Boulder Rugby Athletic Club News and Events

This past Saturday, December 16th, The Boulder Rugby Club participated in Boulder County’s annual Share-A-Gift event for the 9th year in a row. Share-A-Gift is an all-volunteer annual holiday project that provides toys, bikes and books for children of low income families in the Boulder County area – all supplied through community donations.

This year there were 728 families, representing 2,155 kids, that came through the “Toy Shoppe” (AKA, the distribution center) in an 8 hour period of time. That was a 20% increase over last year’s numbers.

Boulder RFC contributed a record number of volunteers this year! It was nice to see that 74 of the 240 volunteer slots filled this Saturday (approx 1/3) came from our club.

The afternoon session was HUGE – we processed 273 families in shift #1, then 400 in shift #2 and 55 in the shift #3.

These numbers do not count all the families and kids served through several local agencies (for example, SAG gave presents to 91 kids through “Mountain Family” and stuffed animals to kids through “Blue Sky Bridge”)

Any toys left over after the frenzy on Saturday, were boxed up and driven to an Indian reservation in South Dakota Saturday night – unfortunately, after this year’s large crowds, the shipment to SD was much smaller than in year’s past.

THANK-YOU to everyone who took time out of their holiday schedules to help on Saturday – it has gotten to the point where this event really relies on the support of the Boulder Rugby Club to run smoothly.

The Babes will be competing against the Austin Valkyries, Colorado Old Girls, Denver Black Ice, Kansas City Jazz and St Louis Sabres during 2007 in West's newly formed Division I bracket.

Boulder Babe Elected to ERRFU Women's Representative

At the ERRFU AGM held on December 16th, Sarah Rodriguez was elected to the poisition of Women's Rep. Congratulations, we know you will do a great job.

In conjunction with Harpo''s, we hosting a toy and book drive to support the Share-a-gift program. Please bring a new unwrapped toy to the meeting. You can go to http://www.shareagift.org/toywishlist.htm for more detials on items they need. Share-A-Gift is an all-volunteer annual holiday project that provides toys, bikes and books for children of low income famililes in the area of the Boulder Valley School District (Colorado). Each year approximately 3000 girls and boys, birth to age 14, receive these community donations.