On Saturday October 11th, 2008 the Arizona Ghostbusters attended the Relay For Life of the Southwest Valley in Goodyear, AZ. The event ran for 12 hours from 6 pm to 6am. The event was held at the local community park. Along the walk path each fundraising team set up a booth to sell various items such as food, shirts, and even face and pumpkin painting. Donations were collected by teams before the event and thru their booths at the event itself. At our booth we made our Stay-Puft Marshallow bags and also sold Crunch bars and Twinkies. One of the fundraising events was a basket raffle. Several of the main teams including us assembled a basket. In our we put a GB t-shirt, one of our logo hats, the dvd pack, some stickers and candy. We set up a TV at our table to play both movies and some cartoon episodes which often attracted groups and kids to watch.

The event organizers were very excited about our participation in the event and honored us by putting our AZ GB logo on the back of the walk shirts and in the program for the event. It was a very emotional night at times as we've all lost someone to cancer. The highlight of the evening was the memorial luminarie walk.

Late in the evening they set up a large inflatable movie screen on the baseball diamond for everyone to play Rock Band. Since we usually play Rock Band at our team meetings it was only natural for us to join in. It was a long but fun night and I can say one of the few times it was cold. We're certainly looking forward to the next Relay. With the pre-relay donations and what all of our the teams collected currently over $7,000 was raised and the total should go higher after everything is counted.

Our booth with family and friends


Luckily it was a small twinkie


Whatever you do, always Stay-Puft


The table


Goodies and donation box


Raffle basket




Matt H gives Neal a well deserved Crunch bar


Rock Band Stars






Walk shirt front


Walk shirt back

You guys make me wanna move to Arizona and demand I be your newest recruit.

We'd love to have you. We're always accepting new members. We're certainly busy enough to need some. We have a Diabetes walk this Saturday morning then the same night a Phoenix Children's Hospital fundraiser. I already have two jobs and this certainly feels like a 3rd. The one I don't get paid for is the one I love the most, but people's appreciation is payment enough.

yeah. you guys really are something else. fundraising with proton packs … awesome!! seeing you guys really puts me in the spirit to help others ya' know.

That's exactly what we hope to hear Justin. As we often tell people Ghostbusters aren't just for costume contests anymore. It's nice to use your gear for more than Halloween and cons, especially after all the work you put into it, you hate to let it sit around. People dig it all year round.