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Rider
Injured on way to Parade
Chicago Patrolman Wayne Dembowski
was critically injured when he struck some debris on the Dan Ryan Expressway on
his way to The Parade. He remains in a coma but is still undergoing
surgery. His family has asked for get well cards to brighten his
surroundings. Get well cards may be sent to Wayne Dembowski, in care of
Cecelia Sayre, 4211 Grove Avenue, Brookfield, IL, 60513.
The
Parade on TV
"Team Chicago
Challenge" will broadcast their coverage of the 2004 TFT Parade on
Chicago Access Channel 19. The show will air on Comcast Cable
in the western suburbs and in the southern suburbs on Comcast South. For
more details go to www.teamchicago.com
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"Motorsports
Unlimited" with Bill Wildt will air two Parade shows The
first TFT Parade show will premiere in Chicago on Monday. January 10 at
7:30pm and Tuesday, January, 11 at 2:30pm. The second show on the 2004
Parade will debut on Monday. January 17 at 7:30pm and on Tuesday, January 18
at 2:30pm, also on Channel 19 in Chicago. Suburban times and channels
vary, so go to the "Motorsports Unlimited" web site to find
your time and channel, at http://msutv.com/cableTable1.htm .
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Get
Your Tickets for our TWO Big Raffles
Time is running out on our two BIG Raffles currently
underway. You could win a vacation at the Black Hills Motorcycle Rally
and cash, in the Sturgis Vacation Raffle. The grand prize will be motel
accommodations plus spending money and money for event tickets. The
Sturgis Vacation Raffle tickets are only $1 each and the drawing will be held
at McCormick Place during the Supercycle Motorcycle Expo on Sunday, February
6, 2005.
And you can ride there on your new 2005 Harley-Davidson
Electra-Glide, if you win the 2005 Harley-Davidson Raffle. The 2005
edition is better than ever, and thanks to our friends at Oak Lawn
Harley-Davidson, the winner will also receive a second, custom painted, Toys
for Tots Parade gas tank. Other winners will receive Oak Lawn Harley Gift
Certificates or TFT Parade Jackets. The 2005 Electra-Glide tickets are
only $5 each. The drawing will be held at Oak Lawn Harley-Davidson, at 110th
Street and Cicero Avenue, on Saturday, March 19th, 2005.
Don't miss out on either of these two great raffles.
Email your ticket requests to the Parade website NOW! For more
details on both exciting raffles, and to see photos of the bike and second,
custom gas tank, go to http://chicagolandtft.org/products.htm .
Parade
Comments
The following are more
comments that we have received at The Parade web site. If you have a
comment, good or bad, about The Chicago TFT Parade, send it to us. Contact us
at info@ChicagolandTFT.org .
I would just like to thank
your whole organization. My family has been having a rough year and I
wrote a letter asking for assistance for Christmas. I had got a call
last week saying that my children's stuff was ready for pick-up, my husband
drove out to Chicago and picked up the gifts. I was overwhelmed with
the stuff that my children received. I am SO grateful that Toys for
Tots was willing to help. Thank you for making this a good Christmas
for our kids!!!!!
Sincerely, Sandy H.
I rode in my
first TFT parade the Sunday of the 5th. It was awesome, I couldn't believe
the amount of toys brought in by the biker world.
Thanks. Jerry B.
This
year was the first year participating in the toys for tots run but not the
last. I had a blast.
Danny W.
I
was trying to get to a Swedish Covenant Hospital appoinment on sunday
afternoon, dec. 5, 2004, when I was stopped at california and foster for
almost an hour. I was forsed to watch grown men demonstrate fits of
macho riding their loud and exhaust belching motorcycles. I missed
my appoinment. This a disgusting way to celebrate giving toys to
children. these men should be embaresed for acting like macho clows.
Anthony S.
Great time as
always.
Shawn L.
Why wasn't the ATVs allowed
to run in this years Toys for Tots parade? There was a bunch of people
that where there with ATVs that where turned away. BUT YOU SURE
DID TAKE OUR GIFTS THEN TO TELL US WE COULDN'T RIDE OUR ATVs IN YOUR PARADE!
Your people told us that because our ATVs are not plated we are not welcome.
If that is the reason I spoke to a lot of Chicago Police officers including
a Sgt that told me that IT'S FOR THE KIDS and Chicago Police wouldn't
write any tickets or do anything to anyone that was in the parade even if
they where driving a ATV, unless they drove it back down Halsted to wherever
they parked. That was not in my case. I brought a person to
drive my Trailblazer with a trailer to the end of the parade and we were to
meet him at the end and load them on my trailer and go home peacefully.
But instead I went home angry at the people that have changed the
rules. I look at
it this away its for the kids that is the reason for this parade. I still
gave my gift when others said that if I am not welcome my gift isn't either,
that was selfish of them to say that.
Tommy P.
It was our first time IT WAS
AWESOME ! we got a warm feeling seeing all the children along the
streets.
THANK YOU ALL. GARY O.
Elements
Photography
Did you ride in the Polar Bear Run
last week from Crete Harley-Davidson? How about the DuKane Food and Toy
Run last fall? We know you rode in the TFT Parade, and now, thanks to
the folks at Element Photography, you can easily obtain high quality photos
taken at these and other motorcycle events. They have hundreds of photos
taken at The Parade. All are available for sale, and for each
Parade photo purchased, Elements Photography will donate 10% of the sales to
The TFT Parade Organization. And if you purchase photos taken at The
2005 Polar Bear Run, they will donate 15% of these sales to The TFT
Parade. You can view and purchase thousands of photos at the Elements
Photography web site at http://www.elementsphotography.biz/wwwelementsphotographybizhomepage.html .
Parade
Meeting Friday
Parade Members note that the
meeting to nominate individuals for the annual elections will be held this
Friday, January 7, 2005 at the Stempien VFW. The Elections will be held
on Friday, February 4, 2005.
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