Category: Fundraising

Feed My Starving Children is on January 28th – Please Sign Up

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For more than 10 years we've been packing food for needy people at Feed My Starving Children's Coon Rapids location.  We've reduced our staff promised down to 10 people, and we still need quite a few people to sign up.  Go to FMSC.ORG's volunteer page and type NOKOMIS in the "Looking for a Specific Group?" box.  We're commmitted to 10 spots but more will certainly be welcome - they are still more than 60 slots available as of the beginning of December.

You don't have to be a member to join us - bring family and friends too, it's fun!

After the session, we'll linger in the area for a Happy Hour meal at The Muddy Cow, less than 1 mile from the packing site.

Chuckwagon 2024 Work Assignments

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Here's the overall schedule for the day of the Chuckwagon.  Please click into the article to see the details.

 

SCHEDULE:

SET UP TIME:

  • 11:30 a.m. Arrive at American Legion.  Check in with Roxanne at the auction table with your auction item or items.
  • 11:40 a.m. If you are on a specific team please check in and help that team leader.  If not please help with the set up for tables and decorations.  Instructions are below.
  • 1:30 p.m. Hopefully everything will be done and we can sit down for a few minutes.  People start arriving between 1:30 and 1:45 sometimes so we need to be prepared – with the auction especially.

 

SET UP: 

  • Jim & Team:  Put Chuck Wagon together
  • Jim and Jack:  Serve
  • Pam & Lynne:  Oversee and help all set up
  • Roxanne, Lynne:  Set up welcome table, bake sale table and auction items.
  • Lynne:  Place Charity posters and table flyers on dinner tables.
  • Mary:  Prepare coleslaw and other food items, keep food line stocked, set up and cut cake
  • Phill:  Set up Sound System

 

Everyone Else:

  • Help with table set up
  • Stagger red and white checkered table cloths as we don’t have enough.
  • Decorations – One per table. Very fragile so pick up from bottom plate.
  • Ask Mary if she needs help with Mary prep food – follow up during guests while eating to replenish bowls of food.

During the Event

  • Joann and Lynne could you Please move to stand by the auction tables at 3:30 p.m. so that no one can try to sign tickets after the auction closes.  Lynne and Joann could you gather auction tickets also.
  • Everyone pick up dirty dishes.
  • Everyone make sure to talk to guests around you throughout the meal and auction and drawings. Remind them that tickets are available until the event closes.

 

Ending the Event

4:00 p.m. Everyone chips in to clean up the room and take down the decorations. (Instructions are below).  If our guests leave earlier Pam will let you know if we can begin clean up early.

Chuck Wagon Fundraiser, Sunday October 15, 2023

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Chuck Wagon Dinner and Auction

Sponsored by

U.S.S. NOKOMIS STAR TREK CLUB

SUNDAY
Sunday, October 15, 2023
at the
Dan Patch American Legion – Savage
12375 Princeton Ave
Savage, MN 55378

Cost is $13.00 per person

Social Time and Auction Viewing  2:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Chuck Wagon Chili Dinner Served, plus fun Games 2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Silent Auction Closes  3:30 p.m.
Door Prizes  2:15 p.m. to  3:15 p.m.

Please reserve your spots by October 7th so we can make sure there is plenty of Chili and fixins for everyone.

Hello Everyone,

We’re back again and we’re excited to say it’s that time again for our annual Chuck Wagon Dinner.  I can’t begin to tell you how much your support means to us.  Come enjoy a fun meal as well as the auction.  The dinner tickets are $13.00 a person as well as we are raffling off 50/50 tickets (one for $5.00 or three for $10.00).  That means if your name is drawn you will win half of the proceeds that we have collected.  Last time’s winner took home over $365.00 dollars!!!  So, if you can’t make the dinner, please buy raffle tickets.

  Please pass along the invitation to friends and family.  All are welcome.  We just need you to purchase your tickets by October 7th so that we make sure to have plenty of food for you to enjoy.  If you have already bought your tickets, please mark your calendars so you don’t miss the fun!

