Book Sale!

We have started our advertising for the book sale!

The book sale will be held on February 18th and 19th at LifeStream Church of Nazarene.
5105 Leonardtown Road Waldorf MD 20601

On Feb. 18th from 9am-6pm
On Feb. 18th from 9am-1pm with a bag sale starting at 11am-1pm for 2$ a bag (bags will be provided)

We currently have 5000 books that have all been donated from so many people!

All of the proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society on behalf of our relay for life team Pink Heat.

We will continue to collect books up until the first week of February. You can email any other questions to pinkheat@hotmail.com

Please come out and help support finding a cure!

As always we thank you for your continued support!!! The Heat Is On To Find A Cure!

Happy Holidays!

Pink Heat hopes your holidays are merry and bright!

Butler Archers to host Indoor Archery shoot to benefit the American Cancer Society on behalf of Pink Heat

The Butler Archers will host an indoor archery shoot on January 14, 15, and 16th with proceeds going to the American Cancer Society on behalf of Pink Heat.

To reserve your spot, please call Dawn Patsy at 724-525-0507. The shoot will take place at the Butler Hunting and Fishing Club in East Butler, Pa.

Thank you to all those that will make reservations and good luck in the competition!

Let's shoot for a cure!

Thanks to those in Aspinwall, PA

Big thanks to all those strangers out in Aspinwall, PA who were out and about for their light up night on Thursday and tonight! We really appreciate your donations and support! With your help, we are one step closer to finding a cure!

Also big thanks to Pink Heat team member Dawn Patsy for organizing the whole gig! Go Dawn!!

Book Sale Fundraiser has been set!!

We are so excited to announce that we have a fabulous location and date for our 2011 fundraiser!

Our book sale will be held at Life Stream Church Of The Nazarene (http://lifestreamnaz.org/) on February 18th and 19th. As of right now we have approximately 5000 books and will continue to collect until the first week of February! Please keep checking back for updated info on the sale but we do hope to see you in February!

We are so thankful to Life Stream Church Of The Nazarene for their kindness and Pink Heat member Nicole Young. Thank you so much. With your help, the heat is on to find a cure!

As always we appreciate everyone's continued support and love!

Pink Heat to sing Christmas Carols!

Today I was approached and asked if I would like to sing Christmas Carols outside the mall as a fundraiser for Pink Heat. Heck Yah! Count us in!! I thought this was a fun and an awesome way to get involved with the community by singing all the favorites! The team is getting their vocals ready! :)

Light at the end of the tunnel of book sorting!!!

A friend came over and with her help we made a huge dent in the book sorting! She is coming back over and hopefully we can finish off this huge task!

Here is uhhhhhhh what once was my living room (don't worry we have a family room):

We also have a church that we believe is going to let us use their facility for the book sale! Thanks to a team member for that hook-up! We go next week to meet with them and discuss details! So check back for a date for the book sale!

Also, check us out in Fox Chapel, Pa next month for Light Up Night! We will be set up with all sorts of goodies for you to purchase to support finding a cure!

As always we thank you for your continued support!!!!!

Why we Relay

Hello and welcome. We have had many new visitors lately and we would like to share with you why we relay.

Everyone involved with Pink Heat has their own story, this is mine:

Tiffany Lybarger-
My grandma Lois was my favorite person in the whole world. Growing up I loved talking to her, loved when she would come visit, loved at Christmas time receiving the package from UPS and looking and waiting to open the big gift that said 'open last' on it. My best moment was making the drive to Texas with my now Hubby to visit for a week. She was already a cancer survivor at that point. She was a survivor of breast cancer for twelve years.

In 2007, at the age of 62 she passed away as the cancer returned and she was unable to come out a winner. But in all our eyes she will be one of the strongest women we ever knew. 62 was so young.

She had her own team with the Relay for Life in Hereford, Tx. She raised loads of money and always was so proud when she found out I was participating in my Relay for Life as a team member back in Pennsylvania, and I know she would be dang proud right now.

2011 will be my seventh year participating in the Relay for Life, and my second year as Team Captain of Pink Heat. In 2009 while I walked the track as not part of a team but just a person wanting to participate here in Maryland, I reflected on a lot of things and I knew that 2010 was the year I needed to form my own team. It was time I carried the torch on for her and where she left off raising money to fight for a cure. Time to take things into my own hands and not just be a participant but something more. Time to make things happen.

Last year Pink Heat raised $6,033.00. Friends, family, and strangers all came together to help fight for a cure. We hope you all will continue this fight for us, if not with a donation but with awareness of this horrible disease.

