This Saturday, April 30th 2011, Fair Game will donate 20% of all sales to the Be The Cure foundation.
Be The Cure is an immensely successful grass-roots charity organization whose mission is to bring awareness and funding to pediatric cancer research.
Casey Patton, a Downers Grove resident started Be The Cure in 2007. Casey was diagnosed with a brain tumor almost five years ago and began treatment at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. It was during the early days of her treatment that Casey discovered the depressing state of pediatric cancer research in our country – it is severely underfunded. Shortly thereafter, Casey and a few of her friends at Downers Grove South High School started Be The Cure. Since its inception, BTC has raised over $76,000 for the Children’s Memorial Hospital Falk Brain Tumor Center
A good customer and friend of Fair Game came to us and asked if we would like to host a fund-raiser for BTC. The answer was quick and decisive – YES!
So this Saturday April 30th, we will take 20% of our sales and donate it all to BTC.
We will also have a bunch to Be The Cure T-Shirts for $12 – 100% of the sale of the shirts goes straight to BTC!
As an added bonus – Zoey, a therapy dog from the Delta Society will be visiting 
most of the day. Zoey is a 2 year-old Lab/Rott mix who is trained to work with behaviorally and emotionally disabled children and adults. She helps them with physical rehab, reading fluency and comprehension, and visits the sick (and our store!).
Come on down this Saturday, visit Zoey, and help support a great cause started by a local hero. Thanks Casey!
http://triblocal.com/downers-grove/community/stories/2011/04/downers-grove-game-store-pairs-with-local-charity-to-help-fight-the-battle-against-pediatric-cancer/
http://triblocal.com/woodridge/community/stories/2011/04/be-the-curetm-pediatric-cancer-fundraiser-at-fair-game-store/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fair-Game/111748958891884
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169990743054119
Based on this thread I diedced to make a pilgrimage to WANDERING DRAGON, and I thought I’d leave a short review of thoughts in no particular order.1. It was a pretty straight-forward drive for me, but I had a hard time finding the place initially. Once I realized that it was around the side of the building, I’m sure I could find it again.2. It’s on the second floor, so you have to navigate some stairs to get there.3. The people there were quite friendly. They were willing to talk about games, answer questions about games, or just let me alone to look at the games. 4. They have a couple of different WANDERING DRAGON t-shirt designs for sale. Nice!5. They have a game library. Not quite as big as at FAIR GAME, but they have one.6. They have a nice atmosphere in the place. Some middle-earth maps on the walls, that kind of thing.7. They have a very large place for playing games. Reminded me of a school cafeteria with around a dozen long tables. Lots of space, and seemed quite empty with only a few guys playing something in one corner.8. Not so happy with their product selection. They have lots of board games, but not much RPG stock at all. Some 4E and Pathfinder and AD&D reprints that was about it. They had a few sets of poly dice and blocks of d6 s but nothing really different or unusual to pick from. Since I’m a rpg guy, that was the biggest disappointment for me.Overall, looks like a nice place with nice people and a lot of potential. The lack of RPG stuff is probably my deal-breaker, however, so hard to say how often I’ll actually visit there.
What a great event! Here are some photos I was able to grab when things slowed down a bit…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaotic_mind/sets/72157626645110120/show/