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The first week after the bond amt. was announced we scratched our collective heads. The second week Harry Welty, the primary fundraiser, left town on a vacation. Our first ad hit the Reader Weekly Thursday, June 18th. We started with $8,500 in the bank which we are not counting toward this goal as it is our seed corn for further fundraising. We sowed $2,000 of the seed corn for ads in three publications this week. That leaves $6,500 to be used for mailings, spaghetti dinners and other fundraising activities or the bond if any is left over.<\/p>\n
I’m not counting three $1,000 pledges that have been made but which have not yet collected including one from Harry Welty. We need $10,000 a day to finish with the full $100,000. We’ll have to do a little better. It will be like one of those Public Radio fundraisers.<\/p>\n
We’ve had over 2,000 contributors so far. If they all contribute again we’ll be fine although they will have to dig a little deeper in their pockets this time. And donors seem to be digging. The biggest check I recall receiving before today was for $500. There were three one-thousand dollar checks waiting for us in the PO Box.<\/p>\n