Final Amount Raised in the Tournament

[ckinchen]

I am pleased to report that we have set a new record for our charity event this year. I was able to collect all of the auction money this week and total that with the raffle money and entry fees. We had 127 total paid entries this year and raised right at $3,000 with our raffle and cash donations plus over $7,000 with our online auctions. After paying out the winners (just over $2,400) and paying for the tournament shirts, food and expenses we will be cutting a check to the St. Nicholas Center for $12,153.

I want to once again thank our sponsors for their overwhelming support and each for each of you that opened your wallets and gave with a heart full of love. Because of you this is a record event for a great local organization. The real winners here are the children.

I will contact the St. Nicholas Center and present them with a check over the next couple of weeks. As we did last year I suspect that they will want to get the local newspaper out and take pictures, etc.... I will post pictures of the event when it happens. Also if any of you would like to be there when we present the check and see the center please come on out, the center would love to have you there.

Also a special thanks to the moderators for working very hard this year while I was out of town and those of you that helped setup on Friday and helped us cleanup on Saturday.