HOME/GARDEN SHOW: The 10th annual fall Home & Garden Show is from 2 to 7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the American Bank Center Convention Center. The show features more than 100 of the Coastal Bend’s premier companies displaying the latest products and services for area homeowners, educational seminars and gardening tips. Cost: $5/adults; $3/seniors, military; free/ages 18 and younger. Free admission today for seniors/military. Information: 882-2071. Also there will be a booth for the non-profit organization 1p36 Deletion Support and Awareness Group selling raffle tickets for $5 to raise funds for the newly formed organization. Information: 361-658-9799 or 361-438-4975.
Our very first 1p36 fundraiser is officially over! We had our raffle drawing done on Saturday Oct 2nd and the lucky winner is Jared Newson from Corpus Christi Texas. The grand prize consisted of 2300 dollars worth of wonderful prizes and giftcards which were donated from local businesses within our community. We ended up raising $3,000 dollars and increased 1p36 awareness along the way...not bad for pulling this off in 3 weeks prior to our main event, the Home Garden Expo 2009! Our main goal from the start was met which was to bring public awareness to our community. The Home Garden expo was an excellent opportunity for just that...we passed out over 1500 handouts and business cards and sold over 400 raffle tickets in three days. I think we did pretty good considering that only 2,000 people showed up at the Home Garden show. Unfortunately it was a slow event but overall we had a great turnout at our booth. Everyone was very curious and asked many questions which I loved answering. It was great talking and connecting with complete strangers. If we could make a difference in one person's life then all of our efforts with this fundraiser was well worth it!
Our very first 1p36 fundraiser is officially over! We had our raffle drawing done on Saturday Oct 2nd and the lucky winner is Jared Newson from Corpus Christi Texas. The grand prize consisted of 2300 dollars worth of wonderful prizes and giftcards which were donated from local businesses within our community. We ended up raising $3,000 dollars and increased 1p36 awareness along the way...not bad for pulling this off in 3 weeks prior to our main event, the Home Garden Expo 2009! Our main goal from the start was met which was to bring public awareness to our community. The Home Garden expo was an excellent opportunity for just that...we passed out over 1500 handouts and business cards and sold over 400 raffle tickets in three days. I think we did pretty good considering that only 2,000 people showed up at the Home Garden show. Unfortunately it was a slow event but overall we had a great turnout at our booth. Everyone was very curious and asked many questions which I loved answering. It was great talking and connecting with complete strangers. If we could make a difference in one person's life then all of our efforts with this fundraiser was well worth it!
We would like to thank each and every single person and sponsors who donated or bought raffle tickets to help with our 1p36 DSA nonprofit organization. None of this would have been possible without you and we are honored and humbled by your support of our cause to raise much needed awareness of 1p36. We'd also like to thank our family and friends for donating their time to help us setup and man the booth at the Home Garden show and the countless time to sell raffle tickets. Special thanks to Phoenix and our 1p36 board of trustees, we really appreciate all of your support and shipping business cards and brochures at the last minute. Thanks for the fast response! Your support means the world to us and the proceeds from the raffle will be going towards education, research, and support of our 1p36 families.