I know she is proud, I know she is watching. I know that this passion for a cure has overcome me, but in some ways I wonder if this is just how she felt, and right now I feel pretty darn good knowing what a difference this team is making.

For information on what the Relay for Life is and how to become involved please visit:
http://www.relayforlife.org/relay/whatisrelay#whatisrelay

If you would like to make a donation to the American Cancer Society on behalf of Pink Heat please go here:
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY11SA?pg=personal&fr_id=33329&fr_id=33329&px=6796193
As always, you can email us at pinkheat@hotmail.com

Let's fight for a cure!!!

60x arrows and strings teams up with Pink Heat to raise funds and promote awareness!

We would like to send out a big thanks over at http://www.60xcustomstrings.com/. They have partnered up with Pink Heat with their very own shirts for breast cancer awareness month with the proceeds benefiting the American Cancer Society on behalf of our team Pink Heat!

Go get your bullseyes 4 boobies or Shooter for Hooters t-shirts now!

As always we thank you for your amazing support!

Shirts for Sale

We have had requests for orders for shirts and until we can get a really good picture here is the shirts we have. The front of all shirts have the same logo that say Pink Heat. The back of all the shirts have the same slogan 'the heat is on to find a cure'. We have them in black with pink lettering, grey with pink lettering, white with pink lettering and pink with black lettering. The pink shirts there is a lighter pink such as the picture and then a brighter pink shirt not pictured.

Remember you can always email us at: pinkheat@homtail.com

$10.00 if shirts do not have to be shipped.
$13.00 if the shirts need shipped.
$15.00 for long sleeve (long sleeve we have limited quantity)
$15.00 for tank tops (not pictured)
$15.00 for hats (not pictured)

As always thank you for your amazing support, because of you we are one step closer to helping find a cure!

October is breast cancer awareness month

October is breast cancer awareness month and we have a few fundraising events happening this month. Currently the Plaza Pantry in East Brady, Pa and Babes Boys Tavern in Waldorf, MD are running a fundraising campaign for Pink Heat with pink ribbons. Babes Boys Tavern has already raised $313.00 in three days!!! Way to go!!! We cannot express how thankful we are to have such wonderful people on board!

Thank you to all of the patrons of both of these businesses, with your kind donations we are one step closer to finding a cure!

Myrtle Beach for Pink Heat Captain

While at work the other day I received a phone call from one of my favorite people, Cristina. She informed me that I had won a trip to Myrtle Beach! I had forgot all about the incentive and really am still stunned that I even won! I truly believe everything happens for a reason and this was just a little sign to say 'hey, you're on the right track, keep up the good work'. :) Thank you to all our family, friends, and strangers again for helping us raise enough money that made us eligible! I'm already thinking of ways that I can possible fundraise in Myrtle Beach! :)
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Below I have copied the email that followed the phone call:

THANK YOU so much to those of you who raised over $2,500 in the Relay fundraising challenge this year!! Donna made the arrangements for a weeks stay at a vacation home in Myrtle Beach and you made the very most out of that incentive! I wish we were able to give a week to each of you, as your efforts contributed to the success of your events and to our efforts to help people stay well, get well, to finding a cure & fighting back against cancer!! We held a drawing with all eligible individuals from Charles County and Rockville today in the DC office. We are pleased to announce that Tiffany Patsy-Lybarger, team captain of the Pink Heat in Charles County was the winner. Congratulations, Tiffany! Thank you again!! We appreciate all of your efforts more than you could know. ~ StephanieS

Sign-Ups for 2011!

Welcome back to previous team members and welcome aboard to our new folks!! Thanks again for your energy and commitment to helping find a cure!

Join our team or donate for the 2011 Relay for Life of Charles County at: http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY11SA?px=6796193&pg=personal&fr_id=33329

Let's do this!

We'd love to see comments from you!

It was passed along that many people have wished to leave us comments! We'd love to get them! It always is uplifting to see how our efforts to find a cure are making people smile all over the place!!

I have changed the settings so that anyone can comment, you do not have to be a member of this site. You can now leave your comments anonymously or just add your name at the end of your comment if you would like us to know who you are!

It's almost time to sign up for the 2011 year and we already are off to a great start for fundraising.

Remember that we have t-shirts and hats for sale as well! 10$ for shirts and 15$ for hats!

Thanks so much for visiting and keeping track of our progress!!

Raffle Winners are Drawn!!

