From: guygarcia@earthlink.net
To: Coaches and Team Raffle ticket leaders
Sent: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 9:26 am
Subject: 'Saving Dixon Athletics' - Dream Raffle Ticket Sales
 

Dear Coaches and Team Raffle ticket leaders,

On behalf of the Dixon Schools Athletic Booster Board Members, I would like to thank you for your support in promoting the sale of the ‘Dream Vacation Raffle’ tickets by your athletes!  We hope this kind of fundraiser has a little bit more appeal than simply ‘pay to play’, the odds of winning a $3000 trip are pretty darn good!   

We have about a week left to encourage the athletes to sell the remainder of their tickets if they haven’t done so already.  However if the parents/athletes would rather just purchase all of the tickets themselves then that’s ok too.  We really hope that we don’t see any unsold tickets returned – otherwise we’ll have even more pressure to fundraise to keep sports alive in Dixon – and we all know it’s challenging enough already!  We felt that turning a $3000 donation into $36,000-$40,000 in this way was a pretty good return on investment for a relatively small effort by each of the athletes.

I hope you will rally your team parents and athletes (reminders at practice, email, etc…) to have a final push on selling their tickets.  For those of you that saw the recent article in USA Today which talked about how this community rallied to save athletics….I’m worried we may only be able to save athletics on paper if we can’t make this fundraising raffle a success.  Again thank you for all the hours and hard work that you put in for ‘the kids’. 

Many Thanks

 

Guy Garcia

President, Dixon Schools Athletic Boosters

& DSAB Executive Board