Folks,
Its that time again, to start thinking about work on the Blitz.. each yr we need to make this awesome event even better!!!! As you all know I am in Colorado, but I was part of the group who did the first one and would hate for this event to die out... so..
We need some ideas... drives.. activities.. meals.. music.. the raffles, the auction. I cannot do it all myself from Colorado.. so I think we need to work on this and start throwing out thoughts and ideas..
Wine again this year definitely with a new logo.
Shirts and items will be available thru minibee ( he just doesn't know it yet lol)
I would love to keep the venue at Helendorf, they have been fantastic to us..
More runs..
And other ideas.. so please email me here at NAM or better yet use my personal email juniperbreze@msn.com, so that I can organize our thoughts then send out an email for thoughts from everyone on the ideas presented. I would love to keep alot of it a suprise until the event.
To register has always been free, and it is my intention to keep it as such!! Luke, and John have said they will help.. any others willing to volunteer? Let me know.. I contacted a few vendors at MiTM who were more then happy to help us out!! Please someone if you would make this a sticky.. this event is very important to me!

 

I will call Helendorf this week. As soon as I have the info for that I will put a post up on the National Event Forum. I would like to keep everything under that post this time. It will be less confusing. I will have that post up by the end of the week.

 

I agree with posting it on the national forum, but working on it probably should be done here, so its not so confusing to others. Anything set in stone should then be posted there!

 

Yes, we need to post it on our forum and also the National Forum. Carol is working with the Helendorf on group rates, Shaun is working on the logo and Winery for some Mini Wine. As for the dates, February 24 thru 27 or 25th thru 27th. We need to get the dates set and post it way in advance and not at the last minute. I will start working on Hendrick for some donations for the auction and talked to Dennis and we already have alot of stuff to auction and this year should be bigger. I like using the Troll Bar for dinner and auction it worked out very well. Any other suggestions????

 

Is Moss Mini a contributor to the auction? I just visited their Petersburg Virginia site on Saturday. If not I would be willing to call them and see if they want to contribute.

 

colejd, that would be great just let us know it will take us some time to get all the right people involved to get this going. Last year we raised over 1600 for Speedway Childrens Charity and $330 for Susan B. Konan breast cancer!

 

I talked to a Moss Mini rep and he said they may be interested in contributing. They needed some background information on the Helenblitz auction. Can someone provide my with a list of vendor contributors from the Feb 2010 auction and a description of the event itself?

 

Before everyone goes off on a tangent and starts asking people for donations, we will put together a letter that can be sent to vendors. We need one central person resonsible for the donations to be sent to. Cole.. awesome that you contacted them, if you don't mind waiting a little bit until we can get an official letter put together then I will make sure you get a copy of it. If no one has any objection, I think all donations should be sent to BluCoopr. Luke you have done it in the past and it surely helps to keep everything in one place.. are you willing to do it? Also Helendorf sent this email:
Hi Carol!
Glad to hear than the mini's are coming back to see us! I have set
aside 20 rooms ....Standard $54.00, Riverfront $74.00. I will need to
have all reservations in by January 28th. Of course, if your group
exceeds the 20 rooms we will gladly continue to take their
reservations as long as we have rooms available. Looking forward to
a having you guys back and if you have any questions or if I may be of
assistance please let me know.

Thanks,
Sharon Farrell
Group Reservations
Helendorf

 

Right now it is tenative for February 25th thru 27th. Thats not official and I had hope that the powers that be would have posted it by now.

 

Could you please send that letter to me as well so I can take it to my unit to get a flag flown and donated? I think they would love a letter afterwards telling them how much you made on auctioning the flag, and where the money was sent to, signed by the club members!

 

That would be so cool, thanks alot good idea.

 

Sorry to interupt,but where is this event going to be held.Sounds like a great event.

 

That would be in Helen, GA.

 

The '08 event rained from start to finish and we still had a blast. I missed last year and I'm still mad at that! I'll be there for 2011 or there'll be hell to pay! If you can make Helenblitz you won't be sorry.

