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2019 Battle of the Bands Schedule
Save the Date BOTB 2019: March 2nd, 2019
Don’t forget to SAVE THE DATE and follow the below event page so you don’t miss a thing!!!
Alex’s Army and Ned’s Irish Pub presents our 5th Annual Battle of the Bands fundraiser!
A ROCKIN’ list of talented local Bands come together and battle it out in a little friendly competition to make a difference in the fight against childhood cancer!
This year in the spirit of #kidshelpingkids we are adding a separate TEEN Band Battle!!!
Entrance is FREE but we have lots of great ways you can support this fundraiser event!
So come on out and support you’re favorite band, have a chance to play trivia during intermissions (for prizes of course!), purchase 2019 event merch, raffles, and more – all to support the fight against Childhood Cancers!
TEEN BATTLE OF THE BANDS
3 PM – 5 PM
BATTLE OF THE BANDS
5 PM – 10 PM
***Additional Details, Band Schedule, and exciting Announcements coming soon***
For pictures of past BOTB events, click here.
Let your friends know you’re coming. Facebook Event
Giving Tuesday 2018
On this Giving Tuesday ~ Be Love. Give Hope.
Thanks to an incredibly generous donor who wishes to remain anonymous, all donations made to Alex’s Army Childhood Cancer Foundation received now through this #GivingTuesday will be matched dollar for dollar up to $10,000!
We have the opportunity to raise $20,000 in one day to help support our mission and make a difference in the fight against childhood cancers.
Every dollar helps and every contribution will bring us one step closer to finding cures!
Will you make a 100% tax deductible donation and join us?
There are 3 easy ways to donate:
-Donate online here.
-Donate through the Alex’s Army Facebook Fundraiser being held by Alex’s parents and Alex’s Army Co-founders Derek & Jenni Green. Facebook Fundraiser.
-Mail a Check (checks should be made payable to Alex’s Army CCF and addressed to PO Box 212, Casanova, VA 20139). Please write “Giving Tuesday” in the memo line.
Thank you for your support…TOGETHER we are Alex’s Army!
10th Annual Walk-N-Roll Results
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out and joined us this past Saturday for our 10th Annual Alex’s Walk n Roll 5K and Fun Run event. While the wind was pretty powerful and winter’s chill was definitely in the air, we still felt it was a heart-warming kind of day overall and hope that you did too!
A special thank you to our Heart of Gold Sponsor F.H. Furr, your continued support truly has been humbling and we are so thankful for your dedication in the fight against childhood cancers. Special shout-out also to our FUN RUN hosts: Enrichment Matters and E3PT – thank you both for giving our littlest superheroes some super fun superhero themed obstacles to conquer as they went around the course!
While we met some wonderful new friends, we are also so thankful for the continued support from our Army who year after year show up time and again to help us fundraise and make a difference in the fight against childhood cancers.
This year we walked, we ran, we may have gotten a little blown over at times – but we did it all SUPERHERO style and with smiles on our faces and joy in our hearts. We are thankful for all of the awesome kids who submitted designs for this years’ event shirt. The ages of these young artists ranged from 9 years old to 18 – their talent was evident, congrats to the winning artist Hailey W. from Haymarket, VA!
Thank you to all our runners for your patience and understanding regarding the medal ceremony. The timing results are now available at www.commonwealthtiming.net (as well as are additional racer pics). For those with winning times, we will be reaching out to you via email to get your race finisher medal to you. Congrats to our winning teams: Team Super Girl, Team Alex’s Dawg Pound, and Team Fluffy Unicorns!
Below are photos from this years event. Thank you again to all of Alex’s Army for your support of our mission. It truly takes an ARMY to fight Childhood Cancers…together we are an ARMY of SUPERHEROES making a difference in the lives of children fighting cancer and their families!
10th Annual Walk-N-Roll Photos
10th Annual Walk-n-Roll Registration
Online Registration has closed for this event but walk-ups are welcome! We can’t wait to see all of our SUPERHERO friends Saturday!!!
