Lemonade Brigade
News and Updates
                                                                       June 22, 2008
Look for The Lemonade Brigade . . .
 
in the July/August issue of InsideNorthside
and
on WGSO 990 AM at 2 pm this Thursday June 26th 
SAVE THE DATE !
 
End of Summer Awards Ceremony and Pool Party
 
Friday Night September 5th 

5:30 - 8:30 pm
 at
Tchefuncta Country Club
 
 
Lemonade Brigade Members and their Families are invited!
 
 
Sponsored by
 
Friends of Tchefuncta Country Club
 
 
 
C U P S !
 
 
Remember that we have an endless supply of cups for your team to use over the summer.
 
 If you need more, just call the Lemonade Brigade Hotline at
875-0407
 

 
 
 
JIM TWEEDY
 
Local artist
 Jim Tweedy has donated three of his Fat Cat Self-Portrait prints (the Fat Cat paints himself as an
LSU Bengal Tiger)!
 
  These signed and numbered prints will be raffled off at the Mandeville Seafood Fest
 
To view this print and lots of others, visit Jim Tweedy's website at:
Fundraising Opportunities
at the

Mandeville Seafood Festival

 
July 4th, 5th and 6th 
 
Fontainebleau State Park
Gates open at 11 am 
 
 
The Lemonade Brigade has been invited by the organizers of the Mandeville Seafood Festival to sell Kool-Aid and cookies at the Festival!  Why Kool-Aid you ask?  The Festival already has a lemonade vendor!  But since the Lemonade Brigade is a group of creative business owners who know how to move on to a Plan B, we are ready to jump at the opportunity to raise money by selling cold Kool-Aid to the thousands of hot and thirsty Mandeville Seafood Fest go-ers. 
 
Our area will be by the Children's Corner and in addition to Kool-Aid and cookies, the teams can sell Lemonade Brigade baseball caps and raffle tickets for incredible items.  The teams will raffle off signed prints donated by local artist Jim Tweedy and gift baskets that are being donated to the Lemonade Brigade by Renee Louise Emerson and Zatarain's.  For more information about the gift baskets and Jim Tweedy's prints, read below. 
 
If your team is interested in raising money at the 2008 Mandeville Seafood Festival, e-mail Kids Wanna Help at browns@kidswannahelp.com or call the Lemonade Brigade Hotline at 875-0407.  We will be making a schedule for all three days so that all teams that want to participate have an opportunity. 
 
The Deadline for responding is
TUESDAY JUNE 24TH.
 
 
Fundraising Opportunites with
 
GIFT BASKETS 
 
Renee Louise Emerson, a very talented and generous woman, is donating gift baskets to the Lemonade Brigade that the teams can raffle off at their lemonade stands.  Mrs. Emerson makes these gift baskets and fills them with lots of high quality gifts all centered around a theme or an age group.  The themes available are almost endless.  Each team can place an order for one basket to raffle off over the summer and there is no charge!  So put on your thinking caps and start thinking about what age group you want to target with your gift basket and whether you want to have a theme for your basket.  You can place your order by calling the Lemonade Brigade Hotline at 875-0407.
 
For the Mandeville Seafood Festival we will have three gift baskets made by Mrs. Emerson and Zatarain's has offered three more!  So we will have a total of six, two for each day.  The "baskets of the day" will stay at the stand for all of the shifts and each team will sell raffle tickets ($1 each or 12 for $10).  Each team keeps the money they collect from the raffle tickets during their shift and the last shift of the day pulls a name for each of the baskets and calls the winners!
 
End of Summer
Awards ! 
At the End of Summer Awards Ceremony on September 5th, Kids Wanna Help will recognize the teams who have excelled in their businesses and who have generously used their business skills to raise money for others.  The categories of Team Awards include: 
 
Most Money Raised Over The Summer
 
(1st, 2nd and 3rd place)
 
Most Money Raised In One Day (1st place)
 
Most Lemonade Stands Over The Summer (1st place)
 
Most Creative Marketing (1st place)
 
Kids Wanna Help will also recognize individual members of the 2008 Lemonade Brigade who have excelled in leadership and team playing.  The categories of Individual Awards are:
 
2008 Best Team Leader
 
2008 Best Team Player 
 
Each team member will have an opportunity in August to nominate their team members for these individual awards. 
 
 
Prizes
for
KIDS 
25%
In addition to trophies, the team with the Most Creative Marketing, the team who wins 1st Place in Most Money Raised Over The Summer, and the kids who win Best Team Player and Best Team Leader will get prizes.  At the Awards Ceremony the winners can choose from Funland Gift Cards, gift certificates for Art Time Workshops and Playville Dough.
 
ALSO, radio talk show host Bernie Cyrus will interview these kids on the Bernie Cyrus Show on WGSO 990 AM AND Living Magazine will interview the winners and feature them in their October issue.
All Lemonade Brigade members will get a trophy!
 
Prizes
for
 
PARENTS
Kids Wanna Help knows that all of the fundraising is being done by KIDS, but let's face it, kids can't drive themselves to the Lemonade Stands and the Lemonade Brigade parents have been great sports about underwriting the lemonade and ice.  So we have prizes for the parents of the team that wins 1st Place in Most Money Raised Over The Summer!  We call these parents the MOST PASSIONATE PARENTS.
 
The 2008 Most Passionate Parents can choose from the following prizes: 
 
One-hour massage at Body Sugaring USA Day Spa (5 available)
 
Portrait of their child painted by Wess Foreman   (1 available)
 
Portrait of their pet painted by Wess Foreman      (4 available)
 
To learn more about Body Sugaring USA Day Spa and artist Wess Foreman, visit their websites:  BodySugaringUSA.com and Wess Foreman.com
Thanks to all of our PASSIONATE PARENTS!