A variety of family friendly weekend activities is planned for kids of all ages!

Friday Vet Check, 3:00PM-5:00PM Portola City Park, Downtown.  You can watch the dogs being checked by a vet, meet the mushers and their dogs, and ask questions about their teams!

Saturday  Evening Movie and Popcorn-6:00PM-9:30PM at Chalet View Lodge. Enjoy popcorn and your favotire snacks while watching  the wonderful Disney movie "Iron Will", and inspriing movie about a young man who enters a grueling cross-country sled dog race to save his family farm.  Kids!!  Bring a pillow and blanket if you want to curl up on the floor in front of the screen!

Saturday Sled Dog Races and Family Friendly Demonstrations Starting at 8:30AM

Saturday Afternoon: Kids Learn to Mush a REAL dogsled!!!

Saturday 3-Dog, 4-Mile Jr ISDRA Sanctioned class, with the planned Julien Lambert International Memorial Youth Sportsmanship and Humanitarian Award. (To donate, Contact Us.)

Saturday Ride in a Sled During a Real Race!! A community fundraiser for Sierra Nevada Dog Drivers!  Raffle tickets available through Sorotimist InternationalEastern Plumas Chamber, and local businesses.  To volunteer to help, contact Cindy Wood at woodsfire@sbcglobal.net  or Contact Us,  For tickets, CLICK HERE for locations.

Saturday Evening-Meet the Mushers Community Dinner with Irish Music by Gairin!  Elks Lodge superb dinner, at a superb price!  parents, go to dinner while your kids go to the movies! For Tickets, CLICK HERE

For a complete schedule and more details and approximate times check   Weekend Activities

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

The race organizers are working hard with the local community and other organizations involved to make this event one of the noth state's premier, family-friendly events of the year.

Keep posted for more information and scheduling updates.

To help with any or all of the activities, please go to the How to Volunteer page and then Contact Us to help with the race, educational, and community efforts.  We need your help to ensure a successful and growing event!

 Volunteering for a sled dog race is a BLAST!!

Julien Lambert

      (click on picture to enlarge)    International Memorial Youth Sportmanship & Humanitarian Fund

To: Friends of Julien Lambert and  the Fourteen Angels Foundation "Canines 4 K-9s" Program

From:Eileen Burke-Trent, Exec. Director

Date: February 13, 2009

On February 12th we were contacted by a dear friend of the family of 10-year-old Julien Lambert of France, who passed away on Tuesday, February 10th. We were asked to help suggest a way to create a lasting memorial to his brief but full young  life, that could be presented to his loved ones during his memorial service February 14th. We worked round-the-clock with our organization, and with Julien's American friends, to complete the task in time.

Julien was an avid sports participant, good friend to many, and beloved by all who knew him. He took his first sled dog ride a year ago in January 2008 and fell in love with the dogs and the sport...so it seemed fitting that his memorial include his love. The Fourteen Angels Foundation, and our "Canines4K-9s" program, in partnership with the friends and family who loved and admired Julien, will begin an ongoing effort with the establishment of the Julien Lambert International Memorial Youth Sportsmanship & Humanitarian Fund for  Junior Mushers under 16 years-of-age.  The very first Julien Lambert Youth Sportsmanship Award will be given at the California Gold Mush Sled Dog & Snowshoe Races being held the weekend of Feb 26-Feb28, 2010 in Lake Davis/Graeagle, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.The Foundation will also be contacting the International Sled Dog Racing Association and Greg Sellitin at Mushing Magazine, in an effort to make this a recognized, world-wide effort on behalf of youth mushers everywhere--to especially encourage sportsmanlike conduct and care of their teams.  As Julien's fund grows, we will be working to further encourage greater youth participation and advanced training in Julien's name for youth mushers worldwide, focusing on canine care and the 3 R's to Rescue, Rehabilitate and Retrain abused and abandoned dogs, promote advanced sports training for dogs and youth alike, and promote sportsmanship and international humanitarian ideals.

We at Fourteen Angels are profoundly touched and very honored to be asked to work on this worldwide effort, and send our heartfelt condolances to Julien's friends, family, and to those whose lives he touched in the United States, in France, and now...around the world.

We light a candle to his loving memory.

If you wish to honor Julien and encourage continuing training for mushers and dogs alike, humanitarian efforts,  sportsmanship  for young mushers, and support the work of the Foundation,  your tax-deductible donations, large or small, may be sent for the Julien  Lambert's Memorial Fund, in your own name, or on behalf of a child or granchild. Should they desire, your children's pennies, nickels and dimes for contributions to the fund, are also welcome.  No donation is too small and each nickle received is important.

Checks, money orders or postal orders in dollars only please can be made out and posted to the Fourteen Angels Foundation, in Julien's  memory.  Please notate "Julien Lambert Memorial Fund" on your check and mail to:

Fourteen Angels Foundation, Inc.  738 Justeson Ave.                  Gridley, CA 95948 USA              Attn: Julien Lambert Memorial Fund 

Still have questions? Please contact us anytime! We look forward to hearing from you.

 Contact us with your questions or offers to help!!