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                  Who’s Running The Show?
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     What is the greatest challenge facing your club?
Having enough show exhibitors/breed- ers involved with the club as members to keep it going and of course the financial challenges of a remotely located club.
Have you sought out sponsorship to help the cost of the show?
We are a remotely located, small club in a small but growing city. Our entry num- bers have not qualified us for big company sponsorships and our location has handi- capped us with other possible sponsors.
Your Club is somewhat isolated. How do you manage to pull such a nice entry every cluster weekend?
Once I got involved with the club we worked hard to make it a friendly, wel- coming and exhibitor friendly club. We also worked hard to get judges that are not always seen every weekend in our region and we support provisional judges as much as we can. Our exhibitors tell us how much they appreciate that and we do our best to listen to our exhibitors. We also have very nice grounds and though our city is small it has everything a dog exhibitor needs. We do the extra work required to keep our puppy and bred-by-Exhibitor groups as well as now offering NOHS competition all show days. We also offer 100% equal awards for
our NOHS groups and our regular groups knowing that both deserve equal respect.
Is your vendor income sufficient to help offset expenses?
Our vendor fees do not do much in the way of offsetting show expenses but our exhibitors appreciate having vendors there so we continue to welcome them. Most of our vendors are small business owners and most are exhibitors themselves. We are lucky to have one all round dog show supply vendor who comes to our shows every year.
Do you use professional stewards? If not, who trains yours?
We do not and can not afford profes- sional stewards. We generally call on club members, club member spouses and club supportive exhibitors that have helped us out for years. Any opportunity that we have to train new club members to steward we hold a class at a meeting or two. We have also used local youth group volunteers to do the outside steward job allowing our expe- rienced stewards to do the inside ring job to keep things flowing and of course we offer free lunch to everyone who stewards.
Are you involved in the judges selection process?
I do 100% of the judges selection at this point in time as the show chairman. I bring the most experience now that our older
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