February Events Recap!

Hey there!

We are on a roll ! We have been conducting interviews each week it seems! Our newest college buddy is Elizabeth Murillo. We also have a new associate member Robert Karras. Let us warmly welcome these two members to our organization.

This month we had many successful events!

For our Valentine's Day Card Fundraiser, we would like to thank all these officers and members for helping us make cards and/or helping us sell those cards at UCR:

Christina McKee
Stephanie Do
Sara Phung
Anna Nguyen
Nina Grewal
Adriana Gonzalez
Marisol Sanchez
Janette Rodriguez
Chetana Bhatt
Christopher Rivera

We would also like to thank Victor Iniguez for donating lollipops for the V-card sales~! The cards we made were very colorful and creative. Let us thank everyone who was also able to donate Valentine Card materials including Selina Tam! We spent less than $5 on the materials, and we made $100 total !!! This money will go towards our Best Buddies March 4 Bash. By the way, this means we've made $1300 for the year and we are getting closer to our goal of $2000 by June!

For our Valentine's Party at PROJECT TEAM, we were able to give each of our buddies the handmade Valentine's Day cards! Let us thank Jenny Tan, Jenna Bernal, and Anna Nguyen for making it to the party! Most of the buddies were there as well as our host site adviser Eldon Rynders. The buddies sang to karaoke while our members enjoyed delicious heart shaped cookies and fruit punch. Everyone had such a pleasant time at the party!

Today we watched our UCR vs. SE Missouri Men's Basketball Game. With 24 people in attendance and a win for UCR Score: 69 (UCR) to 61 (opponent), this event is definitely memorable. After watching the game, we treated everyone to Shakey's Pizza and soda! Let us thank all our buddies and these members for attending our event:

Christina McKee
Robert Karras
Mohammad Abdel-al
Derrick Hansen
Sarah S.
Anna Nguyen
Lars Knustad
Kevin Izquierdo
Stephanie and Victoria Do

We greatly appreciate your support. Thank you for all of you who dedicate so much time into this organization. We will post pictures on www.best-buddies-riverside.blogspot.com by tomorrow morning, so please take a look!

It looks like we WILL NOT be having the Homecoming Spirit Fundraiser b/c the people who are doing that have not told us anything about it.

For T-shirts, we have been looking around for good prices. It looks like we will probably have T-shirts ready by the March Bash.

FOR THE MARCH BASH, KEEP ON GETTING THOSE DONATIONS! WE WILL BE SETTING A MEETING AT THE END OF FEBRUARY or EARLY MARCH TO COLLECT THE MONEY THAT YOU GATHERED. REMEMBER THAN YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO THE BASH TO COLLECT THE MONEY DONATIONS.........We hope everyone has a good night and a long relaxing weekend.

See you soon at the Bash, the biggest, most important event of the year! Please save this date if you can.

Regards,

Best Buddies Officers