[nfbwatlk] A couple more Observations on the Convention

[Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)]

Well, since no one else wants to put their two cents in, I'll add a couple of more coins.  Give Mike Mello from the Seattle Chapter a lot of credit for the tremendous success of our short term drawing/raffle for the Ipod Touch 64, third generation.  The raffle made us quite a good sum of money for the efforts folks put into it. Not sure which chapter sold the most, but I know Mike from Seattle, Don, Kaye, Bob and Les from Vancouver, Lisa from Bellingham and Maria from Spokane did very well. A Face Book friend of Marci Carpenter's actually won.

Connie Utterback was fantastic handling registration and auction money, and of course, Gary Mackenstadt did his imitation of Doug Johnson, since he is the assistant treasurer after all.

And definitely, we owe thanks to Dory (Kaye Kipp of course) for again giving out some great door prizes.  I don't quite know where they all came from, but we had some interesting prizes, such as some little birds, bags of coffee beans, and much more.

Again, not to belabor the point, but I certainly enjoyed this year's convention.

/s/

Bennett P.