with a note telling neighbors and friends you will be participating in Kelly's Ride 2010 and you need their support by November, December or January 5th.
- Find five neighborhood businesses, (dry cleaner, food store, bakery, brewery, baby boutique) and ask for $20 as a show of their appreciation for your business, and...Voila! Your goal is golden.
- Giving thanks in November? When you, your friends and relatives are counting blessings over turkey and dressing, tell everyone about your commitment to little girls and young women in need who benefit from your efforts in Kelly's Ride! If you need materials for everyone to ponder while the peas are cooking, contact any of the beneficiary groups and request a copy of their latest news release or annual report. Pass the fedora, and fill it with fives!
- Are you surrounded by a bunch of Pollyanna's in the office over the holidays? Why not let it slip that your secret Santa should pop a five in your stocking instead of the standard fruitcake or potpourri pouch? Better yet, if everyone has enough musical ties and votive candles, suggest your friends turn a gift exchange into a gift of support for all of the children who benefit from Kelly's Ride!
Alliteration aside, the above are simple suggestions to help you begin creating your own strategy to make Kelly's Ride 2010 your most productive and rewarding event in our fifth and final year! Please view every training ride, competition, social occasion, online network and business environment as an opportunity to recruit fellow participants, and raise abundant funds to help girls in need for years to come! |
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The Romans wrote the numeral five as a V . Think like a gladiator this year and bring VICTORY to our fifth and final ride. |
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Defined as a number, a numeral, and a glyph, ( had to look that one up!), five smells really good, as in Chanel #5. Five sounds great, as in album Number Five by the Steve Miller Band, 5 by Lenny Kravitz, or Beethoven's 5th . Five is high brow and visually intriguing in No. 5, 1948 by painter Jackson Pollack.
Humorist Charles Schultz brought a kid named Five into the Peanuts clan.
555 95472, or "5" for short, debuted in the September 30, 1963 strip, and appeared occasionally until 1981. A boy close in age to Charlie Brown and Linus van Pelt, "5" had brown spiky hair, and he wore an orange shirt with the number 5 on it.
"5" was given a numerical name by his father, who was upset over the preponderance of numbers in our lives. "5" had twin sisters, dark-haired girls named 3 and 4 and they appeared occasionally until the mid-sixties.
All three comic strip siblings appear in A Charlie Brown Christmas where they have non-speaking roles, but demonstrate distinctive 1960's dance moves during the dancing scene. "5's" dance is the famous head-bobbing, side-to-side shuffle that has been widely parodied by many fans of Christmas after drinking too much eggnog!
"5" also played for Charlie Brown's baseball team. It is conjectured that "5" played third base, since 5 is scorer's shorthand for the third baseman. |
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