| OCTOBER 2026 NEWSLETTER ◆ Heartland Of Raider Nation ◆ | ◆ NEXT MEETING ◆ | Thursday, October 8th, 7:00 PM
Visalia Elks Lodge, 3100 W. Main St.
Our club will continue to leave the option of wearing a mask to each individual and families attending our meetings. Stay safe and thank you for your support.
ATTENTION: Our Booster Club has downsized our P.O. Box to save money. Our new address is: Raiders Boosters Of Tulare/Kings Counties
P.O. Box 4322
Visalia, CA 93278-4322 | ◆ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE ◆ | Hello Heartland Of Raider Nation, I pray all is well in our Raider Family. On the field, Raiders 2026 is off and running and Raider Nation is enjoying every bit of it. Off the field for Raiders 2026, we have 3 big events for our club: Relay For Life, the Bethlehem Center raffle, and our Raider Nation Blood Drive. As we enjoy the excitement about our team, I hope we can continue the excitement by supporting 3 very important events for our club and for our community.
Before our next meeting we have a very big game this Sunday against our rival. Heartland Of Raider Nation, Win, Lose or Tie, See You At The Meeting!!! GO RAIDERS!!!
ELISEO | ◆ RELAY FOR LIFE ◆ | 
The annual Tulare County Relay For Life will begin this Saturday, October 3 at 8 AM and will conclude at 8 AM on Sunday, October 4th at Tulare Western High School. Our Booster Club Team “Raiders For A Cure” will have our booth at the event and can use your support.
Your President unfortunately will not be able to help and support this year as I will be in Las Vegas, BUT I am donating a $100 cash prize for our raffle and a surprise or 2. Our team leader Norma Cisnerous and her assistant Kim Anaya could use your help in setting up our booth and supporting it for the entire 24 hours of the Relay. Our Raiders For A Cure team has been the only club/group that has had support at our booth and have had someone walking the entire 24 hours of the Relay every year that we have been involved in the Relay, and we want to continue that this year.
ATTENTION: Our club could use raffle prize baskets, gift card donations or any other donations for our raffles to help raise money for our team.
ATTENTION: We need walkers for the following laps: 12 Noon, 2 PM, 4 PM, 5 PM, 6 PM, 8 PM, 9 PM and 10 PM.
Please contact the club or Norma Cisnerous directly at (209) 230‑2049 if you can help donate, help set up, help at our booth or walk laps. If you are not sure if you can make it and don’t want to commit, BUT on Saturday or Sunday you have some time to support, please come on out and see how you can help.
All of us have been affected by Cancer in one way or another. Let us honor and remember our lost ones, support our fighters and celebrate our Survivors. Heartland Of Raider Nation, Thank You For Your Support!!! GO RAIDERS!! | ◆ CHRISTMAS RAFFLE ◆ | At our November 12th meeting we will be kicking off our annual Christmas raffle that will benefit the Bethlehem Center. Our club pays for the printing of the tickets and for the 3 cash prizes for the raffle: $500, $250 and $100.
To help us sell more raffle tickets and make our raffle tickets look better, we are asking for donations from our club members of either $100, $50 or a donation of a raffle item, gift card, etc. The deadline to donate an item so it gets added to our raffle ticket is October 25th.
Our club set a new record last year by selling $8,063 worth of raffle tickets. What amount will we sell this year???? Heartland Of Raider Nation, Thank You For Your Support! GO RAIDERS! | ◆ SCBCR HOME GAME ◆ | On December 13th the SCBCR (Steering Committee for the Booster Clubs of the Raiders) will be holding their 1st Raiders Home Away trip at Allegiant Stadium when our Raiders face the LA Chargers. We thank our Raiders organization for offering us a block of 100 tickets in section 407, rows 5 through 10.
ATTENTION: We have sold out of the original 100 tickets and our Raiders gave us 10 more tickets. At press time we have 6 tickets remaining at a cost of $150. Please contact the club ASAP if you are interested in purchasing tickets for the game.
