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Web site for Challenged Athletes
The WVCCC will work on marketing for 2 events for the Challenged Athletes of WV program. The first event is taking place in January. January 8-10 is Motorsports Weekend. On January 12th, Kyle Petty and five other Coca Cola team NASCAR drivers will be at Snowshoe to sign autographs and to participate in cardboard box races. The proceeds will benefit the Challenged Athletes of WV program as well as the Victory Junction Foundation, which is run by Kyle Petty. With this event only one month away, we will have to move quickly to market this event.
The second event will be a bike-a-thon where the challenged athletes will bike the entire length of the Greenbrier River Trail. This will be held in either August or September of 2004. It will be a relay event with each rider biking 10-mile segments. Each rider will obtain sponsors that will pledge a donation to the program. After each rider completes his or her segment of the trail, they will be transported by vehicle to the finish line area. We will have a tent with food, games, and perhaps music. For the last mile of the trail, all of the challenged athletes will join the final riders as they all cross the finish line. There they will all participate in a cook out with their families and the event coordinators and guests. We may even have other teams participating to complete the challenge. We could have a WVCCC team with 8 or 9 riders. We could challenge other agencies to participate. Each person could get 5 or 6 sponsors. If we get lots of people involved, this has the potential to generate substantial funds.
We will also work with Dave McDowell, Doc, and Calvin to get a new building for the program. Dave McDowell has committed to providing the shell of a timber home to David Begg for the program. Doc and Calvin could help them finish the inside. We could also get Jean Ambrose involved with AmeriCorps crews to help with the labor. We will need to raise $40,000 to finish the building. I will set up a meeting with Dave McDowell, Doc, and Calvin for the week of January 12th.
We will also look at finding corporate sponsorship for some of their other events. For the Chili Cook-Off in July we could use corporate sponsorships to provide tee shirts and hats, thereby saving the Challenged Athletes Program those funds. After meeting with and approving our participation with Joe Stevens of Snowshoe, Beth will contact other partners who might be able to help. They include:
Gail Lowrey @ Pocahontas County CVB
Aly Gregg & Michael Haid - regarding events management
Elizabeth Morgan -Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
David Webster (regarding Lance Armstrong Organization)
Kyle Petty's Victory Junction Organization
John Boy & Billy-NASCAR show (to announce the Jan.event)
Tony O'Leary - WV Division of Tourism
Mike Brieding - WV Rails to Trails Council
Matt Ballard - Hatfield-McCoy Trail - use of their database
Brian Ferguson -Regarding bike race events
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