It's just 2 weeks until RushCon! Hope everyone is ready! It's going
to be a beautiful weekend in Toronto, and this year's convention is not to be
missed!

TRAVEL AND REGISTRATION
By now, you should have booked your flight, your hotel room and registered for
the Con. (If you haven't yet, no worries-- you can still register and pay online
at www.rushcon.org up until 7/22, and after that, at the door.)

FRIDAY - "OPEN SEA AND CITY LIGHTS" ISLAND BBQ
When you arrive in Toronto, we will have convention registration open starting
at 2pm on Friday the 24th at the Days Hotel, so come on down and get checked in.
Buses will be leaving for the Toronto Island at 4 and you don't want to be late!

TORONTO CITY WORKERS STRIKE
Speaking of our trip to the islands.... a few of you may have heard that there
is currently a Toronto city workers strike and wonder how this might impact our
trip-- never fear! The strike will not affect any of our planned activities.
(And hopefully it will be over by July 24th anyway.)

CONVENTION DETAILS
So much to do and see this year! We will have games sign up at
registration and there are glittering prizes to be won! We will be doing
Countdown and JeoParody on Saturday, and competition will be fierce! We greatly
look forward to hearing our first guest speaker Michael Mosbach tell many tales
from the road with Rush, and all the insanity that possibly ensues. Saturday
night we head over to C'est What club to rock out with Tribute Band Contest
Winners "LIMELIGHT!" We will start the show with our karaoke contest, and the
winner gets to sing a song with the band! You can finally live out your rock
star dreams! (Leather pants are optional.) Sunday morning, we will be touring
the hallowed halls of Anthem Records. It's a gold mine of photo opportunities
with all of the gold records and artifacts. Sunday afternoon, we welcome our
second guest speaker, Martin Popoff, who will be telling us about his role in
the upcoming Rush Documentary and talk about this biography of the band and
history working with
Rush. The Charity Auction is shaping up nicely with many unique and
collectible Rush items donated by many wonderful people! We've raised over
$47,500 for charity so far, and know we'll pass the $50,000 mark this year! All
of the monies collected at the Charity Auction will be donated to the Daily
Bread Food Bank of Toronto. Sunday night, we let loose on our pub crawl,
exploring a lot of cool Toronto haunts, with some Rush related stops on the way.

Gonna be a FANTASTIC weekend, we really hope to see you all there!

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