Mustache For Kids NY Raising Mucho Dinero

Here's a note from Mustache Mitch, Pirate and the M4KNY gang:

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Well, our four weeks of questionable grooming have come to an end, and we're pleased to report that the 2007 Stache Bash was an overwhelming success. Assuming you define 'success' as sixty guys with mustaches and 150 additional onlookers cheering on their every whisker.

At the end of the evening, after our Growers were put through a battery of physical, mental, and emotional challenges, which included the World's Strongest Mustaches, the Mustache Haiku, the Beer Foam Retention, and Dancin' with My 'Stache, one Grower received the sash and crown as the Sweetest Stache of 2007:

Joel Tompkins. Joel's grace and strength were nowhere more apparent than during our first round, when he lifted a lit candle using only his Mustache! Here's the evidence:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SQK65PS9NMU

Second place went to Octavio "Ron Jeremy" Blanco, who added a delightful swath of chest hair to an impressive 'stache and strikingly--dare we say disturbingly--sexual stage presence.

Our third place 'stache was none other than Stu Weiner, who has most likely inspired "Stu's Law" legislation in many communities.

CJ Steffens was our top fundraiser. He not only set a fundraising record by bringing in $3000; we are fairly certain he also set a Checkpoint drinking record earlier in the Growing Season, by throwing back what witnesses describe as "at least seven" shots of Old Crow with pickle brine chasers.

We are still gathering donations from wayward Growers, but we're fairly certain that we raised over $30,000 for DonorsChoose.org and New York City public school students. We thank all of our Growers and donors for making 2007 our best year ever.

Any Growers who did not attend the Stache Bash, or who attended but did not submit all of their donations, should stuff all that money into an envelope and send it to:

Mustaches for Kids
329 Union Street #3B
Brooklyn, NY 11231

(Remember: checks should be made out to DonorsChoose.org, with Mustaches for Kids written in the memo line.)

Finally, M4K would not have been the success it was without the help of many, many Mustache sympathizers:

Simon Free and Nylon Technology: Who continue to provide us with generous web development services and don't flinch when we write them emails containing sentences like, "Check that 'mustache name' correctly generates a url for the grower's MyStache page."
Mindy Duhlberg and Quist Industries: Who manage to screen print sweet t-shirts in record time and don't even yell at us when we ask them to be boxed and shipped to twelve different M4K chapters across the country.
Matt Collins: Who came up with a totally sweet t-shirt design, that one Grower called 'an instant classic'.
Aaron Hermann and the Montauk Club: Who allow us to take over their beautiful Park Slope facility for our Stache Bash.
John Roberts and the Bushwick Country Club: Who not only donated prizes for our winners, but also hosted a now-legendary Checkpoint during the growing season.
McClure's Pickles: Who generously donated prizes for our three finalists and provided snacks for everyone in attendance last Saturday.
Dima Gavrysh: Who took some amazing portraits of some of our Growers: http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show?G_ID=G0000xa.dctkoLiU&P_ID=&start=0&pagtotal=24
Mike Green: Who donated hundreds of 1980s baseball cards picturing players sporting sweet--and not so sweet--staches.
Our Stache Bash volunteers and judges: Who made sure the evening ran as smoothly as possible.
Our past champions, Andy, Ali, and Todd: Whose enthusiasm for Mustaches and respect for their own places in Mustache-growing history, motivate them to help us in many ways.

Thanks to everyone for a great year, and remember, it's never to early to start getting ready for 2008.

Roll, stache, roll,
M4K


Mustaches for Kids
sweetstache@m4kny.org
http://www.m4kny.org
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