OREGON ADOPTEE RIGHTS MEASURE FUNDRAISERS!

CALIFORNIA:

SAN FRANCISCO:
Saturday, September 5, 1998
A Mixer For Max: A Fundraiser In Support of the Oregon Adoptee Rights Initiative, Sponsored By Voices of Adoption & Bay Area Bastard Nation.
5:00pm - 10:00pm, 2006 22nd Avenue (& Pacheco) in San Francisco. For a $35 dollar minimum donation per person made out to "Oregon Open 98" (required at the door), you can join us for a Mexican happy-hour reception with super raffle prizes to benefit the Measure 58 campaign. To learn more about Measure 58 visit
http://www.plumsite.com/oregon. Ole! RSVP & Directions:
415-435-7960 or
rsvp@plumsite.com

COSTA MESA:
Saturday, August 29th, 1998
8.00 a.m. - whenever
SCARABS (SoCal Bastards)SCARABS will be hosting a garage sale/Oregon Fundraiser 8am to whenever. Please email me if you have stuff to donate or can come
help work the sale:
donohue70@hotmail.com. Read a humorous treatment of how it went here! "Tale of a Sale"

NEW JERSEY:

September 12, 1998, 12.30 p.m. on, $10.00 per person
Come one, come all to the Jersey Area Bastards BBQ Oregon Fundraiser to be held on September 12th. Start time will be 12:30 p.m. This event is open to all, so bring your family, friends, and anyone else you can think of that day.

So come out and let your taste buds dine on a wide variety of Bastard delicacies that are sure to please. Items on the menu that day include: Bastard Baked Bean Revenge, Search Salad, Bastrd Burgrs, and many more! Do you have a favorite adoption-themed dish you'd like to bring? Well, bring it!

Festivities that day will include taking a dip in the warm waters of our
in-ground pool, a spectacular raffle filled with great items for the
discerning activist, and networking with your fellow Bastard Nationals.
It's sure to be a fun day for all!

Price of admission is $10 per person. Contact me for directions at
mjshay@bellatlantic.net or call me at (732) 240-9659.

See You There!
John Peret
NJ State Director
Bastard Nation

NEW YORK:

Books and Music for Open 98!
Donate to Open 98 the painless way: buys books and music from Amazon.com, and 10% will go to fund the Oregon Initiative. All profits will be matched by Lesli LaRocco, Bastard Nation's NE Regional Director, doubling your good deed! To order, go to
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/park/1306/amazon.html Order the books and music listed, click on the Amazon.com logo, or use the Amazon.com search field on the page. No matter how you do it, Open 98 benefits!

PENNSYLVANIA:

FUNDRAISING events held by BOPS (Bastards of PA) have yielded several hundred dollars so far for the OR Adoptees' Rights Initiative. We are joining with the NJ Bastards in sponsoring the OR Fundraiser in Toms River on Sept. 12 (see NJ for details)

WASHINGTON:

September 26, 1998, 10 am - 6 pm
ARE YOU ADOPTED? A BIRTHPARENT? SEARCHING? 1998 Washington State
Adoption Search Fair will be held Saturday, September 26th from 10am-6pm at the Waterfront Park in Downtown Seattle on Pier 58. Admission is free. Search information, books, merchandise, exhibits by local search and support groups and services, free registration with the world's largest reunion registry, a raffle and more. Proceeds benefit the Oregon Adoptee Rights Initiative. If you would like to volunteer, be an exhibitor, donate raffle items, or just attend, phone 425-883-7293 or email sheag@oz.net for more information.

SING FOR OPEN RECORDS
WA Songstress Mary Hunt will be donating the profits of all her singing gigs to Oregon Open '98 for the months of September and October, 1998. If you're in WA state and would like to have Mary's golden voice at your next event or party, contact
Mary for details.

 

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