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Dec
16

Our Generous Sponsors

By admin | Fundraising, Uncategorized

This year the Bedford Invitational is brought to you by Midwest Mortgage. Rick Deeb, a 1984 Bedford State Champion, has never forgotten his wrestling family and his business is sponsoring the event. In a difficult economic climate Rick has gone above and beyond for the team, just as he did on the mat. We all owe him a great thank you for his support of our program.

The wrestling program would also like to extend our deepest gratitude to the following businesses and individuals who have sponsored a weight class. Their generosity will help pay for new uniforms and other important team needs. Please join us in thanking them AND patronizing their businesses.

103 – Temperance Self Storage – Ken Vogel

112 – Heidtman’s Northern Tree Service – (734) 856-8733

119 – Sue Brown at Danberry Realty

125 –  Great Lakes Wrestling Club

130 – Montrie Auction and Estate Service – Jen and Jade Montrie

135 – Brink’s Home Inspection – Josh Brink

140 – Bob and Sue Gorrell / Bill & Carol Regnier


145 –  Kenny Vance

152 – Midwest Mortgage and Investments - Rick Deeb

160 – Birch Haven Kennel – Walt Becki

171 – Debra Reiner, D.D.S.

189 – Jessica Miletti - Real Estate 4 u

215 – Bedford Stump Removal, Earl “Duke” LaPlante – 734-847-8367

285 – EnDiSys, LLC. – Jeff Striggow

Nov
25

Poker Fundraiser – Grapplerette Fundraiser

By admin | Fundraising

GLWC is running the poker room for the last time this year. If you want to pay for uniforms, equipment, and other team needs without SPENDING this is the way to go. Here’s the schedule.

Sunday November 27 – All shifts filled
2 p.m. -8 p.m. Roman Rimmer and Rich Allison
8 p.m. -2 a.m. Rebecca Regnier and Karla Vogel

Monday November 28 – We’re all set for Monday !
2 p.m. -8 p.m. Chris Barber
2 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Fawn Turshon
5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. John Barber
8 p.m. – 2 a.m. Coach and A Buddy

Tuesday November 29 – TWO LATE SHIFT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Fawn Turshon
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Rich Allison/ 4p.m. to 8 p.m. Deb Rogaliner
8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Allison Hamman
8 p.m. to 11 p.m. LeAnn Lohr/ 11p.m to 2 a.m. Coach Vogel

If you can take a shift please email bedfordwrestling@gmail.com or call 734-347-2425  – this is a great fundraiser and it would be a shame to cancel because we can’t find people.

PLUS! The Bedford Wrestling Grapplerettes have a fundraiser underway. They’re selling spirit earrings and buckeyes! Don’t miss your chance to make the holidays a little sweeter and  your ears a little more fan fashionable! BEDFORD WRESTLING GRAPPLERETTE FUNDRAISER ORDER FORM

Nov
20

Wrestling Season Begins – Some Important Dates

By admin | Attention Wrestlers, Events, Fundraising, Mules in the News

Welcome back Mules! Monday is the first day of wrestling practice. Your sons will be given a packet of information and forms that they need to fill out and return to Coach right away. Monday there is also a Spirit Club Meeting. We’ll be meeting at Coney Island on Lewis from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Here are some other dates to put on your calendar. And don’t forget to subscribe to bedfordwrestling.com so you never miss an update! All you do is click on the box on the right column. Enter your email and you’ll get message to confirm you’re a subscriber. It’s the easiest way to stay in the loop, especially if you forget to check this site

November 25th THIS FRIDAY - Spirit Wear Order Forms Due. Forms will be in the packet they receive and can be printed from this page of our website.

November 27, 28, 29 – GLWC Poker Nights – We need workers for ALL days. Only one volunteer has signed up. We work 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. See the schedule by clicking here… November GLWC Poker Night Schedule

December 1st – Picture Day is right before practice. Forms and envelopes will be handed out at practice. They are also available  to print out here.  Picture Order Forms – DECEMBER 1st

December 6th – Meet the Team at the Bedford Junior High Cafeteria – 6:30 p.m. Spirit Wear Order pick up.

