Peace Out CF

The Crosby Show is saying "PEACE OUT CF" at the Great Strides walk this Saturday (May 16th) benefiting the Arkansas Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation!

The Crosby Show Team theme for Great Strides is "Peace Out CF" because we are walking for cure to say "goodbye" to cystic fibrosis.

Crosby, Lance and I are so excited that many of our friends and family will be joining us this Saturday at the Zoo! Crosby can't wait to see all his fans.

If you haven't signed up or donated yet, please follow the link below and join us! 

The Crosby Show - Great Strides

Saturday, May 16th at 8:00AM

The Little Rock ZOO

Great Strides - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

FOR THOSE OF YOU COMING OUT, HERE IS SOME IMPORTANT RACE DAY INFORMATION:

• Please get there early! Registration is from 7-8 am and the walk starts at 8. They will be doing registration by LAST NAME this year instead of by team. YEAH! Hopefully this helps speed up registration and lessen confusion.
• Location – we will NOT be inside the Zoo for registration/pre-celebrations this year. We will be located in the East parking lot (if you are looking at the Zoo entrance it is to your left). Just look for the balloon arch!
• Anyone that arrives after 8 will need to pay the regular Zoo admission fee ($12/adult, $9/child).
• Parking is available across the street from the Main Entrance. Additional parking is available in the East Parking Lot (on the corner of Monroe Street / Zoo Drive)
• Wear your hippie gear including tie dye t-shirts or bright colored shirt! After you check-in, look for Lance and pick-up your tie dye bandana or peace sign glasses so that everyone knows you are with THE CROSBY SHOW! 
• ALL WALKERS MUST CHECK IN. Even if you have pre-registered online, we still need to verify your attendance at the Registration Center. 
• If someone did not pre-register for the walk, they are still able to register onsite at the Registration Center. This includes those of you who didn't sign your kids up on the website but are planning on bringing them. You can also send me an email at sanderscarmen@hotmail.com and I will email you a registration form to print and fill-out and then you can just bring it with you - time saver!
• We will be taking a team photo BEFORE the walk begins. 
• Breakfast will be provided by Chick-Fil-A and Sonic. Soft drinks and water will also be available.
• The program will begin at 8 am. We will all be entering the Zoo together through the carousel entrance and our walk goes around the perimeter inside the Zoo twice. 
• Celebration Ceremony – We will be ending the walk at the amphitheater this year. Ceremony will begin at 10am. After you walk feel free to go back to the east parking lot and play games, bid in the silent auction and dance! 

We've had a lot of family and friends register and donate to our team and I am so grateful! The event is going to be a fun, family friendly, short walk that supports such a great cause. I would love for more of our friends and family to support Crosby. So if you haven't already done so, I urge you to sign up! WE WANT TO SEE YOU THERE!

The Crosby Show - Great Strides

Need more persuasion to come join us on Saturday???  Here ya go:

TOP TEN REASONS TO CONTRIBUTE TO GREAT STRIDES

10.  The walk is at the Little Rock Zoo. If you have kiddos and you come out to the walk (starts at 8:00 am), you get free admission to the zoo!! There will be games and music and other things for the kids. Wake them up early, let them run around and tire themselves out so maybe you can enjoy a peaceful afternoon. Not to mention it wouldn't hurt them to be drug away from their video games for an hour or so. Maybe you can show off a dance move or two. It's also a great way to set an example for the kids about being involved in their community and being a part of something positive and giving to a good cause.

9.   This is that chance you've been waiting on to wear that tie dye shirt you've had since the 90s!

8. Great progress has already been made. In the 1950s, few children with cystic fibrosis lived to attend elementary school. Today, many people with the disease can now expect to live into their 30′s and beyond. But 30+ years isn’t very old. I want Crosby to be able to grow old. Don't you want that for your own children? By helping the CF Foundation you will be helping to add tomorrows for Crosby.

7. Over 30,000 Americans (and over 70,000 people worldwide) live with this disease; it affects the lungs and the digestive system, which can make daily life difficult. CF is an inherited genetic disease, but over 10 million Americans are symptomless carriers. Lance and I had NO idea we were carriers; this means someone you love could be a carrier, too.

   

6. Thanks to research funded by the CF Foundation (which comes from private donations from folks like you! not major pharmaceutical companies or federal grants), medication has stopped progression of the disease in 5% of cystic fibrosis cases! This is great news, but there is currently no treatment for Crosby's mutation of CF — yet. More clinical trials are being done, and other CF patients are hopeful they will soon have the same kind of victory.

5.  Funding goes directly to research. Not to put on big conventions, or swanky executive offices, or even lobbyists in DC. Nope. Straight to the scientists working and researching to find a cure. Thank you Scientists! The CF Foundation is one of the few national non-profit organizations where 90% of funds raised goes directly to the cause. You have to admire their efficiency. Imagine trying to run a national for profit business on 10% overhead.

4. You've already signed up and/or donated so why not reap your reward?! Come enjoy others in the fight to cure CF. You can pat yourself on the back someday when they do find one. You'll be able to tell yourself: I helped find a cure and the world is a better place because I helped and participated.

3. Have I mentioned there will be free Chick-Fil-A breakfast? Warm, buttery, chicken biscuits….for free.

2. An event like this offers encouragement to ALL those affected by cystic fibrosis, both the patients and everyone who loves them! It would mean A LOT to Lance and I to see everyone there.

1. Top reason to donate: HOW can you resist a face like this!?!

SEE YOU SATURDAY!!! PEACE OUT CF!!!

Love,

Carmen