Entries from July 1, 2010 - August 1, 2010

Friday
Jul302010

2010 MMR Second Annual Ride

Event Date(s): July 30 - August 1, 2010

The ride this year will take us into Wisconsin. We had a very successful event in March with families from Northwestern Wisconsin and decided then to offer more families from Wisconsin our support and recognition for their hero. If you would like to join us please contact us through MinnesotaMemorialRiders@gmail.com for a ride registration form.

The cost of the ride is $30.00 for the ride and an additional $10.00 for the passenger.

We are limiting the number of bikes for this event at the request of the families.

MMR 2010 2nd Annual Ride Brochure (PDF 180KB)

Saturday
Jul242010

SFC Matthew Ryan Kahler Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser

Event Date(s): July 24, 2010

It is hard to believe that 27 months have passed since Matt left us.  However, that does mean that the day to celebrate his life, with the SFC Matthew R. Kahler Memorial Scholarship Fundraising Golf Tournament, is rapidly coming upon us.  This year’s tournament will be held on Saturday, 24 July 2010, at the North Links Golf Course, in North Mankato, MN.  We are hoping that this year’s tournament will be as fun and even more successful than last year’s.  This year’s tournament date falls on Matt’s 32nd Birthday.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!!

As I explained last year, Matt’s Scholarship is an endowment scholarship, where only the earnings are used to fund the scholarship that is given each year.  It is our goal that the size of each year’s scholarship will soon reach $1,000.  However, in order for that to happen we are going to need to raise the amount of money similar to what all of you helped us raise last year.

Once again, we have decided to have family, individual, or group hole sponsorships, as a means of raising money for this year’s tournament.  We are very aware of the economic hardship many of us are facing.  Consequently, we have changed the sponsorship fees to $300, $500, $1000, or the amount of your choice.  Your donation will give you a sign on one of the holes that reads:THIS HOLE IS SPONSORED BY THE ______________________FAMILY in memory of Matt.  ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE, since the scholarship is being managed by the YME Dollars for Scholars.

Once again the Kahler family would like to thank all of you for your help and support.  This is becoming a wonderful way for all of us to get together and celebrate Matt’s life each year.  The scholarship is also wonderful legacy that all of you have helped to create.

We will appreciate it if all hole sponsorships are returned by July 05, 2010.

Thank you very much,

The Kahler Family

Download Letter and Hole Sponsorship/Donation Form (PDF 32KB)
Download 2010 Tournament Registration Form (PDF 13KB)

Wednesday
Jul212010

Minnesota Memorial Riders Has A New Website!

We recently decided to move our website to new hosting provider that offered a number of features that were not availble through our old provider.  The new site was completed and put into production on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, at midnight.

The general look and feel is still the same but there are a few significant enhancements that we hope will make the site more user-friendly and easier to find the information you are looking for.

The enhancements include:

  • The ability to search the site using the Search feature on the right side of the screen.
  • The ability to subscribe to an RSS feed for the site so you will know when new information is available.  This feature is also available on the right-side navigation area.
  • A new News & Events area that is presented in a blog-style format making it much easier to quickly get to find and access information.  This includes the ability to filter News &  Event postings by defined categories such as MMR News, MMR Events, Non-MMR Events, etc.  You can also filter postings by the month in which they were posted.  This new filtering capability is also available via the right-side navigation area.
  • The ability to easily print a News & Event posting in a printer-friendly format. Just select the Print Article icon under any posting.
  • The ablity to e-mail a News & Event posting link.  Just select the E-Mail Article link under any posting and enter the recipent's e-mail address and any comments.
  • The ability to share a News & Event posting via one of many social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace to name a few.  Again, this feature is available by selecting the Share Article icon under any posting.
  • An enhanced photo gallery for sharing MMR ride and event photos.  The photo gallery on the previous site only showed photos in a slideshow format that didn't allow you to get an idea of what photos were available and you couldn't just jump to a particular photo.  Our new photo gallery shows you thumbnail views of each photo in the album so you can get a quick idea of what's there, jump right to a particular photo, or move through each photo in a lightbox viewer.

The new site is also much easier to update from an administrative perspective allowing us to post information on the site much quicker.

We hope that you find these new features beneficial and we look forward to having you come back and visit us often.  Also, feel free to add a comment to this post and let us know what you think of the new site!