OK, End2End friends, the first thing you should do is run down to Galaxy Motors or Galaxy RV and buy a vehicle.
Just kidding: you could take a cab, not run.
Either way, the families of cancer-stricken children will benefit, because Galaxy is devoting part of the money from sales in April to our campaign.
That’s in addition to other generous help from End2End’s silver-level sponsor, which is also supplying a fleet of support vehicles during June’s Victoria-to-Port-Hardy-and-back cycling relay.
And don’t forget the April 25 Galaxy event at which the End2End team will be riding spin bikes, taking donations, selling toques and bags of Drumroaster coffee…. Watch for the location to be revealed April 23.
We can’t say enough about End2End’s wonderful community sponsors and supporters, fellow Islanders who have taken on the cause as their own. Thanks to them, there will be all sorts of fundraising efforts for the Island Kids Cancer Association over the next few weeks.
From 11-3 this Saturday, April 18, End2End riders will pedal the stationary bikes generating power for the sound system used by bands playing the Earth Day festivities outside Saanich municipal hall.
On Sunday, May 3, rider Ryan Clarke will host a noon-hour spin class by donation at the Annex Fitness at 645 Yates St.
Rider Kevin Nunn will sport the End2End jersey while competing in Ironman 70.3 Victoria on May 24.
Another rider, Saskia Bjornson, has made End2End a charity of choice for participants (and their supporters) in her Saskia Says beginner triathlon on June 7.
On May 22, there’ll be a $35 Triple B — beer, burger and band — night at Chances casino in Courtenay, with Big Font supplying the music.
Big Font will also be one of four acts (the others are The Rebel North, The Coast and Elli Hart) playing when Victoria’s Hoyne Brewery opens its gates for the Lot Jam music festival on June 13.
Thanks to Scotiabank and the Victoria Royals, hockey players can register for the United Professional Charity Classic on May 30 at Save On Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria
Then there are the cookie sales, coffee sales, the online 50-50, the Comox Valley dog washes, a Father’s Day bottle drive at the depot on Glanford, the End2End doughnut at Iluka Expresso Café, the chocolate sales at certain Scotiatbank branches, a long-drive competition at Gorge Vale golf course on June 25…. Watch for details to emerge on the events page at End2Endcancer.com.
Of course, there’s also End2End’s centrepiece event, the June 16-18 relay in which our nine cyclists will ride 1,000 kilometres up and own the Island in less than 48 hours.
It’s all meant to help IKCA lift the load of Vancouver Island families hit by childhood cancer. As our motto says: Islanders helping Islanders.