Winning Car Show for 2008!

The weather prediction for May 18th this year was good and it held true as the day started out with plenty of sun shine for this year's event. We all got to the park at around 7:30 AM for the show's set-up. Everyone had their assigned jobs and went to work. Banners and decorations went up, vehicles were un-loaded, registration was set up, give aways and raffle items were displayed, trophies were brought out and adjusted, vendors came and set up in their respective areas and everything else was going along very well. It was almost to good to be true.

We had told the city of Moxee about our electrical needs well in advance of the show. The city was in the process of remodeling their park and we had a trench in the ground to work around but had talked about that with Public Works and for the show, it presented no problem. However, the electricity for the vendors was still locked up. It was Sunday and the workers phone number that I had did not seem to work. We had electricity at the main gazebo but found that part of our PA system was not working.....Like the Music! Finally, we reached a member of Public Works to provide our vendors with some electricity. Vendors were now up and running, but ...still no music.

People started arriving and the parking layout was going well. Because last year's judging was such a disaster, we had a member who came up with a different way of judging this year. It looked like it might work. We had approximately 64 trophies to give away for everything including best paint, best interior, distance, classes from the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's to Present, streetrods, ratrods, trucks, 4X4's, lowriders, motorcycles, bicycles, participants choice, and best of show. Whew!

As noon approached we had upward of 110 entries. The show was declared a success! I think our local advertisements helped bring more spectators this year than in the past. There also were several people that attended this year that were not here in the past. There were also a few that had promised to attend that did not make it this year. I think it was their loss because the show was great. We had people from as far away as Camino Island, Port Townsend, Enitat, Moses Lake, Wenatchee, Chelan, and Spokane, just to name a few.

This year we had contacted the local "Make a Wish Foundation" to do the 50/50. The club took a vote and decided to match the money received by Make a Wish, dollar for dollar. During the show, Make a Wish managed to sell about $440 in tickets. The idea of the 50/50 is that they gave $220 of that money to a lucky ticket holder. The club in turn, will donate $440 back to Make a Wish, so their total for the show will end up at about $660. Not bad for an afternoon's work.

Some of the comments received were "Beautiful Park" and "Nice Show" . And we did it all without Music.