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Helping the ADO Youth Fund
by TerryM on Monday, January 19 @ 11:31:24 EST

BE A DART STAR!!!

Would you like to be featured on a major dart web site or dart publication??? As usual, the girls from Horizon/Laserdarts (Terry and Melody) will be attending several tournaments around the country in 2009. At four of these tournaments, we will be selling tickets for the ADO Youth Scholarship Fund. Tickets will be $1.00 and ALL proceeds will go to the ADO Youth Dart Fund. Watch Horizon’s ads in BEN and the Double Eagle early 2009 announcing the tournaments where this will happen. The first tournament will be Virginia Beach in March.

Each ticket bought will qualify the purchaser for a drawing. At each tournament, we will draw one man and one woman to be featured on the Horizon Darts web site and announced in our ads in Bull’s Eye News and the ADO Double Eagle. You will get a chance to tell a little bit about yourself and your accomplishments in darts. The winner will also receive a $20.00 gift certificate to use toward a purchase through Horizon Darts.

If, by chance, the same person is drawn at more than one tournament, that person will get a “Special Acknowledgment” for helping sponsor the ADO Youth players and a $20.00 gift certificate and another player will be drawn for the opportunity to tell their story.

So, keep an eye out for Terry and Melody, (we'll be wearing Horizon Darts or Laserdarts billboard dart shirts). Buy your tickets and show your support for our upcoming pros!!

Thanks for your support!!! The Horizon Darts Crew
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Hello, my name is Ron (Rocky) Wilcox and I run a youth dart league in Parkhill, Ontario Canada. I am writing to you today because I am organizing a fundraiser to help send 12 of our players to the Youth Provincial Championships in St. Catherine’s, Ontario.

I would like to take a moment of your time to offer you a little bit of information about our league. This league was started five years ago, and I took over running it four years ago, teaching these youths the game of darts. We started out with 5 youth players from ages 10 – 17, and we now have grown to 36 players from ages 7-18. We attend regular league nights every Wednesday for 1.5 hours. We also compete in many tournaments all over the province. We have sent many players to Provincial Championships each year. This year we are sending 12 players next month and 12 players again in May.

We run a youth dart tournament fundraiser to help support the cost of these trips.  As you can appreciate, sending 12 players to the Provincial Championships can cost close to $4,000.00 for the weekend. This would include the travel expenses, as well as hotel charges, and the cost of food and fees.  Last year we ran a tournament to try to raise funds to cover these expenses. 81 adult players attended and we raised just under $900.00 in five hours!  This included me getting my head shaved for a whopping $166.00!  This year we are hoping to raise just a bit more to help out with the costs. We have received a few great donations from a few sponsors, but we are looking for a few top notch items to help bring in those extra dollars. All items are auctioned off via a silent auction, so the bidding can get a little crazy sometimes!  However, anything helps, such as dart boards, darts, shirts, flights, gift certificates, etc.  Anything and everything is accepted and the more the merrier.

I have included a link to our youth web page, however, it has not been updated for a few weeks, as our stats lady has been sick, but you can still see the great work these kids have put in, as well as their achievements, and some articles from newspapers. 

Please take a moment to visit  http://www.geocities.com/parkhill_youth_darts/index.html?20096

If you would like to donate to this cause, it would be greatly appreciated.  In return, as part of your donation, your name and web site will be added to the online flier and email list that is sent out to the 750 dart players that I have compiled in recent years. This list also goes to all the dart web sites listing tourneys, so we are in return providing many opportunities for recognition for yourself and your website. I also post all the results and event information online on different sites. Once you have confirmed your donation, a list of sites will be sent to you with your recognition!

Thank you for your time and consideration today and if you are willing to make a donation to this great cause, please contact me directly at one of the email addresses listed below.  As always, anything and everything is appreciated, and even if you choose not to make any type of donation at this time, we would greatly appreciate any support you can offer by forwarding this email on to others that you think might be interested in helping out this great group of kids.

recentlypoor@execulink.com

OR

Parkhill_Youth_Darts@execulink.com

Since our inception in 2006 we have had 104 youngsters join the Academy between the ages of 9 and 18. In reality between 40 and 50 turn up each week some more regular than others depending on their approach toward the game which ranges from ‘just enjoys playing the game’ to ‘desperately want to be a darts-pro’ and their other outside commitments such as educational and family.

Academy sessions are each Wednesday night; we have a junior section between 6.30 and 8pm when the seniors take over until 10.00pm.

It is our desire to continue to give youngsters the opportunity to play darts from an early age. To give them good and secure facilities with dedicated coaches at a minimal cost with a focus on ‘the ability to play not pay’.

To provide a seamless route into senior darts;

Academy – Local Senior Darts League(s) - Super League - County - then, or, and - PDC.

To be the national standard for all other such schools to aspire to as we learn, improve and innovate.

To build a networked relationship with other similar ventures around the country and the opportunity for youngsters to travel, meet and compete in different environments.

To produce not only top-class darts players but also ones that may not be so good but can count, subtract, know their out-shots but will inevitably remain the grass roots player that is the bedrock of our sport.