Orange
County Federation
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We had over
180 people attending the Dinner this year at Kohul's Highland
House in Middletown.
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Charles Poles, NYSRPA Hudson Valley Region Rep. was able to attend. |
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State Assembly Member Nancy Calhoun and Alan Sorensen who ran for an Assembly seat. |
Family Court Judge Debra Kiedaisch who ran for a seat in the State Supreme Court in the 9th Judicial District also attended |
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Sue Kelly, our Representative in Congress was able to stop by. |
I had a good time |
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We had to have a lot of door prizes and we got a good selection. Hats from Remington, 4 way Universal Remote Controls from Radio Shack in Monroe, Passes to the Middletown Gun Show, $5 Discount Coupons from Dick's Sporting Goods in Middletown and other prizes. |
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Orange
County County Executive, Edward A. Diana gave the oath of
office to the Officers of the Federation
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The "Wall
of Prizes" Raffle was another big hit. Besides guns
of all types we had a Safe and two reloading setups to chose
from.
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If you had won the Raffle you could have chosen a complete Dillon 55B setup with tumbler, scale and everything else you need to start reloading. The shotgun setup also had everything you need plus shells, shot and powder to make 1,000 rounds of 12 Gauge. (Thanks to Master Class.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
One of our "Wall of Prizes" winners chose a nice shotgun. The other winner also picked a gun. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Federation President Carmen Heitzman ran the show and did a lot of the work for the dinner. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don Faenza was awarded the " Sportsman of the Year" award. |
Babra Dunn gave us a hand with the front door and keeping track of all the VIPs. |
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Thanks to everyone who
signed the "Thank you" letters to all of the donors. |
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We had over $3,000 worth of prizes from raffles, door prizes and Bucket Raffles. Most of the prizes were donated by local businesses, clubs and individuals. Every gun store, range, bait store, butcher, taxidermists or gun smith in Orange County contacted donated something. Many items were worth over $100. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bill
Diana and Carmine Montalbano accept the "Club of the
Year" award
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We had all kinds of prizes; from prints to ammo to gift certificates to books to computer equipment to fishing equipment, to scopes ... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We had more bucket prizes than ever. We had to combine some prizes because we ran out of buckets. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A RED DOT scope donated
by Monroe-Chester was the most popular items in the
BUCKET raffle. |
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sam and Mables and Davis Sport Shop in Sloatsburg, NY donated a rod and reel and Bob's Gun Exchange donated a nice knife. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BONUS BUCKETS When you buy tickets to the bucket raffle you get tickets for
the BONUS BUCKET TABLES |
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Monroe-Cherster Donated a scope, O & H Bait Shop from Chester donated a tackle box with all the tackle you would want, Thruway Sporting Goods donated a nice rod & reel with line and a nice tackle box and Home Depot in Monroe donated a drill and Wal-Mart in Middletown Donated a $50 Gift certificate. |
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Monroe-Chester donated 2 more scopes and a knife was donated by Catskill Taxidermy. | |||||||||||
DONORS We want to thank those people who were kind enough to donate
items to this years dinner. |
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Bob's Gun Exchange Radio Shack, Monroe Master Class Shooters Supply Floral Cottage, Chester Lounsbury Sporting Goods Davis Sport Shop Home Depot, Monroe Joe's Video Thruway Sporting Goods JC Blauvelt Gunsmith, Inc. Monell Custom Guns O & H Bait Shop Ed’s Wildlife Studio Remington Dicks Sporting Goods, Middletown OCShooters.com George Rogero |
Newmart Promotions, (OC Gunshows.) |
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Aurora Calculator CD-R 100, CD Disk Remote Phones Camera Bag Knife 4-in-1 remote STS12L8 Gift Cert. Gift Cert. fishing rod reel 12 V drill Coffee Mug Pill Caddy Soda Holders note pads Cow Coffee Mug Poster Surge Protector Fanny Pack Pens & Patches |
SOME
OF THE DONATED ITEMS |
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Book Motorola 2 way radio w/charger CD/DVD labeling Summer Vacation book ACP 350 VA Back UP Floral Cottage Calendar Avon Moisture hand Cream 12 gunshow passes 8 Forest of Fear Tickets hats $50 Wal-Mart Gift. Cert Book Glitter Lamp Soap & Bath Gel Mouse Pad 8x21 compact Binoculars |
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Gift Basket Fishing outfit Gift Cert. scope tackle box with everything Gift Cert. hats targets belt buckle Gift. Cert Rod & Reel combo Gift Cert. Custom Knife Knife Gun Cleaner 1 oz |
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