A WARM THANK YOU FROM THE COSTANTINO FAMILY!

KIDS WALK FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS!

Thank you to everyone that turned out today for the Kids Walk for Wounded Warriors!  We had an estimated 100 adults and children turn out for the event and have raised an incredible $2,200 for the Wounded Warrior Project as of now, and are hoping that donations continue to come in!  Thank you to my father Leo Costantino and my father-in-law Jack Colby for making their heartfelt comments before the walk.

Also thank you to Gunny Legault for lining up the hot cocoa (Donated by AJ's Restaurant of West Warwick)  for the event and for providing my girls with the beautiful Wounded Warrior Project t-shirts!  Semper Fi Marine!  Also a big thank you to Russell Morin Fine Catering for donating the delicious pastry for breakfast.  Boy Scout Troop 39 Summit's support was unbelievable with a showing of at least 30 people!

I really need to thank Abby & Ailey for their hard work and determination in bringing this event to fruition.  They are great kids and a father could not be more proud.  Abigail made a better speech than I could have at the event!  Both girls pushed the event hard at school bringing a number of their classmates and families to the walk.
Abigail even braved the principals office yesterday and did a morning announcement over the intercom to publicize this event.  I would have never had the guts to do this at her age.  I know you girls are going to grow into awesome citizens that care for and support their fellow countrymen and women.  Girls you embody all of the values of the Marine Corps that I love so much.  In my mind you will always be honorary little Marines and I love you both.  If you still want to make a donation you can email me at woundedwarriorkids@gmail.com


Thank You & Semper Fi! ,


Eric Costantino

Reveille! Time To Walk For The Wounded Warrior Project!

Reveille!!! Every one rise and shine, put on your long johns, and meet us down at the RI Veterans Cemetary at 8:00 to sign up for a walk run by my girls to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project.

Our wounded veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq need our support. Brave the cold and do something great for your country's true heroes!

See Today's Projo Article on our Snow Making!

Here is a  link to the Projo article from today.  I'll never be famous again so I am going to live it up!


Please join us tomorrow at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Exeter for a 2 mile walk to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project.  Registration is at 8:00 and we step off at 8:30.  Registration is $5 per person or $15 per family!  There will be hot cocoa and breakfast pastries for all!

http://www.projo.com/news/content/WINTER_WONDERLAND_12-10-10_4LLCSHM_v28.a66c8.html

Rhode Show Piece On Costantino Snowmaking

Our thirty seconds of Fame!

Reminder of The Costantino girl's Event this weekend!

Kids Walk For Wounded Warriors 

     Last year our grandmother Suzanne started a new yearly tradition in honor of our Papa Jack.  Papa Jack cares a lot about people.  He is the type of man that thinks about other people before himself.  Each one of Papa's children have kids of their own now.  Suzanne gives each one of these families, specifically the grandchildren, $100 to spend on a charity that helps people in need.  And each year, Ailey, Mia and I try to build on that donation in order to make n even bigger donation to the charity we choose.
     This year we have chosen The Wounded Warrior Project as our charity.  We feel that this charity is a good one to support right now since there are such a  large number of wounded veterans returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq.  And for us,  our military history goes way back.  We have an uncle who is currently serving actively in Germany with the Navy.  Our father Eric, our Papa Leo, and our Great Uncle Kevin are all former Marines.  We have two great grandfathers, 4 great uncles, and one great aunt who served in the Army, Navy or AirCorps during World War II and we have a cousin who served in the Army during Vietnam.  These family member's military service helped us to understand even more about the sacrifices that all veterans make and has made this cause very important to us.  So we now would like to honor as well as lend a hand to the wounded veterans of today.  In the end, choosing The Wounded Warrior Project as our charity was an easy decision. 