December 17th – Bedford Invitational and New Wrestling Room Open House. Please reach out to all the Alumni.We’re opening the season at home. We’re showing off the room that everyone worked so hard to get. And most importantly the boys are WRESTLING THEIR HEARTS OUT!

December 21st – RED OUT! Shirts on sale soon. GLWC kids make a tunnel, fans make some noise, and the wrestlers wreak havoc under the mat light at BHS! This is not to be missed!

January 4th – Senior Night. Families of Seniors mark your calendars, Senior Night is early this year because we don’t have too many home events.

And did you see this article? Here’s 10 Questions with Assistant Coach Regnier in the Toledo Blade Sunday.

Nov
06

Spirit Club Meeting

By admin | Fundraising

Just a reminder that Spirit Club will meet Monday night in B-08 at Bedford High School. The meeting goes from 6:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m. Click here on the link to read the agenda. November 7, 2011 Agenda – Bedford Wrestling Spirit Club

Please make time to attend. You’ll notice on the agenda we’re deciding on Spirit Wear final designs, planning Meet the Team (Dec. 6), and getting set for Red Out. (Dec. 21 – mark your calendar.)

We NEED your ideas. Please spend an hour with wrestling family and fans getting ready for the season.It’s almost time.

In addition please do your very best to block out time for ONE SHIFT in November for GLWC Poker nights. We need you on…

SUNDAY November 27   – Two people from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

(Rebecca Regnier & a buddy will do 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Nov. 27th)

MONDAY November 28 – Two people from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Two people from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. (This is a VERY difficult night to fill as the football banquet is the same night. PLEASE GLWC, non-football families, and others step up to take a shift.)

TUESDAY November 29 – Two people from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Two people from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

You don’t need to know anything about poker. You are a cashier for GLWC’s fundraiser. That’s it and it’s the last one of 2011. Thank you.

See you at Spirit Club!

Aug
29

Poker Sign Ups

By admin | Fundraising

GLWC Poker is this Wednesday through Friday. Here’s the list of spots we need to fill. Please email bedfordwrestling@gmail.com ASAP to help us complete this fundraiser.

Wed. August 31, 2011

2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

1. Chris Barber

2. Bob Gorrell (2 to 6)/ Rebecca Regnier (6 to 8 )

8:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m.

1. Fawn Turshon

2. Kevin Vogel [Read more...]

Aug
22

A Word About Fundraising

By admin | Fundraising

Wrestlers pitch in to install wall mats.

YOUR volunteering raised the money for these mats!

WOW! That’s the word. While the wrestlers goal during the off season is to get more experience at spring, summer and fall tournaments the goal of our parent groups and supporters was to raise funds to renovate the new wrestling room. We aimed to find events where we didn’t have to lay down our own cash – just effort.

Our goal was pretty challenging – Coach gave us a mission to raise $25,000 for paint, purchase wall mats, re-condition the existing floor mats to fit in the new space, and finally purchase new tournament mats. $25,000 is a lot of money but the payoff of a new room and mats will help very single wrestler from Seniors on down to the GLWC kids. So we got to work.

Parents, athletes, fans, and families did two test drives, supported a golf outing, worked poker rooms, and sold seat backs at MIS. There was a lot of effort in a short amount of time. We know it’s seems like everyday we’re asking for help.

But we’re excited to report that we’re ALMOST there. How almost? If we do three poker nights with GLWC at the end August and three in November we’ll have hit our HUGE GOAL. We’ll have raised $25,000 for the renovation and helped to fund the team needs throughout the season.

So here’s the promise. Help us finish the GLWC Poker Nights by working a shift or two, and you won’t have to take time during wrestling season to do anything but watch wrestling. That’s right. Nothing to do during season but CHEER FOR YOUR WRESTLER, knowing that you did all you could to financially support the team in the off season. The next six poker dates help pay for floor mats, lodging for tournaments, and other needs throughout the year.

It’s incredible what this small group of wrestling families and fans has accomplished since we began to raise money for renovations. Just this spring we started at zero! But between GLWC and Spirit Club we’ve nearly reached $25,000 in funds for room renovations in less than five months. This wrestling family did all this without opening our own checkbooks! Hard work wins people – just like with the team.

