Volunteering to help those less fortunate and eating!!!  Frisco Cares Clinc has teamed up Foodelz to raise money and awareness for the uninsured children in Frisco. 

Since inception in 2005 Frisco Cares has experienced tremendous growth. The Clinic experienced a 68% increase in the number of uninsured Frisco children treated from 2006 to 2007. As of 2008, the Clinic has treated over 1,000 uninsured children.

Frisco Cares actively participates in and benefits from numerous fundraising and community events such as the Lochrann’s Irish Pub and Eatery Annual Charity Golf Tournament, Kids Helping Kids Car Wash, Clothe-A-Child, Frisco Community Parade, Merry Main Street, Macy’s Shop-for-a-Cause, and several public health and safety fairs in the surrounding communities.   All things surrounding the Frisco Community.

Foodelz.com offers super-discounted restaurant deals sent directly to your phone or email for restaurants located exclusively in the Frisco Community.  And best of all…the memberships are free!!  What’s to lose…you gotta eat don’t you?

Foodelz announces it’s first Pay-Per-User Fundraiser to benefit Frisco Cares. Register on or before April 1^st and Frisco Cares will receive $.25/unique user over the age of 16 in Collin and Denton Counties. Please pass this on to everyone you know that enjoys eating out for less while helping this vital Frisco organization.  

For more information and to sign up and join in the fundraiser, please visit www.foodelz.com.  Additional information for Frisco Cares Clinic, visit www.friscocares.com.

Yep…I still feel that way, but I’ve gotten a whole lot better at pushing myself to actually do it!  While I have to DRAG…I mean literally drag myself kicking and screaming to the treadmill at the gym, I’m learning to like the burning sensation that surges through my chest like my lungs are about to burn up and explode and the cramps under my ribs that feel like a knife slicing through what is probably pretty important muscles.  Okay…no that’s not true at all…I hate the way running makes me feel while I’m doing it, but really enjoy the high and sense of accomplishment once I complete my trek.

Despite my love hate relationship with this, one of the oldest forms of exercise…I’m really looking forward to the Lochrann’s Paddy Dash beginning in Frisco Square on Saturday, March 13, 2010 with registration between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. the day of the race.  The race this year will benefit the Frisco Family Services (FFS) http://www.friscocenter.org/, which is a non-profit that is dedicated to providing assistance to families and individuals in crisis in the Frisco area. 

It’s a great cause and a great time for folks of all ages with a 1-mile fun run and a 5k runs which begins after the fun run.  Even though this is my first organized run and in the past my idea of a good fundraiser was a pub crawl….okay…another lie…it still is….but heck, let’s try something different with the 5k!  Information and registration details can be found at the link below!!

http://www.paddydash.com/

It’s the World Adult Kickball Association.  And funny you should ask, because yes…it’s the kind you used to play when you were in elementary school.  Big red ball rubber ball, the plastic bases and all!  I finally broke down and joined a group of my friends to play this season.  Fairly sure there was still a few repressed memories of those mean, cut throat girls that I went to Catholic school with years ago that were out for blood on the kickball field at recess that kept me from joining for so long.  Little terrors in plaid they were!

Now that we’ve all had a chance to take a trip down memory lane and remember our bullies…back to kickball 2010.  WAKA is made up of teams all over the country and are comprised of young, working “professionals.”  Professionals is used lightly as while we all wear either heels or ties to work, (generally not both) but come kickball night…we revert back to the college days and think we can all hang.  Which we can…until the next morning when we have to be back at the office by 8:00 and not sleeping until class starts at 11:00.  The league in Frisco is the Texas Thunder League.

While it’s a great week night out to meet friends, exert a little energy and hit a happy hour WAKA is also involved in a lot of charity work.  Our league hosts a number of fundraising events to support ARC of Dallas and Cystic Fybrosis Foundation.  With events from 5k runs to 80s dress parties <come on, vogue…> all over Frisco and Dallas kickball is a great way to meet friends, relax and spend time helping out folks across North Texas!!

www.kickball.com