Hi there everybody! We're coming up to our 2nd Annual ehMac MS Bike Tour. Last year, Team ehMac raised over $1600 to help battle MS. (Multiple Sclerosis, not Microsoft)
I'm asking everyone to please Click here to pledge your financial support. (Note, for Safari users, please turn off "Block Pop-Up Windows" under the Safari menu for link to work.) You will receive a full tax receipt for your donation.
Our goal is to raise well over $2000 this year. So please help by donating. Or...
If you're feeling more ambitious... please Join Team ehMac on the MS Bike Tour in Toronto on Sunday, September 12th and help raise your own pledges! (Note, for Safari users, please turn off "Block Pop-Up Windows" under the Safari menu for link to work.) To join Team ehMac, click the above link to register for the MS Bike Tour. Then click on the “My Events” menu option, you will see a link called “Join an existing team" - You then can join "Team ehMac"
We'll keep this thread updated on pledge totals.
Click here for an audio message about the MS Bike Tour.
No, I think the teams have to be for the same event. BTW, how long of a ride will you be going on? The one in Abbotsford is 35 or 70km, I hope to be able to do the 70km one.
I'm in again this year.
Anyone who is even slightly considering should just join in. Its a beautiful ride and you've got a month to get in shape for it!
RtC was thee first member to donate with a generous donation of $25! (For which I may remind everyone, he will receive a tax receipt for from the MS Society of Canada)
I've just pledged $100.00 in my own name but on behalf of our local Mac User Group, Macintosh Users East [MaUsE] here in the Oshawa, Ontario, area. On behalf of MaUsE, I'm challenging other Mac User Groups in Canada to match our pledge and help Mr. Mayor make it to Ehmac's goal.
Jim Foster was the leader of MaUsE back in the day when I lived in the Oshawa area and was a member with my brand new LC 475. The MUG meetings were great and we had a great bulletin board based on First Class software.
If it wasn't for MaUsE and REALLY getting me into Macs and bulletin board systems... there'd be no ehMac!
Thanks so much for the very generous $100 donation! We're up to $150 now! I hope other MUG's across Canada step up to the challenge. I emailed my local MUG, WatRMUG to see if they're up to the challenge. If you know the MUG in your area, let them know of the challenge!
By the way Jim... you're MUG has won a copy of the Mac OS X Panther Pocket guide!
We're starting to pick up some steam now! Let's go ehMac members... any small donation counts!
With online donations and pledges being mailed in, we're up to $300!
I still need another 2 riders to make up an official "Team" for riding. So far it's just me and Script Kiddie in Toronto. (I'm taking one of the ehMacettes in the Chariot trailer this year)
Who's up for a fun day of biking, raising pledges and meeting the Mayor?!
Hey folks... just finished talking with the folks at the MS Society.
Here's some good news. If you are unable to participate in the Toronto MS Bike Tour, but you would like to participate in your area... you can and still be a part of Team ehMac! Just sign up for a Bike Tour in your neck of the woods. Then you can create your own team called Team ehMac. (You'll be the captain of your team in your area).
At the end of all the tours, the MS Society will total all the donations to Team ehMac to get a grand total.
So, I need some people to be captains of Team ehMac across Canada and then recruit some more members.
The Toronto Tour has about 4 people signed up now. How about a West Coast team going against Toronto?
(I'm sure they won't as they know they'll get whipped by Toronto)
If you're interested but have questions, let me know. Any comments at all, let me know!
Please help spread the word about the Team ehMac MS Bike Tour!!!!!
A HUUUUUUUUGE thanks to RR for the lovely pledge of $50!
The generosity of ehMac members is amazing!
People often talk about making the world a better place... we're actually doing it! Money contributed to the MS Society WILL make the lives of fellow Canadians with MS better!
I encourage even more ehMac members to come forward and pledge financial support to help fellow Canadians with MS.
Go ehMac Go! Go ehMac Go!
With online donations and pledges being mailed in, we're up to $350! We need YOUR help to reach our goal of $2000!
Our total is at $450... almost a quarter of the way there!
You're right... with the good...no... GREAT people of ehMac, we should be at $2000 and no time! Canadians are extremely generous!
Rest assured farfisa... the $100 pledge exempts you from all biking.
Was trying to convince Heart to go biking, but I think he's going to opt for a donation again this year again... which is fine by me. I hear he's going to break the record this year and donate over $100. Do I hear $101?
Just wait until Script Kiddie and others biking with the tour start getting in their donations... we may just have to up that goal!
Every donation counts! Even $5 and $10 donations are much welcome folks!
I've set up a Team ehMac for the bike ride in the Fraser Valley. It is riding through the farm area just east of Abbotsford. Anyone who is from the Fraser Valley or Vancouver area you can come out and ride on Aug. 22.
Me and the Mrs have signed up and will be riding with the ehMac team.....I had to promise it wouldn't be a bunch of geeks talking about Macs the whole time
Look forward to it......a great charity (a family friend actually has MS so we were going to do it anyway)
(Pulling my 60 pound daughter in the trailer will probably have me huffing a bit)
Thanks so much for joining Team ehMac!
And hey, thanks macfoto for starting Team ehMac out west! Looks like we might have a friendly west vs Toronto fund raising battle! (If you can get those lazy west coast ehMac members to get out an bike. No way there will be as much T.O. bikers!)
5 official Team ehMac members and about 3 more coming.
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