We have secured a hotel group rate at the Orleans Hotel and Casino of $130, resort fees and tax included, for Friday and Saturday, Dec 11 and 12th, and a Sunday, Dec 13th rate of $40, fees and tax included. If anyone needs a room for Thursday or Tuesday the rate is $40. If you have purchased tickets for the game, please contact the club for the group rate code.
We are currently working on transportation to the game on Game Day and are working with our Raiders organization on a Fan Experience on Saturday. Don’t hesitate if you are interested in going to the game, only 6 tickets left. Heartland Of Raider Nation and The SCBCR, Thank You For Your Support! GO RAIDERS! | ◆ SCBCR AWAY TRIP ◆ | 
On the weekend of September 27th the SCBCR, along with thousands of Raider Nation brothers and sisters, invaded New Orleans. The SCBCR had 65 attendees representing 10 of our 19 SCBCR clubs, including 10 from our club. We had a great Saturday night reception at our hotel, and on Game Day we walked together to the Superdome and witnessed our Raiders go 3 and 0 to start Raiders 2026. It was definitely a great weekend. Thank You Heartland Of Raider Nation and SCBCR For Your Support! GO RAIDERS! | ◆ RAIDERS MOTOR FEST ◆ | 
On October 11th in Reno our Las Vegas Raiders are holding their first Motor Fest car show. The event runs from 9 AM until 2 PM and includes a watch party at 10 AM for the Raiders game in New England. A special appearance of Football’s Fabulous Females, our Las Vegas Raiderettes, and Raider Alumni are also a part of the event.
For more information on the event and to purchase tickets or to register a car, please go to Raiders.com/MotorFest. Thank You For Your Support. GO RAIDERS! | ◆ SAVE THE DATE ◆ | Our annual Raider Nation Blood Drive will be held on the Raiders bye weekend on Saturday, Dec 5th. Our Booster Club will be co‑hosting at the Visalia Blood Center and the 559 Knights of the Shield Booster Club will be co‑hosting at the Jenny Eller Center. The Blood Center is working on a design for the Raider Nation shirts that will be given away to all donors.
ATTENTION: The Blood Center has informed us that our Raider Nation Blood Drive is a year long blood drive. Any time you can donate blood, or better yet donate Platelets, please mention at the registration desk that you want your donation to go towards the Raider Nation Drive. Please share this new information with all your Raider Nation Blood Donors who are not members of our club.
Heartland Of Raider Nation, Please Give The Ultimate Gift, The Gift Of Life. Thank You For Your Support! GO RAIDERS! | ◆ 2026/27 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ◆ | 
Our 36th year as a recognized Booster Club of the Raiders is under way. We thank everyone who has renewed your memberships. Prices are $25 for a single membership, including one shirt. Family memberships are $35, includes 2 shirts. We do have ladies cut shirts available for ladies who do not want a regular t‑shirt.
ATTENTION: We have done our 2nd order of shirts and we are hoping they will be available by our Oct 8th meeting. This is a small order of shirt sizes, so we recommend you sign up for your membership ASAP to guarantee we have your shirt sizes in stock. If you cannot attend the meeting but would like to email your application and pay with either Venmo, Cash App, Apple Pay or Zelle, please contact the club so we can secure your shirts.
Heartland Of Raider Nation, Happy 36th Birthday!!! Thank You For Your Support! GO RAIDERS! | ◆ CAR FLAGS ◆ |  
Thank You to Dashawn and Sheketa Pryor for their donation of Raiders For Life Booster Club car flags. Car flags are $20 each and will be available at our meetings, or contact the club to purchase.
ATTENTION: We now have white Raiders For Life Booster Club car flags, $20 each. Again, Thank You Dashawn and Sheketa Pryor for their donations to our club. Thank You For Your Support! GO RAIDERS! | ◆ INTERCEPT WINE ◆ | 
We have leftover bottles of Charles WHOOOO?!?!?! Woodson Intercept Wine from our CTE Award Dinner. Bottles cost $20 each, with all money raised going to the Maxx Crosby Foundation. Wine bottles will be available at all our meetings, or contact the club to purchase. Thank You For Your Support! GO RAIDERS! | ◆ MORRIS BRADSHAW ◆ |   
On January 3rd, 2025 we lost a great friend and mentor to all Raiders Booster Clubs when Morris Bradshaw passed away. Morris was a 2 time Super Bowl winner with the Raiders and from 1989 through 2019 served as the Raiders Senior Administrator, Raiders Booster Club Advisor and head of Raiders Alumni.