Please get our your calendar and see what you can do to put the teams over the top. The following GLWC Poker Nights need to be staffed. Email bedfordwrestling@gmail.com to sign up. If you have ANY doubt that your effort matters take a look at those pictures. The old weight room is looking more and more like a wrestling room everyday! Thanks to you. [Read more...]

Aug
08

Poker Worker Sign Up Sheets

By admin | Fundraising

Great Lakes Wrestling Club will be staffing Dollar King Poker on August 17th to the 20th. Workers are still needed. This is easy, it takes a few hours in the air conditioning. GLWC will be earning money for the new wrestling mats. Please look at the dates below and email bedfordwrestling@gmail.com with the times you’re willing to work.

GLWC POKER WORKER SIGN UP  – AUGUST 17-20

Wed. August 17, 2011

2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

1. LeAnn Lohr

2.

8:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m.

1. Rimmer

2. Wilke

Thurs.  August 18, 2011

[Read more...]

Jul
24

Ford Drive One 4UR School

By admin | Events, Fundraising

The wrestling team has the opportunity to earn $6,000 from Ford  Motor Company on August 6th. Ford will donate $20 per test drive to Bedford Wrestling up to 300 households. Please begin to ask your friends, family, and neighbors to spare less than 30 minutes to come over to the front parking lot of Bedford High School. They need to be at least 18 years old and have a valid driver’s license. They don’t have to buy a thing. Just sign up, drive, and take a quick survey about Ford vehicles.

Coming to this event is not enough. You need to bring folks with you. Ford is willing to give up to $6,000 if we can come up with 300 houses to participate. This money will go straight to the wrestling room and equipment. That means high school wrestlers all the way down to little GLWC wrestlers will benefit immediately.

We did a wonderful job with our Grogan’s Test Drive but that was 250 drivers. This is 300 HOUSEHOLDS. It’s tougher. But the same rules apply. No need to buy a thing or sell a thing and our team gets a HUGE donation.

So start lining people up! Here’s a form to take to work.FORD DRIVE ONE 4UR SCHOOL EVENT Sign Up Are you on Facebook? Here’s a way to sign people up on Facebook. Click to show that you’re attending and invite your Facebook Friends to attend to! Share it on your wall and invite everyone to be a part of THE 300!

Remind your buddies about all the candy, cookie dough, wrapping paper, and other items you’ve purchased to support school fundraisers. You’re not asking anyone to buy a thing. You are asking them to help the team get FREE money. It’s a lot easier to ask for help when you don’t have to ask folks to spend.

Plus they’ll be free cold drinks and they’ll be entered in a DRAWING FOR A $100 GIFT CARD TO BEST BUY just for test driving!

Ford is giving this money to schools. Let’s make sure the MULES get the most they can by just showing up and taking a spin. 

MULES START YOUR ENGINES!

Jul
18

Dodge and Grogan Present $5,000 to Bedford Wrestling

By admin | Fundraising, Photos

  

Bedford Wrestling Spirit Club would like to extend a HUGE thank you to Dodge and Grogan’s Towne Chrysler Jeep Dodge. They presented us with a check for $5,000 on Monday morning. This was a donation wrestling families earned by bringing 250 test drivers to a Dodge Test Drive Fundraiser last May.In May wrestling team supporters got behind the wheel of several brand new Dodge vehicles provided by Grogan’s Towne. Dodge donated $20 a test drive to the team. $5,000 is the maximum donation for the Test Drive Fundraiser with Dodge and thanks to the staff at Grogran we reached our goal. Grogan sales staff even extended the hours of the May event so we had time to get those 250 drivers to the parking lot at B.H.S.  

The owner of Grogan’s Towne, Denny Amrhein, received a handshake and thank you from the all the wrestlers, coaches, and parents in attendance for the ceremoney at the dealership on Telegraph in Toledo. Coach Brighton and Athletic Director, Mark German were there for the presentation and explained that the money is a big step  forward in the current campaign to fund renovations in the new wrestling room. Plus take a look at the slide show, you’ll see 13ABC, Fox Toledo, WTOL, and Bedford Now all covered the event. Don’t forget to keep an eye out on the news tonight for our boys and for an interview with Coach Brighton.  

