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Date: Friday, October 26^th from 7:00-10:00pm

Location: Suite Charlotte

Dress: Your fanciest and most creative Halloween costume!

Price of Admission: Minimum $10 donation at the door

Price of admission includes:

• 1 hour of open bar – 7:00 – 8:00pm
• Complimentary buffet provided by Vida Cantina
• Viewing privileges to this year's Mustache Pageant, hosted by Charlotte's Favorite Drag Queen, Buff Faye, voted Best Drag Queen for 2012 by Creative Loafing.
• Access to raffle and silent auction for FABULOUS prizes and prize packages

All proceeds benefit Pat’s Place Child Advocacy Center of Charlotte www.patsplacecac.org.

To register to attend, please go to http://m4kcltstachebash2012.eventbrite.com.

With any questions or concerns please email m4kcharlotte@gmail.com with your name and contact information and bring cash for admission on the day of. 

We hope to see you there!

Invite your friends and family to Charlotte's favorite Irish Pub!

October 4th M4K Checkpoint Sponsors

{Click the Event Flyer to RSVP}

Date: Friday, October 26^th from 7:00-10:00pm

Location: Suite Charlotte

Dress: Your fanciest and most creative Halloween costume!

Price of Admission: Minimum $10 donation at the door

Price of admission includes:

• 1 hour of open bar – 7:00 – 8:00pm
• Complimentary buffet provided by Vida Cantina
• Viewing privileges to this year's Mustache Pageant, hosted by Charlotte's Favorite Drag Queen, Buff Faye, voted Best Drag Queen for 2012 by Creative Loafing.
• Access to raffle and silent auction for FABULOUS prizes and prize packages

All proceeds benefit Pat’s Place Child Advocacy Center of Charlotte www.patsplacecac.org.

To register to attend, please go to http://m4kcltstachebash2012.eventbrite.com. With any questions or concerns please email m4kcharlotte@gmail.com with your name and contact information and bring cash for admission on the day of. 

We hope to see you there!

Date: Sunday, October 21st

Location: 3rd and Poplar (Free Parking at Dixie's)

Dress: Football gear to reflect your team choice. Go Team Go!

Price of Admission: $25.00 per person

Price includes:

• Tailgaiting beer selection from Oskar Blues Brewing Company
• Southern Style BBQ and sides provided
• M4K T-shirt (Panthers color, pink or white)
• Transportation (bus ride) to and from each sponsored brewery
• Drink specials at each location
• Game After-Party at Dixie's Tavern

Tailgate and Brewery Crawl Timeline:

9:00am - 12:40pm Tailgate at 3rd and Poplar

12:40pm - Load Bus(es) for Brewery Crawl

• First Quarter, Triple C Brewing Co
• Second Quarter, Olde Mecklenburg Brewery
• Halftime - Travel to Heist Brewery
• Third Quarter, Heist Brewery
• Fourth Quarter, Dixie's Tavern

4:00pm - After Party at Dixie's Tavern 

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Drink Specials: $3 Domestic Draft Beer, $4 House Wines and $5 Well Liquor

Invite your friends and family!

October 4th M4K Checkpoint Sponsors

Mustaches for Kids Charlotte Season 5 is officially off and Growing. So give your upper lip and razor one last beautiful morning together, stick that bad boy deep in the medicine cabinet, and get ready for Shaving Day TONIGHT, Tuesday, September 25.

It's SHAVING DAY 2012!
We're excited to see all of you for Shaving Day TONIGHT September 25, 6:00 pm at No Grease Barber Salon in Uptown. Our good friends at Dillinger's Tap Room will generously provide food from Uptown's newest restaurant and the M4K team will gladly provide adult beverages. DO NOT miss it. PLEASE DO bring friends, co-workers, significant others... you name it.

To shave or not to shave?
When in doubt, turn to your trusty Mustache Rules. But given you probably have first day jitters, I'll give you a freebie:         

On the designated Clean Shaven Day, participants (Growers) will shave their faces clean of any and all facial hair. This includes, but is not limited to, Mustaches, beards, goatees, muttonchops,   chinstraps, soul patches, sideburns that extend below the top of the earlobe, and Van Dykes.

Register that deadly weapon!
If you've not yet done so, please register your 'stache by following the short, easy instructions on the JOIN US tab at http://m4kclt.org/join-us/. 

