MAN DOWN!

Well, our team took a major hit today - Danny Holbrook from Lima City Schools is not able to be the fourth leg of our team. As a school social worker, he is often called upon to fill in a little bit of everywhere so he was not able to get in to be weighed in because he was needed to be in charge of the building. Too bad - Danny is a wonderful guy and hilarious!

Fortunately, our team was saved by a woman who wanted to participate but did not have a team. I have not met her but she saved the day! She has also already lost five pounds so she is my new best friend. We will introduce the entire team in future posts.

I presented the Big Give to the full group of the Family and Children First Council today. People were very supportive and promised to throw the full weight of their organizations behind our fundraising efforts. Throughout the meeting there was example after example of the great things that are happening for kids through the council and the member organizations. There were 44 people at the meeting today - all committed to helping families thrive.

Our friends from an unnamed local TV station were at the meeting and while I offered (nine times) to be on the news to promote Lima Losers, I was politely refused. Now, I'm sure that it was because of the pending snow storm taking up so much air time and has NOTHING to do with the fact that they have a team competing! Not being one to talk trash, I won't lay any smack down or anything [NOTE TO UNNAMED LOCAL TV STATION: IT IS ON!]

But I kid the media!

Special thanks to our new teammate and to Adah from Total Solutions for thinking on her feet to keep us in the game!

We have already received a donation (thanks mom) and I'm sure it is only a matter of time before we are crashing servers all over North America as we try to keep up with the online pledging.