NorthStar Dragway
03-12-2009, 02:46 PM
Saturday, April 4th 6pm - Midnight
North Star Dragway
www.northstardragway.com
I appreciate everyone's patience while I tried to piece this all together and pick a date. I know everyone is eager to help Eric's family, but I wanted to get everything together before I posted anything.
We will be running TTT5 that night, and as people mentioned, I think this is an appropriate event to couple the Memorial with. What I am hoping to do is setup some tables in front of the snack bar and have some raffles going. I think we can do one raffle with $5 tickets (5 for $20) for things like a 2009 NSD Season pass, the bike that Kelly said he could get, and then any other prizes or gift certificates that we can collect. I think the other raffle could be for $1 tickets (6 for $5) and do a 50/50 deal. I also really like the idea of having people put up some money to race for/against Eric in the other lane. It would be really cool if we could put a car that Eric was associated with on the starting line in the stage lights, but we can work on that down the road. I am thinking we could ask for a $50 donation to race with Eric, and maybe do 20 to 30 races, that would raise over $1000 alone.
I am talking to the owner/GM at the track to figure out exactly what we can do with a cash donation the the family. I would like to use a good portion of the admissions that people coming for the Memorial pay at the gate and just give that to the family. That way, there would be sort of a built in donation when you came in the gate.
Anyway, now we need to get a list of volunteers to work the tables, handle the raffles, secure more prizes, etc. Also, we will need to probably get a couple of awnings brought out and some posters made to put up. I will use the PA to direct people over there and donate. I am really hoping that we can raise close to $5000 when it's all said and done.
North Star Dragway
www.northstardragway.com
I appreciate everyone's patience while I tried to piece this all together and pick a date. I know everyone is eager to help Eric's family, but I wanted to get everything together before I posted anything.
We will be running TTT5 that night, and as people mentioned, I think this is an appropriate event to couple the Memorial with. What I am hoping to do is setup some tables in front of the snack bar and have some raffles going. I think we can do one raffle with $5 tickets (5 for $20) for things like a 2009 NSD Season pass, the bike that Kelly said he could get, and then any other prizes or gift certificates that we can collect. I think the other raffle could be for $1 tickets (6 for $5) and do a 50/50 deal. I also really like the idea of having people put up some money to race for/against Eric in the other lane. It would be really cool if we could put a car that Eric was associated with on the starting line in the stage lights, but we can work on that down the road. I am thinking we could ask for a $50 donation to race with Eric, and maybe do 20 to 30 races, that would raise over $1000 alone.
I am talking to the owner/GM at the track to figure out exactly what we can do with a cash donation the the family. I would like to use a good portion of the admissions that people coming for the Memorial pay at the gate and just give that to the family. That way, there would be sort of a built in donation when you came in the gate.
Anyway, now we need to get a list of volunteers to work the tables, handle the raffles, secure more prizes, etc. Also, we will need to probably get a couple of awnings brought out and some posters made to put up. I will use the PA to direct people over there and donate. I am really hoping that we can raise close to $5000 when it's all said and done.