Regarding the raffle, with the rain and everything getting extended, to a certain extent I was trying to get everyone home since I had promised to make the event shorter this year, it was an adjustment on the fly. In my defense, we gave out more raffle items than any CCA, DU or Delta Waterfowl event I have been to (maybe not Delta, it would be close). No knock on any of these organizations by the way, I am members of all three and enjoy all of their banquets and plan to attend every year. I think it is a fine line, a two hour raffle might not be a good thing. One thing I did want to do was make sure every kid at the event went home with something
Also guys I know I did not get to speak to all of you, I apologize for that. Once I arrived at the event and had everything set up, the rain came in very quickly. Once the rain started, I had a hard enough time just trying to keep things half way organized and decide if we were even going to be able to have a trophy presentation. Plus with my wife being out of town, I had to try and keep an eye out for my kids every now and then.
I am very thankful to those of you that stayed, I thought the atmosphere after the rain was great, it was adhoc and we made it work.
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