Calendar and Photo Contest Winners

by Theresa Puckett, Reporter

The calendar has been sent to the printer and it looks great. Thanks to all who have participated in this fund raiser thus far. I would like to congratulate the winners of the photo contest. We had so many wonderful photos to choose from.

Monthly winners were:   

Blessed Assurance Farm – Kay Allen, 

Crooked Creek Ranch – Brian, Theresa and Zach Puckett, 

Half Ass Acres – Joe and Dayle Haworth, 

J and M Farm – Jacqueline and Martha Brown, 

JKV Designs – Julia Vaughn, 

Legendary Farms – Richard and Katrina Fleener, 

Little Miracles Farm – Jeff, Maria and Katie Randall, 

Mini Acres – Lydia Spears, 

Red Pines Mountain –  Sara Kellogg, 

Rocking 615 Ranch – Dena Wilson, 

ThomAS’S JACKstock – Joe Thomas and, 

Wit’s End Farm – Bob and Sandy Dorris.   

The winner of the cover and our “Ahh” photo is Half Ass Acres with HHAA Smalls.

With the calendar at the printers it is time to turn our attention to the sales of the calendars. We are hoping that you, our members will support your club by purchasing a calendar. The officers have looked around at other donkey calendars, in an attempt to price our calendar competitively and we have decided to price the calendar at $12.00. We have also found two feed stores that are willing to help us sell our calendar, one Vet and a couple other places that are considering. This is turning out to be a wonderful project, one that I hope each member will be proud of. 

2012 TDA Calendar - fundraiser

TDA 2012 Calendar Fund Raiser
by Theresa Puckett, Club Reporter

TDA is embarking on their first ever fundraiser and we are very excited about this project. We are going to publish a calendar for 2012. What does this mean to you our members?  Well, this means several things. First off, you can buy the calendars when they are published to help support your club and second, is that you are invited to help us showcase our longear friends. We, the fundraising committee want you, our members, to send in your favorite photos of your donkeys for a chance to be in the calendar. The photos will be submitted to the committee anonymously for the voting process. If your photo is chosen there is a $100 publishing fee. This fee gets you, the winner, a month in the calendar which consists of the full page photo of your donkey, a place on that month to advertise your farm or add a message and one copy of the calendar. You will also receive any additional calendars you may want to purchase at a discounted rate (discount to be decided at a later date).

Calendar Layout:

Rules:

·         The photo must be at least 300 dpi to be considered.  Anything less will be discarded. If you need help with this or do not understand what we are asking please contact us. Your photo can be submitted via email or regular mail but if you email make sure that the photo does not get compressed in the emailing process.

·         The photos can be whatever you like, a donkey at liberty, a person with a donkey, even a show photo may be submitted.  A copyrighted photo cannot be used unless it is accompanied with written permission from the photographer!

·         The dead line for submitting photos is March 1st 2011.

·         Please keep in mind before submitting a photo that you must be willing to pay the publishing fee if your photo is selected.

• A person or farm can submit as many photos as they wish but can only win once unless there is lessthan 12 people or farms represented. 

• All photos must be emailed to Dayle Haworth at minidonks@united.net or mailed to her at 2356 Feed Mill Road  Chapel Hill, TN 37034

Any questions about the calendar can be directed to Theresa Puckett, at ccrdonkeys@comcast.net  or by phone 615-230-7260, Kay Allen at kayy@united.net or by phone 931-364-5057 or Dayle.

The committee reserves the right to veto any photo or message that they deem to be inappropriate.

A copy of the calendar contest contract needs to accompany your photo (contract found below).

Contest Contrast:  

I understand that by submitting a photo or photos to the TDA fund raising committee that I am willing to pay the $100 publishing fee if my photo is selected. I own all rights to these photos or I have written permission from the photographer to use these photos. I am not infringing on any copyrights with the photos I am submitting.

Signature:____________________________________

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SADDLE UP for ST. JUDE is June 19th

A couple of emails have been sent out in regard to this event, but wanted to make note of it here too! Calico Mule Ranch has made a special effort to make the Tennessee Donkey ASSociation feel welcome to this event! This is a link to their website so you can peruse all the activities. Should be a fun weekend! We have members that will be camping for the weekend and many that aren’t able to bring donkeys (or horses) but want to just enjoy the event. The folks at Calico said if we are just coming for the day that 11am on Saturday would be a good start time. Watch your email, will be updating again soon!