Thanks again my friends,

Pam

Apollo 11 Moon Party is Set – See you on the 20th

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Thanks for Signing up to Celebrate One of Humanity’s Greatest Endeavors

Fifty years ago, humankind took a giant leap, setting foot on an extraterrestrial body for the first time. Join us in celebrating the anniversary of that achievement at the Moon Party, hosted by Phill Goldman & Lynne Tauer at their home in the northern suburbs. The proceeds of this club fund-raiser, in place of this year’s Garden Party, benefit the club’s general fund.

The anniversary, July 20th, falls on a Saturday this year.  We'll start at 6:00PM and go until "whenever."

Weather permitting, we will have The Tauer Family’s killer telescope and a spotting scope set up in the back yard for viewing the moon and heavens beyond. On the big screen in the house we will show “The Right Stuff,” “From The Earth To The Moon,” and/or other productions about the space program’s ambitious undertakings to break barriers to the Apollo 11 moon landing. There may be more – we’re working on it. You will have to come and find out.

We will provide the core meal (picnic fare) that may include moon-themed novelties. You are invited to bring your favorite side dish for potluck-style sharing, but that is completely optional. (Moon-themed creations get brownie points!)

Please bring a lawn chair and, because it’s a summer evening in Minnesota, don't forget your preferred bug spray.

Registration was open through the end of Saturday, July 13. and is now closed.  For other questions? Contact Lynne at

See you at the Party!

Donations for the Silent Auction, at the Chuckwagon Dinner, March 31, 2019

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Now that you have collected all those cool items that we need to auction, what do you do next?

You can wrap or carefully package the item and set it aside to bring to the auction itself (remember to buy your dinner ticket by the March general membership meeting).  If you are not able to come to the dinner but still have a super cool something to add to the inventory you can bring it to the March USS Nokomis meeting on March 9, 2019.  If you can't get to our meeting you can make arrangements with me to deliver it to my house  before Saturday, March 30.

No matter when or how the item gets to the auction site, I need specific information to print the bidding sheets, sale tags and prize tags. Please mail the following info to me at Roxanne Hill, 2301 Pearson Parkway, Brooklyn Park, MN. 55444,  or email it to me at , or text me at 763-222-8234 (because of my weird work schedule my phone is almost never answered but a text with your name on it is GREAT), or write it down and give it to me at MARScon, at dinner, or take me out for beer and give it to me then (really I'm not picky so long as I can read the writing!)

Thank you in advance for both your auction donations and your help getting this put together. Trust me, no one wants to read my personal handwriting/printing on 50 bid slips.

The following info is needed before March 28 (I have to type and print everything before the dinner!):

  1. Item's name and description
  2. Item's donator
  3. Item's purpose-1,2, and 3 should always be listed, 4 and 5 are 'as needed' info
    1. auction item,
      1. provide the general value of item
      2. suggested minimum bid (unless forbidden we may drop it towards end of auction)
      3. quick sale price (not all items require them, but we will occasionally assign one unless forbidden)
      4. note any special handling required i.e. refrigeration, scheduling or details to be provided
      5. please note if this requires a legal adult only purchaser for any:
        1. alcohol included in item
        2. firearms involved in activity for the item
    2. cash'n'carry (or sale item)
      1. provide general value of item
      2. any necessary directions for handling
      3. adult only purchaser notices as noted above
    3. door prize
      1. provide general value of item
      2. any necessary directions for handling.

CHUCKWAGON 2018 was another successful event!! 

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CHUCKWAGON 2018 was another successful event!!  We sold 96 tickets this year!!  The menu was three types of chili with all the fixings you could possibly imagine.  The American Legion cooked the main chili and we received lots of compliments on how wonderful all the chili’s tasted.  The auction was outstanding with wonderful items to pick from.

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Hats and Mittens – Please help this season

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Nokomis friends,

Some of you may recall the Nokomis helped a charity called Hats and Mittens last year. This is a charity started by Rebecca Jorgenson Sundquist who is on my board at the National Lutheran Choir. Several other NLC members help out with this event and Karen and I attend each year. Hats and Mittens was started by Rebecca when she noticed kids at the bus stop without hats or mittens. People attending the gala bring a set of hats and mittens as a part of the admission. It doesn't stop there. Hats and Mittens also sponsors a youth-oriented organization each year. One year it was cookie cart which employs young people to give them purpose, structure, a place to go, and keep them off the street. A different group receives the donations of the gala each year. There are many worthy applications and the decision about what group to honor is a tough one. This is a worthwhile charity.