Chris Harker and Chris Murphy met while working at a local bank and soon realized that they had a lot in common and were not cut out for a career in banking. Together with Chris Murphy's wife Christina, the three became close friends and began dreaming of owning their own business. While home brewing late one evening, the three Cs had a crazy idea to start their own brewery and in October 2011 they incorporated the Triple C Brewing Company and started pursuing their beer dreams in earnest. Their hard work is beginning to pay off , Triple C's 15bbl microbrewery opened in August 2012 in the historic South End district of Charlotte!

 Heist Brewery is Charlotte’s newest contemporary brewpub in the NoDa Neighborhood. At Heist, bold, exquisite and unexpected culinary combinations are the norm. Aside from our award winning handcrafted beers and made from scratch sodas, Heist will also offer an array of Artisan breads, shared plates and wood fired specialties. While rewriting the rulebook and striving to crush “corporate practices” Heist will bring Charlotte an experience that is truly unparalleled to any other. Genre: Twisted American Cuisine and Handcrafted Beers

This is M4K’s fifth year, so we’re hoping that our half deca-something will be the biggest year yet.   Oct-GROW-ber 2012 will mark the second year in which all funds raised throughout the campaign will remain local - benefitting Pat’s Place Child Advocacy Center of Charlotte, the only child advocacy center in Mecklenburg County.  I can’t begin to describe all the great things this organization does for kids, so I’ll just say that they really are the best people ever and encourage you to take a look at their site if you have a minute (http://www.patsplacecac.org).

The Ask: We need your lip.  I know there’s probably a better way to ask but that’s what it boils down to.  You give us your lip for the month of October, set up a donation page (www.firstgiving.com/patsplace - it takes five minutes), send a few emails to friends, family and co-workers and show up to our weekly checkpoints at bars around town - and BOOM…you’ve helped kids and built up good karma and all that jazz. 

Now, I know 99 percent of you are already pumped up and ready to sprout a mustache for the kids but there’s that one percent out there that still is just not quite sure about committing their lip for one of the following reasons:

1. You feel like it will be frowned upon at work. – Well, you’re likely wrong.  We have Growers who work in all sorts of professional environments, including banking, sales, hospitality, firefighters and business owners.  If your boss still has a problem with you Growing after you’ve told him / her about the cause, then you work for the devil and your office is located in hell and you have bigger issues to deal with. 
2. You don’t think you can grow facial hair.  Um, did you not see the part about me winning the award for The Worst Mustache?  Check again, you may have to squint.  That sentence actually works on two levels, because that’s what I told people when they were looking for my mustache last October.  I can’t say this loudly enough, NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE THICKNESS OF YOUR MUSTACHE!  Everyone who’s involved in the charity only wants you to try your best to raise whatever funds you can to help the kids.
3. You don’t want to look dumb in front of the ladi..um, whoever you’re interested in.  “Hello, my name is (your name here) and I’m embarrassing myself to raise money for kids in need.  Why yes, I do have a pen to take down your phone number.”  It’s.  That.  Easy. 

The Details: If you’re on board for an awesome month of lip hair, partying and giving back, here are some dates that you should know about:

• September 9th – Grower’s Rally at Jackalope Jack’s: Tailgating for the first Panther’s road game vs. Tampa Bay with a cornhole tournament, Kid’s Corner and drink specials.  Bring along your family and pets. 

• September 25^th – Shave Day: Growing Season Begins!  We’ll meet at No Grease! Barber Shop’s Uptown location for drinks and an old-school straight razor shave. 

• Weekly Checkpoints:   
  • 10/4  Howl at the Moon
  • 10/9  Dandelion Market
  • 10/18  Blackfinn
  • 10/23 Connolly’s on 5^th

• October 21st - Panthers Tailgate Party: This is a bonus checkpoint for those of you who are having trouble making our weekly checkpoints. Bring the family, bring the friends and don't forget a healthy liver. 

*Local microbreweries have signed up to sponsor each checkpoint (including the tailgate), so come thirsty.  

• October 26^th – ‘Stache Bash ( The location is TBD but it’s gonna be awesome).  Just check out the pics from last year and you’ll get an idea of how much fun we had (http://m4kclt.org/gallery/2011-stache-bash).

Thanks for listening and I really hope to see some hair on your upper lip in October. 

'Stachefully,

Ted Tarver