Society Saturday - Spring Seminar 2015 Sucessfull!

Editor's note: Today's post was written by Sandra Gardner-Benward- photos taken by Judy Nissila... Thank You!



Another very successful Spring Seminar has ended.. This year's speaker was D. Joshua Taylor.
It was a warm day, NO rain or wind.........plenty of parking, new venue........it was a good day.

As you know OR maybe don't know, there is a lot of  pre-planning and a great deal of organizing goes on from the time a seminar ends and the next one begins............... you want to ensure a successful event......... the pictures below will tell the story..........  A big thanks to the Co-Chairs Diane Maltese and Denise Miller and to ALLLLLLLLLL the many many volunteers. Without them nothing would happen.

So lets look behind the scenes and 
              see what is going on before any participants come                                      through the doors..... 

the early morning crew....(they look too happy for morning time)......  getting the signs put up, reserve area for speaker, for lunch delivery.
Helping with parking is a big job

parking this way.........  next!

Registration!  They are ready whenever they are given the word.....

Hall looks like it is ready for the day...........  Can you see all the raffle baskets across the back?  Did you win one?

Heads together.......... Raffle ticket table.......  lets get this on going.........

Here is one of the 15 raffle baskets waiting to be won.

...........and another raffle basket waiting to be won. These are all huge baskets with lots and lots of goodies.

Members are getting the Root Cellar table ready with copies of all our publications, tote bags, t-shirts, charts and more

ah YES, the finishing touch for the Root Cellar table - our California Poppy's

the bargain book table all set to go ......$1 each........  all genealogy related

........ and what is a seminar without vendors and we have them too..............  Our Family Tree -charts

...and more vendors  Cox Black & White- photos

......... book vendors are a must

If you don't have a super kitchen crew you are really in trouble but we never worry about that.........
good morning snacks, excellent lunches and then afternoon snacks.
Can't ever say you were hungry at one of our seminars. 

AND these days you cannot do anything without a techie on hand........ and we have a good one or two.
technology rules.
Rick is getting Josh all set up for the beginning of the day.

Oh my goodness, it is still so early and yet seminar goers are already lining up  OPEN OPEN OPEN

So you can see a lot of the behind the scene tasks were done right after last years seminar ended, and then months ago, last week and the day before and maybe even the day of the seminar........ it takes a chair and many volunteers, a lot of patience, some creativity, and lots of publicity.  Thanks to everyone!

So we are about to open the doors and let everyone in....... 
who attended? how many? who won? 

COME BACK TOMORROW to see the rest of the day ...............


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