To everybody who was involved with the Lyme Awareness Day: It was a huge success! Thank you if you contributed in any way, spread the word, collected pledges, attended or sent contributions. There are some pictures uploaded if you want to look at the link on my personal blog for now (Meerkat’s Heap).

Please make sure to take a look at the Sponsors page on this site (tab above). Without our sponsors and supporters, this day would also not have been such a success. Especially the gifts of water, juice and granola bars from Longos went a long way to keep everyone happy, hydrated and blood sugar levels up!

PHOTO BOOK
I would like to create a printed photo book as a memento of the day! If you have some pictures of your group, your children, or some of the events around the day to be included, please email them to me? I’ll make the book, with captions as you provide them, and it will be available at the printers to order copies yourself if you want them. I’ve been making photo books for at least 8 years and they are always great to have, to look back, and to easily take along to others to share.

Thank you again!
Marlene and the committee, helpers, and supporters.

The Lyme Mobile, made available to us by our main sponsor, Colony Ford Lincoln in Brampton, and suitably decorated by Sign Central from Georgetown (see the Sponsors page), is drawing attention wherever it goes! We hope that it brings awareness as well.

If you want to read, see the stories on Meerkat’s Heap, posted under today’s date (May 4).

Tomorrow the Lyme Mobile will be seen in Brampton, at the Fairgrounds on Heart Lake Road north of Mayfield — free attendance to visit the event so do drop by to see the Vintage cars, the booths, and more! The brochure and schedule can be found online at the Community Expo. 
We’ll be handing out CanLyme brochures about Lyme disease as well as postcards to advertise our Lyme Awareness Day walk on May 19.

Hope to have more registrations in, or people just emailing to say they want to take part in the Lyme Awareness Day on May 19. That way, we can get names and info on paper and just check them off on that morning, instead of spending time with registrations! Two weeks to go — we hope to make a big splash, gather lots of awareness, share and network with others, and to create a wave of Lyme Disease Awareness in this area.

Wear Green and Be Seen for Lyme!

After some comments, we have decided to change the participation registration: No fee to register, but we ask each participant to collect donations or pledges from themselves, friends and family. Even $5 each from ten people will quickly add up to help in our fundraising efforts! Also, by talking to more people, the awareness about Lyme Disease spreads.

Can I mail in my pledges?

Yes, our mailing address is:
Lyme Walk Brampton
c/o 10 McEwan Drive W, Unit #4
Bolton, ON L7E 1H1

Can I send in my pledges after the Walk?
We would prefer to have all pledges handed in before or on Walk day. If you have pledges after the Walk, please mail to the above address by May 25, 2012.

Thanks to our main sponsor, Colony Ford Lincoln Brampton, we have our Lyme Mobile ready to go!

The green Fiesta, covered in stickers featuring our Lyme tick (designed by Jenni), with CanLyme’s website, information and more, will be seen around Brampton, Orangeville, Caledon and Halton Hills for the following few weeks until our Lyme Walk.

Kim and I with the Lyme Mobile

Four members of the committee managed to get together for a picture with the Lyme car. We were very excited to see it, read all the stickers, and imagine the splash it will make around town to advertise our Lyme Walk!

Joe, Marlene, Pam and Kim with the Lyme Mobile

On May 5, the car will be seen at the Home Show on the Brampton Fall Fairgrounds on Heart Lake road, just north of Mayfield road.

If you have your registration form and waiver downloaded from the site, come by to visit us there, drop off your form and registration, and pick up your pledge form and sponsorship package! The more walkers to pre-register before May 19, the quicker check-in can happen on the morning of the Walk. Also, you might be able to pick up more pledges from friends and family, to support you walking. Our T-shirts will feature the big tick you can see on the car.

Thanks to everyone for registering for the walk (even if you are not planning to walk but just to be there on the day) – every dollar helps! Please see the “Registration” page for the download link, and for the times of the walk. Registration fees are according to individual, age, or family, and T-shirts are extra for those who want them.

Funds raised will go to CanLyme.

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It took longer than we thought it would, and our apologies to keep you waiting. The forms are ready now. You can download from this site, complete and return as soon as possible to allow time for the follow-up package.

Thanks to everyone who has offered help, support, donations, telling friends about the Walk and generally getting the word out.

Please download the registration form and waiver here to complete and return.
Waiver+RegistrationForm 2012

As you might have noticed if you’ve visited this site before, the registration forms are not yet online. They are still being looked over to make sure we have covered all bases! Fortunately we still have several weeks before the LymeWalk. That means we can talk to people, get more support, invite and educate supporters and make sure we have a full force taking to Chinguacousy Park on May 19!

Her Worship, Mayor Susan Fennell of Brampton is behind our event and we are very grateful for that support. We hope that someone from City Hall will be there, maybe even with green T-shirt and walking shoes, to be a part of our awareness effort.

Various businesses in Brampton have already promised support, be it a small item that could be used as a prize, or to sponsor something we might need.

Brampton Colony Ford Lincoln is right there with us: THANK YOU!

We are trying to get all the paperwork checked out, make sure CanLyme is ok with us using their name and that funds go to them, that links are in place, and all the backend stuff done before we put the registration forms and waiver online for prospective walkers. If you are interested in taking part in our Awareness Day in Brampton, please post a comment on one of these pages, and we’ll contact you as soon as everything is sorted out!

It is amazing how people are coming to offer help, to donate things we might need, and to offer support. Thank you, thank you, thank you! This promises to be an exciting day with lots of people learning and sharing about Lyme.