[Rotary] Important news re meeting

Wed Apr 9 21:54:18 PDT 2014

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Artist Wheatley Allen donated a piece of Art worth $25,000 to $30,000 or more and his ONLY request was that we must raise a minimum of $10,000 and that this money would be used exclusively for Rotary Park. He hoped it would raise much more. We launched this campaign in November with the assumption that the raffle would be concluded by February, well before we got into our other fundraisers. The Wheatley Allen donation was a stand alone fundraiser. Tom Honer paid for the casting of the eagle which cost over $2000. John Porter has indeed sold $4,000. In February we asked the members again to either buy or sell these tickets. Eighteen members have purchased 1 or two tickets themselves, our remaining members have not.  When you do the math we are indeed short of the $10,000 minimum bid. Tom Honer and myself were intimately involved with the arrangements of the Wheatley Allen donation and we were at the Art Center when the campaign was launched. I can assure you that no commitment was made to hold this drawing at the Casino Night. I'm sure the assumption was that the money would be raised by Casino night but the criteria was always 200 tickets, whenever that happened.   

Whether it is the Art Auction, Casino Night, or the Special Raffle, many of our members go above and beyond to support our fundraising efforts and do it over and over, (like John Porter) and others, for their own reasons do not. There are many ways to contribute to an organization and I would like to acknowledge all of those contributions. This is very frustrating and believe me I honor the service of those of you who do so very much. But I also honor the gift of a very generous man and in no way do I want to devalue his gift to us.

Yours in Rotary 
LaDonna McDonald

On Apr 9, 2014, at 8:38 PM, jkk at mcn.org wrote:

> TO ALL:
> 
> I personally do not remember it being stated that we would only hold the drawomg for the raffle if we sold 200 tickets. Our goal was 200 tickets!!!   I would never have supported a raffle that said we had to sell a certain number of tickets or it would not take place.  That is absurd rule for a raffle.  John Porter has sold over $4000 worth of tickets.  What have the rest of you sold?  He has told people who bought his tickets that the raffle would be drawn at Casino Night on April 12th.  It would be a violation of John's statements to the many people he sold tickets to if we do not have the raffle drawing on April 12th.   If the rest of you think we need to sell 200 tickets, get off your duffs and sell them or buy them yourselves.  We should have the drawing for the raffle on April 12th regardless of how many tickets we have sold.  Have each of you bought or sold the two tickets you were given?  If not, it is your fault we have not sold 200 tickets.  Roughly 35 Rotarians should have bought or sold at least 70 tickets and this is not the case.  Let's be Rotarian Gentlemen and Women and not nit pick.  We can try to sell the rest of the tickets on Casino Night before the drawing.  If we don't that is result of poor participation by some members of the club. I do not believe the tickets say anything about the drawing will only be held if we sell 200 tickets.  Do I feel strongly about this?  YES I DO!!!
> 
>     Jerry 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> "Jen" <hrvmk21 at mcn.org>
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> To:
> "jkk at mcn.org" <jkk at mcn.org>
> Cc:
> "LaDonna McDonald" <Ladonnamcd at hotmail.com>, "rotary at lists.mcn.org" <rotary at lists.mcn.org>
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> Wed, 9 Apr 2014 16:05:58 -0700
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> Re: [Rotary] Important news re meeting
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> My understanding from the very beginning was that we would have the raffle when we sold the 200 tickets. It was a suggestion to do it at Casino Night, not an absolute. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Apr 9, 2014, at 2:35 PM, jkk at mcn.org wrote:
> 
> LaDonna,
> 
> Are you saying that if we do not sell 200 raffle tickets by this Saturday we will not have the raffle for the eagle?  I do not believe we can do this.  Tickets were sold and I do not think any information indicated that if we did not sell 200 tickets we would not raffle off the eagle.  Are you suggesting that we return the money, $7350 already collected, to those who bought tickets?  I certainly would not agree to this. 
> 
>     Jerry
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> "LaDonna McDonald" <Ladonnamcd at hotmail.com>
> 
> To:
> "rotary at lists.mcn.org" <rotary at lists.mcn.org>
> Cc:
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> Sent:
> Tue, 8 Apr 2014 22:47:55 -0700
> Subject:
> [Rotary] Important news re meeting
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> 
> Fellow Rotarians,
> 
> Thursday is our last meeting before Casino Night on Saturday. It is really important to turn in your checks and tickets at this meeting for both the entrance tickets as well as the tickets for the Wheatly Allen Eagle. We are hoping to draw the winner of the Eagle on Saturday but we must have all 200 tickets sold to do so. 
> 
> As of right now we have aproximately 85 tickets sold for Casino night - (We need 150) and 147 Eagle Raffle tickets (We need 200). We know that many of you have sold tickets that you have not turned in so let's hope we get a surge this Thursday.
> 
> I have not been able to confirm David Little as our speaker. If Mr. Little does not show up, we will devote the meeting to last minute preparations for Casino night. This is not a meeting you want to miss as our Card game pot is over $750.00. Our menu is a mexican theme with Chili Verde, Spanish Rice, and the usual yummy sides.
> 
> Thanks
> LaDonna 
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