MARCH UPDATES AND GLASS NICKEL PIZZA NIGHT - Member Email: Wednesday March 5, 2025
Hello Seminole Families!
March is certainly coming in like a lion this year; here’s to hoping it goes out like a lamb. The Seminole 2.0 Fundraising Event Committee has been busy these past few weeks, so apologies for the longer newsletter - there’s a lot of information to share as we work on gaining steam toward making our new pool a reality. Here’s what you need to know:
Our restaurant night this month is actually more of a whole day! We’re working with the Fitchburg Glass Nickel Pizza and the owner is graciously donating 10% of ALL sales on Tuesday March 11th back to Seminole 2.0. It’s a great day to order pizza for your workplace or have pizza night with your family’s sports teams. No codes, no flyers, no need to mention the pool (although feel free to tell them a big thank you or leave extra tip with your order)
We’re going to work with Glass Nickel for other events this summer (think pizza night at the pool), so let’s start off this partnership with a bang and have our best restaurant night yet.
Our first rummage sale drop off was a success! Thanks to those of you that brought your things to us, we’re starting to look like we can have a sale! We will have our next rummage sale drop off on Wednesday, March 12th from 4:30 - 6:00 pm. Here are the details for drop off:
Location is the Madison Verona Self Storage Facility (4201 Maple Grove Drive).
Someone will meet you at the gate to enter the code to let your vehicle in - just let them know you're there for the Seminole Drop off.
We have unit #1620. See this attached map for where the unit is located - it is shaded in blue.
If you are hoping to bring something large (furniture or similar), please let us know ahead of time as we may not have room to store it right away.
If this date doesn't work for you and you'd like to get rid of your items before the next drop off, please reach out and we can try to make alternative arrangements.
Speaking of the rummage sale, this is coming up fast and we want to make sure that we are going to have the volunteers we need to run the event on May 2nd and 3rd. We’ve started a sign-up genius - please sign up if you know you can help. We can vouch for volunteer hours for teens if needed.
We are also looking for some members to step up with some BIG NEEDS that we have. PLEASE see if you can help us with any of the following essential things and email us if you can come through:
In order to have the sale, we need lots of tables. If anyone has a business or connection that can give us many tables from a single source, that would be fantastic.
We need a truck (like a U-haul) that ideally we could use from evening Thursday May 1st through Saturday May 3rd. We’d use it to transport the items from the storage unit to the pool and then to store the items overnight since we won’t be able to leave things out. Does anyone have a business that does deliveries with a truck we could use?
Does anyone have a connection to someone that can help with printing flyers or making signs for the road to direct people our way?
Our first family social outing is scheduled and is shaping up to be a lot of fun. Save the date Friday April 18th from 5:30 - 7:30 pm for a family ice skating event at the Verona Ice Arena.
Admission will include 1 hour of skating and rentals on a rink dedicated to Seminole Event only, as well as raffle tickets for our raffle prizes
We’ll have pizza, snacks, and drinks (bar is open) available for purchase
We will be asking for families to donate raffle items/baskets - anyone with a donation worth $30 or more will get extra raffle tickets.
Sign up and more details coming soon.
Other dates to note with more information to come:
Monday, April 14th – Restaurant night at Hop Haus in Fitchburg
Thursday, May 8th – Toot & Kate’s night - bring your friends and enjoy some wine!
Sunday, July 20th – Seminole Pool goes to the Duck Pond with an outing at the Madison Mallards
RECENT PROGRESS:
Panera for last month’s restaurant night: we raised $350
We’ve earned over $500 through Raise Right despite low numbers signing up. We’re going to be starting a new approach with having the physical cards for members to buy from us at face value - keep an eye out for this at future events.
HOW ELSE CAN I HELP?
Sign up for Raise Right
Share codes/flyers for events and restaurant nights on your own social media or at your workplace
Save items to donate to the Seminole Rummage Sale
Gather items for our silent auction and a raffle. Our goal is 20 baskets and other packages - please reach out if you have something to donate. Baskets can include local gift cards (big or small), bottle of your favorite beverage or maybe some other talent to share.
Share your comments, suggestions or offers to help in any way
Visit the events page on the 26.5 Foundation website for updates outside of these emails
QUESTIONS OR WANT TO JOIN US? Send us a message - we’d love to hear from you: carleenh@seminole26-5.org
Cheers,
Seminole 2.0 Fundraising Event Committee
seminole26-5.org