Jeff_in_KC
somebody shut me the fark up.
We often see a lot of thanks and congratulations handed out for teams who do well and so forth but I wanted to make a thread in itself to pass along a HUGE THANK YOU to the folks who volunteered and made all the difference for 65 teams (one no-show) at Pleasant Hill this weekend!
Stan and I could not have pulled this off without super folks pitching in! First off, my wife Tammy and her mom and dad, Tom and Ellen Brown (who are here from Michigan for the weekend because Taylor is being baptized tomorrow on Easter). Tammy also put up with a lot of stress on my part for the last few weeks. Tom and Ellen worked their tails off helping at the contest. Ellen worked hard with Tammy on the Sponsor/VIP dinner and various other things. Tom ran to get our ice from our provider every time we needed it, helped run golf carts back to the shop after the contest and spent a large portion of this afternoon cleaning and sweeping the community building.
Then we have folks a lot of you know... fellow Brethren Vern Guilford and Shane Petzold once again, for the third year in a row, made this contest what it always is... a very cooker friendly event. These guys live not 20 minutes from Pleasant Hill and make up Moo Cow BBQ Team. I'm sure they'd like to compete so close to home but they have sacrificed that for three years to help out and make things great for our teams. We would probably not have a contest without Vern and Shane! THANK YOU, guys!!!
This year, Chris and Jana Early (Early Bird BBQ) were not able to compete but yet they showed up on Friday afternoon, ready to help. They helped out with People's Choice, helping with things teams needed and so forth. Today, they were a Kids Q liason to the young 'uns who were competing (total of about 25 kids), riding around on golf carts to make sure everyone was happy and had all they needed. Chris and Jana also took the bull by the horns and sold a TON of raffle tickets for our donated ABS smoker so that we could make a bigger donation to the March of Dimes. Jana unloaded a ton of tickets and cash they had raised multiple times. In addition, they helped in the judging area (Chris was a table captain) and generally made our lives much easier! Great friends and great help! I'm estimating they single-handedly (or double-handedly!) sold around $700 in raffle tickets for March of Dimes!
Bryan (This Is How We Que It) came out on Friday night and helped take care of the teams, working with Shane to provide great service! This is the kind of help that is really important because you guys are really the face of our committee! Great job Bryan! Didn't get a chance to thank you in person other than when you showed up to help but Stan and I appreciate it!
Finally there are a lot of local folks who you probably would never know but who pitched in and propelled this contest to a big success. First off is Scott George, Director of Parks and Recreation and someone I've gotten to know so well over my five-plus years serving on the park board with two as president. Scott is also the assistant to the city administrator and has a very full plate already. The contest has probably doubled his work load, especially over the last two weeks or so. He has been instrumental in getting the fairgrounds ready, arranging for all tables and chairs and setting them up, hooking up and operating the sound system, hanging walls on the pavilion so we'd have a great sheltered area for people's choice, meetings, judging and awards, getting the lots grated, trash cleaned up and so forth. Without Scott's cooperation and dedicated effort to this contest, it just simply would not have happened. In fact, he's probably the reason there IS a Pleasant Hill contest and that the logistics run so smoothly.
Other folks include Jennifer Wood, my vice president on park board, Stephanie Ray, assistant to the mayor, Brandon Golliday, park board member and also an owner of Midwest True Value here in town, Connie Allee, the entire parks department staff and the Pleasant Hill Lions Club (who served the breakfast this morning).
While we both worked hard to make this a great event in town, Stan and I just organized it. All of the above people MADE IT HAPPEN and you are the BEST and truly appreciated!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Stan and I could not have pulled this off without super folks pitching in! First off, my wife Tammy and her mom and dad, Tom and Ellen Brown (who are here from Michigan for the weekend because Taylor is being baptized tomorrow on Easter). Tammy also put up with a lot of stress on my part for the last few weeks. Tom and Ellen worked their tails off helping at the contest. Ellen worked hard with Tammy on the Sponsor/VIP dinner and various other things. Tom ran to get our ice from our provider every time we needed it, helped run golf carts back to the shop after the contest and spent a large portion of this afternoon cleaning and sweeping the community building.
Then we have folks a lot of you know... fellow Brethren Vern Guilford and Shane Petzold once again, for the third year in a row, made this contest what it always is... a very cooker friendly event. These guys live not 20 minutes from Pleasant Hill and make up Moo Cow BBQ Team. I'm sure they'd like to compete so close to home but they have sacrificed that for three years to help out and make things great for our teams. We would probably not have a contest without Vern and Shane! THANK YOU, guys!!!
This year, Chris and Jana Early (Early Bird BBQ) were not able to compete but yet they showed up on Friday afternoon, ready to help. They helped out with People's Choice, helping with things teams needed and so forth. Today, they were a Kids Q liason to the young 'uns who were competing (total of about 25 kids), riding around on golf carts to make sure everyone was happy and had all they needed. Chris and Jana also took the bull by the horns and sold a TON of raffle tickets for our donated ABS smoker so that we could make a bigger donation to the March of Dimes. Jana unloaded a ton of tickets and cash they had raised multiple times. In addition, they helped in the judging area (Chris was a table captain) and generally made our lives much easier! Great friends and great help! I'm estimating they single-handedly (or double-handedly!) sold around $700 in raffle tickets for March of Dimes!
Bryan (This Is How We Que It) came out on Friday night and helped take care of the teams, working with Shane to provide great service! This is the kind of help that is really important because you guys are really the face of our committee! Great job Bryan! Didn't get a chance to thank you in person other than when you showed up to help but Stan and I appreciate it!
Finally there are a lot of local folks who you probably would never know but who pitched in and propelled this contest to a big success. First off is Scott George, Director of Parks and Recreation and someone I've gotten to know so well over my five-plus years serving on the park board with two as president. Scott is also the assistant to the city administrator and has a very full plate already. The contest has probably doubled his work load, especially over the last two weeks or so. He has been instrumental in getting the fairgrounds ready, arranging for all tables and chairs and setting them up, hooking up and operating the sound system, hanging walls on the pavilion so we'd have a great sheltered area for people's choice, meetings, judging and awards, getting the lots grated, trash cleaned up and so forth. Without Scott's cooperation and dedicated effort to this contest, it just simply would not have happened. In fact, he's probably the reason there IS a Pleasant Hill contest and that the logistics run so smoothly.
Other folks include Jennifer Wood, my vice president on park board, Stephanie Ray, assistant to the mayor, Brandon Golliday, park board member and also an owner of Midwest True Value here in town, Connie Allee, the entire parks department staff and the Pleasant Hill Lions Club (who served the breakfast this morning).
While we both worked hard to make this a great event in town, Stan and I just organized it. All of the above people MADE IT HAPPEN and you are the BEST and truly appreciated!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
