President's Message- for Jan 20, 2016

For those of you who were not able to make the January 20 combined meeting with Saco Bay, I wanted to emphasize one date related to the auction.  It is FEBRUARY 26, 2016.  That is the firm dateline for passing in all of your solicited items for the auction.  It is not the date to start soliciting.  It is not the date from which we will determine the real deadline.  It is the real deadline.  As Jackson and Tony said on the 20th, there is a lot of work that has to be done once all the items are turned in and if people procrastinate and don’t get items in until much later a lot of other people suffer.  So, please, please get out there and get your solicitations done right away and make your life easier and the lives of a whole bunch of other people easier as well.

 

    As far as solicitations go, if you work for a company that does not sell a product or service that can be auctioned please consider asking your company to sponsor a Quickie Board ($175.00) or a Bid Board ($600.00) .  Those sponsorships are a great way to support a bunch of fantastic causes while getting some publicity at the same time.  We will also sell sponsorships to anything in the studio, including but not limited to the phone bank, auctioneer table, MC table, display area, and the “pick and pay” area.  So if you have a business or work for a company that is willing to contribute but doesn’t know how, think of a sponsorship and talk to Jackson.  Of course, your company can always sponsor an item or two by giving you the money to go out and buy an item or a gift certificate, but cash is always king.

 

    Our auction is our biggest fund raiser and it is a lot of work, but if you figure we have about 70 members and we need to bring in about 205 items, that is 3 apiece.  If we all do that and Saco Bay does that same, we will have another great event.

 

    Thank you in advance for your help and remember we have a lot of members of our club who have run the auction and know the process very well so if you have questions sing out and I am sure someone will know the answer.