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Piffle, Tanya. You guys are great. With Charlotte, I get the enjoyment of seeing someone actually open up the straw-filled box and plunk the hat down on his or her head. Priceless!

Besides - I also get to see in person just how much you guys bust your humps to make this thing happen. Heh.

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I think I may also be one of those guilty cities who didn't follow up, and I am very sorry. I remember sitting down in 2006 and sending all of my sponsors and contributors copies of our event program, with a personal thank you note, but I don't remember if I did that in 2007 or not.

Not to make excuses, but things fall through the cracks here in Raleigh because I'm IT. The person who updates our website, coordinates everything, handles the venue, answers the email, processes the ticket sales, pays the bills, does the PR, buys and/or otherwise gathers the raffle prizes, and last year I designed and printed the fliers, programs and tickets.

I did have people who came and helped me set things up on the day of the event, but that's it. By the time it was all over, I was tired, and had a big giant pile of family and work obligations to catch up on.

I swore I wasn't going to do this again, but here I am doing 2008. Two nights, this time. I do have more help this year, but it's already consuming every spare moment I have, and I'm seriously considering not doing it in 2009, because I can't stand seeing my family and work suffer.

Anyway, enough of my whinin'. You're still listed on our website under the 2007 contributors, with a link. Your biz cards were handed out to everyone who attended. And photos of your hat (in box) on the prize table, and being awarded, are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raleigh-csts/623222797/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raleigh-csts/623222755/

If you recall, you approved a special write-up that we did in our program about you, your daughter, and your hats. I still have extra copies of the program, so I can still send you one, if I didn't already last year. It turned out great. You got a full-page write up.

And, every year, I personally send the Charlotte screening a "Serenity crew" prize bag. I don't think I've ever gotten a physical letter, but I seem to recall that they do follow up in email and tell me it arrived. :) Y'all are good folks, over there.

~Flame~

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I hear you, Flame. The last two years the people on the organising team I had were mostly volunteers for the event, although they all sold some tickets and some put up posters, etc., and of course Serena & Chad really help a lot, even though Serena says she won't get involved! This year I have a smaller Organising Team, but the two new members have already contributed a lot - one using her connections to get us a larger theatre - free for the day! - and the other one using her connections to get items we can use for a silent auction.

This year - in fact in moments - we are ordering tickets to be printed. The past two years I've designed, printed, cut up - and sold most - of the tickets, designed, printed and copied the program, as well as garnered whatever sponsors/donors we have, booked the theatre, sent out press releases, updated our blog, etc, etc, etc (as the King of Siam would say ) Although someone else has done most of the PayPal stuff, I also have kept the spreadsheets and done the final tallies and written thank yous afterwards.

As I've said before, thank goodness for JenskiJen the first year or I may never have done a second year. Talk about contacts.

I think a lot of us are in the same boat and either this kind of event attracts a lot of control freaks or we've never learned to delegate. (In my case, a bit of both.)

Good luck with your event, Flame - and everyone else!

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CSTS Vancouver 2015 will be held Saturday, June 20th from Noon to 6:00 pm at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. Donations will go to Equality Now (75%) and Avalon Women's Centre (25%).