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31st ANNUAL COLLECTORS CHARITY EVENT REVIEW

and brought $2,500.00 at the auction. Let’s also offer a thank you to the see if they have a corporate gifting program. Many do and will share
Newsletter for the low run alternate color Newsletter cars which added with product or gift certificates. If you belong to a club donate an
an additional $1,200.00 to our total. Thanks to all of the collectors and extra club car, ROAKS, or have some of your “crafters” do a one of
clubs for your most welcomed donations that we as staff have become a kind custom or display case. Consider artwork, signage, and wood
accustomed to seeing such as quilts, wine holders, framed artwork, Hot working items as well. We will do our best to give you (especially if
Cases, RAOK’s, Nascar items and a host of other custom creations. All of it is a stand-alone item) or your group the proper acknowledgement
you are what makes these events happen and continue to be successful! when the item is auctioned.
A big thank you also goes out to our designers, not only for their time
and presence but also for their gracious artwork and signatures that make Check this issue for reports on our other three events where they are
these auction donations so unique and coveted. recapped and our hard working charity staff is acknowledged; Charity
Once the bidding began at the Charity Auction it became no holds Button Bingo contributed $15,600.00, the Charity Poker Tournament
barred on some of the items. The room grew quiet as the bidders contributed $2,000.00 and Convention Mania contributed $1,800.00 to
continued to outbid one another and the dollar values climbed to record our donation total.
highs. The ’62 Corvette FEP brought in $2,275.00 and just prior to that No event can be successful without participants and with your help and
was the ’67 Camaro FEP at $1,400.00. Those were exciting moments and generosity this year’s event is now part of our history of giving. This
I would like to extend a big thank you on behalf of the charity for your speaks to all of you and what you are made of and why these events are
overwhelming participation and donations.
so successful. We are a community of collectors that help one another
and I am very proud to be part of your group. Your dedication and sup-
Please note: Even though I list the high dollar auction wins there is
something for everyone’s budget. We had quite a few items go be- port generated a combined total of $69,500.00 from all charity events.
tween $30.00 and $60.00. Please at least attend the auction. Bidder Thanks to you all. See you at the next one!
cards are free and without obligation. It is a fun time and who knows I would also like to thank the Charity staff for all of their hard work and
you might come away with an unexpected treasure.
long hours that they dedicated to make this event a success. Barb, Dave,
and Jonathan Robles, Jerry Rousselle, and Marsha Di Angi were all invalu-
Please consider this: We as collectors are proud to share and contrib-
ute to those in need and this is quite obvious through your kind do- able to the success of the charity fund raising events.
nations. Many of us don’t contribute because we think our donation Let’s all extend a big and well earned thank you to Collectors Events
may be insignificant so let’s try to ramp up our total contributions Unlimited LLC Mark & Jennifer Millhollin for their year-long efforts and
by being creative as well as investigative. Many of our donations are hard work to make these events a reality without them these events would
non-Hot Wheels related such as quilts, mail boxes, hand blown glass not happen and to Mike and Diane Strauss for their continued support
items, display cases, metal work and custom made items to mention and foresight to create a venue for us collectors to gather and share the
a few. Here are some suggestions: Check with your employers to
hobby.

CHARITY POKER By Greg Hall

As always, we had a great time at the Make-A-Wish Charity Poker tourna-
ment at the Convention. I always enjoy getting to see all my poker-play-
ing friends bright and early on Thursday morning. Everyone who signs
up to play in this tournament gets a special Orange car. This year that car
was the orange ‘57 Chevy limited to only 60.
This year when we ended we had 2 tables of 10 players, with 4 players
at the final table. Please register early in future as we had to turn away
late-comers that wanted to sign up last minute. With next year being the
50th anniversary of Hot Wheels, I’m sure they are planning a lot of great
things, so I’d like to see the numbers go up for not only poker but for ALL
the Charity events. We would like to raise as much money as possible for
our charity.
We are always looking for ways to make the tournament more fun for
everyone. In the past we always restarted at the final table with all players Even though the players took their chip stacks from the first table I still
having the same amount of chips. This year they got to take the chips wanted it to last close to the given time of 2 hours we had been allotted,
they finished the first game with to the final table. I always deal the final so I started the blinds back at 100/200 and doubled them every 15 min.
table and everyone liked this much better than starting over with only This allowed for a lot more betting action. It was a very fun table even
2700 chips. Before I started though I let the 4 guys... Terrance Chang, though there were only 4 players. All 4 of those players were good poker
John Knoll, Ken Heximer, and Jason Laughlin know that we would be players so it lasted quite a while before we lost anyone.
giving out not 2 but 3 prizes this year. 3rd place would be receiving a Third place went to Terrance Chang, Second place went to Ken Heximer
coral pink ‘57 Chevy, and 2nd receiving a lime green Volkswagen Drag and this year’s first place winner was Jason Laughlin.
Bus and a coral pink ‘57 Chevy, and 1st place would get the lime green I would like to thank everyone that plays in the Poker tournament as well
Volkswagen Drag Bus, red and a coral pink ‘57 Chevy, and the 2016 Toy as my great dealers. Everyone does a great job and it makes this event a
Fair Porsche 934, as well as a trophy at the Finale on Saturday night with a lot of fun.
gold ‘70 Challenger on top.

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