Quest to Reinvest Reaches Out To Its Big Brothers And Big Sisters.
March 30th, 2012 | 
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For a second straight year, Quest to Reinvest offers a grant to Big Brothers Big Sister of the Greater Seacoat! This year, their event will be help at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH.
For over a century, Big Brothers and Big Sisters have helped children reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one relationships with proven results.
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Quest to Reinvest Races for a Cure!!!
Exeter Events and Tents is proud to be part of the 1st annual New Hampshire Race for the Cure. We are very excited to have presented a grant from our Quest to Reinvest to a world class, non-profit organization who dedicates their time to fight for the cure to breast cancer. The grant we awarded ensures all of the participants, survivors, and supporters of The Cure will be covered in half a dozen of our elegant tents at Portsmouth, NH’s historic Strawbery Banke.
Our professional installers are committed to the smooth and timely setup and removal of our tents while respecting the history and beauty of Strawbery Banke’s property. As a past participant of many non-profit races held in Massachusetts, we know this event will be well attended with a festival-like atmosphere. Mark your calendars to come out and help us support and celebrate the courageous stories that sum up: “I AM THE CURE”.
1st NH Komen Race set for May 12th in Portsmouth
Komen Race for the Cure Coming to NH’s Seacoast
MANCHESTER, Vt. – The Vermont-New Hampshire Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists and the global leader of the breast cancer movement, has announced that the first-ever New Hampshire Race for the Cure will take place on May 12, 2012, in Portsmouth New Hampshire’s historic Strawbery Banke.
“We’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time,”says Debbie Peretz, the Affiliate President. “The logistics, managing a New Hampshire Race from Vermont, were challenging. Now, having two totally committed Seacoast residents, Race Co-chairs Jacqui Bryan and Marci Francis, on the ground, knowing the lay of the land, we’re confident that the New Hampshire Race series will be a big success.”
Since its inception in 1982, Susan G. Komen for the Cure®,the innovator of the Race for the Cure series has raised and invested more than $1.9 billion in the worldwide fight to eliminate breast cancer.
Regionally, the Vermont Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure came into being in 1993, became the Vermont-New Hampshire Affiliate in 2003, and will be celebrating its 20th Annual Race for the Cure in Manchester, Vermont in July of 2012. The Affiliate has raised more than $7.5 million since ’93. Of that total, more than $5.7 million directly benefited breast cancer education, screening and treatment in the two states and more than $1.8 million supported Komen’s Grants research program.
Volunteers of all stripes, for both pre-Race and Race Day positions, are needed now, as are corporate and individual sponsors.
New Hampshire Race Information
Registration and Race Number Pick-up
Pick up your Race Packet on Friday from noon to 7 p.m. at Runner’s Alley at 104 Congress Street in Portsmouth. Registration opens at Strawbery Banke Mueseum at 7 a.m. Saturday morning.
Starting Times
7:00 a.m. Registration opens
8:30 a.m. Survivor Gathering & Photo
8:45 a.m. Registration closes
9:00 a.m. 5K Coed Run/Walk
10:15 a.m. Kids for the Cure Fun Run
11:00 a.m. Awards Ceremony
Race Numbers, T-shirts & Goodies
The first 1,800 entrants will receive a short‑sleeved t‑shirt and a Race bag to collect product samples and coupons. Shirts will be distributed on a first‑come, first‑served basis at number pick‑up. Unfortunately, we are unable to guarantee a particular size.
Awards
Prizes will be awarded to the first three overall male and female runners and walkers and the first three overall breast cancer survivor runners and walkers. All Kids for the Cure participants will receive pirzes.
Race Raffle and Silent Auction
Don’t forget to buy raffle tickets to win great prizes and get to the Race site early to bid on a great selection of items in our Silent Auction.
Race for the Cure® Merchandise
Bring home the spirit of this wonderful day and support the Race all year round with Komen New Hampshire Race for the Cure® shirts, hats, bandanas, fanny packs, mugs, a variety of pins and more.
More Fun for Kids!
We know the kids have to wait around while the grown ups walk and run, so this year, we’re including many activities to keep them entertained with arts and crafts, face painting and much, much more.
Quest to Reinvest has a leg up in the Relay for Life!
Today we look at our latest Quest grant receiver, The American Cancer Society of Massachusetts. We are honored to partner and help support multiple “Relay For Life” events being held in Massachusetts this year. Come join us as we walk for survivors and patients at one of the many town locations listed in the links below. This is a great way to participate in the nation’s largest cancer fighting movement!
Relay For Life Events in Massachusetts
Start a team! Join a team! Be a sponsor!
