Nov22

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11/22/2011 11:54 AM 

We had 487 family members attend throughout the day which had loads of ‘T Birds’ and ‘Pink Ladies’ on show as well as a many Danny & Sandy wannabes. There were plenty of blue jeans, white t-shirts, leather jackets and big quiffs on show from the guys and for the girls, well it was all about the pink ladies, shades and the big hair do’s as you can see from the pictures below!

 

The event had a real ‘classic grease diner’ feel to it and also had activities such as hopscotch, fruit bowling alley, basketball hoops, DJ, dance instructor, Special Olympics information stands as well as free gourmet popcorn (from JD’s gourmet popcorn link - www.jdp.ie) and fruit goodie bags for all guests (supplied by Begley’s fruit ‘Simply Fresh’ www.begleys.ie). The event also had its own real ‘classic car’ on display that even Danny Zuko would be jealous of!!

 

The Family ‘Grease’ Fun Day is for registered family members with the Eastern Region Family Programme. The Region currently has 1743 registered family members which is a fantastic number!

On behalf of all the Regional Family Support Team we would like to thank the following people for making this event happen;

Ø       Special Olympics Eastern Region
Ø       Volunteers on the day!
Ø       Paul Brooder – Spar Sandycove, for supplying free sandwiches for all our hard working volunteers on the day.
Ø       Mervyn Reid (Cutting Club Killiney) – Hairdressing Spot Prize
Ø       Greg Begley – Begleys ‘Simply Fresh’ for all the free fruit & veg goodie bags
Ø       Dominic Hegarty – Lantz print for free printing all our flyers
Ø       Tony Purcell – Creative Solutions, for designing our cool poster each year free of charge
Ø       Olivia O’Reilly – RDS, for supplying us with this fantastic venue free of charge each year
Ø       Cian O’Colmain – RDS, for supplying his services free of charge each year
Ø       Pat Howe – Our dance instructor
Ø       Frank Hourihane & Ronan Molumby for supplying the cool classical car
Ø       Monica & Keith Sood – WIGWAM, for supplying all the cool props
Ø       Gerry & Lisa Leech for helping us set up the venue
Ø       Joe McGrath – JDs Gourmet popcorn, for supplying all the free popcorn
Ø       Jonathon Coakley – DJ
Ø       Eoin McDonnell – RDS Catering
Ø       Marese Damery – Irish Heart Foundation
Ø       The Ritz Carlton – Powerscourt, for supplying a holiday voucher for one of our lucky families
Ø       The West County Hotel – Ennis, for supplying another holiday voucher for one of our lucky families
Ø       Clodagh O’Donovan – Our fantastic photographer on the day
Ø       Special Guest – Bernard Jackman
Ø       Special Guest – Cyclists from ‘Paris to Nice’ Special Olympics fundraiser
Ø       TEAM IRELAND athletes and coaches who were our special guests on the day

Finally we would like to especially thank Denis O’Reilly & Shelagh Leech, as well as the other members of the fantastic Regional Family Support Team; Colm Leech, Jenny Hendrick, Ria Croydon, Liam O’Brien, Olivia O’Reilly, Annette Keogh, Brendan Whelan & Patricia McKenna who helped create this event.

See you all next year!