Hi Rick, I'll try to answer a couple of your questions. The club board authorized us to start our fundraising effort the miidle of April. Although we don't have a lot of time this year I got lucky and I have some very talentedand aggresive people working with me. So we have some fun and surprises in store for this years convention. Activities wiil continue throughout the year culminating in one BIG blowout fundraising shindig at the 2003 convention. This is a very long term project and we need all of the help we can get, but I promise you we will pull out all of the stops and get this finished before all of my committee members are at the top of the social security roles If you have anymore questions please see me at convention or email me. Regards, Jim