Alex’s Army Childhood Cancer Foundation is SUPER excited to invite you and your family to our 10th Annual Alex’s Walk n Roll 5K & Fun Run this year as we honor ALL SUPER HEROES (Big & small)! Join us Saturday, November 10th at our NEW LOCATION Gravely Elementary School in Haymarket, VA! This is going to be one event you won’t want to miss! Our Fun Run course is a super hero themed interactive course with kid friendly obstacles and more! All Fun Run participants will receive a participant ribbon and a special surprise! Our 5K course is NEW this year!! The course will be chip-timed, it is fairly straight
and flat, the course is wheelchair and stroller friendly. Please do not bring bikes, scooters, or roller skates/blades, etc. 5K finisher Awards will be given in male/female categories as follows (Youth age 5-10, Youth age 11-17, Adult 18-30, Adult 31-50, Adult 50+, Best overall Male/Female, Wheelz Division Youth 5-18, Wheelz Division 19+, 1st Place Sponsor Team.
We hope you will join us for a FANTASTIC morning of SUPER HERO FUN!
Not able to attend? Make a 100% tax-deductible donation today. Donate
*** Walk Postponed ***
Attention 5K and Fun Run Participants. Due to the forecast inclement weather we are postponing tomorrow’s 5K and Fun Run event.
We have a tentative new event date of Saturday, November 10th at the same location so please save the date. As soon as this date is confirmed with VDot, we will update the site and send out communications
via social media and email to registered participants.
We appreciate your support of our foundation and look forward to seeing ALL our SUPER HERO friends in a few weeks!
– Alex’s Army CCF
Going Gold in Haymarket
In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, local friends might notice the special GOLD bows that have placed along the 80 light posts that line the street in the Town of Haymarket!
Thank you to our good friends at Team Mathias for inspiring us and in paving the way year after year through the gold bows placed in the Town of Leesburg. We are beyond honored to bring these gold ribbons to Haymarket!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to our Town of Haymarket for GOING GOLD to raise awareness this month for Childhood Cancers!
We LOVE our town and we especially LOVE the children and families whose lives are forever changed by hearing those words, “You’re child has cancer.” We hope and pray that these gold bows are a reminder to us all of the families fighting all around us, we hope these bows are a reminder to those families that they are incredibly loved and they are not alone in their fight. ??
In the U.S. approximately 46 children are diagnosed and 7 children pass away from childhood cancers every single day. Childhood Cancer continues to be the #1 cause of death by disease for the children in our country.
Awareness leads to funding which leads to research which will one day lead to cures!
Alex’s Army Bowl 2018
Saturday, September 8th Alex’s Army, Gainesville Grizzlies, and American Pride Youth Football leagues came together once again for the annual Alex’s Army Bowl Games!
These scrimmages not only kick off the start to our areas fall youth football season, but they also kick off Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and this year was bigger and better than ever (despite the weather!).
Together we went GOLD at Grizzly Sports Complex! Players from both leagues wore gold ribbons on their helmets, the fields were decorated with gold ribbons and balloons, and we honored a few local families who came out to join us as honorary captains and performed the games coin toss for the teams.
We love this event for so many reasons. We love to see these sweet kids faces as they walk onto the field! To many of the kids these super cool football players look pretty tough (and they are pretty tough let me tell you!). It’s pretty awesome for them to flip the game coin and even greater is how awesome it is for us to be able to introduce these warriors and their families to the captains and referees, all who are truly impacted and blessed by their presence.
Our Alex loved football (he loved many sports) but these two leagues BOTH Grizzlies and American Pride hold a special place in our hearts! He has jerseys from both leagues and we will never forget the day he got to go in for a touchdown with his best bud Logan Taylor behind him pushing his wheelchair determinedly down the field to the end zone. When two competitive leagues can come together for a greater cause – thats a pretty powerful thing!
A huge Congratulations to Gary Rogerson (ticket #0675) who was the grand prize winner of 2 tickets to Super Bowl LIII raffle drawing! You can watch the drawing live here.
Special thank you to our good friends and Alex’s Army supporters Jeff & Dawn Dunn for their incredible generosity in donating these two tickets.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this raffle and who joined Alex’s Army in the fight against childhood cancers! Please continue to raise awareness where you can all throughout the month of September and beyond. Our kids deserve every bit of support and all the love we can give them!
If you missed out on purchasing raffle tickets but want to support our mission,you can make a 100% tax deductible donation here.