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Anne Melrose Poker Run for Cancer 2024

November 9 @ 9:30 am

$10

ANNE MELROSE POKER RUN FOR CANCER 2024

SATURDAY 9 November 2024 – 9:30am

****NOTE UPDATED LOCATION***  Woodlands campground

Note: This event is not on the Mush Larose trails, click link above for directions.

Have a fun day and help us raise money for cancer research in memory of one of our club founders, Anne Melrose. Her important contributions to the club will not be forgotten and she is very much missed. Without the people who took the time and effort to build the club in the beginning, Mush Larose would not be the great group of people it is today. Anne’s dedication, enthusiasm, friendliness and helpful advice was invaluable to many of us who came in knowing next to nothing about dog sledding and have since grown to love it.

Poker Run map: PokerRunMap-2024

Our special mentions this year are our dedicated pre-COVID kitchen volunteers Miyo Brown, and Linda Martin, who have now both beaten cancer twice. Way to go!

In addition, Catherine Woolham, who passed unexpectedly from pancreatic cancer this fall. While she was not a long time member of Mush Larose, she did come out a few times and try sledding with her dogs, and was a spectacular volunteer everywhere. Catherine was well known in the dog world, particularly Agility, Scent and Rally-O, She went far too soon and is very much missed.

Registration will be on-site. $10 per poker hand (you can purchase multiple hands) with all funds raised going to the Canadian Cancer Society. Run individually, or together with a friend and share the cost and split the prize if you wish!

There will be buckets with names of different well known mushers placed in 5 stations on a short trail where you pick up your cards. Do whichever course you wish in order to pass the stations and come to complete your run by 11:30. When you return, bring your unopened wrapped cards to Laura. You will also receive one extra wild card at this time to improve your chances to win! Highest five card poker hands win awesome prizes. Announced around 12 noon.

Sign our wall of honour: who are YOU running for? Add the names of those you are honouring – human and canine – to our memory wall (both surviving, and those who live on through our thoughts).

 Questions? Please contact Laura at Events@MushLarose.ca

Laura Cranstone
Poker Run Organizer

Details

Date:
November 9
Time:
9:30 am
Cost:
$10
Event Categories:
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Organizer

Laura Cranstone
Phone:
613-445-2562
Email:
info@mushlarose.ca