Re: [at-l] Ryan Brooks Shelter was RUCKFUND report

["Coosa" <coosa@alltel.net>]

If someelse will coordinate the show, I'll make the phone calls and write
the letters.

They don't call me the BeeCharmer for nuthin.

But I am NOT orgainzed enough and am spread VERRRY thinly with a number of
volunteer activities -- a walkathon for the local Crisis Center (collecting
money for that, it's in May), a day a month at the Humane Shelter starting
later this month, collecting books for Woody Gap School, keeping the house
ready for thruhikers, visiting grandbabies, kayaking when the weather
allows, genealogy research on the net, baking cookies for thruhikers (that
starts the end of the month and runs thru the Palm Sunday Eggs since I'll be
hiking over Easter Weekend), then there's wanting to plant flowers along the
bank in the front yard.

SO, who is willing to volunteer to head the Ryan Brooks Shelter Committee?
Once the committee has an agenda, I'll raise the money or the goods for a
raffle or an auction.

Coosa

-----Original Message-----


>Kahley,reaching thru the monitor and grabbing Coosa by the throat <g>
says....
>Nope.  sorry.  It has been a trip and obviously more successful than I
could
>have dreamed, but I find that fundraising is not my forte.  Our success was
not
>due to my efforts but to the incredible generosity of the online AT
community
>and the RUCKCREW.  There were opportunities presented to me,
>openings to reach out to gear manufacturers etc, that might have yeilded
>more goodies for auction or raffle.  All I had to do was write and convince
>them to donate.  I just couldn't find the words.  No matter how worthy the
>cause,
>asking total strangers to give me stuff just wouldn't come out.  Now
twisting
>the arms of my friends was eeeeaaassy <g>.  So I'm out of the fundraising
biz
>and for the next PARuck, I hope to do no more organizing than to make sure
we
>don't run outta coffee !  And of course...soliciting the pies <VVVBG>.
>Passing the mantle.......Coosa-the action person?
>
>
>
>At 07:49 AM 2/10/00 -0500, Coosa wrote:
>>So, can this be the GOAL for the Rucks between the 2000 and 2001 Mid-AT
(aka
>>PA) Ruck?
>>
>>Kahley, you willing to be our treasurer for these events?  JohnO, you
>>willing to collect the change?
>>
>>I'll bet we even have architects who could draw it, construction workers
who
>>could direct it, and more muscle power than the largest construction
company
>>in the US to build it -- it could be THE meeting point for Rucksters in
>>2001 --
>>
>>Hey, with THIS group, we could have the money together and work on it
maybe
>>over Thanksgiving week and have it up by that weekend ----
>>
>>Whaddayasay?
>>
>>The idea person,
>>Coosa
>>
>>
>>Original Message-----
>>
>>
>> >and some one said the list could not raise money for a small shelter and
>> >privy... there could be the -Ryan K Brooks shelter out there in progress
it
>> >woud be nice and small nothing fancy. far from roads and perfect
>> >
>> >just trolling
>> >
>> >Wisperlight
>> >
>>
>>
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