COMMUNITY EVENTS
2008
Sam's Club 25th Anniversary Celebration
Cereal Festival Parade and Breakfast Table
C.I.R. Softball Bash
Fall into the Arts Art Walk
Athens summer homecoming & "paint the (goal) posts" at Athens High School
Boys & Girls Club/CrimeWatch "Light Up the Night" rally
Battle Creek Holiday Parade
Lance Armstrong Foundation LIVESTRONG Grassroots Fundraising
The Salvation Army clothing drive (hosted/donations)
2009
Skillz 'N Drillz (various sites)
Haley's Ride Foundation (donations)
Gryphon Place Bowl-a-Thon (donations)
12th Annual Rotary Club/C.I.R. Auction (donations)
Battle Creek Chamber of Commerce "Eye Opener" Breakfasts (donations)
21st Century Community Learning Centers (donations)
Special Olympics Michigan Area 19 Bowl-a-Thon (donations)
Victory Life Church "egg scramble"
Calhoun Child Abuse/Neglect Prevention Council "Blue Tie" Auction
Calhoun Child Abuse/Neglect Prevention Council "Pinwheels for Prevention"
Special Olympics Michigan Area 19 Track & Field
HandsOn W.A.I.T. Rally
Cereal Festival Parade and Breakfast Table
The Haven "Roof Sit" bucket brigade
CrimeWatch (McKinley-area) rally
American Cancer Society Relay For Life
C.I.R. Adaptive Water Sports Day
The Salvation Army clothing drive (hosted/donations)
National Night Out (see flyer below) and video
CityLinC "Stuff-A-Bus" (donations)
Battle Creek-area Blaze Youth Football Technique Clinic (hosted/donations)
Athens summer homecoming
S.A.F.E. Place "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes"
Family Video "Back to School Bash"
CrimeWatch (Franklin-area/Post Addition) rally
CAN Council 2nd Annual Family Fun Ride
HandsOn Community BarnRaising
Junior Bearcats Football Program
Battle Creek Holiday Parade
Harper Creek Middle School Reading Program (donations)
Battle Creek Area Elk's Lodge #131 (donations)

Additional information is available via each link.
"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."
Trading in cleats for high heels...
Blaze offensive lineman Archie Wickham tries to
slip on a pink high heel at the S.A.F.E. Place
"Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" rally.
Wickahm was one of four Blaze members (Ploehn,
Birchmeier, Densborn) to participate in the event.
Blaze defensive lineman Scott Densborn was
named "best sashay" by the master of ceremonies.
photo credit Battle Creek Enquirer
Get "FIRED UP" For School
To assist in building excitement in staring
another school year, several Blaze members
took part in the "Back to School Craze with the
Blaze" event at Family Video (29 Aug).

In this picture: 80 - Drake, 11- Williams,
0 - Doubleday, 29 - K.Ploehn, 15 - Crockett,
74 - Adams, 42 - Bailey, 91 - Dietz,
54 - Densborn, & (even organizer) 99 - Price.

Photo courtesy of Battle Creek Blaze staff.

Good luck on a GREAT SCHOOL YEAR!
256
Total number of community service hours
(not including promotional events) in 2009...
EVERY EFFORT COUNTS.
Crime Watch Rally:
Post Addition
Blaze members joined the BC Police Gang Unit at Franklin
Elementary prior to hosting an obstacle course for fans and
followers. Jason Doubleday and Chad Drake (right) encourage
a young Blaze fan during the evening's most popular event.

Battle Creek Blaze players feel a sense of obligation to
provide positive, male role models for our community -
especially our youth. If you have an event that you believe we
could assist you with, please contact us for participation
details. While it is impossible for us to fill all of our
requests, we try to facilitate as many as possible. We believe
in leading from the front, both on and off of the field.
Thank you for embracing us - we're all in this TOGETHER.
2010 SOCIAL EVENTS

M.A.R.K. mentoring "movie night"

Athens High School basketball

Battle Creek Revolution hockey



Additional information will be posted upon
finalization and confirmation.

... come out and join your favorite Blaze
players in and around the community.
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.

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.