Relay For Life is an overnight event that joins communities in the fight against cancer. It is a way to celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones, and fight back against a disease that takes too much from too many.
Teams of friends, families, schools, businesses, and organizations raise money for the American Cancer Society, individually and through fun group fundraisers, and then join together at a local track, taking turns walking overnight. Teams set up campsites and enjoy entertainment, activities, and special ceremonies throughout the night.
Cancer survivors and caregivers are the guests of honor and each Relay For Life kicks off with a special recognition of them, followed by an inspirational luminary ceremony.
Join us to see what Relay For Life – the world’s largest cancer-fighting movement – is all about. 1 in 100 Americans Relay. Won’t you?
Below is a listing of Relays happening in Massachusetts in 2012. You can learn more about Relay at www.cancer.org/relay or relayforlife.org or by calling 1.800.227.2345, 24/7, 365 days a year.
Greater Abington
Acton/Boxborough
Agawam
Amesbury
Amherst
Arlington
Ashland/Holliston
Assumption College (Worcester)
Greater Attleboro
Ayer
Bedford
Bentley University
Berkshire County Central/South (Pittsfield)
Greater Billerica
Bolton
Boston
Boston College
Boston University
Braintree/Quincy/Milton
Brandeis University
Bridgewater State College
Greater Bridgewater
Burlington
Cape Ann (Gloucester)
Clark University (Worcester)
Cohasset/Hingham/Hull/Scituate
Dennis/Yarmouth
East Boston
Endicott College
Greater Fall River
Five College Area (Amherst College)
Greater Foxboro
Franklin County (Greenfield)
Franklin
Greater Gardner
Harvard University
Haverhill
Holy Cross
Greater Holyoke/Chicopee
Hopkinton
Lasell College
Lincoln/Sudbury
Littleton
Ludlow
Lynn
Mansfield
Marlborough/Hudson
Marshfield, Duxbury, Hanover, Norwood & Pembroke
Martha’s Vineyard
Maynard
Merrimack College
Methuen/Greater Lawrence
Greater Milford
Millis/Medway/Medfield/Norfolk
MIT/Wellesley College
Natick/Framingham
Needham/Dedham/Wellesley
Greater New Bedford
Newton/Brookline
Northeastern University
Middlesex School
Northboro/Southboro
Northern Berkshire (North Adams)
Northern Middlesex Regional High School
Greater Norwood
Orleans (Lower Cape)
Peabody
Greater Plymouth
Quaboag Valley
Quincy
Reading/North Reading
Shrewsbury
Somerville/Medford
Southbridge Area
Springfield Area All College
Greater Springfield
Springfield Area All College (Holyoke Community College)
Stoneham
Stonehill College
Tantasqua
Greater Taunton
Topsfield-Middleton-Boxford (Topsfield)
Tri-Town (Mattapoisett)
Tufts University
UMASS Dartmouth
UMASS Lowell
Upper Cape (East Falmouth)
Wakefield
Wareham
Watertown
Westford
Weston/Wayland
Weymouth
Wheaton College
Wilbraham
Wilmington
Winchester
Woburn
Worcester
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Quest to Reinvest Goes South of the Border!
It is with great pleasure that we announce for a second straight year that “Families in Transition” a winner of a grant to be used at their premier event Cinco de Mayo. Here is without a doubt the best May 5th celebration in New Hampshire and a very valuable support system dealing with the problems and solutions for homeless women in New Hampshire please read the Presidents message that we have included below to get the full picture of the valuable services “Families in Transition” offers the community. And as always another fun, inexpensive thing to do in local New Hampshire, what a great state we live and work in everyday. Keep an eye out for more grant winners this week as each wining charity is highlighted.
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Families in Transition!
Thursday, May 3, 2012 | 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
1000 Elm Street | Manchester, NH
Ticket Prices
$40 – Individual
$75 – VIP Individual **
We are gearing up for another FUN FIESTA! Families in Transition’s premier fundraising event: Cinco de Mayo is a night of food, fun, and fantastic entertainment with proceeds to support our programs and services. This year’s event features Portland, Maine’s Jason Spooner Trio!
** The VIP Experience
To add to the fun we are throwing a pre-event VIP reception! This reception is for all Sponsors and VIP ticket holders!
The VIP reception starts at 5:00PM and includes:
Private entertainment • Individual and group photo opportunities • Complimentary spirits (budget permitting)
We’re excited about this year’s celebration, and we know you will be, too!
• cash bar • dancing • music • Mexican fare • silent & live auction •
Click here to learn more about Sponsorship opportunities.
Click here to learn more about Program Book Ad opportunities.
