The final day of Round 2 voting was a crazy flurry of voting by all groups and Seats @ Meets ended in 11th Place, less than 100 votes behind 10th Place! Although that means we missed making it to the Semi-Finals this time it doesn't mean we are out of the race. There are 3 Rounds of Voting to get to the Semi-Finals. Welcome to qualifying Round 3. We start voting again Monday Nov.14th, at noon, and continue 'til noon on Nov.30th.
You already know what to do. Vote every day until you have used up all 15 of your votes. And just as important...find others to join the cause. If each one of us were to find just one more person to register and vote we'd be an awesome force. We have the momentum...in the first round we logged about 3800 votes, in the second round about 8200 votes. Just imagine what we can do in Round 3. This round will keep us in fighting form for the Final Voting Round!
The following is a repeat of the very first post of this blog. This is for the benefit of the new people you will be sending this on to. When people know the whole story they are more willing to join the cause. I, for one, had no interest in helping when all I got was an email with a link to the Aviva Community Fund challenge and told to "Vote for us". It was not until the whole story was explained to me by my sister that I got excited about the idea and joined. Please pass this blog's link along to everyone you know...email, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, whatever...get the story out and people will join us! It's a great cause and a great addition to the whole community.
Originally posted October 22, 2011
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.
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.
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| 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
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
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