COUPLE of the Year PROGRAM

By Beverly and Merlin Mayon
District Couple of the Year Coordinators

 

Hi everyone, 

We feel that we had a great first attempt to raise money for the Couples Program at the Chapter level during the recent District Convention (Rally).

But, some questions have come to our attention about the ticket sales for the Couple’s Baskets and the distribution of the money collected. 

Question #1. How much were the tickets?  We were told that the tickets were to be sold for $1.00 a each.

Answer:  At the Convention site before the convention started, the District team decided to sell 20 tickets for $10.00, also known as a stretch.  This made the tickets worth $.50 each.  At a dollar each, some people would be asking for a $1.00 or $5.00 worth of tickets and sales would not be sufficient for all the work that went into the baskets.

Question #2. How much did the District keep out of the sale of the tickets???

Answer: The District did not keep any money generated from the ticket sales.  All money collected was given back to the Chapters according to the amount of tickets collected for their basket.

Question #3. How was the money distributed???

Answer:  $.50 for each ticket in each Chapter’s bag was paid to the Chapter.  The money ranged from the high, $520.00 to the low, $69.00.

If there are any further questions, feel free to contact us at any time. 

Overall we’ve had good, positive feedback from the members.  Some of the people involved with making the baskets said they had fun preparing the baskets by having other Chapter members over to their homes to help.

We’ve had comments from some saying they were eager to do it again for the 2011 Convention (Rally).  That’s right, we are having COY baskets again for 2011.  So get your themes together, let us know what your theme is, so we don’t have duplicates and get started.  You have 10 months to think about it, collect donations, and put it together.

P.S. Most of all have fun while making the baskets.

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Beverly & Merlin
You can contact us at merlinmayon@att.net
985-384-2673 home 985-519-1524/1523 cells  P. O. Box 3527, Morgan City,LA 70381