[meteorite-list] Meteorite Raffle Major Update

From: Notkin <geoking_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Sep 6 22:32:44 2005
Message-ID: <A4F48206-1F47-11DA-AE57-000393593854_at_notkin.net>

Dear Friends and Listees:

Greetings all. I have just completed a major update to our 2005
Meteorite Charity Raffle project, and I think you will all be surprised
by the quality, quantity, and ingenuity of these prizes. Newest
additions have been placed at the top of the page for ease of viewing.
We will shortly be breaking the prizes up into groupings: First Prize,
Second Prize, etc. There will be MULTIPLE prizes awarded.

I have also received a kind offer of numerous smaller items, which we
will not have time to list on the site, but we will use them to make
sure that as many people as possible go home with a nice meteorite
memento from our charity raffle. Thanks to Steve Arnold IMB for
organizing that.

Here is the updated prize page:

http://www.aerolite.org/meteorite-raffle.htm


In addition, a few especially rare and collectible items have been
offered to the project, and we are considering a series of special
auctions on Ebay for those donated items, after the Denver show. More
on that later. If someone would like to volunteer to help with Ebay
sales, please let me know.

I will have to stop accepting raffle prizes within the next couple of
days. If you have something you'd like to donate, please don't delay
(last minute additions may be accepted but will not appear on the
website).

Ticket sales continue. PLEASE NOTE: The cut-off date for ticket sales
is Monday, September 12. If I have not received your payment by that
date, you will not be eligible to participate in the prize drawing,
sorry. We will try to accommodate last-minute cash ticket sales during
the Denver Show, but I am making no promises. Payments can be made
through PayPal (use link on raffle page), or you can mail personal
checks (made out to the "American Red Cross" please) to me at:

Geoffrey Notkin
P.O. Box 36652
Tucson, AZ 85740


Anne Black of the Denver COMETS has kindly offered to receive prizes by
mail, on our behalf in Denver. She will post her mailing address
shortly. Blaine Reed has kindly offered to display prizes in his room
during the Denver Show. We suggest that our friends in Europe who have
donated prizes do not mail them at this time. We will ask you to mail
prizes directly to the winners, following the drawing.

As of today, you have raised more than $2,300 for the Red Cross. Hats
off to everyone who pitched in.

More news when I have it : )


Best to all,

Geoff N.
Received on Tue 06 Sep 2005 10:32:33 PM PDT