29th October, 2007: Bigelow Tea Raises $60,000 for Men, Women and Children in Need!
Bigelow Tea is proud to announce that it has just hosted its 20th Annual Community Challenge fundraiser with the help of a host of enthusiastic volunteers, sponsors and participants. The event raised a record $60,000, the entirety of which will be distributed to thirteen local area charities. More than 1,000 strong took the “challenge” and participated in Kids’ Fun Run, 2-mile walk and 5K race.
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4th October, 2007: 20th Annual Bigelow Tea Community Challenge
Well the 20th annual Bigelow Tea Community Challenge just finished up this past Sunday and WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY! Our largest turnout by far! Over 1000 people were in the three events (Kid’s Fun Run, 2 mile walk and a 5K)-not to mention the 200 plus that came with our participants. The weather was picture perfect-breezy 75 degrees. The day was everything I could have hoped for! I think one of the best parts was just sitting back during the affair and seeing the families roaming around, smiling and just enjoying their experience. By far my most favorite aspect of the Community Challenge was seeing the team that planned this event (that I have worked with during the year) get “their moment in the sun.” This group of people just shined! The race committee had absolute and complete ownership of this event. They spent hours and hours, months and months preparing….then the day came. They were like hardcore soldiers running the different areas- preregistration, registration day of the race, walkers area, kids sign up, food, water stations, etc. etc….and they ran these areas with great aplomb. Yes, that was my favorite part of the race, seeing these marvelous people make this event as truly special as it was and always will be….I can proudly say it is one of the best run community events in Fairfield County, raising over $55,000 for local charities. And it is such a huge success because of the sole dedication of the Bigelow Race Committee….ah yes, it was a beautiful day!
Cindi Bigelow, President
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27th September, 2007: It’s Connecticut’s World Cup…or rather…The Tea Cup…Bigelow Tea Community Challenge
Super Bowl = Football
World Series = Baseball
World Cup = Soccer and Rugby
Tea Cup = Bigelow Tea Community Challenge
The Bigelow Tea Community Challenge is a running event sponsored each year by the makers of Constant Comment® and other fine teas.
Join us this weekend, Sunday, September 30th for a 5k Road Race plus a 2 mile Fitness walk plus a Kids’ Fund Run.
With the help of 40 financial and dozens more “in kind” sponsors, last year’s event raised $50K. The funds were distributed to thirteen Bridgeport and Fairfield based charitable organizations whose programs feed, clothe and shelter people of need in our community.
Let’s mark the 20th year of this event by record breaking participation!!!
Registration opens at 8 a.m. at Wakeman Boy’s and Girl’s Club, 385 Center street, Southport, CT.
See you at the finish line for fun and more…
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24th August, 2007: Bigelow Tea Community Challenge
The Bigelow Tea Community Challenge is coming up-it will be our 20th year of hosting this fabulous event. We have already raised more money than ever before, almost 50K!!!! It promises to be our most successful….some fun things for this year’s race…Cannondale donated a great bike for us to raffle off, Warren Travel of Westport came back and gave us two round trip tickets on American to fly anywhere in US to also be raffled and Mercedes Benz is giving us a car to loan out for a week! Should be a super fun family day….we expect over 1200 participants.
September 30, 2007 starting at 9 am at Wakeman’s Boys and Girls Club in Southport, CT, we will have a kid’s fun run, a 2 mile non competitive walk and a 5k run! And what is even more special is the fact that besides being a great event for the community with tons of goodies, all the money goes to such wonderful charities. I visited one of them yesterday, the Grasmere Home for the elderly. It is a place that you can bring your elder parent (or relative) from Monday to Friday and they enjoy great activities and get involved in various projects. The center is for those that need help and a little more attention than those that can go to our local senior center (another wonderful place the race supports!). While I was there, they were working on the photographs they had taken while doing a photography outing to the shore in our town. It was so heart warming to see how the seniors were enjoying the fruits of their labor. As usual, it brought tears to my eyes to see them in that environment. So I am truly looking forward to our upcoming Challenge, I promise to share with you all kinds of pictures and some fun stories about the day!!!
Cindi Bigelow
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