 

Would it be possible to post the letter in this thread? I live in Atlanta and I know the local MINI dealerships usually help the Atlanta MINI club with their stuff, I could send it to them for you guys if you want. and if they do donate anything I would be happy to pick it up and bring it to Helen with me. I went to the Helenblitz last year and had a great time! I hope I can make it again this time!

 

I will make sure the letter will be posted in the next few weeks... Lawman from middleGA minis is working on a logo as we speak.. the dates are firm and will not change.. They are Feb 25-27 2011! WooT .. More info well on its way!!!!

 

Gotta switch some call....

 

oh no .. GRRRRR

 

Hey everyone, forgive me if I sound short here, but I have a few concerns that I think need to be addressed if we plan on having a large attendance for Helenblitz 2011.

I thought the whole point of using the National Forum was to have a single place to post about Helenblitz 2011. I was the last post on there back in early September 2010. I've been wondering why no one is posting there, it's because everyone is doing that here.

If we had a centralized place where we posted info and questions, I could have answered your question regarding Moss MINI. I contact them every year, and have done so for the past 3 years. I will be sending out the Vendor Donation Letters on 01 November; a large number of the vendors requested if I could solicit donations about 4 months out, that is 01 November. I have 30 national/international MINI vendors on my list whom I contact each year. I will again be contacting Moss MINI, or if someone else wants to do this let me know and you can contact everyone. I think it is important to have a single POC (point of contact) as it is less confusing and prevents 50 people from contacting the same vendors and possibly annoying them.

So back to the first issue. Are we going to post on the National Forum or not? There is a lot of good info here that should have been on the National Forum, and I wouldn't and my club wouldn't, be wondering why there is no activity about Helenblitz. You will get more folks coming to the event if we have one place for them to go to; this is why I really haven't been posting about Helenblitz on the Middle Georgia MINIs Forum this year because John told me the National Forum was the place we were to go to discuss and plan for Helenblitz.

My suggestion is, FWIW, is to let the area clubs (via e-mail or posting on their forums) know we are working Helenblitz and for information they need to go to _______________ Forum.

Sorry for sounding short, but it is rather frustrating when you're asked to help with something, told that all of the info would be posted in one spot (National Forum) and it isn't, and Private Messages go unanswered for a month, while all the time the there is no posts to the National Forum and activity is posted here instead.

Just let me know what you want me to do.

 

Lawmann,
Understand the confusion. It was to have been posted to the national forum, for people to see, and normally I do also cross post to other clubs. As I explained in the email, things as far as time for me have certainly gotten out of hand, and I am a bit overwhelmed right now. I am working on it, I am not sure why the person who was supposed to get it up on the nationals hasn't, and I am working on that next.
Also for anyone who wants to donate anything for our auction to benefit the childrens speedway charity, please contact Lawmann via email. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated.
Shawn, thank you for all your hard work it is truly appreciated.
I do apologize for not answering your email for about a month as I am taking 14 credit hours for school, working full time, in the process of buying a house by myself, and training for a half marathon... I am overwhelmed for sure.. I am working on trying to organize my time to devote a few hours a week to the Blitz!

 

The information is now up on the national forum.. pls try to post there , so that the information is centralized.. Thanks everyone!!!

 

In the future, can you please refrain from posting the exact same post in every local group's forum? We received a number of reported posts because of the spamming. Thanks.

 

I've done it every year since we started Helenblitz, if you didnt want it on your forum, simply deleted, no harm no foul

 

Just for your reference. See number three about identical cross posting.

https://www.northamericanmotoring.com/guidelines

Surely there is another way to drum up attendance without massive cross posts?

 

No worries, as your email stated, I will not be posting anything else on Upstate Mini's forum as to anything that may be coming up. Please accept my public forum apology for posting a great event on your forum and several others. I would appreciate if you would delete the Helen post from your forum, and as requested, no other upcoming events will be cross posted to your forum.. thanks!!!