COMMUNITY EVENTS
"By earning people's trust and giving them
respect, a world is created where good things
happen for all of us."
- B.K. Loots
Skillz 'N Drillz
Community-improvement and mentoring
initiative "Skillz 'N Drillz" is underway. Blaze
players address their audience on various life
skills (responsibility, sportsmanship,
teamwork, respect, commitment, etc) followed
by player-lead football drills and prizes!

Please contact us if you'd like to host a session.
"Our goal from within: Help those without."
photo credit Battle Creek Enquirer
RECENT EVENTS

-M.A.R.K. mentoring "movie night"
-Athens High School basketball
-Battle Creek Revolution hockey
-Junior League "school improvement"
-Special Olympics Bowl-A-Thon (donations)
-Athens High School (football practice jersey
donation)
-Cereal Festival (Friday evening tables and
Saturday Skillz & Drillz)
-Make-A-Wish (donations)
-Berrien County Relay For Life (donations)
-The Haven's Roof Sit for Inasmuch House
-IGYB Youth Football Camps (provided two
participant scholarships and coaches for
two-day camps)
-Wakeshma Community Church Adventure
Camp
-National Night Out
-Cornwell's "Jakes Day" Youth Appreciation
-Battle Creek Farmer's Market...Michigan
Fruit Pie Competition
-US National Balloon Championships
-CAN Council Family Fun Day

... we welcome all of our fans to join us in our
attempts to better our community.
"We're all in this together!"
Relay For Life
Coming off what is arguably the worst defeat in franchise history - a defeat at the
hands of the Ohio Outlawz, a group of Blaze members showed what this program is
truly about; leaving a positive mark as our impact in society.

After arriving back from the game in Kenton, OH (approximately 3 AM), the
exhausted but dedicated group of Robbie Crockett, Tayten Crockett, Randy Tessin,
Mitch Peterson, Jason Doubleday, Chad Drake, Kip Cummins, and Brooks Pritchett
(taking the photo) still managed to represent the organization by participating in
accumulating laps for the 2009 Relay For Life.

If anyone had any doubts about where our priority lies, this night clearly put them to
rest. Even in a loss, we managed to find victory.
256
Total number of community service hours
(not including promotional events) in 2009.
Blaze teams with Junior League
Almost two dozen Blaze members (players, coaches, and staff) came
together to offer nearly 50 hours of service over April's first
weekend. The benficiary of these efforts are the inhabitants of
Woodlawn Pre-School, at the corner of 22nd and Territorial.

Duties included painting, electrical work, cabinet and bookshelf
repair, and a few other odds 'n ends.
Thanks to the Junior League for inviting us out!

Additional photos can be found by clicking here.
You'll find the Blaze at our next Community Service Event:

Look for us once again at this year's Downtown Holiday Parade on Saturday,
Nov. 19th, at 6pm. We'd like to thank our friend and Blaze supporter Dale
Wilson for volunteering his time, truck, basket and burner from his hot air
balloon, Seventh Heaven, to set the sky "ablaze" accompanying the team once
again!

Contact us to have Blaze players at YOUR community event!
248.5...
Total number of community service hours, so far,
(not including promotional events) in 2011...

EVERY EFFORT COUNTS.
410.5...
Total number of community service hours
(not including promotional events) in 2010...