LAST EDITED ON Mar-05-07 AT 04:45PM (MST)[p]
LAST EDITED ON Mar-05-07 AT 04:41?PM (MST)
> First of all, not enough
>food to go around,some didn't
>get to eat at all.
There was enough food for everyone. We had 132 bodies in that room I ordered 135 plates of a Prime rib dinner. I have had more then enough people tell me the food was GREAT!!!
>Auctioneer forgot to keep his
>eye on all his bidders
>and some guys got left
>out.
I will agree with you on this one but the auctioneer is only as good as the guys helping him to find bidders. This was the first time this team had every worked an event togather. For those that got left out I tried to work things out to the best of my ability. Example two people bid at the same time on a print one was not seen the person that got left out. The committee and I went to and offered him the same print and the tickets to the Auction Game Gun. He aggreed filled out the paper work to get the second copy of the print. Then at the end of the night never came to pay his bill.
Only seven guns on
>the main table to draw
>tickets to win.
I had 12 guns in the general raffle of which one was taken from the table by the winner of the pick of the Herd Games. We also had a Kimber Montana in the Auction Game and a $2500 300 Ultra Mag in the $500 progessive
When it came
>time for the Wyoming Governor's
>Tag,the tag was drawn from
>something we could not see.
This tag was drawn on the main stage infront of the entire crowd from a clear plexie glass locked tumble by Amy, one of the Ticket girls for the night.
The tumble was behind the bank all night since the last of the 150 tickets were sold out by one of the attendees of the dinner buying the last 8 tickets around 6pm.
The
>guy says if the winner
>is not here we will
>call him on the phone.The
>second he calls the guys
>name he goes for his
>phone, which was on his
>belt,not waiting to see if
>anyone in the crowd would
>stand up.(none did)The guy that
>won the tag was from
>Exter and so was the
>guy who pulled the ticket
>out. So what do you
>guys think????
There were 32 tickets sold in Fresno County, 5 tickets sold in Tulare county, 5 tickets sold to people in states as far east as South Dakota. that leaves 108 tickets sold in Kern County. Just like anything else it only takes one ticket to win this person only bought 3 tickets. Like I said before it was drawn in front of the entire crowd by Amy. It just so happend that the RD was the one who sold the ticket to the winner and just like any of us that sold to friends he had his number on his cell phone that's how he knew he was not attending our dinner.
Everybody thinks it
>was obvious that there was
>a winner before this function
>got started.
Im very sorry you were unhappy with the dinner. You are one of only a small crowd that I have heard was unhappy from the people I talked with. I was The Chairman for this dinner. I was one of those that did not get to eat and as to the best of my knowledge only committee members were the only people that did not get to eat. I tried to make our dinner the best I could, I gave you 1 in 5 odds of winning something for the night and 1 in 9 of winning a gun from the night. Minus the committee, servers, Tickets girls & Bar tenders we had 124 paid attendees. The dinner went so smoothe we finished by 9pm. Again Im very sorry you had a disapointing time at our dinner. I will refund your Membership fee ($35) out of my own pocket if you want, so that you do not have to be a member of the Mule Deer Foundation since you were so unhappy with the dinner.
In the future I wish you or anyone else would express thier concerns with the Chairmans of these types of events instead of public forums hurting the groups that are only trying give you a fun event and put your money towards saving and improving the very habitat you enjoy hunting so much.
Jeff Kenney
Chairman Kern River Chapter
Mule Deer Foundation
[email protected]
