We just started the Fort St. John network on the Movember site - If you already signed up to participate in Movember, then be sure to join it as well - http://ca.movember.com/mospace/network/view/id/20464
This will help keep track of all the participants in Fort St. John for Movember so don’t delay and join the Fort St. John network!
Every Tuesday at 7pm at Remedies Lounge is the Movember Poker Tourney - all proceeds go to Movember
Thursday, November 17 - Northwoods Pizza will be donating $5 from each pizza sold, eat in or take out from 11am-2pm and 5pm-close.
Wednesday, November 23 - Egan’s Pub will present a special open mic in support of Movember - a Mo’pen Mic!
Saturday, November 26 - Looney Tunes Movember Party at 9pm including Best Costume / Moustache Combo contest.
Wednesday, November 30 - Official Wrap-Up Movember Party at the Lido Theatre at 7pm. Includes live music, photo’s, shavers, prizes and more!
Marc Joseph will be donating $1 from every purchase made in the month of November.
Patch Java, and their new location Patch Java II in the North Peace Leisure Centre will donate 10% of the purchases from any person participating in Movember.
Neil Evans, Fort St. John’s top fundraiser last year will have a donation booth set up at PriceSmart Foods on the following days: November 5, 6, 13, 26, 27 from 10am - 6pm
Sign up and donate today at www.movember.com
Movember Party Details for Movember 1 and Movember 30 at the Lido Theatre!
On Monday’s City Council, the month of November was proclaimed as “Movember” in the City of Fort St. John. This support from the City is a great addition to the community support already growing for Movember.
Throughout the month, you will see men starting to grow their moustache in hopes of raising cash for Prostate Cancer Canada. In 2010, Fort St. John rasied over $27,000 and in Canada, nearly 119,000 Canadian Mo Bros and Mo Sistas got on board, raising $22.3 million.
This year, Remedies Lounge in the Northwoods Inn is once again helping the cause. You can find a poker tourney happening each Tuesday in Movember where the proceeds will be donated to Movember.
As well, Northwoods Pizza will be will be donating $5 off of each small, medium, or large pizza eat-in or take-out only on Thursday, Movember 17th.
Marc Joseph (http://www.marcjosephonline.com/) will be donating $1 from every purchase to Movember in November and will also accept donations as well.
Trimtek has a Movember special: One free custom bumper sticker with any donation to http://ca.movember.com/mospace/1360310/ in Movember.
You may also find more and more businesses participating with special items for sale or a certain dollar figure of an item will be donated. To keep up to date with what is going on, you can visit http://movemberfsj.tumblr.com/.
The City of Fort St. John came out strong last year for Movember and lets hope they will do it again. If you haven’t registered yet or looking to donate to a Mo participant, you can visit http://ca.movember.com/
The Movember financial year closed on Apr 30th. The final fundraising total for Canada is $22M! That’s 22 MILLION DOLLARS as part of the global total of $77M. Thank you to the 118,927 Canadian Mo Bros and Mo Sistas. Your support and mos will go a long way in helping us all change the face of men’s health. Mo on!
Check out Northern Groove - http://www.northerngroove.com/arts-culture/off-the-wall/fort-st.-john-s-best-mustaches.html
They setup a photo booth at the Fort St. John Movember party.
Wow… December 1st has arrived. This marks the official end to Movember and what a month it has been! On Tuesday, November 30, Egan’s Pub played host to the Fort St. John Movember Party to celebrate the achievements of the participants here in Fort St. John. The band “The Suspicious” played to a full house that saw every type of moustache including some of the pink variety. The waitresses were in good humour as they all sported a pink moustache to show their support for the cause. The night was also a chance to thank some of the participants of Movember and of course, chose a Mr. Movember and a Miss Movember. The crowing of Mr. Movember was by people’s choice and congratulations goes out to Matthew Bapty for taking the coveted title. Miss Movember went out to one of the staff at Egan’s who worked hard that night to ensure people got their drinks and foods and she sported her moustache all night long and that was Ashley Eckland. The Mo Bro who raised the most money here in Fort St. John was Neil Evans of the FSJ Murses team. Neil had raised over $4,000 personally for the Movember Campaign and he was rewarded last night with a Schick Razor and a $50 gift certificate from Urban Vibe. This community surprises me every time an event like this happens. The community goes above and beyond any expectations and it showed. As of 12 am, December 1st, Fort St. John had 126 participants that raised $22,182 for Movember and Prostate Cancer Canada. I applaud everyones efforts from the participants to the donors. I would like to thank Devon and Patch Java for their support. For the last 15 days, every time a moustached man ordered an item from Patch Java, they donated 10% of the order to Movember. Devon presented me with the final cheque last night of $200. Thank you! Next is Rememdies Lounge. Tammy and her business partner jumped on board right away with Movember and held different events at the lounge including a raffle for a Taylor Hall Jersey, a Burt Reynolds Shooter Night and their big fundraiser was where they donated $10 from each large pizza that was sold. Dairy Queen in Fort St. John held a Movember day on November 30 where they donated a portion from every medium Blizzard treat that was sold that day. It was a great way to enjoy a cold treat for a great cause. I would also like to thank a few others for helping me out with prizes for the Fort St. John Movember Party. Thank you to Fines Organics for providing a loose tea set. Thank you to Scoop Clothing for giving us a $50 gift certificate. Thanks Urban Vibefor the $50 gift certificate from your store. Thanks Original Basket Boutique for providing a basket full of goodies. Thank you to Uptown Grill for the $50 gift certificate. Thank you to Patch Java for providing a $15 and a $10 certificate. Thank you to the City of Fort St. John and the Visitor Centre for providing a BBQ Tool Set and finally thank you to Motion Media for the donation of printing of 500 business cards. The support of all these businesses and people was a great help and I hope you will support great businesses like these that support some of the great cuases here in Fort St. John Who knew that on October 12, 2010 the City of Fort St. John would make history as they proclaimed the month of November as Movember in the Energetic City. This proclamation made national attention as it was featured on the Movember website and talked about all across Canada. Because of the national attention this story received, Peter Verge of Vancouver was inspired to do the same in Vancouver. After working with Councilor Kerry Jang, the City of Vancouver officially proclaimed the month of November as Movember on November 2, 2010. This was a great example on how an idea can be shared and used in other communities. Well I must say its been quite the month. As I sit here writing this with a clean shaven face, I think that this community is amazing! Watch for pictures soon as we wait for the crew at Northern Groove to go through the many photo’s that were taken and they will have them up on their site. Thank you to Northern Groove, the Northeast News, 100.1 Moose FM, the Alaska Highway News, Astral Media (CJDC TV, Energy FM, The Bear), Energeticcity.ca and everyone else for promoting the events and for promoting Movember in Fort St. John. Thank you to all the crew at Egan’s Pub for hosting the party and for making sure it was a success!! Its been quite the trip and I may be sad to see it over, but I do know that we have made a difference in men’s health! I like to think that I did grow a ‘mo to save a bro…. Brent
As of 12am, December 1st, 126 participants in Fort St. John have raised $22,182 for Movember here in Fort St. John and Neil Evans has raised $4,088 - congrats to everyone involved! It was great to see a huge participation here in Fort St. John.
Click on the link to read about the final hours of Movember here in Fort St. John from the crew at Energeticcity.ca
Movember is coming to a close. The ‘Mo’, slang for moustache, and November come together to create Movember and each Movember, men are challenged to change their appearance and the face of mens’ health. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, our participants’ commitment is to grow a moustache for 30-days with funds being raised to benefit Prostate Cancer Canada.
Currently, there are over 178 participants who have raised over $14,200 so far in our region alone.
We spoke with Neil Evans this week about why he is doing Movember and how a few nurses at the Fort St. John Hospital are changing their face for the cause.
“After finding out about Movember, myself, Shawn Emmett and Paul Smith realized this was a great opportunity to promote men’s health while having a little fun growing our ‘stanches. As we are all male health professionals working on the front lines of health care, it also feels as if it’s our duty to take part in a cause such as this. We are very excited to help.” Evans said.
They have been going door to door asking for donations and will have a table set up at PriceSmart foods on Sunday, Nov. 28 where you can donate. If you are looking for a cold treat, Evans said that on November 30, the local Dairy Queen will be donating $1 from each medium Blizzard treat they sell that day to their team.
“We teamed up with Remedies Lounge as well.” Evans said. “They had a night where each ‘Burt Reynolds’ shot they sold, $0.50 was donated to our team.”
Currently in Canada there are over 115,340 participants that have raised $12.5 million dollars for Movember. There are businesses out there participating such as Patch Java will donate 10% of your purchase to Movember. When you come in and show off your moustache, Devon will take 10% of your total purchase and donate it to the Movember Campaign. You can also find an Edmonton Oilers Taylor Hall jersey being raffled off for Movember down at Remedies Lounge in the Northwoods Inn with tickets being 1 for $2 or 3 for $5. If you want to make a general donation to Movember, there are a few donation boxes set up around town. They can be found at Patch Java and Egan’s Pub.
To celebrate the end of Movember, Egan’s Pub in Fort St. John will play host to the Fort St. John Movember Party on Tuesday, Nov. 30 where throug out the night there will be prizes to be won, you can still make a donation that night as well and you can enjoy live music by “The Suspicious”. Also that night, someone will be crowned “Mr. Movember” which will be a people’s choice award so come down and show off your moustache and bring some friends so they can vote for you.
