RFL Sunbeamers Starting Off At Over A Half Million Lindens

 

 

 With the start of the Relay for Life fundraising season last Saturday, the various teams started raising Lindens. Some had spent the time between seasons quietly collecting cash. Among them was team Sunbeamers. Between seasons, they had raised funds in an off-season jar. When the Relay kiosks were ready to receive the money, the "Sunnies" had over half a million Linden dollars, as of now over 545,000 Lindens. 

 

Assuming fundraising levels haven't changed since last year, this puts the team in Jade level fundraising. And this is just the beginning. Can the team match last year's Ruby level?

 

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

RFL Team Sunbeamers Reach 500,000L, Jade Level

 

On Saturday evening, March 19, the Relay for Life's Team Sunbeamers reached a milestone. It crossed the 500,000 Linden dollar mark, and into Jade level among the teams. 

[2022/03/19 18:08] Bixyl Shuftan: Sunbeamer total, 500,000 L
[2022/03/19 18:08] Lady ƙRen 'Jinx' Flow (Ren Float): yay!
[2022/03/19 18:08] Rita Mariner: Good News Sunbeamers just made JADE!
[2022/03/19 18:08] Alison Flow: woot beamers!!
[2022/03/19 18:08] Sienna (Sienna Thor): Yayyy Sunbeamers!!!
[2022/03/19 18:09] Nance Clowes: edge goes to whichever team can dance like oompa loompas
[2022/03/19 18:09] Arizona Ballinger-Whiplash (Arizona Ballinger): woot Sunbeamers
[2022/03/19 18:09] Lady ƙRen 'Jinx' Flow (Ren Float): LOL

I'd earlier spoken when reached Jade, I'd change into a green avatar. I'd done a green fennec for St. Patricks. But maybe something different this time.

[2022/03/19 18:09] Bixyl Shuftan: Okay, Green Bilby for the rest of the night
[2022/03/19 18:09] Bixyl Shuftan: Snowy calls it "Bix Bilby"
[2022/03/19 18:09] Trader Whiplash-Ballinger (Trader1 Whiplash): WTG Beamers!
[2022/03/19 18:10] Bixyl Shuftan: (guess which actor that's a tribute to?)
[2022/03/19 18:10] Trader Whiplash-Ballinger (Trader1 Whiplash) shakes his head
[2022/03/19 18:11] Bixyl Shuftan: "Bix Bilby" is a play on Bill Bixby. He was Dr. Bruce Banner
[2022/03/19 18:11] Kitty Gumbo (Prettykitty Gumbo): Hulk 

I would post a link to the picture above to RFL volunteer chat.

[2022/03/19 18:30] Sienna (Sienna Thor): Lookin' good Bix!!!
[2022/03/19 18:31] Bixyl Shuftan: Thank you :)

So that was the night my Relay team hit half a million. Next stop, Sapphire. Can we get to Emerald, when I have to own up to another promise when we cross a million Linden dollars? We'll find out soon.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan
 

RFL Team Sunbeamers Reach Jade, 500K Lindens

 

Yesterday evening, Tuesday April 20, the Relay's Team Sunbeamers reached a milestone. The total raised in both online and inworld donations hit the 500,000 Linden dollar mark, and into Jade level fundraising. The equivalent of $2000 US dollars. 

By all means, this isn't going to mean the team will slow down. Having just had their bumper car event (which raised 6400), there's one ongoing Bid-Me event with plans for more. And then there's the Air Show, and the weekly Moon Dance and other Bring Your Own Kiosk events. Team captain Rita Mariner plans to get the team to reach to Sapphire level (750,000 L), and beyond.  

Team Sunbeamers is the Relay team of the Sunweavers community, where the SL Newser has it's office.

As of the writing of this article, the Sunbeamers are twelfth (very close to eleventh) among the teams in terms of money raised, with six other Jade teams.  The three Emerald teams (over one million), are Roos With a Dream, Goreans in Relay for Life, and The River of Life. Third highest is Cure Chasers, which is at Ruby level. Second highest at Diamond is Relay Rockers. And the highest, also at Diamond, is Camping For a Cure. So far they've raised over 2,500,000 Linden dollars, or over $10,000 US dollars.
 
Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan
  

Over 500K Lindens Raised for Japanese Relief at “Go for Japan”

On the weekend from Saturday March 19 to Sunday Mach 20, the “Go for Japan” fundraiser took place in Gwampa's Dance Camp. Also known as the Pacific Crisis Fund Benefit Concert, the event lasted for over 40 hours involved many musicians, and raised over five hundred thousand lindens for the American Red Cross for their efforts in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country.

The event was set up at the four-corner meeting place at four sims, Pango Pango, Zeide Kamp, Gwampa Castle, and Bali Bali. The stage was set up at the Pango Pango corner with the official location of the event at Zeide Kamp (238, 241, 21), even though two other sim corners were available for the audience. Besides dancing around in the grass, one could also sit on some pillows in Bali Bali, or lie on some other pillows floating over Zide Kamp and Gwampa Castle.

There were a few dozen musicians taking part in the fundraiser. Among them were Lyn Carlberg, FunkyFreddy Republic, Lexie Luan, CraigLyons Writer, and more.

On the night of Sunday March 20, the total raised slowly crept up to the half million mark. Finally while Edward Kyomoon was playing, the total amount raised reached 500,000. The sight was greeted with applause and cheers of “Woooot!!” Edward continued to sing, and at the end told the audience, "Thanks for all your generosity, helping out the Red Cross," before handing the stage to Grif Bamaisin, the last musician of the event.

As even the most casual of news readers knows, the earthquake and tsunami wrecked enormous damage to Japan. One estimate of the economic damage puts it as 180 billion dollars. Some entire small villages were wiped out. One estimate puts the number of dead and missing at over 16,000, a toll almost always seen from a disaster striking a Third World country, not one of humankind’s most advanced societies. Curiously unlike previous disasters such as Haiti, there have been few fundraisers in real-life in comparison. With Japan having a debt more than twice the total dollar amount of it’s economy, fundraisers like “Go to Japan” will be a welcome relief.

For a link to the American Red Cross, Click Here.

Bixyl Shuftan