Denny Amrhein, Grogan's Towne Owner, talks to the media.

Coach explains how the donation will help renovate the new wrestling room.

The money donated by Dodge will go to renovating the team’s first ever wrestling room!  Thank you again Dodge, Grogan’s Towne for this terrific fundraising opportunity. And thank you parents and wrestlers (that also includes our little guys from GLWC!) for taking time out this morning to make it a memorable moment and to show Grogan how much we appreciate it. 

Jul
07

Important Dates

By admin | Events, Fundraising, Uncategorized

As you know we are currently in the midst of a major fundraising campaign to renovate our new wrestling room. We have set up several fundraisers in August, September and November to reach our goal. None of our fundraisers require our families to sell or purchase a thing. They are all free to us. All we need to do is participate by either test driving a Ford, working a poker night for the GLWC, and collecting seatbacks at MIS.

This combination of fundraisers will ensure that the team has a well equipped wrestling room AND new mats for tournaments. The mats will be used from Seniors all the way down to the littlest GLWC wrestler.

EVERYONE has to do the test drive below if they can, but the rest, just look at the dates and start thinking where you might be able to spare a few hours. Click on GLWC August 17- 20 2011 POKER to see an example of the time required to volunteer for the poker nights.

Thank you. You are helping us all leave a legacy for today’s wrestlers and into the future for tomorrow’s young Mules!

DATES TO REMEMBER

July 11th – Spirit Club meeting at 6 p.m. at the new wresting room. We’ve got a lot going on. Come meet the new Spirit Club Officers, find out what’s going on, and offer your talents up for the team! The meeting takes one hour.

July 18th- All wrestlers, coaches and parents who are available please meet at Grogan’s on Telegraph at 10:20 a.m. Grogan is presenting us a check for $5,000 for the test drive fundraiser we did in May. There will be news crews there so wear your Bedford Wresting T-Shirt! This is not a fundraiser just a great chance to thank Dodge and Grogan.
 
August 6th – We need 300 households!That’s right we’re doing it again, another test drive. This time Bronde’s is helping us out and we need one person PER household up to 300 households to get $6,000. In other words we get 20 bucks a house! But we have to make sure EACH of us gets 10 or 15 of our neighbors and relatives to take five minutes out of their day and test drive a Ford at the BHS parking lot. It runs from 9:00 a.m. to Noon. Same as before we don’t have to purchase a thing – just participate and we get a GREAT donation to renovate the wrestling room.

August 13th- Weight Room Dedication Day. Please join Mule Muscle for the dedication of the weight room on the campus of BHS. It’s the culmination of so much work by wrestling families. Without the weight room there’d be no wrestling room and without the wrestlers there’d be no weight room! Please be there to see it named AND to be publicly thanked for your Pepsi Refresh Efforts. We’re pretty sure there’s a free Pepsi involved. Time to be announced.
 
August 17, 17, 19, and 20th – Poker Nights. Four people a night in two shifts. So basically you work 5 hours, just COUNTING in the air conditioning and GLWC could earn hundreds of dollars a night to help pay for new mats.
 
August 21st – Second MIS Race. Free day at the race. Money for the season. No brainer!
 
August 31, Sept 1, Sept 2 – Poker Nights. Four people a night in two shifts. So basically you work 5 hours, just COUNTING in the air conditioning and GLWC earns money to help pay for new mats.
 
November 27, 28, 29 – Poker Nights. Four people a night in two shifts. So basically you work 5 hours, just COUNTING while seated comfortably and GLWC earns money for the final tweaks to the room before the season begins!

 We expect EVERYONE to bring people to the test drive since that’s 300 houses needed. This only takes ten minutes.

We understand there are a lot of dates. Just get out your calendar and see where you might be able to pitch in.  In these tough economic times we’re working hard to fund the teams needs without asking anyone to reach further into their pockets. We can get this done by working hard instead of paying big!

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