Raffle Results

The raffle was an outstanding success, due to the generosity of all who contributed to the baskets, Wyoming Library Leadership Institute (WLLI) grads who helped sell tickets, and those who hoped to win a basket! The final amount raised was an amazing $1,788.00! And here are the winners:

Children’s Antiques – Shelley King
Chocolate – Heather Valerio
Sublette – Carol Burns
Albany County Crafts – Theresa Authier
Albany County Arts – Mary Ann Harlow
Zen Garden Kit – Deb Kelly
A Perfect Reading Space – Edie Phillips
Johnson County – Becky Packer
Fremont County Reds – Trish Palluck
Snuggle Bucket – Cynthia Twing
Once Upon a Doily – Katie Lynn
Dinner, a Movie & a Late Night – Sharon Porter
Park County – Noreen Leathum
Tea Time Around the World – Jamie Kearley
Uinta County – Great Northern Book Co.

Thank you all for a great time!

2009 Fundraiser Details

Thanks so much to all of you for donating your time and creativity to this fundraiser! I can’t wait to see all the wonderful representations of our Wyoming counties.

Some of you are already working on baskets – and selling tickets! Here is a list of those who are pulling baskets together so far. If you don’t see a name next to the county you are in, would you be willing to take on this task? And if you have know a grad alum who is not on our volunteer list from another county, would you be willing to contact him/her and ask if they could do a basket from their county?

Albany – Betsy Moore (Albany County Art, Albany County Crafts, Albany County Zen Garden Kit)
Big Horn
Campbell – Ara Anderson, Sue Knesel (Chocolate); Mary Gillis (Children's Antiques; Once Upon a Doily)
Carbon
Converse
Crook
Fremont – Gloria Brodle, Katy Jost, Barbara Oakleaf (Fremont County Reds); Becky Packer
Goshen
Hot Springs
Johnson – Cynthia Twing
Laramie – Chris Van Burgh, Erin Kinney, Teresa Authier (Snuggle Bucket)
Lincoln
Natrona
Niobrara
Park – Frances Clymer
Platte
Sheridan – Marci Mock (Dinner, a Movie and a Late Night, Tea Time Around the World)
Sublette – Sukey Hohl, Ann Stowe
Sweetwater – Cindy Moore (The Perfect Reading Space)
Teton – Volunteer Coordinator
Uinta – Dale Collum
Washakie
Weston

As far as what to include in the baskets, here are ideas from last year. Also, check out Wyoming First Products for ideas: http://www.wyomingfirst.org/index.htm. Anything is open, from the very well-known subjects (Devil's Tower) to the perhaps less well-known (Moore Pottery).

• Photos (landscape of red desert?)
• Art from local artist (pottery, painting, sculpture?)
• Book from local author
• Crafts (jewelry, knitting, crocheting, quilting, ???)
• Food (honey from local beekeeper?)
• Products from major industry (molasses from the sugar beet industry in Washakie County? Baking soda from Sweetwater County?)
• Ceramic tiles or note cards from the Wyoming State Museum Store (one design for each county)

Ideally, I would like to have the baskets dropped off on Wednesday or Thursday morning. At this time I am planning to be at the conference on Thursday only. So I will need lots of volunteers to assist at the raffle table on Thursday and Friday. Let me know which times you can sit at the table.

Thursday
7:30-9 -- Becky Packer, Lori
9-10 -- Katie Lynn
10-11 -- Katie Lynn
11-12 -- Katie Lynn
12-1 -- Katie Lynn
1-2 -- Katie Lynn
2-3 --
3-4 -- Gloria Brodle, Lori
4-5 -- Gloria Brodle, Lori

Friday
7:30-9 -- Josh Pearl
9-10 -- Josh Pearl
10-11 -- Becky Packer, Lori
11-12 -- Meg Martin
12-1 -- Meg Martin
1-2 -- Katie Lynn
2-3 -- Katie Lynn
3-4:30 -- Susan Wynne

WLLI fundraiser - WLA 2009

Hi, grads of the Wyoming Library Leadership Institute!

Many of you know that the Wyoming Library Leadership Institute (WLLI) is hanging in the balance--in great need of funding for continuation. Cynthia Twing, current Wyoming Library Association President and 2001 WLLI graduate, met with a group of graduates in July to discuss the future of WLLI. One of the outcomes of that meeting was the decision to hold a fundraiser based on the popular (and FUN) county basket fundraiser that took place last conference for the Debbie Iverson Leadership Scholarship.

I have been asked to organize the fundraiser and my first order of business is to gather volunteers to help with the fundraiser. I will not be able to fully attend the conference this year and will need help to not only solicit baskets and items, but also for manning the table (selling tickets and at the end scrambling to get baskets to winners and/or to people who can deliver them to winners).

If you would like to help with fundraiser, please CONTACT ME NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 1, 2009. I will then go through how we did things last year. We can brainstorm ways to do it all better or differently and then get to work gathering together the baskets.

I will create the raffle tickets. (If you would like me to send you some tickets to print and sell ahead of time, let me know.) This is what I will place on the ticket to describe the fundraiser:

This fundraiser is to provide for the Wyoming Library Leadership Institute (WLLI) in the summer of 2010. WLLI graduates have experienced the benefits of this leadership program. They believe the Wyoming Library Community deserves the opportunity to grow their own leaders to nurture individuals and create an environment of support. They have been able to work with nationally known presenters who have helped individuals to recognize their leadership style, learn communication and team building skills, and create state-wide connections.

Because past funding sources for WLLI are unavailable, graduates of this worthy program are making personal donations. Please join them in making a contribution to the future of WLLI.

Thank you for any consideration to help WLLI continue!

Katie Lynn
Electronic Services Librarian
Wyoming State Law Library
2301 Capitol Avenue
Cheyenne, WY 82002
307-777-6487
klynn@courts.state.wy.us