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After Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Mexico canceled its annual MUDD volleyball tournament fundraiser for this year, Blue Moon Bar & Grill, which was once again prepared to host the event announced that it would move forward with the tournament. Blue Moon released the following statement:
“For a few years now, we have hosted a fundraiser that we have come to fall in love with, and right now, our community needs togetherness more than ever. Due to circumstances out of their control, our amazing partners with MUDD Volleyball have had to make the very difficult decision to cancel their involvement with it.
We are beyond grateful for our years together. We value that commitment and partnership, we have learned so much from them. We look forward to working with them in the future.
With announcements you will be seeing soon, we feel the need to share some facts and be very transparent about how the process works with MUDD Volleyball in our backlot. We have historically only used a few thousand gallons of water. Luckily, with our location next to the river in the beautiful community of Radium Springs, we’re lucky: the backlot is only four feet over the water table. When we use the water for this fundraiser and the teams leave at the end of the day, the water slowly goes directly back into the water table, giving it back to our community.
That said, we have decided to carry this tradition on. No, you won’t see anything different with it. There’s still going to be the MUDD everyone loves to come compete in; we’ll still have food trucks and vendors!
The only small change you’ll see is that it will now be the Blue Moon Bar & Grill putting it on and hosting it for our community. MUDD Volleyball at the Moon will forever remain a fundraiser within our community, for our community."
Blue Moon Bar & Grill announced Thursday that The Down Syndrome Foundation SENM will be the new non-profit partner for the event. While details on how revenues will be split are still undetermined due to the short lead time for putting the event back together, Blue Moon and the Foundation have decided to “jump in and make this a success.”
Shari Hicks, the Foundation's Director, will be in attendance for the event on Sept. 19.
Presently, the re-registration of teams is about halfway to normal levels, so final numbers are still pending the completion of that process. For now, Blue Moon is taking on the costs in an effort to keep the tournament alive for the community.
