<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings, fellow federationists.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope this message finds you well and enjoying the fall. I myself am excited for another school year, and another state convention. As JW would say, can I get an amen?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyway, I’m writing to update you all on the raffle fund-raiser we students are conducting this year. I know there has been a lot of confusion as to what is actually going on with it, so I want to explain what’s happening, address any concerns, and tell you how this is going to work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>First of all, I would like to apologize – on behalf of the student division – for how long this has dragged on and for how many false starts we have had. We have taken ticket orders since March, so I can imagine many of you are wondering if you wasted your money. The fund-raiser is definitely going to finish up this month, so your buying raffle tickets won’t be for naught. We students faced several obstacles and difficulties over the last several months – in cluding significant changes in leadership, difficulty with setting up the bank account, and several membership changes – all of which are factors which contributed to why this raffle has taken so long to get off the ground. However, we now have a bank account and some good systems in place which will make this fund-raiser and all future endeavors run much more smoothly.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now, let me explain how the rest of this fund-raiser will play out. We will conduct the drawing at the board meeting on September 20, at which several members of our division will be present. We will sell tickets from now up until the lunch break at 12:00, and I will let you know in the next paragraph exactly how you can purchase those tickets. I want to let you know that you do not have to be present at the board meeting to win if your name is picked; as long as you bought a ticket, you can win. Once again, tickets are either one for $1 or six for $5.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now, there are several ways you can purchase tickets from this point until 12:00 on Saturday, September 20. You can send cash or a check in the mail to my house. My address is 6808 Center Street, Cincinnati, OH 45244. Checks can be made out to the Ohio Association of Blind Students, and as the division’s treasurer, I will make sure they are deposited.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Secondly, you can buy tickets from any students on the day of the board meeting. You will not get a tangible ticket; rather, we will take down your information and give you a ticket number. For instance, if I was the first person to buy ten tickets, my number would be 1, and I would Braille or slate ten number ones. If said number were drawn, I would win something. We are keeping very careful track of who has what number and how many tickets he/she has bought, so we are very organized in that respect.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lastly, if you want to purchase your tickets online, you can do so through PayPal. You do not have to have a PayPal account to do so, and the site is fairly accessible. For the sake of simplicity, I decided to forgo the one ticket for $1 option on PayPal, so if you choose this option, you can buy a minimum of six tickets for $5. Of course, you can change the quantity of this item, which is one by default. If you upped your quantity to two, you would then be buying 12 tickets for $10, and so on and so forth. The site will ask you to fill out your name, shipping address, and credit card information, and it is pretty simple. Regardless, if anybody would like help with purchasing tickets through PayPal, please feel free to call or e-mail me, and I can give you a hand. The link to purchase tickets through PayPal is:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6FW5ZC8G45T8E">https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6FW5ZC8G45T8E</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Should anybody need assistance navigating the site, they can e-mail me at<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:emilypennington@fuse.net">emilypennington@fuse.net</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>or call me at (513) 668-6866. Again, you can choose to send cash or checks in the mail, or purchase tickets from a student at the board meeting if you’re planning on coming.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I apologize for the length of this e-mail, but I hope it helps in clearing up confusion over the fund-raiser. Thanks in advance for your participation; I look forward to this fund-raiser – and many more student fund-raisers in the future.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emily Pennington<o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2014.0.4765 / Virus Database: 4007/8097 - Release Date: 08/25/14<br>Internal Virus Database is out of date.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2014.0.4765 / Virus Database: 4015/8145 - Release Date: 09/02/14<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>