On Monday, June 15th from 7 pm to 1am, the Arizona Ghostbusters teamed with the local GameStop and Salvation Army to help celebrate the release of Ghostbusters The Video Game. The GameStop store led the entire chain with the most pre-orders and the manager really wanted to host a special event for the game. The store and the Salvation were very excited to have us help them at the event. All of our teams put alot of work into the nights activities. The store provided many great raffle prizes including the GB wallets, belt buckles, wristbands as well as a copy of the video game and blu-ray. The store came up with several awesome kids games throughout the night and the Salvation Army provided free GB themed facepainting, popcorn, and sold "Pet Slimers" for donations. A large blow up screen was brought in so show the Ghostbusters films and a mobile game cave trailer was on had for free gaming. At our booth we had Stay-Puft Marshmallows, Crunch bars, and Twinkies. We also had our caricature posters, coloring sheets, and new info pamphlets. We helped run the raffles each half hour and kids games.

The turnout at the event was awesome and the crowd was very excited about the game. The game store promoted the event heavily in the weeks preceeding the release and our local papers featured the event on their calendars which helped bring many more in. It was great to see so many families and children out. Our team had a blast as well. We had one of our largest gatherings of our current team members plus several members suiting up for the first time. Several members of GBfans also showed up and some in gear as well who may hopefully join us in the future. By the end of the night over $300 was collected for the Salvation Army. There's nothing better than being able to use your hobby for a great cause. It was a great night for everyone who went and certainly reassurance Ghostbusters is still alive and strong in the heart and soul of many fans.

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On Saturday May 2nd the Arizona Ghostbusters helped out at the Phoenix Diabetes Expo. This was our second year at the Expo. The Expo is a free event for those individuals and families affected by diabetes to find out new information on treaments. Our goal was to help recruit new walkers for the Step Out to Fight Diabetes walks we participate in during the fall. We were given a booth as well so we could also share info about our team. We made contacts with many charities at last years expo and we did again this year. We handed out buttons at the event as well as "Diabetesbusters" stickers. Our helpers did a great job hosting the booth and got alot of walkers signed up. We'd like to thank the American Diabetes Association and expo lead Mary Mendola for allowing us to help out.

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