Thank you everyone for participating in our raffle held at our event on August 7th, 2010 behind the Olive Garden. You will be contacted Monday via the phone number on your ticket to let you know you won and to confirm address to send your goodies!

Here are our following winners:

Raffle #1 goes to:
Amanda Lopez
(Great Clips goodies with free haircut, $25 Longhorn Gift Certificate, free kids meals at Olive Garden)

Raffle #2 goes to:
June Peterson
(Starbucks goodies, $25 Szechaun Garden Gift Card, free kids meals at Olive Garden)

Raffle #3 goes to:
Lynn Fox
(Starbucks goodies, $25 Olive Garden Gift Certificate, $25 Outback Gift Certificate, free kids meals at Olive Garden)

Raffle #4 goes to:
Karl Rosip
(Chick-Fil-A goodies and coupons, $25 Giant Gift Card, $40 Chili's Gift Card, free kids meals at Olive Garden)

Raffle #5 goes to:
Theo Sebside
($25 Famous Daves Gift Card, $40 Babes boy tavern gift card)

Raffle #6 goes to:
Jim of Babes
($50 Red Lobster Gift Card)

Thank you so much to everyone that came out and participated and supported our fundraiser. Congrats to the winners!!!

Fundraiser brings in $1,972.19

Wow! Thank you to everyone who came out to support finding a cure on Saturday, August 7th in Waldorf, MD!. We had a blast raising money for a great cause!

If you participated in our raffle, winner will be drawn on August 21st and notified by Monday August 23rd (delay in notification due to raffle winners being drawn inside the Olive Garden by a manager and unable to call everyone while working :) but want the raffle drawing to be legit in front of several people.).

We really cannot express how grateful we are to everyone who made this fundraiser possible, from complete strangers to new friends we made. THANK YOU!!!!

See you at the next one!

Huge Pink Heat fundraiser: 8/7/2010 Waldorf, MD

Hi and thank you for stopping by!

On Saturday, August 7th 1010 a relay for life team of Charles County will hold a huge fundraiser in the lot behind Olive Garden (3620 Crain Highway, Waldorf, MD).

The fundraiser will include:
Massive yard sale (items donated from over 25 families more, with more items coming in on Friday.)
Bake Sale
Raffle
Car Wash
Lemonade Stand
Pink Heat featured items

Massive yard sale:

Lots of clothes (adult, teen, kid, baby, all in great shape, name brand at .25 and .50!). Tons of books. lots of Toys, barbies, leap pad and leap frog items, baby toys, games, strollers, teaching aids, tons of purses, kitchen stuff, brand new wedding dress, castle wedding cardbox, lots of fireman shirts donated by firefighter at .25, little girls bicycle, outdoor end tables, back of bicycle seat for baby, two outdoor baby swings, computer desk great for college student and computer chair, older computer, three printers, two tv’s, little boys bedroom set sheets and wall art, lots of holiday items, beach chairs, ottoman, baskets, small fish tank set-up, guitar (needs a string replaced), coffee table and end tables, portable animal carrier, Items priced to sell and we have collected for a couple months so too much to list!

Bake Sale:
Assortment of baked goods

Raffle:
Over 200$ in Gift Cards and prizes:
Red Lobster
Olive Garden
Longhorn
Giant
Chili's
Outback
Famous Daves
Chick-Fil-A
Starbucks
Avon
Hair Cuttery
Lonestar

Tickets are one for $2.00 or three for $5.00. Winner will be drawn on August 21st and your package of goodies will be mailed with delivery confirmation.

Car Wash:
Car wash will be held from 12-3.

Pink Heat items:
Pink Heat T-shirts as shown in our pictures on this site. $10.00. Available in black, pink, and white.
candles
calendars
photo albums
pens
koozies

Lemonade Stand:
Lemonade for $1.00 sold by one of our youth team members. :)

Please come out and browse and support a cure!!

As always we are so grateful for all the love and support!

Upcoming August 7, 2010 Huge Fundraiser

Wow! It's almost Saturday and time for our wonderful fundraiser. We just want to say thank you to the amazing support from the community. We will still take donations for the yard sale up until the day before or the day of the sale from 6am-9am but you will have to drop the donations the day of the sale off in the lot behind Waldorf. Sale shopping will begin at 9am. We really stress that we have no early birds as we really want to have it all set-up and organized. If you have donations that we can pick up prior to the sale please contact us at pinkheat@hotmail.com to make arrangements. We are taking toys, household items, etc. etc. All proceeds do benefit the American Cancer Society.

A car wash will also be held from noon-3pm.