A Message From The President
Families in Transition has come a long way since my initial work with five homeless women and their children at our first Manchester, NH location almost 20 years ago. The referrals I received that first year for housing and aid felt daunting, but I would never have imagined how much that need would grow or how responsive we could be in answering the important call for help. Today, we have grown to serve over 170 families and 180 children each night and receive over 4,000 referrals each year from struggling families in need of housing and services. And the need continues to grow.
The community has been a constant support to Families in Transition over the years and for that, we are all deeply grateful. With your support, we have become a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) whereby we develop affordable housing for those we serve as well as for the community as a whole. We have also developed a Property Management department with more than 160 units of housing, which allows us to provide the administrative and maintenance needs for all of our facilities. We are very proud to be a contributing community member and with our continued focus on housing leadership, development, and management, we continue our commitment to improving the quality of our neighborhoods for all citizens.
Our commitment to provided services that help to get to the root cause of homelessness has resulted in the recent development of two innovative programs designed to assist individuals and families end the cycle of homelessness. First, the Family Willows Program was implemented as the state’s first co-occurring substance abuse and mental health treatment program with housing as an option for a number of families. This successful formula of housing and supportive services has lent to new milestones in the research and treatment of homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders.
We are also especially honored to offer The Family Place Program, which provides specialized childcare and therapeutic services for homeless families and their children. The primary goal of The Family Place is to address the specific issues faced by homeless families utilizing an integrated approach which focuses not just on the needs of parents, but also those of the child, and more importantly the family as a single unit. The comprehensive services provided at The Family Place, will help to prevent the long-term family disruption and separation too often caused by the complex factors which lead to family homelessness.
As we serve our community with a “model of excellence” approach, whether it is with our clinical programming offered to individuals entering any of our programs, our continuous development of state-of-the-art housing facilities, or our social entrepreneurial business spirit as is seen with the development of OutFITters Thrift Stores, we are continuously excited to share each and every one of our successes with all of you. Thank you for your support and for your continued commitment to the mission of ending homelessness for individuals, families, and children in New Hampshire.
Sincerely yours,
Maureen Beauregard
Quest to Reinvest local summer events are here!
The Quest to Reinvest Is proud to announce it’s 2012 Non-pr0fit winners. For the second straight year Exeter Events and Tents philanthropic arm runs the Quest to Re-invest program gifting grants to local New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine deserving non-profit charities. This grant for goods and services allows these charities to utilize tents, tables, chairs, dance floors, stages and other special event merchandise that would otherwise cost thousands and thousands of dollars. Without these grants many organizations find it prohibitive to run community based outreach events like road races, pet walks, festivals and fundraisers of all kinds. Depriving groups of these very lucrative and rewarding types of events can now be overcome with a grant from Quest to Reinvest. Read the rest of this entry »
Winner of Photo Contest Reveled
Exeter Events and Tents is proud to announce that Mr. and Mrs. Rachel Anthony & Paul Araujo are the winners of the 2011 Exeter Events and Tents wedding photo contest. We want to thank all of our participants in this year’s contest for entering and submitting their photos to us. The wedding took place on 07/13/11 in a beautiful backyard in lovely Hollis, NH and you can view the submitted photos in our contest photo gallery. We want to remind all of our visitors that we will be starting our next photo contest real soon so if you want to participate in this year’s contest (ends in 2013) send use an e-mail and we will let you know when registration begins.
History of the Honeymoon
The concept of the bride and groom heading off for some alone time has been around for hundreds of years. Luckily for modern brides, a contemporary honeymoon is expected to involve seclusion, romance, tenderness, and possibly an exotic holiday location.
This is a long way from the original groom’s idea of abducting his woman and hiding out (in a cave perhaps?) until the poor bride was pregnant.
The Word ‘Honeymoon’
There are several theories on its origin:
The Norse word “hjunottsmanathr” is considered by some to be the origin of the word honeymoon. Hjunottsmanathr actually means “in hiding”. The Scandinavian grooms were some of the cultured blokes we spoke of earlier who abducted their brides from local villages, kept them in hiding until they were pregnant, or until the bride’s family ceased searching, and then presented themselves to the bride’s family as a fait accompli. This gives new meaning to the word “elope”, doesn’t it?
Another theory for the word honeymoon stems from the ancient practice in many cultures of drinking a honeyed mead for the first month of the marriage. The honeyed wine, known as hydromel, metheglin or mead, was purported to have aphrodisiac properties, and was also considered by many to enhance the fertility of the wedded couple.
The ancient Teutons and the Babylonians all practiced the drinking of the honeyed wine for the thirty days after the wedding day. The Babylonian father-in-laws supposedly fed their new son-in-laws honeyed mead every night for a month after the wedding.
