Fundraising for the Wallingford Fireworks – Saturday April 26th / Details for the Dinner Fundraiser

We are ready to start our collections this morning (despite the light rain) and there are three weeks that remain to the Dinner Fundraiser. We will be at the Wallingford Landfill and the Recycling Center until about noon today or perhaps a little later if you can swing by and drop your donation into the bucket.

We have reduced our collection campaign goal for 2014 to the bare minimum of $30,000.00 which puts the performance of the R Band at the show at risk (that is the first thing we have cut in the past to save the overall show as it is a larger item and the show can continue without it as needed). Even by reducing that total cost (for the band and the sound system of $3,190.00) we would still need to collect a bare minimum of $24,250.00. Of that $11,925.00 are the fireworks themselves; $12,325.00 are mainly the town services for police and fire overtime as well as some costs for the the fire marshal and the board of education custodial overtime.

The deadline for the donation to the Town of Wallingford is due by May 30th for the show scheduled for July 5th, 2014.

If we cannot collect what is needed to pay for the entire event there will likely be no show this year. At this point in time, just as it has been since 2010, the Town itself is not affording any funding to this event. The job to save the celebration is ours “we the people” to make or break unless something changes.

If you are not out this morning and cannot stop by, you can mail your tax deductable donation (we are a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization - tax id# is 27-2576599) to:

Wallingford Fireworks Fund
c/o 35 Lincoln Drive EXT
Wallingford CT 06492

We also accept donations online via Paypal  

 

As a reminder of all the costs we have to bear:

Pyrotechnics (fireworks)  $11,925.00

R- Band                       $2,090.00
Sound                          $1,100.00
Public Works               $  400.00
Port-o-Lets                   $  200.00
The above costs are $15,715.00 and the fireworks are $11,925.00 for a total of $27,640.00

I am still waiting on the costs for the Fire Marshall, the Board of Ed person for Sheehan and the overtime for the Fire Department and the Police Department as the Fund is responsible for those costs as well.

In 2013 those costs were:

Board of Ed                                   $  425.00
Fire Marshal                                  $  950.00
Fire Department Overtime            $2,100.00
Police Department Overtime        $8,250.00

 

CAMPUS AT GREENHILL WALLINGFORD FIREWORKS FUND
FAMILY FUNDRAISER DINNER

ZANDRI’S STILLWOOD INN – 7:00P.M.
1074 SO. COLONY RD., WALLINGFORD
THURSDAY MAY 15, 2014

TICKETS: $25.00 EACH / CHILDREN UNDER 12 $12.50
Family Style Baked Chicken, Ziti and Meatballs, Tossed Salad, Italian Bread – Cash bar

 

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

Jeff Kenniston and Trent Gerbers of Addison Station

For more information, please contact:
Jason Zandri - (860) 614 6069 Jason@Zandri.net

Upcoming “shake the pail” efforts for the Wallingford Fireworks 2014 event

Hey gang - good morning.

Here is the run down the next few weeks of where we have locations for collecting donations.

The message here is really two fold – we want to let you know where we will be in the hopes that if you’re interested in supporting the effort you can swing by and make a donation. At the same time, we can use some more volunteers if folks have that interest as well; we have more work than people right now so if donating your time is something you’d like to do as well please let me know.

The May 30th deadline set by Mayor Dickinson is just six weeks away and we still need to collect an additional $22,000.00 to lock in the event for 2014.

Here is the upcoming schedule:

Saturday 4/26 planned 8 to 1 at the Landfill and the recycling center (both locations).

Friday 5/2 planned for Stop and Shop around 3:30PM to 7:30PM

Saturday 5/3 planned 8 to 1 at the Landfill, the recycling center and the Yalesville Dunkin Donuts (all three locations)

Friday 5/9 planned for Stop and Shop around 3:30PM to 7:30PM

Saturday 5/10 planned 8 to 1 (possibly to 2 if the traffic volume supports it) at the Landfill and the recycling center (two locations)

 

Thanks again for your support in both monetary donations and the donation of time and effort – both are needed equally to make this a success.

If you’d like to make a donation, you can mail your tax deductible donation (we are a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization - tax id# is 27-2576599) to:

Wallingford Fireworks Fund
c/o 35 Lincoln Drive EXT
Wallingford CT 06492

We also accept donations online via Paypal

 

Fireworks fundraising collections this Saturday morning April 19th

We are ready to start our collections this morning and we have a hair over $4,000.00 collected all together; that is about 15% of what we need. Normally by this point we are at about $9,000.00; the March collections were seriously impacted due to the long winter. We are hoping the thaw and the mail campaign starts to make up for that.