His childhood friend Jeff Krumeich started a Morris Bradshaw Scholarship Fund in Morris’s hometown of Edwardsville, Illinois. A $2,000 annual scholarship will be given out at Morris’s High School to a player on the football team in Honor of Morris. On September 12th, 2025 a dinner was held in Morris’s home town to officially kick off the scholarship, and on Friday, September 13th at the high school football game, Morris’s high school number 19 was officially retired.
ATTENTION: On Monday, May 11th the 1st $2,000 Morris Bradshaw Scholarship award was presented to Yale Weaver. This was an emotional presentation for the Bradshaw family and they shared pictures with me and it brought tears to my eyes. I miss my friend, my mentor, my brother, but at the same time I am grateful that his memory will live on with this scholarship award.
At our September 10th meeting we raised $15. We are now $34 shy of our goal of $1,000. Heartland Of Raider Nation, We Are Almost There. Thank You For Your Support! GO RAIDERS! | ◆ CLUB MEETINGS ◆ | To help us pay for our meetings at the Elks Lodge, we have been doing a 50/50 raffle and holding silent auctions to help us raise money for our rent. If you have an item you want to donate for our silent auctions, please contact the club, but better yet bring it or them to the meeting.
We want to thank the following club members for their support at our September 10th meeting:
Jeff Caviness: Phil Villapiano autographed 3 football card set, $45
Jose Valdez: Cliff Branch autographed 8 x 10 and game used jersey football card, $35
Jose Valdez: Morris Bradshaw autographed 8 x 10 and football card, $25
Jose Cardona: Daryle Lamonica 5 x 7 autographed litho, $22
What items will we have at our October 8th meeting?!?!? SEE YOU AT THE MEETING!!! Thank you for your support. GO RAIDERS!!!
ATTENTION: To thank our club members for attending our meetings, we will be providing snacks, soft drinks and bottled water at our meetings. If anyone would like to supply the snacks, please contact the club. Your President will supply soft drinks. Heartland Of Raider Nation, Thank You For Your Support. GO RAIDERS!!! | ◆ SQUARE ◆ | As a reminder, our club has Square for those who need debit/credit card service. PLEASE remember our club charges a 4% Square fee per transaction. The 4% fee is not profit, BUT the fee Square charges our club. | ◆ 2026 MEETINGS ◆ | October 8 ◆ November 12 ◆ December 11
All meetings at the Visalia Elks Lodge, 3100 W. Main St., Visalia. For those of you who do not know, we are allowed to bring our own food and soft drinks to our meetings. Thank You Heartland Of Raider Nation For Your Support! Thank You Elks Lodge! Thank You Marian! SEE YOU AT THE MEETINGS!!! | ◆ 2026 RAIDERS SCHEDULE ◆ | 
| ◆ OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS ◆ | 
◆ 10/05 Jose Valdez
◆ 10/08 Greg Buckingham
◆ 10/11 Jada Shelley
◆ 10/13 Cruz Carter Zepeda
◆ 10/14 Irma Nunez
◆ 10/17 Victoria Sanchez
◆ 10/20 Alexander Hernandez
◆ 10/20 Stevi Wade
◆ 10/22 Alexa Stabler
◆ 10/22 Mike Tomczek
◆ 10/23 Annelise Carter
◆ 10/26 Phyllis Duarte
◆ 10/26 Kimberley Carrillo
◆ 10/30 Teresa Ortiz
◆ 10/31 Christian Zepeda Happy Birthday from your Raiders For Life Boosters family! GO RAIDERS! | | GO RAIDERS! Raiders For Life Boosters Tulare/Kings Counties
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Al Davis July 4, 1929 ◆ October 8, 2011 Just Win Baby |
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