2021 Shifting Gears Passport Cruise - A Charity Event

1202 Industrial Road,Paola KS 66071

19 June, 2021

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Join us for our 3rd Annual charity event! More than a ride.... Choose your mode of transportation. Choose your destinations. Enjoy a day of fresh air, adventure, and raising money for a great cause! Join us for a day "cruising" the countryside! Get your Shifting Gears passport, choose your stops, start you adventure! Load up your friends and family.... it doesn't matter what you drive! Explore specialty farms, award-winning wineries, a distillery, restaurants and more. Each stop will feature: • Fun drawings • Drinks and snacks • Games and activities • Suicide prevention and awareness information • Each passport stamp earns you an entry for grand prize drawings Top off your adventure at our cruise celebration featuring appetizers, spirits, our grand prize drawings & more. We will be announcing destinations as they are confirmed - visit this page for updates. Breaking Down the Day... Purchase your “Shifting Gears Passport” here. Destinations are listed below. We are still working out the details with some of the destinations so this list is growing. Pick where you want to start the day - Paola Community Garden in Paola or Sweet Streams Lavender Farm in Bucyrus. Check-in, pickup your passport and then you and your friends take off on a day of fun. At each stop you will find SG volunteers providing information about suicide prevention and awareness, fun drawings, drinks, snacks, games and activities related to the stop. Volunteers will stamp your passport and when you are ready to move to the next stop, you just move along at your leisure. Because everyone is choosing their own path, each stop will allow for proper social distancing. When you decide that you are ready to call it a day just turn in your raffle tickets to the volunteers. For each stamp you receive throughout the day you earn a raffle ticket that can be entered into our prize drawings. Drawings will be done at the end of the day at our CRUISE CELEBRATION. The 2021 Cruise Celebration will be held at Buck-U Distillery in Ottawa. (The distillery is conveniently located just off I-35 making it less than 20 minutes back into Olathe for our Johnson County guests.) This year's celebration will include appetizers, fun spirits, and loads of fun! No doubt Regan Johnson would have loved everything about this day! Join us and help us celebrate Regan while we work to end teen suicide! #findyourlight #shiftinggearsforregan #giveme20 Find updates and learn about sponsors and raffle items on our Facebook page. Cruise Stops Will Include: Paola Community Garden - 1201 Industrial Drive, Paola Truly special place for the Shifting Gears crew, not only a lovely space to visit and explore, but also home to "Regan's tree". A beautiful Butterfly Magnolia planted in honor of Regan on her 18th birthday sits atop the butterfly garden. Shifting Gears volunteers work tirelessly throughout the year to maintain the garden, establishing a waystation for the traveling butterflies and vowing to create a space to provide light and hope in moments of darkness. Paola Community Garden offers rental plots for individuals to grow their own vegetables as well as a Giving Garden, maintained by volunteers, to provide produce to those in need. There's no better place to kickoff the 3rd annual Shifting Gears event — supporting each other, our community and our quest to end teen suicide. paolacommunitygarden.com Sweet Streams Lavender Farm - 12233 W. 233rd St, Bucyrus Sweet Streams Lavender Farm is a family owned and operated lavender farm committed to cultivating products that are free of harmful chemicals and pesticides. Our lavender is planted, tended and harvested right here in Bucyrus, KS and our products are handcrafted on our farm. We take pride in our lavender so you can feel confident in our products for you and your loved ones. Join us to learn more about the farm, shop in the store, relax to the music and enjoy a free lavender cocktail. SweetStreamsLavender.comTimber View Farms - 14713 W 311th St, Paola Timber View Farm cares for 16 Huacaya alpacas. Ever wondered what’s so special about alpacas? Come find out. We also have a Llama, miniature donkeys, goats, chickens, ducks, turkeys and guinea fowl. You can feed the alpacas and learn all about their unique qualities. We also have a store featuring products made from amazing alpaca fiber. TimberViewFarmAlpacas.comSomerset Ridge Vineyard & Winery - 29725 Somerset Rd, Paola Celebrating our 23rd year, Somerset Ridge was the first winery to be reestablished in Miami County since prohibition. Walk through our 22 acre vineyard and organic gardens, enjoy live music (1-4 pm) and our award-winning wines, hard cider and frozen sangria. SomersetRidge.com Buck-U Distillery - 3970 Tennessee Rd., Ottawa Producing spirits since 2017, this small batch distillery hand crafts the cleanest spirits in the world. Our bourbon, whiskey, vodka, run and gin are made with all natural fruits and grains locally sourced. We have a beautiful outdoor space. All ages welcome. Buck-u.comHillsdale Tavern - 100 Central St., Hillsdale, KSPOG Brewing Company - 24524 S State D (Holmes Rd), Cleveland, MO PogBrewing.comMore destinations will be added soon! Interested in becoming a sponsor for this year's event? Email us at [email protected]. About Shifting Gears...December 7th, 2017, every parent's worst nightmare became our reality when our fiery little redhead ended her own life. While we struggled to understand how we would survive, we know one thing for sure — we would make it our mission to educate parents and teens in an effort to keep anyone else from experiencing the pain we were left with after losing our daughter. We all have times in our lives where we find it necessary to SHIFT GEARS. For Regan Johnson, it was on the race track doing what she loved. For those of us she left behind... we find ourselves continuing to shift gears in search of our own "new normal"; trying to adjust to a life without our child. In the last year, we have reached nearly 2000 teens in Johnson and Miami Counties, including all the Blue Valley 8th graders, with our #GiveMe20 workshops. Additionally, we have funded suicide prevention programs like Sources of Strength, an evidence based, peer led suicide prevention program, to several area school districts. With your support, Shifting Gears can continue funding and developing suicide awareness and prevention initiatives throughout the area.