Greyhounds in Gettysburg (GiG)

Friday, April 25 - Sunday, April 27, 2008

Why Register or What's in it for Me?

We are often asked why should someone register and what does one get for their registration payment. The vendor sale area is open to the public. Anyone can come and shop. Why pay to register?

Shhh, here is a secret. We want your money. Yep, we put on this event to raise money for greyhound adoption. We are not kidding. We attempt to put in enough activities so that you believe you are getting your money's worth and we walk away with money to support our greyhound programs. He, he, he. Aren't we devious? We like to think we are devious in a good way.

It takes money to put on the event. Here are some facts about the event.

• The event takes over 9 months to plan and organize. Many hours a week for those of us doing the work.
• The event exists to raise money for Greyhound Adoption efforts for the Triangle Greyhound Society (TGS), Keystone Greyhound/GPA and the other organizations who are vendors at the event.
• TGS, the group running the event, only charges vendors enough to cover the expenses related to the physical environment in the vendor area (tent rentals, dumpster rental, security to name a few of the items).
• Your attendance payment covers all of the surrounding costs of running the event (insurance, production of attendee booklets and signs, mailing/shipping expenses, rental of locations for socials), and provides valuable funding for TGS, a non-profit organization. This event is our primary source of funding.
• By shopping at the event, you will be providing funds to many vendors that support greyhound adoption efforts. A very worthy thing to do. TGS sure would like a chance for a portion of your money.
• By not registering, you restrict yourself to shopping and miss out in participating in other activities. Shopping is open to the general public. Watching the rest of us have fun doing the other activities is open to the public also. We can't police all of the activities and don't intend to do so. We do spot check some activities and enforce "attendee only" at the seminars and participating in the greyhound games.
• Contributions to TGS may be tax deductible to extent allowed by current tax laws.
• $15 can buy dinner for one at a country style buffet and a large bottle of antacid, or purchase 1 movie ticket (movie duration: 2 hours), a large box of popcorn and a large drink … or it can go to support efforts to save the life of a greyhound and keep this event running.

We hope you will consider joining us this year. If you decide not to register and choose to come up to shop, we hope you have a great time and find lots of bargains and spend oodles of money. Please consider stopping by the TGS tent and leaving a donation. We are grateful for any donation we receive.

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