Re: [Killietalk] George Maiier Fund shawl

["Catherine Carney" <schmidtcarney at ecr_net>]

Good idea, Scott! Hopefully I will have it done enough in advance to be able
to get a digital picture posted for all of you to see. I hope to start it
next week IF I am caught up with BOT responses, GCKA newsletter, and Killie
Revue 2004 show planning.

Catherine



> Hey Catherine!
>
> Would there be a chance to take a digital photo of the shawl and have
Barry
> or Ken post it to the AKA site.
>
> Hey Edd!
>
> I'm sure the Colorado group has plenty to do. But would there be willing
> hands to do proxies?
>
> One advantage of proxies is one doesn't get the confrontations and near
(and
> even genuine) fistfights which have occurred in real silent auctions. Kind
> of a noisy ending to the silent auction.
>
> I hope that it works well. A specialty group which used to do a silent
> auction at the end of their show now does all conventional auctioning.
They
> discovered that once the novelty of such an auction wore off (even for a
> great cause) that the passions that get the blood moving in a regular
> auction proved a lot more lucrative and left fewer ruffled feathers. If
the
> Maiers' fund raiser becomes a regular at the nationals, that might be a
> consideration.
>



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