Making progress!

My Wife Suzy and I after the Big Ride Last year!  Everyone should try this!

It is hard to believe a year has passed since the last time I blogged about the Leukemia/Lymphoma (LLS)Society and our efforts to support them through Team and Training(TNT). Long after we made our goal and ride last year, donations kept coming in. All in all we raised over $13,000 last year for the event, our largest fund raising year ever! With the help of the bowling community through 50/50 raffles, friends giving donations, and businesses supporting us we are still making a difference.

Why are we so committed to this cause? It started out on a very personal note to us. We had a friend that had lymphoma and it was the treatment partially funded by TNT that helped save her life. Then Sue’s Father came down with lymphoma. TNT is making progress on a daily basis to battle leukemia and lymphoma. You do not have to look far to find some that has had their life touched by these terrible diseases. Besides personal connections, our team each year gets a team honoree.

Our Team Honoree this year is 2 year old Ryley Avon. She was diagnosed on August 28, 2008 with ALL, a form of leukemia. With a lot of help from LLS/TNT she has a 90% chance of being completely cured from this leukemia. That’s right, 90%! Hopefully little Ryley Avon will be another success story for our organization.

It is estimated in 2008 that 138,530 people in the United States will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. An estimated 894,530 people are living with one of these diseases in the US. That means about 1 in 300 people are affected by these diseases! With these numbers it is not hard to believe that we all are touched by it at one point in our lives.

Not only are successful cures being developed, through major contributions to research and helping families TNT is making a difference! The 5-year survival rate is almost 4 times higher for leukemia, 2 times higher than Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and 3 times higher for myeloma! For people under 45 years old there is now a 91.6% 5 year survival rate for lymphoma patients! Progress is being made, and you can help us make more progress!
Please make a donation to help fund the development of treatments, help for families and some day a cure!

You can make a donation two ways:
Mail a check payable to Leukemia/Lymphoma Society and mail to:
Freeway Lanes of Wickliffe
28801 Euclid Ave.
Wickliffe, Ohio 44092

Or go to our web site with a credit card: http://pages.teamintraining.org/noh/ambbr09/ggable

Post Holiday

February 12, 2009

The busy holiday season is past and Freeway Lanes is thankful to all its customers’ for the patronage this year. We are also thankful of the hard work of all the employees’ that helped us have a successful holiday season. Even though we had many company events cancel or not book at all, we did have full support of our league bowler’s and open play customers. I don’t think there are too many companies that can look back on 2008 and claim a great year, but we are thankful for what we had and look forward to building the most out of 2009.

Generally speaking Americans’ have to learn to do more with less. Freeway Lanes is no different than anyone else. We are asking our management and salaried employees for that extra shift a week to make ends meet. We want to keep as many as our valued employees as we can, and make sure the productive ones still have opportunity within the organization. The main corporate objective is to keep our company healthy so everyone can continue to have employment by us. The only way we do this is through service to our customers. Please always keep the customer first!

Even though times are tough, Freeway Lanes is happy to announce a larger match on its 401k for employees. I know 401k balances are hard to swallow right now, but remember, that means your purchasing power has been radically increased. Now is the time to up your contributions to retirements and make up for buying stocks at all time highs with purchasing at all time lows! A turn around is imminent, and the more you stash away now the bigger you will win in the long term.

Yesterday was the Anniversary of my Father and our founder’s death, Robert W. Gable. It is a time to remember him for the person he was. He knew everyone at Solon and was a friend of everyone. He taught us to respect everyone, enjoy life and most of all be honest to others and yourself! In his memorial we will have the first annual Robert W. Gable Tournament on Sunday, March 29th at 11 a.m. Watch the web site for details and come help our company honor this wonderful person.

Please never hesitate to contact us at Freeway Lanes. Just the other day I found out through an internet blog site that we had a pricing error over the Martin Luther King Holiday. No one ever contacted me or the management of Freeway Lanes. We welcome and would love any input you ever have. I hope to make my blog postings every month. Thank you for all the traffic whenever I post.

Sincerely,

Glenn E. Gable
CEO
Freeway Lanes Bowling Group