griffinej5
Posted : 6/2/2013 7:33:01 PM
It was okay. Luke did well until he was getting too hot. I guess I'll let them use him for July. Then he is really, truly done with this team. I am not putting him on the lists for any other tournaments. The only reason the person really wanted me to come is that if Luke doesn't do the one in July, nobody does. I did at least get the word on a lure coursing tested that one woman's club is hosting in October. I think I'm going to try one with Luke, but it would have to be when it definitely won't get too hot for him. This person is leaving the flyball team too. She's already decided where to go, and I may end up with that team as well, but I am not deciding yet. How many people have to leave for them to get it, I don't know. I did debate not letting him go in July, out of spite. There is a dog on the team who can't run for crap and makes constant errors. He's going in June, but they couldn't bother to find a spot for my dog who can actually run (Luke got more points in his first day of racing than this dog has gotten in 5 days of racing). The dog just makes tons of errors, and makes the team get no points. Would it be wrong of me to ask if this dog is going? I really don't want to waste my time and money to get no points and be frustrated all weekend.
For two years, my friend and I were directors of a race. In year two, after seeing how busy we were in year one, they decided to get us more help. In our first year, we had no issues with our volunteers. We used a lot of high school students, but also used our friends and family, and other friends and family of members of the organization whenever we could convince them to do it. We had zero no shows, but one kid got sick and had to leave early. We brought donuts for the kids (because we had to send them out on the course before the food tent was set up) and made sure to round generously when we signed off on their hours. In year two, someone else was in charge of securing volunteers. The person actually in charge of getting volunteers didn't follow up with the high school kids, thus many were no shows. She also refused to accommodate special requests (putting friends together, giving sit down jobs to those who requested or who we knew could not stand for a long time). When my friend and I were in charge, if we could not put two kids together, we at least put them near each other so that they could stand together until the race started and walk back together at the end. Luckily, City Year reached out to us last minute and showed up to help. If they had not shown up, we would have been totally screwed. Whoever volunteered to secure food from the bagel place forgot to confirm a few days ahead of time as they had arranged when they did it. My mom went in to pick it up, and they didn't have it ready for us. Luckily, because they had dealt with us the prior year, and I made sure to frequent the place a bit in the months before hand, they threw together some day olds for us. We also had secured food from a ton of other places. After that disaster, I bowed out of ever doing it again. They actually turned it into a much bigger even now which would be way too big a liability for me to be involved with. We did well the first two years, earned a few thousand the first year, and doubled it the next year. Last year, they raised $126,083 (I think that is before expenses, I don't think the website counts that). If I hadn't raised my hand and volunteered to do it in the first meeting to get ideas for fundraisers, they wouldn't have tried it. Nobody was willing to take on something that big. Now they obviously continue it because it raises a ton of money.