Hello everyone!
I hope this e-mail finds you all doing wonderful and blessed! We hope you and your families had a safe and blessed Thanksgiving holiday and we also pray you have a joyous Christmas and New Year! We also extend to you our prayer for best wishes and many special blessings ALWAYS!!!
I would like to first take this opportunity to express to each of you our deepest and most sincere appreciation for ALL the support you have given and continue to give to the Hunters for the Hungry program. You are a blessing to us and to all those whose lives are touched by your kindness and caring way. We are able to touch lives in such a wonderful way and to promote our hunting heritage in a positive light through what we give back. As I write to you we have been receiving as many deer as we ever have. It seems hunters are having great success and are sharing their bounty with us to help those who hunger. As we continue to see the deer made available we must continue to focus on our funding to make sure we can accept every deer that is given to us. As we move toward the end of the year we hope to continue to receive fianancial donations during this giving season. In addition to this funding area we have introduced our two newest raffles which we hope will help us generate additional funding to again help us keep pace with the donated deer. We once again have our FALL / WINTER RAFFLE and we are also running our 2010 HUNT RAFFLE. The Fall / Winter tickets are $2.00 each or a book of 3 for $5.00. We are giving away 10 really nice prizes this year which includes a Grand Prize of a Thompson Center Encore Pro Hunter muzzleloader, we also have a Parker Bow, a Remington 11-87 12 ga shotgun, a Knight muzzleloader etc etc. And on our hunt raffle the tickets are $5.00 each or 3 for $10.00. The grand prize here is a White-tailed Deer hunt for 2 people at Sailors Creek Outfitters in the Farmville area of Virginia. It allows both hunters to take a buck and 2 does and the winner also will receive a Savage 300 Winchester magnum rifle. There is also a Bear hunt in Maine and some other neat prizes.
However, as we must do with all our raffles we are required to follow the Dept. of Charitable Gaming Guidelines. We are not able to conduct raffle ticket sales through the mail and so we are turning to volunteers who might be able to help us sell tickets or to make some contacts with those who can assist with these important fundraisers. I am writing to ask for your help and assistance as we do many times throughout the year. IF you could sell some of these tickets for us please e-mail me back or call me by cell at (434) 665 – 7658 so we can arrange to get you a quantity of tickets. I would also like to ask if you would to send us or call us with information of any business, sporting goods store, general store, group or organization that might be willing to help us with this as well. If you know the owner of say a store or business in your area and could ask them if they might be willing to help PLEASE contact us back with the contact name and telephone number and we will follow up with them. My plan is to “hit the road” starting next week to visit as many businesses and individuals as possible to try and distribute these tickets. I have created small posters and signs that can be placed on the business window that would let people know the tickets were available there for sale and we would have the posters that I have attached that they can display or hand out that outlines all the prizes etc. for each raffle. We just need individuals and businesses that will help us sell them. To make this as efficient as possible I am hoping to get a certain area to travel to at a time, or if you would be willing to distribute them to those you know I could meet you and issue you a quantity as well. TO DO THIS AND HAVE IT BE A SUCCESS WE NEED YOUR HELP! We have some really nice prizes on these and our raffles help us raise a significant amount of monies each year. Since we cannot sell them through the mail we need to distribute them and we would love to be able to do so ALL across the state.
Anyway I so look forward to hearing from you in helping us with these important fund raisers for our program. As you know there is no shortage of the deer that we can receive but we must have the funding to accept each of them. Our funding has always been the struggle and we appreciate anything you can do in support of the program and these raffles. It is crucial we raise the monies so we cannot only accept the deer made available but to grow the program as well. We appreciate you helping us sell tickets and / or getting us contacts and locations where we can deliver them.
Thanks again for all you do and God Bless you all and your families,
We would also like to wish you and yours a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a JOYOUS NEW YEAR!!!
Gary Arrington
Virginia Hunters for the Hungry