Our Plan - On December 11th at 8:30 sharp we will be walking approximately 2 miles to raise money for this charity.  We will donate the $100 from our grandmother Suzanne, but will also donate all the money donated to our walk to this charity as well.  
We would like to invite both kids and adults to this event.  It will take place at the Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Exeter.  We particularly want to invite our friends from school to join our fundraising team so that we can raise as much as possible for this event as a team.  We will be walking whether there is sun, rain, sleet, or snow in honor of our wounded warriors.
Listed below is some basic information about what Wounded Warriors is all about.
MISSION  - 
To honor and empower wounded warriors.



VISION - To foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded warriors in this nation's history.
CORE VALUES -    Fun    Integrity   Loyalty   Innovation   Service


PURPOSE - To raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members.
To help injured service members aid and assist each other.
To provide unique, direct programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members.

Read more: http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/content/view/412/875/#ixzz15P3aT4Xs 

See video that sums up The Wounded Warrior Project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeg389PN3_U


We hope you will come walk with us and help us honor our Papa Jack as well as help us honor all the Veterans of this country.    
Sign Up for our walk on Dec. 11th - Click Here!

My Daughter Abigail Has Mastered Decimal Multiplication!

I am so proud of my daughter Abby!  She has totally mastered these really tough decimal multiplication she has been taking home from school!

Abby Kicks Butt At Decimals!

I actually got stumped by a couple of them last night, and she is hammering out way harder ones now!  I think I have a future Einstein on my hands!  Theory of Relativity here we come!  Nice job Abigail!!  Your wacky dad is super proud of you!

Wacky Dad Interviewed By The Providence Journal!

Update!  Our snow making article will be in Projo tomorrow.  Just got a call from the editor!


Well all of the snow finally caught the media's attention today!  Cathy got a knock on the door by someone who works at Projo.  Turns out they like snow too and it was all history from there!  We got interviewed, had photos taken (I didn't get very dressed up) and it looks like they are going to run an article on our snow!  Should be fun!  In the meantime here is todays video of the snow making progress! 

PROJECTED OPENING DATE FOR BROOK HILL IS 12/11/10

We are making snow again tonight!  Everyone it looks like Mother Nature may be agreeable enough to allow us to open the Brook Hill sledding area on this coming Saturday!  Stay tuned for more details!   

The View From Atop Brook Hill!

I BELIEVE IT IS TIME TO MAKE SOME SNOW BOYS AND GIRLS!

Ready, Set, Make Snow!

We Have snow folks!!

Video from this 12/7/2010

My Fathers Memories of My Snow Making Beginnings

Well it all started in the mid eighties when Eric was about 12 years old. I decided that it was about time to introduce him to skiing, and brought him to a local ski area for his first skiing experience.

He took to skiing well that first day, but he was as fascinated by the snowmaking equipment as he was the skiing.

I explained the basic principle of the equipment to him, and mentioned that we had an air compressor at home and could probably make a miniature version of the snow gun that fascinated him so much.

From that moment on, he became obsessed (a Costantino trait) with making snow.

Eric experimented with all sorts of devices. Old electric paint sprayers, garden sprayers, and a host of other gadgets that he would make to try to properly atomize water.

After watching this obsession for a couple of years, I decided that his dedication to this folly warranted some encouragement. I took him to the local hardware store to buy the parts to build a snow gun that I was convinced would work perfectly.

I was wrong.

Please understand that Costantino males do not like to be wrong in mechanical matters.

I left Eric to continue his experiments with renewed enthusiasm.

He developed this new contraption until it hardly resembled the original snow gun I envisioned.

I remember well the cold Thanksgiving day that Eric came running into the house proclaiming

IT WORKS!

IT WORKS!

It's making snow.

Well, having heard this proclamation before, (Eric's definition of snow had become quite liberal by this time) I was not quite as excited as he was.

Being a cool dad though, I went outside to see what all the fuss was about.

Eric was right. His snow gun was indeed making some really nice snow.

It was leaking all over the place, but it was making snow.

Sledding Video From Last Year