Thursday, June 13, 2013

The First Ever Peanut Butter Jam produced soggy bread!

Swimmers are so dedicated!  Can't pass up some breast stroke training any time there's water present.
We will never forget the first ever Peanut Butter Jam.  The weather did not cooperate, to say the least.  Which makes those of you who came out even more amazing.  We raised over a thousand meals through the 50/50 raffle and the craft sale, and we filled more than three barrels of peanut butter. 



Thank you to the most dedicated volunteers anywhere.  While the rest of us were ducking for cover, our craft table volunteers were sticking it out through the rain. 
 
 
 
Hope everybody had fun.  See you next year in the sunshine.  (Fingers crossed)

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

It's almost here!  We're kicking off the All City swim season with a party. Peanut Butter Jam!!! Come down to Capital Brewery.  If you bring a jar of peanut butter, Capital will give you a free drink ticket.  You can have your peanut butter donated to any pool in the conference, yep, we're jump starting the food drive season too.

The competition is back, but so is the collaboration.  We're hosting a couple of ways for every pool to come over to Middleton on June 12th and raise some decent cash for their drives.

50/50 Raffle  Buy a ticket in the 50/50 raffle.  The winner gets to keep 50% of the take and the winner's designated pool gets 50% of the take put into their All City Food Drive coffers.

Craft Sale  By kids for kids.  Make a couple of anything you're pretty good at (1 to a dozen or so), mark them with a price between 25 cents and five dollars along with the name of the pool you want the money to go to and we'll do the rest.  There will be a pick up at your pool just before the Peanut Butter Jam.  Look for more info to follow.

Peanut Butter Drive  Okay, there has to be rules to this thing so here they are:

*  Only one drink ticket per person with a jar of peanut butter.  You can bring us 50 jars of peanut butter and we will love you for it, but besides unending devotion, you'll still only get one drink ticket.

*  Here's a hint though  - The pool winner of the peanut butter challenge will win by weight and NOT by number of peanut butter jars.  So while a small jar and a big jar only get one drink ticket, big jars help win the competition.  And make more pbj sandwiches for kids who are out of school this summer, and isn't that the point?

Swimmers Just Want to Have Fun?
Well we have that on tap too.  Show up,  talk chlorine and goggle marks with friends you haven't seen since last summer.  And dance.  Dance your butter off!  Better yet, make your coaches dance their butters off.  We'll have an amazing DJ who will be offering up friendly competitions between swimmers, pools and coaches.  Giggles are guaranteed.

You can't go hungry fighting hunger, you know.

Johnny Delmonico's (Madison's best steak house) will have delicious food for sale at the Peanut Butter Jam.  5% of their proceeds will go to Second Harvest.  A good reason for you to have seconds, don't you think?

See you there!