To help raise funds for the Step Out to Fight Diabetes Walk on September 26th, the Arizona Ghostbusters teamed up with the local store chain Bookmans Entertainment Exchange. Bookmans specializes in new and used books, games, and music and is a great place to find many rare items. August was Movie Madness month in the store and each weekend had a different movie themed event. In honor of the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters, the chain had us appear and set up a booth at two of their store locations. The first store appearance was on Saturday August 22nd with Matt H, Christina, and Neal in attendance. The second was on Saturday August 29 with Cody, Neal, and Jeff. At each event, a small booth was set up with diabetes walk information, ghost candy, and small marshmallow bags. Our teams and the store employees handed out free raffle tickets to customers in the stores. The raffle items included both store merchandise and Ghostbusters collectables. Both store appearances were heavily promoted but we were still quite surprised to find lots of families waiting for us. We had some of the largest turnouts of families with children yet. Many of the parents told us their children played the game first and then wanted to see the film. I’m happy to report one of our biggest little fans won an original Real Ghostbusters Ghost Popper toy. Seeing that certainly brought back some memories. Instead of collecting donations for pictures with attendees, the store made a generous donation of $200 for our walk team. We’d like to thank Bookmans for these great opportunities to interact with fellow fans and for the donations.

Our diabetes walk team page is located here: http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/StepOut/StepOut5201180103/1920063677?pg=team&fr_id=6501&team_id=401809



Ugly Little Spuds



Mini-Pufts



Raffle Items





Saturday August 22nd



Matt H, Christina, and Neal



















Saturday August 29th

Raffle Jar





Cody, Jeff, and Neal



Catching up on some reading











Boys and their toys



The real Ghost Popper winner

Wow man, just wow.

The amount of stuff you & your team do just amazes me, I'm jealous.

Thanks. We still have alot coming up before the end of the year. Almost every event we do now the organizers contact us to appear. It took us awhile and knocking on alot of doors to get to that point but it was well worth it. Everything we do are events any team could do, it just takes alot of drive and determination, because you will get shut down sometimes, but you can't let that get to you.

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Catching up on some reading

Didja find Tobin's Spirit Guide there?

I was actually hoping to find the RPG book in there. Unfortunately not.