CTARS Pig Roast

Mike_J · Sep 17, 2015

Although I had not planned on attending myself, it is still sad news to hear of the cancellation of the pig roast, especially since it was in honor of a fellow CTARS member.

So now it has to be asked, what will become of the expensive raffle prizes that had been purchased in advance of the event? Returned and refunded to the CTARS account? Held for future raffle use? Curiosity always gets the best of me, sorry if this comes across in a negative way.

AquaMama13 · Sep 17, 2015

Hey Mike, we are returning these items for a full refund back to CTARS. It is sad and disheartening that we had to cancel this event due to the lack of participation.

Triggreef · Sep 17, 2015

Just wondering about how many tickets were sold? I was planning to go, just hadn't got around to buying tickets. I also wonder how many others just hadn't bought them yet.

Tanked_Life · Sep 17, 2015

I'm from Rhode Island but I probably would've gone

AquaMama13 · Sep 17, 2015

We only sold 1 ticket

Mike in CT · Sep 17, 2015

Thanks to everyone who tried to make this happen. I have only been in the club a couple years, but for whatever reason participation in events seems to declining. I wish there was a way to get more members to go to the monthly meetings, so a greater amount of fellowship between members could be built up. Maybe we could scale back things a bit...... Maybe meet at a pizza joint or something and have beer and pie...something that does require so much planning and work by such a few members, but will still bring the club together.

Mike in CT · Sep 17, 2015

1 ticket? Wow we suck! Lol
Sorry.... I know a lot of work went into this.. Personally, I was thinking about buying a ticket even thought I probably couldn't go. I did not want to bring my 3 kids, and it's too much get a sitter for 4 or 5 hours,and I didn't want to go alone because I figured since the tickets were being sold to the public, and I only know a couple club members, that I would probably be hanging out with a bunch of people I didn't know..... not that that's always a bad thing! Just my perspective.

Vaiodude · Sep 17, 2015

Unfortunately the pig roast was going to cost the club around $1800 between the venue, the band, and food/beverages. With only 1 ticket sold and just over a week to go I think the BOD made the right move despite it not being the favorable option. Losing that kind of money would not have been a responsible decision and could have interfered with the clubs ability to host CMAC from a finance standpoint. As you can probably imagine the are a lot of costs associated with a conference our size.

Suicideissleep · Sep 17, 2015

Hope we dont have the same problem at cmac looking forward to it sad it came to this though

AquaMama13 · Sep 17, 2015

CMAC will not be a problem, everything is coming together very nicely

Suicideissleep · Sep 17, 2015

Not worried about the bod worried about attendence

hans1976 · Sep 18, 2015

The conference is a regional event. We draw people from all over, Boston, Central New York, Long Island, Manhattan, Vermont, New Hampshire and even Maine. I would expect the club to do ok with this event.

Suicideissleep · Sep 18, 2015

Hats off to you guys though you do put on a good cmac wont miss it

Triggreef · Sep 18, 2015

Wow we do suck. There has to be a way to draw in more members. The bod has their work cut out. Maybe cmac will help bring in some news, I know that's where I first signed up a few years ago.

AquaMama13 · Sep 19, 2015

Make sure everyone buys their tickets ahead of time, we need a head count for the caterer. Please and thank you! And yes, CMAC is looking like it's going to be awesome!