We also have a dinner fundraiser planned and we’ll be posting details for that this week. 

In the meantime, we had an original collection goal for 2014 of $35,000.00 we have reduced that to the bare minimum of $30,000.00 which puts the performance of the R Band at the show at risk (that is the first thing we have cut in the past to save the overall show as it is a larger item and the show can continue without it as needed). Even by reducing that total cost (for the band and the sound system of $3,190.00) we would still need to collect a bare minimum of $24,250.00. Of that $11,925.00 are the fireworks themselves; $12,325.00 are mainly the town services for police and fire overtime as well as some costs for the the fire marshal and the board of education custodial overtime.

The deadline for these donations, which ever one we meet, is due to the town of Wallingford by May 30th for the show scheduled for July 5th, 2014.

If we cannot collect what is needed to pay for the entire event there will likely be no show this year. At this point in time, just as it has been since 2010, the Town itself is not affording any funding to this event. The job to save the celebration is ours “we the people” to make or break unless something changes.

We will be at the Wallingford Landfill and the Recycling Center until about noon today or perhaps a little later if you can swing by and drop your donation into the bucket.

Alternately – you can mail your tax deductable donation (we are a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization - tax id# is 27-2576599) to:

Wallingford Fireworks Fund
c/o 35 Lincoln Drive EXT
Wallingford CT 06492

We also accept donations online via Paypal  

 

As a reminder of all the costs we have to bear:

Pyrotechnics (fireworks)  $11,925.00

R- Band                       $2,090.00
Sound                          $1,100.00
Public Works               $  400.00
Port-o-Lets                   $  200.00
The above costs are $15,715.00 and the fireworks are $11,925.00 for a total of $27640.00

I am still waiting on the costs for the Fire Marshall, the Board of Ed person for Sheehan and the overtime for the Fire Department and the Police Department as the Fund is responsible for those costs as well.

In 2013 those costs were:

Board of Ed                                   $  425.00
Fire Marshal                                  $  950.00
Fire Department Overtime            $2,100.00
Police Department Overtime        $8,250.00

 

This is our task for 2014. It is up to Wallingford businesses and residents again, as it has been since 2010, to save the show.

We hope you can help out in any way you can; every dollar helps

Shake the pail collections on Saturday morning April 12th

March as well as the first week of April have come and gone.

Our collection balance is just $3,230.00 presently; that is about 11% of what we need. We had an original collection goal for 2014 of $35,000.00 we have reduced that to the bare minimum of $30,000.00 which puts the performance of the R Band at the show at risk (that is the first thing we have cut in the past to save the overall show as it is a larger item and the show can continue without it as needed.

The deadline for the donation to the town of Wallingford is May 30th for the show scheduled for July 5th, 2014

If we cannot collect what is needed to pay for the entire event there will be no show this year; at this point in time, just as it has been since 2010, the Town itself is not affording any funding to this event. The job to save the celebration is ours “we the people” to make or break.

We will be at the Wallingford Landfill and the Recycling Center until about noon today if you can swing by and drop your donation into the bucket.

Alternately – you can mail your tax deductable donation (we are a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization - tax id# is 27-2576599) to:

Wallingford Fireworks Fund
c/o 35 Lincoln Drive EXT
Wallingford CT 06492

We also accept donations online via Paypal

 

As a reminder of all the costs we have to bear:

Wallingford is going to be able to extend the bid that we had on the show we’ve been getting over the prior two years at $11,925.00

The other costs that they have available for us are as follows:
R- Band                       $2,090.00
Sound                          $1,100.00
Public Works               $  400.00
Port-o-Lets                   $  200.00

The above costs are $15,715.00

I am still waiting on the costs for the Fire Marshall, the Board of Ed person for Sheehan and the overtime for the Fire Department and the Police Department as the Fund is responsible for those costs as well.

In 2013 those costs were:

Board of Ed                                   $  425.00
Fire Marshall                                  $  950.00
Fire Department Overtime            $2,100.00
Police Department Overtime        $8,250.00

So we are looking at least at an additional $11,725.00 on top of the known $15,715.00

This is our task for 2014. It is up to Wallingford businesses and residents again, as it has been since 2010, to save the show.

We hope you can help out in any way you can; every dollar helps.