The cans have been picked up and are now at the Convention Center ready for assembly.

Fundraising Success!

Yesterday, Ben, Becky, Mike and Anne spent from noon until 7pm asking Sunday shoppers for canned good donations at Geissler Bloomfield. Warren showed us how it was done from noon until about 3-ish. It was a very successful afternoon! We raised about 800 cans (averaging over 100 cans an hour!) and got a $50 gift certificate from the store manager!

Our goal is to raise a total of 2,000, so we need all the help we can get. It would be perfect if we could get another team out next Sunday, starting at 11:00 a.m. (to catch more of the church crowd).

Like this.

Rendering of Design idea

Does any one have any comments on this? I still may add in the water slide on the left edge. Any color changes? Do the tents need to be bigger? It's hard to tell but the cans on the ferris wheel stick out from the wall by an inch. I colored the wheel because it looked confusing in white, with white clouds around it. That may be an easy problem to solve using real cans.
I may color the top layer of the roller coaster to make the path of the "track" stick out more.

The deadline for a sketch or rendering is April 27th, and other deadlines will be announced soon.

Hey all, at our last meeting we discussed some of the options for the backdrops as well as experimenting with some color patterns for the tent (see above)

a plan for the carnival

We sketched out this plan for the carnival the other week: it's got the ferris wheel, the roller coaster, the big top, the can-drop and a carousel (which will involve props, but so be it). Please post comments!