After 5 Full Days of Voting - Seats @ Meets Update

Thanks to all the dedicated voters out there, the votes are coming in very consistently, just over 500 per day. This has us sitting somewhat comfortably in third place in our category...BUT...the animal shelter group from Labrador keeps chasing, like a mad dog chasing its tail. So please remember to vote everyday, we can't afford to waste any votes.

Here's how I see it, when you do the simple math:
1st place - Second Chance Pet Network, Dryden ON      3525 votes to date     705 registered voters.
2nd place - Rescue Horses, Sussex, NB                        3250 votes to date     650 registered voters
3rd place - Seats @ Meets, Brockville, ON                    2620 votes to date     524 registered voters
4th place - Labrador SPCA, Goose Bay, NL                   2510 votes to date     502 registered voters
5th place - TumbleBus Gymnastics, Coquitlam, BC       2356 votes to date     471 registered voters

With only 22 more voters than the Labrador group, you can see why we cannot afford to waste votes. You know they are looking for new voters everyday so they can take over 3rd place.

And being 181 voters behind the Dryden group, we have some work to do to find more supporters for the Seats @ Meets cause.

We need to be in the top 10 to make it to the Final Round, and if we keep going as we are we should have no trouble reaching that goal. But here's the important thing to remember...the voting starts all over again for the Final Round in December, and this time we will need to make a real statement that the community is in major support of this idea and be at the very top of the list.

Now is the time for the early adopters to gently nudge those friends and family members that may have said they would register to vote but haven't yet. Offer to help them register their email addresses. Some people just lack the confidence to register, even though they really do want to be supportive. Some people just lack the time. This is where all you true blue (or should I say purple) supporters can get Seats at Meets to the next level. I have offered to vote my mom's email address for her because she lacks the time to vote. And for a friend that lacks confidence, but really wants to help, I vote her email address as well.

You'd be surprised how eager people are to be supportive...with a little help from their friends!

Click here to go to the latest Seats @ Meets news article
TISS looks at ways to add 2,000 track and field seats
By Ron Smith Sports Editor, Brockville Recorder & Times

Day 4 - Early Momentum News

Good news! This morning, we are currently in 3rd Place, out of 438, in the Aviva Community Fund, Large Budget ($100-150K) Category.

We cannot rest on our laurels though...keep voting every day until you've used up all 15 of your votes. The two ideas ahead of us are widening the gap on us daily as they have a larger number of registered voters. We still need to recruit more voters to get us to that top spot in the final voting round. Please encourage your friends and family to join in our efforts to raise money for the new bleacher seating at the TISS Track & Field Facility. June is fast approaching and the 2012 OFSAA Track & Field Meet will be upon Brockville before we know it.

Also, we are in 5th Place so far in the Broker Supported Category ($150,000).

We still need more registered voters! Round 1 Voting was just a practise run for this Round and the upcoming Final Voting Round. Get your Facebook and Twitter accounts networking again. Let's add to the momentum we already have...a body in motion stays in motion.

Click here to read the original post: Hey Brockville...it's time for a major Pep Rally!

On your mark...Get set...Vote!

Voting begins today at noon. I don't know about you, but I'm very excited...excited about the Aviva Community Fund challenge and excited about the possibilities a win could bring. Any opportunity to get a $150,000 cheque from an insurance company without signing over the first born would make anyone downright giddy.

There's only one thing standing between TISS and that great big cheque...VOTES...lots and lots of votes.

Click the purple Vote button to take you to the Aviva voting page if you're already registered. If you still need to register your email address click the red Register Now button in the sidebar to the right to complete the process and then cast your first vote.

The following quote is Alan Perry's Facebook comment after the close of Round 1 voting:

Seats@Meets is already registered for the second round of the AVIVA Challenge which starts October 24th. This time we are starting with 1483 supporters, if we average more than 1000 votes a day we will be an unstoppable force!

Well said Alan!

Now Go Vote!

Hey Brockville...it's time for a major Pep Rally!

If all you had to do to help a friend earn $150,000, no strings attached, was to vote on-line once per day for 15 days, would you do it? Of course you would, because the reward is so great in relation to the time invested.

Did you know there is an insurance company that is giving away $1,000,000 to the several ideas for community improvement that show the most enthusiastic support? Wouldn't it feel good to get money from an insurance company just because...? An insurance company that wants to give back to the community is also worthy of support.

Hundreds of groups across the country have submitted their ideas to the Aviva Community Fund. One of the great ideas is right here in our community and we need the support of the whole community to push this idea to the forefront. Click on the yellow banner in the sidebar to the right to go to the Aviva Community Fund website and read about the idea submitted by the Friends of Thousand Islands Secondary School.

As you may know, the finest of Ontario's high school track and field stars will be competing for gold this June at the 2012 OFSAA Track & Field Meet here in Brockville at the recently updated track & field facility at TISS. This is the largest event to be hosted at TISS to date. You may also know that the lack of seating does not reflect the rest of this state-of-the-art facility. We need to increase the seating to accommodate not only this upcoming OFSSA event, but all other community events that take place at this location; events like the Brockville Bowl, the Kinsmen-Hungerford Meet, the Terry Fox event, the Senior games and minor league football to name a few.

A recent Brockville Bowl event at BCI illustrating the size of crowds attending this event.
TISS hosts this event every second year. This kind of crowd deserves more bleacher seating at the TISS facility.

The cost of the new bleacher seats is approximately $200,000. We must buy these bleachers regardless of where the money comes from. With enough supporting votes from the community, the Aviva Community Fund will take care of up to $150,000 of this expense.


And here's the best part...the more money we can get from Aviva, the less we have to ask from the community in the way of donations. So, which would you rather do, register on the Aviva website to vote on-line once per day for 15 days (approximately 15 minutes of your time in total) or open your wallet when the fundraisers come knocking on your door?


Let me just put a little challenge out to you Brockville.
The little community of Nunavut, population around 5000, has already made it as a semifinalist for the same category in which we are competing because they tallied almost 10,000 votes in Round 1 of this challenge. We were only able to log just shy of 3,800 votes. Really Brockville?! Are we going to stand back and let a tiny little community, with only one fifth of our population, take this from us? We have a second chance to show Canada and Aviva that Brockville cares about its community. This just isn't for TISS, this is for the whole Thousand Islands regional community. And we need the whole community to make this happen.


Voting for Round 2 of the Aviva Community Fund Challenge starts Monday, October 24th and ends November 9th. That's 17 days to cast your 15 votes, one per day. Please go to the Aviva Registration page to register your email address and VOTE, VOTE, VOTE! Use all 15 of your votes.. You get 15 votes per registered email address. Share this with all your friends and family using email, Facebook, Twitter, whatever. Let's get the word out...everywhere...and FAST!


Let's go Brockville. Let's show Aviva that we are worthy of hosting the best in the province with the best facilities possible.
Please VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!


Sincerely,
Marilynn Wykes

~Born in Brockville
~Former user of TISS track facilities
~Sister to 2 TISS teachers
~Friend to several TISS teachers
~Admirer of TISS and its reputation for fostering athletic excellence in its students
~Head cheerleader in the quest to get free money from the insurance company in the Aviva Community Challenge
~Resident of Burlington, Ontario