The Colorado Auctioneer 1st Quarter 2015

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COLORADO AUCTIONEER

First Quarter • 2015

The The Quarterly Quarterly Newsletter Newsletter of of the the Colorado Colorado Auctioneers Auctioneers Association Association

2015 Annual Convention Review By O.J. Pratt, CAI, CAA President

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ur 2015 Convention was a convention of Mores! More attendees than we have had in several years, more participants in the Championship, more dollars raised in the fun auction, and more new members. The Friday night Fun auction brought in $16,640 in comparison to last years $9,500. The Championship competition total was $9,556 vs $6,200 in 2014. Our new event- “Kids Auction” fetched $542 for the CAA Foundation. I was the one in charge of the event but many, many board members and others deserve the high praise for making it work so well. I won’t take the space to list everyone but if you helped, a huge heartfelt “Thank You.” Here are a few of those that deserve special recognition. The National Auctioneers association for sending both Vice President, Spanky Assiter and NAA, CEO Hannes Combest to speak and judge our contest at minimal cost to us. If you aren’t already a member of the NAA please consider joining. Our fantastic speakers, Jenelle Taylor, Robert Mayo and John Korrey for sacrificing their time to travel and teach our group. The CAA Foundation for hosting the Kids Auction on Friday evening. Auction Boulevard, LLC for the toy donation to fund the event. If you don’t already know, you are a member of the Foundation. The Foundation Board is gearing up for exciting projects, stay tuned! Special thanks to Casey Giddings for her efforts to organize and catalog the fun auction for the last several years. Special thanks to Director Dean Gunter and his Mile High Car Company for the Harley Davidson donation to the fun auction.

Thanks to all our vendors, but a special “Thank You” to The Fence Post for sponsoring the fun auction and also giving us advertising to sell at the event. Thank you to those past champions who braved the weather to attend and be recognized. Finally, thanks to the great staff at the Westin. They were always ready, willing and able to accommodate our group in every way. I am happy to have been a part of the convention and even happier to pass that baton to VP Butch Haglestrom for the 2016 event.

Website / Directory Update David & Diana have diligently been working on updating the members for our website. We believe we have it completed at this time. www.coauctioneers.com

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