Bulldog Youth Hockey

The calendar raffle drawing was held on Wednesday, December 30 at the Le Sueur Community Center. Here is the list of winners for the 2010 Calendar raffle. Checks will be mailed out to winners around the first of the month in which they win. Congratulations to all the winners!

All of the Bulldog hockey teams except Squirts have practice on Sunday, November 1st at the Le Sueur Community Center (Squirts are at Gustavus and all of the Squirt families have picked up their fundraising items). I will be set up to take care of any remaining fundraising distribution at the concession stand during all of the Sunday practices. I will also be attending both the Mini-Mite and Mite parent meetings to answer any fundraising questions.

If you have not paid for your fundraising items please make sure to have a blank check with you when you pick up your items.

You are responsible for taking care of your fundraising responsibilities. Please make every effort to get it taken care of this weekend. Thanks.

As noted under "Information on the Club's Choice Fundraiser" (below) families can sell additional boxes of candy bars or additional calendars to reduce the number of Club's Choice items they will be required to sell. Each box of candy bars will count against 6 items from the Club's Choice fundraiser. Each additional five calendars purchased will count toward 15 Club's Choice items. Additional calendars must be sold in multiples of five. If you are interested in selling additional candy bars or calendars please send an e-mail to fundraising@bulldoghockey.org (or just click on the e-mail link at the top of the page) with the number of each you would like to sell. We have plenty of calendars on hand but we will probably need to order more candy bars so it might be a couple of weeks before more candy bars are available.

In January we will be doing our third fundraiser, selling pizzas and other food items from Club's Choice. We have set the number of items that each family is responsible for selling. The number of items is based on the level of your oldest skater. For each additional skater in your family you are responsible of 12 additional items.

Notes about the Club's Choice Fundraiser:

• You can buy out of the fundraiser at $4 per item. We will take care of buy outs when we kick off the fundraiser
• If you do not buy out you are responsible for selling at least the required number of items.
• You can reduce your required number of items by selling additional candy bars or calendars:
  • Each additional box of candy bars you sell will reduce your Club's Choice items by 6.
  • Each additional five calendars you sell will reduce your Club's Choice items by 15. Additional calendars must be sold in multiples of five.
  • If you are interested in selling additional candy bars or calendars please send an e-mail to fundraising@bulldoghockey.org (or just click on the e-mail link at the top of the page) with the number of each you would like to sell.

Q. How does the Raffle work?
A. This calendar, which sells for $20, doubles as a raffle ticket with 54 chances to win. The bottom flap of the calendar has a numbered raffle stub that needs to be filled out completely for each calendar sold. The purchaser keeps the calendar that indicates the prize-drawing amount for each day throughout the year and a duplicate raffle number for their records. According to the Gambling Board and the Minnesota Department of Revenue ALL raffle stubs for these calendars need to be accounted for. So, it is imperative that you have turned in all of your raffle stubs to your team coordinator NO LATER than Sunday, December 20.

Q. When is the raffle drawing and how will it work?
A. The drawing will be held at the Le Sueur Community Center at 7 PM on Wednesday, December 30th. This drawing is open to anyone who chooses to attend. Calendar purchasers need not be present to win. All winners for the full year of 2010 will be drawn that evening. After a ticket is drawn it will be put back into the mix so there is a chance that a single ticket can be drawn more than once. Checks will be mailed to the winners each month throughout 2010. Winners will also be posted on the fundraising portion of our website at bulldoghockey.pucksystems2.com. In all, $3,000 in prizes will be awarded during 2010 to the purchasers of these calendars.

Q. What is the Bulldog Hockey association sales goal?
A. Our goal is to sell all 1,000 calendars that were printed.

Q. Who will sell the calendars?
A. Each Bulldog hockey family whose oldest child is a Mini-Mite or Mite will be responsible for the sale of five calendars. Each Bulldog hockey family whose oldest child is a Squirt or older will be responsible for the sale of ten calendars. Families for whom this is their first year in Bulldog hockey do not have to sell any calendars.

Q. Are our kids expected to sell these calendars?
A. We ask parents not to have your child sell these calendars on a door-to-door basis. The sale of these raffle calendars should be the responsibility of parents, with potential buyers being family members, friends and acquaintances or co-workers.

Q. How and when do we turn in our raffle stubs?
A. Put all of your raffle stubs in a sealed envelope and write “Calendar Fundraiser” along with your name and the name(s) of your skater(s) on the outside of the envelope. Give this envelope to your team coordinator NO LATER than Sunday, December 20th. Do not lose the raffle stubs. There is no way to replace them and you are responsible for turning in all of your stubs.

