Dear Readers,
On behalf of the ISCCA, the Texas Lounge and myself, Emperor 32 Michael Myte, I would like to thank the community of Calgary once again for coming together for a cause! This time the cause was granting a wish for a dear friend who is entering chemotherapy for cancer. Grand Duke 22 Kevin DunaNation started chemo on Aug 30th, and so he wanted to do a fundraiser for cancer research.
With the help of Calgary’s community, our little shave your head fundraiser netted $1321.00!! This is amazing and we thank everyone for their support of Kevin’s idea and bid to make this donation to the Alberta Cancer Society!
Special thanks to the Texas Lounge for hosting this event, Deva Dave for making everyone bald, the ISCCA for being on hand to sell shooters and, as Kevin is part of this organization, the funds will be a direct donation to the Alberta Cancer Society through the ISCCA; and of course GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine for photographing the event!
And just because charity cannot get enough cash, I’m sending a challenge out to all those who got their heads buzzed to pop out to the Donnie Peters Cut-A-Thon on Monday September 7, and although we don’t need a cut, a $20 dollar donation in lieu of your cut helps someone with HIV/AIDS benefit from the AIDS Calgary Hot Lunch Program.
I hope to see you all out there, and thank you again for you friendship and support of everything we do.
Sincerely,
Michael Espeseth
aka
Emperor 32 of Calgary
Michael Myte

Dear Readers,
Thanks for playing with your balls!!!
The second annual “Lawn Bowling for Beswick”, held August 09, 2009 at the Inglewood Lawn Bowling Association was another HUGE success. We managed to more than double our fundraising dollars; we caught another great day of sunshine and managed to provide a refreshing bar and hot burgers from the ISCCA.
I would really like to thank some of the people that made our event an even better success than last year: The Texas Lounge for your wonderful donation of bottled water, the volunteers who kept things on schedule and cleaned at the end of our day, and the Inglewood Lawn Bowling Association for donating their facility for a beautiful day of lawn bowling with friends and supporters of the SHARP Foundation and Beswick House. I would also like to acknowledge and thank GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine for your sponsorship of the event again this year. It was greatly appreciated by everyone involved in the planning.
I wish to extend an extra thanks to the queens from the ISCCA for daring to face the sunlight (and not go “poof”) while gathering a team to lawn bowl into a solid last place finish. You go girls!
Watch for us again in August 2010 and come out to take part in all the fun that you have been missing. Thank you everyone for coming out to play with your balls in support of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS.
Cheers,
The Friends of Beswick