Epicurean Calgary

Epicurean Calgary
Calgary, AB
Canada
ph: 403-269-6592 ex. 2
epicureancalgary@yahoo.ca

Special Charity Events

Year Round

Shave Your Lid for a Kid

Various locations

Shave Your Lid for a Kid
Shave Your Lid for a Kid is Kids Cancer Care's largest fundraising initiative, raising more than $9 million since its inception in 1998. The shave program is successful because of you. Each year, hundreds of Albertans like you shave their heads for our kids. This bold move shows moral support for the kids who lose their hair during cancer treatments, while raising money for camp, research, hospital and scholarship programs for young people affected by cancer.

5 steps to a stellar shave.
Planning a shave is easy. Just follow the steps below and you'll be on your way to a spectacular hair-razing event:

Download a shave kit.
Set a fundraising goal, date and location for your shave.
Register your shave online with Kids Cancer Care.
Spread the word. Tell all your friends and family, teachers and colleagues about your shave. Share your fundraising goal with them and invite them to join your shave as a shavee or pledger. Contact their office for promotional ideas.
Make your shave event fun. Invite your friends. Bring music. Have a BBQ for your supporters. Shave yourself a Mohawk first. Start a competition between shavees with a prize for the highest fundraiser.

Shaving your head is a great way to raise money while showing moral support for kids who lose their hair during cancer treatments. If bald isn't your style, you can always opt for a haircut or pledge someone else who is shaving. Check out the new shave video here and share it widely.
Shave Your Lid for a Kid is a grassroots initiative sponsored by Trico Homes and made possible by thousands of brave Albertans who shave their heads and raise vital funds and awareness for children with cancer.

For more ideas on how to promote and organize your own shave or for help registering and pledging online, contact Leah Nelner at 403.984.1223 or email her at nelner@kidscancercare.ab.ca.
To find out more about our Shave Your Lid for a Kid program, contact Leah Nelner at 403.984.1223 or email her at nelner@kidscancercare.ab.ca.

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July 2017

July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2017

Lawn Summer Nights

Inglewood Lawn Bowling Club, 1235 8 Ave. S.E.

Registration: $400/Team
Spectator Tickets: $10

Round up yourself & three friendsGather your team, and get ready to hit the greens over four summer nights this July and August. Witty team names and best dressed teams can earn awesome prizes, so don’t hold back. Get some inspiration from bowlers from previous years.
Lawn Summer Nights is a unique summertime lawn bowling fundraiser held in cities across Canada, benefiting Cystic Fibrosis Canada. In each city, two hundred people gather in teams, typically over four Thursdays in July/August, wearing classic leisure attire, enjoying the outdoors, music, classic refreshments and lawn bowls, while raising funds and awareness to support those living with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in Canada.
Thanks to the generosity of the sponsors and the continual support of participants,
over $2,000,000 has been raised to date.

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July 22, 2017

9th Annual Multiple Miles for Myeloma 5km Walk & 10km Run

North Glenmore Park, Lot F, 7225 Crowchild Trail S.W.

Time:
10K Run: 9:00 a.m.
5K Run: 9:05 a.m.
5K Walk: 9:10 a.m.

Registration:
5K Walk $40
5K Run $40
10K Run $40
10K/5K Team (2-4 members) $40

On Saturday, July 22, the Southern Alberta Myeloma Patient Society will hold the
9th Anual Multiple Miles for Myeloma 5km walk, 5km run, and 10km run at North
Glenmore Park. This event is a fundraiser and funds generated will stay within Alberta to support important research on multiple myeloma.
Multiple myeloma is an incurable, but treatable, cancer of the plasma cell, a type
of white blood cell. Many Calgarians and Albertans have been affected by this
disease, including those who have been diagnosed with multiple myeloma as well as
those who have had family members or friends who have been diagnosed.

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July 23, 2017

Alberta Ride for Sight

Bragg Creek Community Centre, 23 White Ave., Bragg Creek, Alberta

Ride for Sight Parade Departures:
Registration – 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Bike Games – 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Show and Shine – 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Beer Gardens – 1:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Poker Run – 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Band – 3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Last Call – 6:00 p.m.

