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Rice Days Kiddie Parade This years theme was Sweet Treats. We had a lot of great costumes and floats with many prizes given!
We couldn't ask for better participants in making the Kiddie Parade fun for all & a special Thank You to Fiedler's
for your annual sponsorship.
5K Run/Walk for Prevent
Child Abuse Minnesota On Saturday, April 13th,
2013 the Rice Women of Today held their first 5K Run/Walk for Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota. We were able to provide a
beautiful event t-shirt done and medals for everyone that participated in addition to medals for top finishers. We also had
concessions and a free children’s event. We presented Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota with a check for $2,644.27 which
we are so proud of. This event has really enabled us to show our community what Rice Women of Today does and also showed
us how supportive our community is of us. We also received a Minnesota Blue Ribbon Award for this event. Thank you again to
all our sponsor's and a wonderful job well done by the event Chairs' Shelli S. and Gretchen W. along with all the
other Women of Today members and their husbands who helped.
Isaac's Journey Foundation Our Chapter is proud to have had Sarah Stang as the 2012-2013 Isaac's Journey Foundation
program manager. This past year she had various fundraisers such as, meat raffles, lucky buck baskets, donation jar collections,
a 31 purse party and more! Through all her efforts and support she was able to raise $1,370, the most of any chapter in the state of MN. Congratulations to Sarah S. and Our Chapter!
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2nd Annual Bike Rodeo & Cook Out On Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 Rice Women of
Today held the 2nd Annual Bike Rodeo and Cookout. This event is a part of Minnesota Women of Today Kid’s Week.
All donations and sponsors were recognized on our Website and at the event. We were able to award 12 brand new bikes, helmets,
and bike locks. We provided a T-shirt to all the children that participated along with a drawstring bag, water bottle,
and other goodies. The Bike Rodeo itself involved 3 different courses and our Police Department worked the event with us.
This year we had 58 children participate. In addition we provided a free meal to approximately 150 people. We would like to
give a huge thanks to Shelli S. & Gretchen W. the chairs of this project for all their hard work to make this event a
huge success along with all the Women of Today & husbands who helped work!
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Other 2013 Donations presented to: Ella's Halo We donated
goods in the amount of $500.00
Toys for Tots Drive On November 24th, 2012 the Rice Women of Today
held a Toys for Tots toy drive at Von's Prime Time Saloon in Rice, MN. The
event considered of a meat raffle, bake sale, pool tournament, silent auction,
lucky buck drawings, bingo and food. There were drop boxes at several area
business that also were full of much needed toy donations! Rice Women of Today is
very proud of the impact
we make in our community and how they are making an impact on others! Together
with a very generous community we were able to raise $3,468 that we donated
to the St. Cloud Area Toys for Tots program. & Thank You to an extraordinary chair who made it possible, Randi Allgood!
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