A bake sale and raffle will also be held from 9am-3pm.
The raffle includes:
Gift Cards to the following:
Olive Garden
Red Lobster
Longhorn
Outback
Giant
Famous Daves
Starbucks, Lonestar, Avon also have donated items.
Tickets are 2$ for one or 5$ for three.

Please stop out to support a cure.

Pink Heat t-shirts will also be available for sale in black, pink, white for $10.00.

Thank you all for making this possible!!! Let's fight for a cure!!!

Fundraising is Upon us!

Woah....it's been a busy few weeks. I've spent them, collecting, sorting, organizing, pricing, and.....more collecting, sorting, organizing, pricing. I've pretty much just repeated those few steps over and over in any spare time I have had.

We have had some generous donations from some wonderful people.

First thanks goes out to Jim and David in Hughesville for this book donation:

Yes all those books....every single box was one donation. WOW, the book sale is gonna be awesome! Thank you!

These books below I already had and sorted some and sorting others....I can't imagine how I will sort all the books above. oh my. I got my work cut out for me.

Books to the left in boxes are sorted:

This is a bunch of books I'm currently in the process of sorting:

My second thanks to Debbie in DC. Wonderful jeep load of stuff from her this past week. Still have a few people who have stuff to donate, all in all I think it will be a good sale! Here is the stash of stuff so far, which does not include items in my garage and on my back porch that I just didn't want sitting in my dining room. :) It is three rows deep to the wall of stuff. :)

As always, we will collect donations up to till the day before the yard sale! If you have anything to donate please don't hesitate to contact us at pinkheat@hotmail.com. We are located in Waldorf, MD.

The book sale date is still TBD. We will keep you posted!!!

Thank you for your continued support and feedback! We love our fans!

Yard Sale and Book Sale donations

The relay for 2010 might be over but the fundraising never stops when you're fighting for a cure.

Fundraising for 2011 has already started for Pink Heat.

This week I spent my time sorting, pricing, and organizing yard sale donations thus far. Everything I have right now is priced and ready to go! I'm still in need of donations! Toys, clothes, household items, knick knacks.

Before Picture of yard sale donations

The book sale is going to happen. Sometime in the fall most likely. A more firm date for that once the yard sale is all situated. This picture is the latest donation of books from a wonderful person. WOW, just look at all those books ready to be sorted and organized for the sale! I am so thankful. The sale should be a success!

As always, thank you for your continued support and feedback!

Relay for Life 2010

Pink Heat total for the 2010 Relay: $5958.00. How silly do you think I am when I tell you I started with a goal of $700.00? Seriously. I thought $700.00 was an achievable amount for my first year. Then Pink Heat just took off and I made it my passion and mission and here we are today with a whopping $5958.00. I can never express my appreciation enough to those that have helped make this happen, from team members to family and friends to just plain strangers. THANK YOU!!! On Friday, June 11th at 6pm the Relay started. Around 2:30pm my Sis-n-law (who drove 5 1/2hrs to be here) and I arrived to start setting up. My sis-n-law and me:My niece and I:I had worked on painting decorations and putting together signs for weeks before and was so excited to see how it all would come together at the site. I was so excited with the end result! This years theme was 'Stomp Out Cancer' which was a dancing related theme. I chose country western and line dancing as the base of my theme and went from there.

I had a couple wonderful helpers: Tyler Holson and Michael Doran who stayed from 2pm until about 7am. They helped move things around and basically anything that needed done they did it. They also helped out so much with my niece.

One of the big items that needed help moving was the 'County Jail' that my husband built for me. I had seen a 'jail and bail' mentioned in another fundraiser in I believe Kentucky and it gave me the idea that I wanted a 'real' jail cell where I could make this happen. I was not sure how popular it would be but it was so popular we had to send someone out to get more copies of 'warrants' made for arrests! The first arrest was the Sheriff of Charles County! HAHA! He was a good sport. for $2.00 you could issue a warrant for someones arrest and we would go get them and bring them to the jail. They then had to raise or donate $3.00 for their release. The jail was full past midnight. It was awesome!

We have some awesome improvements and ideas for next year for the jail and bail and cannot wait!!!!!

I purchased around 20 Luminarias this year in memory and honor of many people that I, friends, or family knew. So many wonderful families reached out to help us this year and donate that I felt their loved ones should be honored and remembered at this relay.

