August 20-21, 2005

Hi Everyone!

Sophie's Walk 2005 is less than 4 months away!!!!!!!!

You are receiving this e-mail, either because you participated in Sophie's Walk for Vasa Previa in the past or because you have expressed interest in organizing Sophie's Walk in your area for 2005.  If you know of someone else interested in helping us organize the 2005 Walk, please feel free to forward this email to them and have them contact us at SophiesWalk@...

If you are interested in organizing a Walk in your city this year, we need confirmation from you by May 8th that you indeed will be organizing a walk.  Please respond to this email with your confirmation.  We also need to know if this will be a "private" Walk (smaller than 50 people) or a Walk with more than 50 people as we need to process appropriate insurance and location permits.

The first meeting for Walk Captains will be held on Thursday, May 12th at 9:00 P.M. EST in the IVPF general chat room.  Specific information for the meeting will be sent to you as soon as you confirm your intention to organize a Walk.

In the meantime, we encourage you to download and review the IVPF Sophie's Walk Manual, particularly if you are planning a larger public walk.  The manual can be downloaded by right-clicking on http://www.vasaprevia.org/Docs/walk/Sophie'sWalkManual.PDF and doing a 'save target as'.  It is a little over 1mb. 

We also want to welcome Jacqueline Mullikin, mother of vp survivor McNeil as this year's co-coordinator for Sophie's Walk.  Jacqueline will be providing much needed support to Victoria and Cindy.

An important change in this year's Walk is the date.  Sophie's Walk for Vasa Previa will take place over the weekend of 20-21 August 2005.  While we simply cannot accomodate any other dates, this year's Walk captains are free to choose to have their local Walk take place on either of these two days.  The International Vasa Previa Foundation will not sponsor walks that take place on any date other than 20 or 21 August 2005.

Thank you for your interest in organizing Sophie's Walk in your area!  Your participation in this important fundraiser will help us achieve our goals. 

Kind regards,

Cindy Paris, Victoria Goldstein-Macadar, and Jacqueline Mullikin
Sophie's Walk Coordinators
SophiesWalk@...

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