Q. What if we don't sell all of our calendars?
A. If you have not sold all of your calendars by the deadline you still need to turn in the stubs for the calendars you did not sell. You can turn them in blank or you can write your own name and contact information on each stub and they will go into the drawing.

(This information about the calendar raffle is also available in the pdf document below.)

I went over this at the September 13 open house but since many of you were not there I will go over it here as well.

In prior years families were required to make a fundrasing deposit at the beginning of the year. Throughout the course of the season we would have several fundraisers in which families could participate. After each fundraiser the profit generated by each family was applied against their deposit.

For example, last year a family with one Peewee made a $325 deposit at the beginning of the year. If they sold $300 worth of items in our Club Choice fundraiser (which generated %40 profit) they would have earned $120 profit which would have been applied against their deposit. They would still have to sell enough items in future fundraisers to earn $205 profit in order to get back their fundraising deposit.

This year, instead of making a deposit we are having you buy items in our first two fundraisers that you can then turn around and sell to make back your money.

For example, this year a family with one Peewee buys from the Association 2 boxes of candy bars at $50 per box and 10 calendars at $20 per calendar. The profit from the candy bars is 50% and we are estimating the profit from the calendars to be about 65%. So after the first two fundraisers they have earned about $180 profit. This is the dollar amount that should be compared to last year's $325 deposit  not the $300 paid for the candy bars and calendars.

I hope this makes the cost of fundraising this year a little clearer.

Fundraising is a significant source of income for Bulldog Hockey which helps keep your registration fees down.

We are making some big changes in the way we are doing fundraising this year. Changes that we think will make the fundraising process more streamlined and less confusing. There will be no fundraising deposit made at the time of registration. Instead, during registration families will “buy” the items for our first two fundraisers (raffle calendars and candy bars) which you in turn will sell to recoup your money. These fundraisers are mandatory; there is no option to buy-out. The maximum amount that you will have to pay for the first two fundraisers is $400. The exact amount will depend on the number of calendars and candy bars you receive (as explained below). To give you time to sell your calendars and candy bars, we will hold your check until December 1, 2009, at which time the check will be cashed.

We will have a third fundraiser in January (selling Club's Choice pizzas and other goodies). Each family will have a number of items you are required to sell. There will be a buy-out option for this fundraiser of $4 per item. An overview of each fundraiser, including costs, is below. All of this information in addition to more details and answers to questions will be posted on the Bulldog Hockey web site.

Fundraiser #1: Raffle Calendar

This Bulldog Youth hockey calendar, which sells for $20, doubles as a raffle ticket with 54 chances to win. The bottom flap of the calendar has a numbered raffle stub that needs to be filled out completely for each calendar sold. In all, $3000 in prizes will be awarded during 2010 to the purchasers of these calendars. There will be fifty-two $50 prizes and two $200 prizes. Our goal is to sell 800 calendars. The number of calendars you receive is based on the level of your oldest skater:

• If your oldest skater is a Mini-Mite or Mite, you will get 5 calendars for a purchase price of $100.
• If your oldest skater is a Squirt/12U or older, you will get 10 calendars for a purchase price of $200.
• If this is your family's first year in Bulldog Hockey the calendar fundraiser is waived.

Fundraiser #2: Candy bar sales

These candy bars come in cases of 50 and sell for $1 each.

The number of cases you receive is based on the level of your oldest child PLUS one case for each additional child in Bulldog Hockey with a family maximum of four cases.

• If your oldest skater is a Mini-Mite or Mite, you will get 1 case of candy bars for a purchase price of $50.
• If your oldest skater is a Squirt/10U or older, you will get 2 cases of candy bars for a purchase price of $100.
• For each additional child you have in Bulldog Hockey you will get 1 additional case of candy bars for a purchase price if $50 with a family maximum of four cases for a total purchase price of $200.

Fundraiser #3: Club's Choice Sale

This has been a successful fundraiser in the past. Usually, we do this type of fundraiser in the Fall. Based on feedback from association members stating that they are inundated with these types of fundraisers in the Fall, we are moving it to later in the season.

In this fundraiser, each family will be required to sell a number of items from select Club's Choice brochures. The number of items required will be based on the level of your oldest child PLUS extra items for each additional child in Bulldog Hockey. The exact number of items required will be determined at the time of the fundraiser.

Families will be able to buy-out of this fundraiser for $4 per item required. If you choose not to buy-out it is expected that you will sell at least the number of items required. If you choose to buy-out you can do so when the fundraiser kicks-off.

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