Price:
Fundraise a minimum of $40

Ride for Sight is a Canadian tradition. For 38 years, motorcyclists from across the country have rallied together in support of vision science – raising more than $20 million for researchers at hospitals and universities coast-to-coast.
Rev your fundraising engines because another action-packed ride season is just around the corner. With events in Northern and Southern Alberta, Northern and Central Ontario, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland they’re bringing the best in motorcycle-themed entertainment to your hometown.

Highlights for 2017 include:
- Spectacular motorcycle parades
- Live music & entertainment
- Show ‘n’ Shines & bike games
- Camping & vendor markets
- National draw for an exciting grand prize
- And more…

So register online now and add to the over $20 million raised for the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

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July 23, 2017

Calgary Ironman 70.3

Begins at Auburn Bay Lake, 200 Auburn Bay Boulevard S.E.

Registration: $315 USD
Fee for Relay Teams: $400 USD

Swim - 1.9 km. (1.2 miles)
Bike - 9 km. (56 miles) - point-to-point
Run - 21.1 km. (13.1 miles) - out and back
Start: 7:00 a.m.

Nestled in the foothills of Western Canadas Rocky mountains, with rolling terrain and clear blue waters, Calgary is the home of the Ironman 70.3 challenge. This course is one of the most challenging and scenic in the 70.3 series. It's been voted one of the top ten most scenic triathlons in the world by Triathlete Magazine. There are Ironman 70.3 and Half Ironman Distances.
Ironman 70.3 Calgary showcases the clean waters of Auburn Bay against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. Athletes will begin with a 1.2-mile wave-start, one-loop swim that will start and finish at the beach of Auburn Bay Lake in south Calgary. A 56-mile bike course will take cyclists point-to-point through a tour of Alberta's spectacular ranch country, featuring views of the Rockies. The course is challenging, but fast. The 13.1-mile run is an out-and-back paved run course through the beautiful Bow River Pathway. Although it's relatively flat, the run course will treat athletes to a challenging hill up the Bow River Valley.

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July 29, 2017

Reader Rock Garden Annual Stroll

Reader Rock Garden, Corner of 25th Ave. and MacLeod Tr. S.E.

1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Free admission

Mark your calendars to visit the Garden on Saturday, July 29. This family-friendly free event is open to ALL and will surely be a celebration! This year, the Stroll is part of 2017 Historic Calgary Week; expect to have fun, while learning about this special place. There will be info sessions, bargain book sale, exciting draw prizes, a unique glass garden (glass art for sale), light refreshments and tours at the adjoining Union Cemetery too. Other surprises may be in-store; you’ll have to come and see for yourselves; bring your friends along to share in the memories!
Reader Rock Garden Historic Park site is one of Calgary’s most unique Cultural Landscapes and the first Legacy Park to open. Its restoration was honoured with a Calgary Heritage Authority Lion Award in Landscape Preservation, earning official designation as a Provincial Historic Resource.
Open from sunrise to sunset, the historic garden is a tribute to one man’s passion for plants and beauty. William Roland Reader was the Superintendent for Calgary Parks from 1913 – 1942 who transformed a bare hillside into an internationally acclaimed garden.

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July 29, 2017

Rugged Maniac

Spruce Meadows, 18011 Spruce Meadows Way S.W.

Start times are in waves: 9:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.

Registration: $89 until July 26, $100 after
Student/Military: $79 until July 26, $90 after

You could spend your Saturday running errands or binge-watching TV, but wouldn’t it be more fun to do something absolutely insane with your friends?
Picture this: You arrive at Spruce Meadows on July 29th with a carload of your most adventurous friends. As you step out you notice the people around you admiring your group’s coordinated “Avengers-in-bathing-suits” costumes and your on-point Hulk-green body paint. In the festival, people are already riding the mechanical bull and playing beach volleyball (Rugged Maniac is definitely more than just a mud run), but you’re more interested in the stein-hoisting contest on the main stage. You make a note to sign up for that and the pie-eating contest after you run. You see obstacles in the distance – mud-covered people jumping over fire, bouncing on trampolines, rocketing down a huge water slide – and your surging excitement confirms what you already knew: Today is going to be awesome!
Stop daydreaming. Grab your friends and get your tickets now.

Get Muddy For A Good Cause
In the 1970s, less than a quarter of people with cancer survived. But the survival rate has doubled over the last 40 years thanks to advances in cancer research, funded in part by the American Cancer Society. ACS aims to accelerate progress so that three in four people survive the disease within the next 20 years – but this will only be possible if enough people support fundraising events like Rugged Maniac.

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