Several of us stayed through the night and walked (three of us even ran a full lap, wooh out of breath!) and just stayed to support what the cause was about. It was sad to see how many people packed up and left. We stayed till the end and starting getting our stuff packed up around 5:30 before the closing ceremonies. During the closing ceremonies and awards we received a trophy for best campsite-most spirit! I was SO excited about this. It just truly meant a lot. I know it's not a competition but it was so fun to put all that together and display at our campsite and see people loving it. :) I also won for most money raised individually ($3943.00). This was something very special to me because my grandmother had achieved this award before. I love and miss her so much.

Special thanks to everyone in my hometown East Brady, Pa who helped donate and support to make this individual award possible.

Time for our last lap around the track:

Here we are about to head home. It was a sweet moment.

Thank you everyone for making this year a very special year for Pink Heat. As I have said before, words cannot express what each and everyone of you here in MD and PA have done to make this become more than I could ever imagine.

Let the fundraising begin for next year! :)

Today is Relay day!

Pink Heat goes into the relay with $5068.00 raised!! Thank you and check back later this week for pictures of the event!!!

Push for last minute donations

As I enter the final week before the relay I wish to thank all my supporters and those who have donated their time, effort and money these past few months. Pink Heat has turned into something more than I could have dreamed of and I am loving every minute of it and raising money to fight for a cure.

As the time comes for me to walk in honor and memory of those we love I am reminding those who have yet to donate and wish to where they can make their donation.

Click the following link and click 'donate' under my name. $10.00 goes a long way in this fight!

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY10SA?pg=personal&fr_id=24869&px=6796193

Again, many thanks to everyone!!

PA Pink Heat kicks some serious butt fundraising!

Over Memorial Day weekend owners of the Plaza Pantry, Tracy and Richard Infantino, helped fundraising efforts to fight for a cure by donating their time and space outside their restaurant to help fundraise for a cure.

Weeks prior to Memorial Day weekend word was spread that a huge yard sale would be held in the parking lot Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Donations were being accepted starting at 6am Friday morning and if you had a truck load of items Dawn Patsy was willing to come and haul all your junk away prior to the sale. Over 8 truck loads were driven to the Plaza Pantry on Thursday night with other donations coming in all throughout the sale.

In all Pa Pink Heat raised over $2000.00!!! YES, you read that number right...OVER $2000.00.
In addition to the yard sale a coin toss and lemonade stand were also part of fundraising efforts, bringing in over $200.00 as well! Many thanks goes out to those who were in or travelling through East Brady, Pa this weekend and stopped by to support finding a cure. Regardless if you bought something, donated, or just stop by to lend a hand your support and kindness has sure been appreciated!!!

PA Pink Heat gears up for yard sale

Members of Pink Heat in PA are rallying last minute for yard sale donations. The sale will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday frm 7am-1pm in the Plaza Pantry parking lot in East Brady. So far there have been numerous donations with more to come during the sale! The sale is looking to be quite huge.

Thank you in advance for all your support and donations to make this sale happen!

I would also like to make note that team member Krista has raised 410.00. Certainly worth noting! Thank you Krista for your commitment to the team and the fight to find a cure!

Still collecting books for a book sale.

The boxes stacked along the wall have all been sorted and categorized. On the box is the number of books in the box and the category they are. Ay yi yi. There are 1101 books so far sorted and boxed. I still have all these others to sort and the book donations this week have been awesome! Thanks to a few people seeing the information at our table at the Blue Crabs game that we were collecting book donations for a sale and those who responded to an ad on freecycle a couple weeks ago. I am started to think this is well underway and just maybe we can hold a sale in the fall. :)

If you have books you would like to donate, please contact me! pinkheat@hotmail.com

As always we appreciate all the love and support!

How you can donate:

To make a donation, no minimum amount required, you may click the link below:
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY10SA?px=6796193&pg=personal&fr_id=24869

Purchase a Luminaria in memory or honor of someone. The Luminaria's line the track and will be lighted at dusk. It is a beautiful way to remember or support those you love. The Luminaria requires a $10.00 donation.
https://secure3.convio.net/tacs/site/Ecommerce?PROXY_ID=6796193&PROXY_TYPE=20&FR_ID=24869&VIEW_PRODUCT=true&product_id=4301&store_id=13561

As always, your continued support is appreciated.

Let's fight for a cure!

Fundraiser at Blue Crabs baseball game

Relay for Life teams of Charles County were invited to fundraise at the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs game on May 11th.

Pink Heat showed up and although it was a very chilly night we hung out and raised some money! Yay!

We're bloggin'!

Pink Heat is now blogging!

We have received such positive feedback and support that we have hit the bloggin' world so all of our supporters can follow us regularly!

Thank you!