Runners of Compassion, Victoria Chapter

... for Haiti Relief - THIS SATURDAY!!!!!

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Purpose: to raise funds for the Canadian Foundation for the Children of Haiti.
Date: THIS Saturday, January 23rd 2010
Time: Registration 8:30 am at Ogden Point Café deck.
Start : 9am on the sidewalk by the Café
Course: 6K. Ogden Point to Clover Point, and back.
Frills?No frills! (No Entry Fee; No Marshals; No Aid Stations; No Water Stations; No Muffins at the End; No medical personnel). Well, we may have some snacks... and you can always grab a nice moka from the Ogden Point Cafe!
Teams or Singles:Teams* and Single Participants welcome. Only Teams will be eligible for prizes and need to register. *A team is made up of two runners who will be tied together at the wrist with a ribbon.
Prizes: 3 Awards - Awarded to the top three Teams who best predict their finish time.
Time Prediction? Each runner or team will predict their time for the 6K. No watches allowed on the route! (No cheating please!) RofC can tag and store your watch but will not be responsible if it is lost. (Please no Rolex’s, Timex fine).
Fund Raising: Please bring a cheque payable to Canadian Foundation for the Children of Haiti (website).
Goods Collection: We will also be collecting material goods to give to the Compassionate Resource Warehouse (website), Victoria, BC, Canada. Please check their website to see what items to drop off to be sent in a container at the end of the month. List of items: Click Here

== Foundation for the Children of Haiti Website==

"Since 1981, Le Fondation pour les Enfants d'Haiti (FEH) in Port au Prince, Haiti has been working to change the lives of needy children, by replacing poverty and despair with love, health and hope."

CFCH is a Registered Canadian Charitable Organization. Donations to support the work are tax deductible in Canada.

One of the CFCH's guiding principles is that resources will, to the greatest extent possible, be made available directly for the children cared for by FEH. CFCH has very limited administrative overhead, mainly confined to corresponding with donors. Our administrative expenses run about 1% to 2% of total donations. CFCH does not expend any funds for advertising or promotion, nor has it ever done so.

== Esquimalt News June 6, 2001==

"Helping the Planet's Poor
Mark Browne
Esquimalt News

"Sending relief shipments off to third world countries is keeping Dell Marie Wergeland rather busy these days. Wergeland volunteers as the coordinator of the Compassionate Resource Warehouse, located on Devonshire Road. For the last couple of years, Wergeland, and about 30 volunteers, have been collecting everything from school supplies to medical supplies and shipping it all off to the less advantaged of the third World.
"The office in the warehouse is covered with pictures of people in far away places, including a young disabled Haitian girl. The images show the recipients of the assistance made possible by the local humanitarian organiztion.
"Those are just some of the pictures. It really gets you going - you see the need," says Wergeland.

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!

The Runners of Compassion present the 20th Annual Run Through Time on Thursday December 31st @6pm in the McKinnon Building Lobby-UVic.

Participate in the 5K run, 3K Walk or 1K kids run to start off the New Year with a bang! All proceeds go to UVic Staff Student Services & Runners of Compassion Supported Programs.

Register Early!

Adults before Dec. 27 - $10, after Dec. 27 - $15
Children (under 17) - $5
Family (max 5) - $30

Please make cheques payable to: Runners of Compassion

Entry forms can be picked up and dropped off at Frontrunners Victoria on Vancouver Street.

Or, down-load an entry form by clicking on the link below. Print it out and drop it off (or bring it to the run - cash only).

DOWNLOAD THE ENTRY FORM PDF

Online registration: www.raceonline.ca

SLOW 5K RUNNERS CAN FINISH IN 2010! (we're kidding...)

Below, some pics from other years:

Upcoming Event: Every Step Counts Carbo Dinner
When: 6:30 PM Friday, 9 October 2009
Where: Hotel Grand Pacific
Cost: Tickets $45 (cash or cheque - payable to Runners of Compassion)
How: Confirm by email to Rob - rob@frontrunners.ca with cc to Janice - jemcity@shaw.ca
What: Join our Runners of Compassion table at the Marathon Carbo Dinner

next Friday!, 5 tickets remaining, lots of fun and a good cause!

Read more about the program here:
Cares set aside for a run: Every Step Counts for a group of homeless
people who beat their troubles on the double
By Matthew Pearson, Times Colonist
September 25, 2009 6:52 AM
http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Every+Step+Counts/2032134/story.html

Date: Good Friday, April 10th
Time: 10:00am
Location: Westwood Lake Nanaimo
Cost: $20.00

The first trail race of the 2009 Island race season. Good tune up for the GutBuster Series. Lots of fast flowing single track, new route this year. Proceeds go Runners of Compassion shoes for youth program.
Online Registration

More information: www.rocnanaimo.com/running.html

The Tibet Flag Run was a great success this year. Thank-you runners: Suzanne, Dela, Torbin, Tricia, Pat, Jeff (long running RofC vet), Tim and his two very sweet girls (full list to follow). Also thank-you to supporters Janice (RofC Treasurer) and Briony and Evelyn.

We ran down the slope of the Beacon Hill Park hill, along Dallas Road bluff trail (stopping for a very windy photo opp by the dog walking area, and then along to Mile Zero where we met Judy and Sering. After a short wait, the Vancouver and Duncan Tibetan contingents arrived and the blessing and flag passing ceremony went on.

START: Saturday 7th March 2009 - 10:30AM Beacon Hill Peak Parking Lot (by the Canada flag)

Celebrate and support the 50th Anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising.
We'll have a new course, perhaps from Beacon Hill Park around the waterfront and through Downtown/Chinatown.
More information coming soon...

We met at Spinnakers (Upstairs) at 6:30 PM on Monday 12 January 2009. We discussed 4 applications for funding and approved disbursements of $1500. We discussed the 2009 Events we sponsor or support, and made a plan to have a pot-luck meeting in February at Pauline's. More info on the potluck and pre-meeting run coming soon!

Please come out to the next Runners of Compassion meeting at Rob's house in Oak Bay
Monday Sept 8th - 6pm until Rob kicks out out. Pot-luck as usual. Bring friends.
Topics so far
- old stand-by's
- event recap's from the summer,
- RVM Expo,
- Shoes For Youth updates/expansions
- and ....

Rob will have the BBQ warmed up and the meeting will be held outside on the
deck! RSVP Peter and tell him what you think about this crazy ole world: rofc@islandnet.com.