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Post by Sam Howard on Apr 20, 2014 23:49:51 GMT -5
These are just suggestions, but dad, Michael, and I talked and came up with a list of suggestions for next years convention.
1. Do the boudin and Jambalya again. That was great ☺
2. If possible find more vendors or something?
3. We need to get a table to skin the animals on instead of our truck beds. That made it hard to see because it was pretty one sided. But definetly keep the fleshing skinning and boarding. That was great.
4. Have someone helping Mr. Ryan sign people in while he does memberships so he isn't so stressed and overwhelmed and so everyone can get signed in and get a raffle ticket.
5. When y'all have the meeting to plan the convention people with older children should come to help give ideas and plan so that the kids are more involved.
6. Y'all talk about letting the heritage live on but at the convention there was one kids demo. We didn't even get to do the trap setting contest. Next year the kids need to be deivided up into age groups for things. And for the trap setting contest have multiple groups going at a time with multiple time keepers so that we can still do it. Also at the auction, make the silent auction for kids and have cool kid stuff in it and let the live auction be for adults. Get some more educational things for the kids such as those coloring books and stuff y'all had a few years ago. You might do a few more demos or even just more simplified skinning demos for the kids. Teach them the names and functions and prey of different traps. Let's education the children Lol. Even show them the poop molds and fur hides that y'all have? Find ways to get the kids involved.
I think for now those are the main things we came up with
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Post by Tony Howard on Apr 21, 2014 7:17:17 GMT -5
These are just suggestions, but dad, Michael, and I talked and came up with a list of suggestions for next years convention. 1. Do the boudin and Jambalya again. That was great ☺ keep Louisiana food2. If possible find more vendors or something? 3. We need to get a table to skin the animals on instead of our truck beds. That made it hard to see because it was pretty one sided. But definetly keep the fleshing skinning and boarding. That was great. 4. Have someone helping Mr. Ryan sign people in while he does memberships so he isn't so stressed and overwhelmed and so everyone can get signed in and get a raffle ticket. 5. When y'all have the meeting to plan the convention people with older children should come to help give ideas and plan so that the kids are more involved. 6. Y'all talk about letting the heritage live on but at the convention there was one kids demo. We didn't even get to do the trap setting contest. Next year the kids need to be deivided up into age groups for things. And for the trap setting contest have multiple groups going at a time with multiple time keepers so that we can still do it. Also at the auction, make the silent auction for kids and have cool kid stuff in it and let the live auction be for adults. Get some more educational things for the kids such as those coloring books and stuff y'all had a few years ago. You might do a few more demos or even just more simplified skinning demos for the kids. Teach them the names and functions and prey of different traps. Let's education the children Lol. Even show them the poop molds and fur hides that y'all have? Find ways to get the kids involved. I think for now those are the main things we came up with Yes Sam we talked, but these were all yours and Michael's ideas, mainly yours. That is why I said write them down. And people with older children will plan a convention just like we did Sam, you need to make plans to attend our convention planning meeting. Good post and thank you for bringing all these things to our attention. Our goal is to educate and bring youth and young people into the association. |
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Post by geauxtrappin on Apr 21, 2014 8:28:26 GMT -5
More activities would be good and tables would be a great idea!! There was a lot of dead time it seemed, I know if anyone in the world can put together a shindig!! Louisiana folk can sure make it fun!! I volunteer myself for next year, whatever is needed.
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Post by Tony Howard on Apr 21, 2014 12:39:01 GMT -5
More activities would be good and tables would be a great idea!! There was a lot of dead time it seemed, I know if anyone in the world can put together a shindig!! Louisiana folk can sure make it fun!! I volunteer myself for next year, whatever is needed. Good deal, we will use you. |
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Post by geauxtrappin on Apr 21, 2014 14:08:57 GMT -5
I bet if that awesome jambalaya was free to volunteers there would not be much of an audience lol.
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Post by wesley on Apr 21, 2014 19:17:17 GMT -5
As we state each year all new ideas are welcome and every year after the convention we get a lot of folks telling us that "next year" they volunteer to help. Every year we put out on this form when the dates are for the convention and that volunteers are welcome/needed and not one single person has ever contacted me to help or share an idea. Maybe they are contacting others and I am not aware of it. Its always the same folks doing all the planning and working and sometimes its disheartening to hear that we could have done better. No matter what, we can not please everyone. So my challenge to all members is this: if you have ideas, thank you, and when our next convention is coming up, be at the meeting to plan it and explain what it is to the board that you are going to do at the convention. ex: doing a demo, cook, help clean up afterwards etc...
Sam, every year that you are there, you are the hardest working person there and I appreciate you for it. Don't forget us when you go off to college and beyond. I agree that more should be done for the kids.As far as the kids stuff, I made the call to not do anything after lunch. Last year we had 30 kids and doing the quality trap setting contest was going past 3:00 and I kept being told that the auction needs to start because certain people had to leave the convention early. So with 40 kids, I didn't know what to do and was not prepared for it. I will take the blame for that. Next year we have Robert Sonnier heading the kids stuff up and I know he will do a better job than I have done. But, going from about 5 kids to 40 kids in 6 years, I believe that the LTAHA is headed in a good direction. As far as more venders, that's a tough one. I don't know that the ones that do come make much money as it is. I bet next year will be the best one yet, if we put these new ideas to use and have volunteers to pull it all off.
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Post by Tony Howard on Apr 21, 2014 21:54:40 GMT -5
Wesley all the way home (till exit 44 anyway) Sam and Michael were brain storming with me about things we could do. They loved what was done for sure and these were just ideas from youth that have attended for the past few years. The biggest complaint Sam had was the fact that I did not bring a skinning table so I could face the people while skinning. I feel this years convention went off like a well oiled machine with what we had. Wesley you are so right about the youth. It has grown in leaps and bounds and I credit you for your hard work over the past few years to ensure we have something for the kids at the convention. Volunteers are the keys to the success that is for sure and we need all we can get.
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