This is where you come in. Last year the Nokomis donated 40 sets of hats and mittens, up from 31 the year before. We did GREAT! The demand exceeds the supply and requests come from unexpected places such as Edina. Teen sizes are also needed. You can often find hats and mittens (or gloves as mittens are hard to find) on sale somewhere or on clearance. It doesn’t need to be fancy. Karen and I have a good start with 10 sets. Let’s see if we can break last year’s record. You can bring your contribution to the November meeting or the December Christmas party.

Thanks you for your kind contributions last year and for considering helping again this year.

Mark and Karen Uecker  

http://www.hatsandmittens.org

ZooBoo’s Finale Time is Here!

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Celebrate Halloween without the Fright

All proceeds support the plants and animals of the Como Zoo and Conservatory.  The Nokomis has been helping out with this event since 1994 (this is our 23rd year).  We really want to help keep one of America's last free-admission zoos free.

Como Zoo will be transformed for Zoo Boo October 21st, 22nd and October 28th, 29th. Gates Open: 4:30-7:30 p.m. We're just four nights this year, so let's make them count.

Volunteering

Como Friends are starting to gear up for our annual Como Friends ZooBoo at Como Zoo event and hope that you can join us again!  Even returning volunteers need to fill out the Zoo's signup online - it just takes a minute.  You can find it here. Sign up to let the Nokomis know you're coming - all of the dates are on one online signup sheet.

Prep

The week before the event we have a workday set to break down product and kick off the event.  Consider taking on a station leader's role and join us October 14th.

On the morning of the first event night, Saturday October 21st, we'll be in full-on work to complete setups before the event.  We start at 9AM and hopefully we'll be done before the gates open.

Event

Our folks will be heading up the new Halloween station, just inside the front gate.  We need to get there early (3PM), but we get done first.    Be sure to sign in up on the second floor of the Big Zoo Building - there are goodies for you there, and perhaps a surprise coupon.

Dinner

Be sure to check with our folks at the first station, we'll get details there about the night's repast!  Hope to see you all there, all the time!

Chuckwagon Dinner and Fundraiser 2017

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Chuck Wagon Dinner
and
Auction
Sponsored by
USS NOKOMIS STAR TREK CLUB

SATURDAY
APRIL 22nd, 2017
at the
Dan Patch American Legion – Savage
12375 Princeton Ave
Savage, MN 55378
(Note the new location)

Cost is $12.00 per person

Social Time and Auction Viewing 5:00PM to 6:00PM
Chuck Wagon Chili Dinner Served, plus Fun and Games 6:00PM to 6:45 PM
Silent Auction Closes 7:15 PM
Door Prizes 6:00PM to 7:00PM

We are keeping our Chili menu this year as it was such a success last year!!  Come try mild to spicy and white Chili’s certain one will be your “hearts” desire!!  Along with our auction items the “claw” machine will be back filled with toys and gift cards to some of our favorite restaurants and stores.  Grab your cowboy hats, boots, and your horse (if you have one), spouse, family, friends, quarters for the claw machine and come enjoy lots of fun with us!

Please reserve your spots by APRIL 10th so we can make sure there is plenty of Chili and fixings for everyone!

** Our 2017 benefit will be for the  Hospice and Palliative Care at the MN VA Hospital in honor of one of our member’s losing her battle to cancer.

Valentine’s Dinner was Wonderful!

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Emma, Shannon and Harrison just keep getting better and better every year! The Valentine Dinner was enjoyed by twelve lucky attendees on February 20th. The menu included:

  • First Course: Love Bite Martini, Queen of Tomato Tarts, Sesame-Chipotle Beef-Wrapped Asparagus Spears and Red Grapes
  • Second Course: Cold Tomato Soup with Ham & Boiled Eggs
  • Main Course: Chimichurri Chicken on Pearl Couscous with Swiss Chard Bundles
  • Dessert Coures: Magic Horta Egg, Coffee and Liqueur

The dessert stole the show, as it was a presentation dish in which a globe of white chocolate was melted by hot fudge to reveal triple chocolate cake within. It was really awe-inspiring!

The event raised almost $125 for the club. It was a lovely evening of visiting and enjoying the company and the culinary creativity. Thanks to the chefs for another incredible evening!

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