Did you know that Attila the Hun supposedly died of an overdose of hydromel at his wedding feast? (Is this a historic version of a Viagra induced heart attack?)
Northern Europeans believed that drinking the metheglin would bring them additional luck in their marriages.
Others believe that the word “moon” was introduced into the term honeymoon to reflect the cyclical waxing and waning of a married couple’s affections for each other. The word “honey” obviously implying the sweetest of times directly after the marriage ceremony.
How the Honeymoon Concept has Changed Through the Ages
Being dragged off into hiding while a search party tries to find your abductor is certainly no longer the formula for a successful honeymoon. For many modern brides, it is also no longer relevant to return from the honeymoon pregnant either. Most brides and grooms eagerly look forward to their honeymoon as a time to recover from the stress of organizing a wedding, and to spend some quality time with their loved one.
For some couples, the honeymoon can be the first vacation away together as a twosome. Other couples have already enjoyed vacations away. Whatever the scenario, the honeymoon is eagerly anticipated by all couples as a special time in their lives.
The modern formula of the bride and groom leaving for a destination after the ceremony only really started in Victorian times in England. The cost of the honeymoon was normally paid for by the groom or his family. In these times, the bride and groom were generally separated after the engagement notice until the matrimonial ceremony. Going away together after the wedding was seen as an opportunity for the husband and wife to reacquaint themselves in peace and quiet.
Initially these “bridal tours” as they were often called, were only taken by the wealthy upper classes. These bridal tours often lasted for weeks or months. Trips to the Continent or visiting family who did not attend the ceremony were all popular destinations. Although, some unfortunate couples were apparently accompanied by family members who were keen to visit with the long lost relations. Imagine going on a honeymoon now with your in-laws! Italy was the most popular country to visit on the bridal tour at this time.
By the 1820′s the concept of the honeymoon had become popular in Europe as well. The French had their own special term for it “voyage a la facon anglaise ” (English-style voyage). Although, “lune de miel” is actually the French term for the word honeymoon.
Historically, the most popular honeymoon destination in the United States was Niagara Falls. From the 1830′s on, this natural wonder was the place of choice for the wealthier newly weds. The top 3 honeymoon destinations within the United States now are Hawaii, Florida, and Las Vegas.
As the middle classes became larger and wealthier, the bridal tours became more commonplace. The less wealthy were now going on honeymoons as well. Their tours were inevitably shorter and involved less exotic destinations to minimize the costs.
Once motor vehicles, trains, and then planes, became methods of transport, the wedded couple had many more options for their honeymoon destination. Far flung and exotic destinations are now as popular venues as a tiny bed and breakfast 1 or 2 hours down the road.
We have all heard the phrase “the honeymoon is over”. We all know that those blissfully euphoric and highly romantic days cannot last forever when the real world comes crashing back in. While “the first month is the sweetest” an idea first written in 1546, still holds true today, there is no reason why with a little planning, romance can still factor in your lives when you settle back down at home.
The format of the honeymoon has become a lot more civilized and romantic over the history of time. The literal interpretation of the term honeymoon as “the sweetest of times” has certainly not lost its original meaning. Just mention the word “honeymoon” and watch even the most cynical person go all misty eyed with remembrance.
A Beach Wedding Proposal
Here at Exeter Events and Tents usually gives advice to the bride and the mother of the bride, but every once and awhile we feel obligated to help out the groom. After all it takes two to tango and we don’t want the guys to be left out. So here are some wedding proposals we think may just give you the inspiration you need to come up with that perfect proposal of your own!
Check out these Wedding Jokes, Short Stories and Funny Pictures
Here is a page of free, clean but funny wedding jokes. The first section are one liners while the second section are short stories, at the bottom are funny pictures of weddings. Research your MC* wedding speech or just enjoy the best of Will and Guy’s wedding jokes.
* MC Master of ceremonies.
Wedding One-liners by the Famous
Clean Short Stories for Wedding Day Speech
Wedding Speech Joke for the MC
Wedding Planning: Easter Wedding Theme Ideas
Easter
We are woken at dawn by the twittering of birds; each tiny voice raised to celebrate the arrival of spring and the immanent call of the alarm clock! Delicate flowers spread sweet perfume in the fresh, crisp air and soft green buds gently unfold to clothe the naked trees. Love is in the air and the world is coming alive again after the dreary days of winter. Churches are bedecked with flowers for Eastertide and excited children search for chocolate eggs hidden by the Easter bunnies. Could there be a better moment to marry? And could there be a more perfect wedding theme? Read the rest of this entry »