Westies in Need - WiN
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Toronto Westie Walk-2010 |
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The Annual Toronto Westie Walk
and Fun Day enjoyed the most successful fundraising day in our
history!
We had 232 Westies attend our Westie Walk this year! The
Toronto Westie Walk is the largest Westie Walk in Canada and we are now the
largest Westie event in North America!!!!!!
The day began at 11:00 am
with registration, followed by a photo session with our official photographers!
As our participants waited for our day to begin they checked out our
donations/draw table and purchased tickets for some of the great items we had
on our donation table. We also had some wonderful vendors this year so there
was lots to do before the day began.
If you could not make it to the Westie
Walk but would still like to make a donation, it is still easy to do.
Please send your donation by cheque in the mail. Our mailing info can be found
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One of our vendors, Freeze Frame Foto, has some
pictures up on his website...they are so
cute..take a look |
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Next they could go to our
"grooming station" for nail clips or a quick brush out for their Westie before
the group picture! Our groomer Barb very generously donated her time and all
monies collected to Westies in Need!
We once again had a Westie photo contest this year and
we were blown away with the response from all of you. We received 175
entries!!! That was amazing!
Click here
for a slide show to see all our photo contest winners...wait till you see
the Best in Show picture!!!! |
At about noon our 20 to 30 minute walk began
around Mississauga Valley Park, lead by our very own bagpipers! Thanks so much
to Krizzy, Stewart and Audrey for piping for us.
After the walk, the
Westies hit the Westie Watering Station for a little drink and then we were
ready. We were very pleased to have Rogers Cable give us coverage this year to
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Next was one of our favourite
parts of the day...the Parade of Rescues. Everyone got their tissues
out…they are too cute and are all now in forever, happy and loving homes!
We gave each Parade of Rescue participant a very nice ribbon that they wore
in the parade that said "I Rescued my Westie"
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Let the Games begin!
Our
first game this year was Musical Hoops..we had 2 heats of that game. Our
winners were Ian Rush and his Westie, August and Sarah Tomlin and her Westie,
Chloe. The 2 winners of the Musical Hoops each took home a very nice gift bag
just stuffed with treats and toys and other fun stuff.
Next was the always
popular Wiener Dunkin! In the first heat the winner was Stephen Lippert and his
Westie, Sadie. In the second heat the winners were Rachel Schoester and her
girl Zoe!
The 2 winners of the Wiener Dunkin also took home very nice
gift bags.
The next event was our Westie Terrier
Races. We had 10 groups of 10 Westies race (with each race winner getting a
nice stuffy to bring home) and then we had the ultimate Race Off.
The overall winner of our Westie races was August! She
may have been small, but she could fly!
August got a big gift bag as
well...bigger than she is!
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The person who won the big,
big prize for collecting the most money was Karen Anne Bolton!!!
THANKS!!!
We gave out lots and lots of prizes from the donation
table...it was over-flowing this year and then it was time to enjoy our BBQ and
spend some time talking with other Westie lovers.
I also wanted to let you all know
about a wonderful 17 year old girl who volunteered to bake Westie cupcakes,
sell them at our walk and donate 100% of her profits...
Bianca Mirander is one special girl and we just had to
let her know that we appreciate it more than she will ever know...and so do the
little Westies!
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We just couldn't do this at
all with out the help from our volunteers and our sponsors and of
course…you, the Westie Walkers, who support our event each year.
A big thank you goes out to our Volunteers who helped out the
day of the walk.
A very special thank you also goes out to the Westie
Walk committee for 2010...they did a great job.
I would also like to send HUGE
thanks out to all the folks who had contacted sponsors on our behalf and
brought prizes for this year's walk. THANKS!
The sponsors have been
very generous to us this year and we just can't say Thank You enough to
them as well! Click here to see who they
are...please support them if you can!
Folks asked me..."are we gonna
do this again next year???" Well of course we are!!!! As soon as we have the
2011 date I will send out an e-mail to everyone.
Thanks again!
Corrie
Yeoman and her little Westies, Charlotte and Miss Lilly
Toronto Westie Walk
Chair
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