Thanks to the generosity of a donor (who wishes to remain anonymous) six officers, four members, one wife, and two sons (13 total participants) had a great time at our booth at the 10/6/07 – 10/7/07 (TPWD) EXPO. We were located in Merchants Row Tent A. Our booth featured five mounts (four on a mount board that Tim Price built), our new professional display (donated by an anonymous generous donor) with eleven 8 X 12 pictures and five 8 X 10 pictures, a table with Mark Dillow’s fly tying equipment, and a table with a computer with FCS pictures on a slide show, our reorganized FCS photo album, brochures, 10/27/07 Five Stand and Skeet Shoot and Luncheon benefiting the Christian Women's Job Corps flyers, and our Raffle Sign up Sheet. We gave away a total of five prizes, including:
We had 283 people sign up for our Raffle so that means that we gave out at least 283 brochures. Probably about 85% of the people who stopped at our booth stopped because of the raffle. About 5% stopped to learn to tie a fly, about 5% stopped to look at the mounts and/or pictures, and about 5% stopped to learn about the Club.
I would like to thank the following men: Tim Price for building our mount stand; Eddy Chance and Ron Denison for loaning their mounts for the display, Kenneth Kidd and Jim McGee for helping me to set up the booth; Kenneth, Jim, Jeff Reece, Richard Corbin, Mark Dillow, and Ron for manning the booth; Mark for tying flies; and Ron for helping me to tear down our booth.
Although only one man joined the Club at EXPO (and he was going to join anyway) many seeds were planted.
We also delivered our donations to Operation Orphans and Cross Trail Outfitters.