Thank you, Gabe, for making this video! Please help make my brother's wish come true. Thanks!
Now that I hit my goal of raising over $6,000.00 for Crawford County Special Olympics, I want to keep helping Special Olympics, but also raise enough money to fund a wish through Make-A-Wish. I wanted to help fund my brother's wish, but his wish is for an Extreme Home Makeover.
November 13th to December 18th ~ Festival of Trees at Homestead Oak~ 14221 Conneaut Lake Rd, Meadville, PA 16335 ~ Calista has decided to take on a huge project this year by purchasing a tree and making decorations to raise money for Crawford County Special Olympics. Her tree is in house #8. She also put a basket together for the Chinese Auction to help raise funds.
There are three ways to get donations this year: Vote for best decorated tree Vote for best decorated home Chinese Auction
(tickets are $1.00 each)
There are a lot of great events taking place every Friday and Saturday. Check out http://www.homesteadoak.com/festival-of-trees.htm for more details. Admission is free and visitors may donate $1.00 for the chance to win their favorite tree. The drawing will be held on December 18th.
Hours are: Mondays through Thursdays 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Fridays 10:00 am - 8:00 pm Saturdays 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Please stop out and support Calista and please help spread the word! Thanks!
November 21, 2009 ~ Calista Cares will be at the Hydetown Volunteer Fire Department's Holiday Craft Fair from 9:00am-4:00pm. Calista will be raising funds for both Special Olympics and Make-A-Wish at this event. Calista will be selling her crafts, jewelry, homemade suckers and Daffins candy bars!
November 28, 2009 ~ Calista Cares will be at Holiday Happenings in the Cambridge Springs First Church of God Gym across from the school on Venango Ave from 9:00am - 5:00pm
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Special Olympics has been amazing for our family as a whole. In 2005, Austin started participating in bowling and loved it! He made it to Sectionals and Summer Games his very first year and his biggest cheerleader has always been his sister, Calista!
Calista knows how much her brother struggles to do the things most kids can do with ease. She also knows how much he loves being able to go to Special Olympics competitions and how great he feels when he wins an award. She has wanted to become a Special Olympics volunteer ever since Austin started participating. She decided that since she was too young to be a volunteer right now, she would try to help out in another way.
Crawford County Special Olympics was worried about having the funding to continue to take athletes to competitions, so Calista decided her contribution could be to make and sell crafts to benefit the program. During her first sale at the Crawford County Special Olympics Horseshoes for Life Pitch-A-Thon on January 27, 2007, Calista raised $27.00 for the program! She decided it wasn't enough and continued to sell her crafts every chance she got. She added $177.00 to her total to present at the Bowling Awards Party on March 27, 2007 for a combined total of $204.00. She even made and donated 40 bowling frame magnets to be presented as awards at the event.
Calista has continued to make and sell her crafts every chance she gets. She is an amazing little girl who wants to make sure Crawford County Special Olympics athletes are able to continue to attend competitions!
* Calista hit her goal of raising $6,000.00 for Crawford County Special Olympics on Make A Difference Day! Her new goal is to raise a total of $10,000.00 for Special Olympics and help fund a wish through Make-A-Wish. The average wish is $3,400.00. *
Since January 2007, Calista has raised $6,273.00 for Crawford County Special Olympics by making and selling crafts, homemade suckers, having a lemonade stand, numerous bake sales, a bowling ball raffle and a Redneck Raffle during Mr.Froggy's 2nd Annual Redneck Games!
(Special Olympics ticker updated November 15, 2009)
Since October 2009, Calista has raised $196.00 for Make-A-Wish by making and selling crafts and having a bake sale!
(Make-A-Wish ticker updated November 15, 2009)
Since the start of Calista Cares, Calista has volunteered over 1,450 hours through making and selling her crafts and helping out at local Special Olympics practices, as well as regional and state competitions.
There are three ways to get donations this year:
