Date:  Saturday, June 12, 2010, from 6-10pm at the NLNA Community Center (3rd & Fairmount)
Tickets:  $20 (the first 50 attendees will receive a door prize).  Tickets available at the door, or buy your ticket online (if you pay online, your ticket(s) will be available at the door, “will-call” style).
Food & Drink: Dinner and appetizers will be provided, as well as beer and wine.

Auction & Raffle Details:

All Prizes combined total worth of over thousands of dollars!

• Door Prizes (1st 50 people) – Free Rita’s Water Ice Gift Certificates, Free Proportions Gourmet Dog Food Samples, Cafe La Maude
• Silent Auction:  Bidding begins at 6pm, and ends at 8:30pm sharp.  Winners announced at 8:45pm. 
• Raffle Items:  Raffles Drawn and Winners Announced at 8:45pm.
• Live Auction:  Begins at 9pm.  
• Payment: Silent and Live Auction Items can be paid for via Credit Card, as well as cash or check!  Raffle tickets can only be bought via cash or check.

For more information, or to view a list of Auction & Raffle Items, visit www.oriannahill.org/events-fundraisers.

You can now purchase advance tickets to our Annual Fundraiser (which will be held June 12 from 6-10pm at the NLNA Community Center), order replacement dog tags, or make a donation to the park ONLINE!

Tickets to the Fundraiser are $20 each and will also be available at the door.  You can purchase multiple tickets in the same transaction.  Tickets purchased in advance will be available “will call” at the event. 

To donate or purchase fundraiser tickets, click the ”Click here to donate” link on the sidebar, or go directly to http://www.oriannahill.org/donate-to-foohp.

For more information about the June 12th Fundraiser, visit www.oriannahill.org/events-fundraisers.

Orianna Hill Dog Park Auction and Fundraiser, June 12, 2010 (6-10pm)

Here are the details:
Date:  Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 6-10pm at the NLNA Community Center (3rd & Fairmount)
Tickets:  $20 (the first 50 attendees will receive a $10 gift certificate to Bistro La Minette)
Food & Beverage: Dinner, appetizers, beer and wine will be provided!
Auction/Raffle: There will be AMAZING Raffle & Silent Auction items up for grabs, including:

-Restaurants, Bars, Wine & Beer (e.g., Almanac Market, Druid’s Keep, El Camino Real, Honey’s, Palm Tree Market, Swift Half, Wine Gift Basket, Yard’s Brewing…
-Garden/Home (e.g., City Planter, Greenables…)
-Health (e.g., Back to Life Wellness, Massages & Spa Packages…)
-Pet Supplies & Services (e.g., Chez Bow Wow, Chiq Petique, Fairmount Pet Shoppe, PS Pet Sit & Pup Struts, SmartPak Canine, Spot’s Spot, Dog Training…)
-Art (e.g., Exquisite Tiles, Glassblown Vases, Paintings…)
And Many, Many More!!

If you would like to donate any items, or volunteer your assistance in planning the event, please contact the Fundraising Committee Chair, Anne Waginger (awaginger@aol.com).

For more information, visit www.oriannahill.org/events-fundraisers.

2.  Workday: Sunday, June 6, 2010.  Please join us this Sunday, June 6, 2010 from 10am – 1pm, to help spruce up the Park for the rapidly-approaching summer season.  We’ll be spreading woodchips, trimming trees and overgrowth and doing other general clean-up.  We’ll provide tools and gloves, but bring extra if you have them.

As a reminder, please leave your canine friends at home – the PARK WILL BE CLOSED during clean-up.

ALL members are invited to join the workday, but if you are on the Landscaping, Workday & Gardens Committee, it is part of your Park commitment to participate in our semi-annual Park clean-up/workdays.  Jack Cassidy (cplace49@comcast.net), Chair of the Landscaping Committee, will contact all committee members directly.

3.  More Technological Upgrades.  We hope you enjoy the new html format of our emails, the switch to which is part of our efforts in 2010 (along with making the membership application available online, and updating our website) to join the 21st Century!

We also wanted to alert you that members can now log in to their membership profile online, and makes changes/updates to their information, including updating contact information, or adding a new dog if you get one during the course of the year (note: if you need a new tag for a new dog, you’ll still need to email us about that for now).  Just click the “modify/update your membership info” at the bottom right corner of any email from us, or click the “Member Login” link on our website, where you’ll find info on how to create a User ID and Password.

2.  Save the Date: June 12, 2010 (6-10pm) Fundraiser. To help raise more money to ensure we can complete the fencing project, we are having a fundraising party on Saturday, June 12, 2010 (from 6-10pm) at the Northern Liberties Community Center at 3rd & Fairmount. Please mark your calendar and save the date.

We also need your help! As many of you know, this annual event, envisioned and spearheaded in past years by Walt Gilpin, is an important money maker for the Park.  This year, we are thrilled to have the help of those of you who signed up for our new Events & Fundraising Committee, to help plan this event (everyone who designated this committee as their first choice was assigned to the committee and should have already been contact by its Chair, Anne Waginger (awaginger@aol.com).  If you have not, or want to volunteer to help plan the event/switch to this committee, please email FOOHP2010@gmail.com and awaginger@aol.com).

The raffle portion of the party is always very popular. We’re approaching local businesses for gift certificates and we’re counting on the artists and business people among you, whose unique offerings have helped make the raffle a huge success in the past.  Please let Anne know if you can help with this.

3.  Check out our new website. We’ve been slowly re-vamping our website over the last few months.  If you haven’t had a chance, stop by to check it out. Monthly Board meeting minutes are now available for viewing on our “Downloadable Docs” page!

Officers:
President: Jack Cassidy
VP: Anne Waginger
Treasurer: Dan Blum
Secretary: Eman Abouelseoud

At Large:
Kelly Diffily
Walt Gilpin
Sharyn O’Mara
Jonathan Sher
Zoe Wells

Please join me in congratulating and welcoming the new Board – we look forward to working with you!

Also, many thanks to all the candidates who ran – we look forward to your continued involvement with the Park.  Finally, we want to extend a huge thank you to our outgoing Board Members: Irene Lambrou, who has served as a Board member for more than 7 years, Rob Parker, who has served for 4 years, and Sayde Ladov.  Your investment of time and energy to better our dog park is greatly appreciated – you will be missed!

Note that we have expanded the hours to vote in person to 10AM to 1PM. Please vote in person (at the Dog Park) if at all possible; it should only take a few minutes. The new Board will be announced at the Park shortly after all votes are counted, at approximately 1:30PM.  

If you are truly unable to vote in person on 4/24 (i.e., you will be out of town), please contact Election Chair Irene Lambrou at FOOHP2010@gmail.com for an absentee ballot. Absentee ballots must be submitted no later than this Wednesday, April 21.

Please remember that in order to vote in the 4/24 Election, you must have paid your 2010 membership dues and completed our online application and member orientation by March 24, 2010.   A list of eligible voters is available at our 2010 Election page.

Candidates are listed below. Review the Candidates’ Statements here.

Officers
President (pick 1): Jack Cassidy
Vice Pres (pick 1): Anne Waginger
Secretary (pick 1): Eman Abouelseoud
Treasurer (pick 1): Dan Blum

At-Large (pick 5):
Kelly Diffily
Chris Garber
Walt Gilpin
Kelly Gushue
Sharyn O’Mara
Jonathan Sher
Zoe Wells

If you have questions, or if you cannot vote in person at the Park on April 24, 2010, please contact Election Committee Chair Irene Lambrou at FOOHP2010@gmail.com for an absentee ballot. Completed absentee ballots are due by April 21, 2010. 

Please remember that in order to vote in the 4/24 Election, you must have paid your 2010 membership dues and completed our online application and member orientation by March 24, 2010.   A list of eligible voters is available at our 2010 Election page.

Candidates are listed below.  Review the Candidates’ Statements.

Officers
President (pick 1): Jack Cassidy
Vice Pres (pick 1): Anne Waginger
Secretary (pick 1): Eman Abouelseoud
Treasurer (pick 1): Dan Blum

At-Large (pick 5):
Kelly Diffily
Chris Garber
Walt Gilpin
Kelly Gushue
Sharyn O’Mara
Jonathan Sher
Zoe Wells

Nomination forms are available online and from Election Chair Irene Lambrou at foohp2010@gmail.com.

Please submit forms by midnight on Saturday April 3, 2010 by email or deliver to 908 N. Orianna Street.

Candidate statements are due on April 9, 2010.

The Election is Saturday April 24, 2010 from 11AM to 1PM, at the Park. Questions?  Contact Irene at foohp2010@gmail.com.

To be eligible to vote and to run for a Board position, you must be a current, 2010 “Voting Member” by March 24, 2010 – i.e., have made a $50 donation in 2010, have attended an orientation session, and gotten your 2010 FOOHP tag.

Got ideas to make the dog park a better place? NOMINATIONS ARE now being accepted (DUE April 3, 2010).  You may nominate yourself or another FOOHP member for the Board. 

For more details, visit our 2010 Election page.