AWARDS AWARDS by Jason Peak Awards Committee Chairman
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CHANGE IS IN THE AIR
ome old Greek guy said, “the only constant in life is change.” Then a chubby Englishman said, “to improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” With all that in mind and the assistance of the board, the Ram Awards Committee is making a few changes to the way the awards ceremony will be conducted at the 2023 Wild Sheep Foundation Show between January 11-14. Buckle up, pay attention and get those entries in before the deadline. First, the event will now be a luncheon held between noon and 2:00 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2023. This decision was not made lightly. Several factors came into play with changing the event from a breakfast gathering to a lunchtime boondoggle, some of which included making sure outfitter exhibitors could attend without being hurried to get back to their booths at the Convention Center and moving from an early morning event that usually becomes difficult to attend for those of us who may have enjoyed things a bit too much the night before. Next, the event will be moved from the Peppermill’s Tuscany Ballroom to the Mt. Rose Ballroom at the Convention Center. This move to the actual site of the convention eliminates the need for folks to travel back and forth from the Ram Awards lunch to the convention and saves a ton of time. Rather than finding a shuttle or driving and parking, its an easy stroll from the convention past the registration area and into the Ram Awards event. Rather than a formal sit-down meal
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with buffet-style food, we are working on having food stations set up and possibly sponsor/donor involvement. We are working through those details now and hope to have more to report once the event gets closer. And finally, we are planning to give away an aoudad hunt to one lucky attendee! The hunt will be donated by a sponsor and we will give it away during the awards lunch to someone in the room. You have to be present to win, so plan accordingly. As for the awards themselves, all entries (for both the Ram and Mountain Monarch Awards) must be received by no later than November 1, 2022. The information needed to enter for an award can be found on the website. Any ram or
international sheep or goat legally and ethically taken between August 30, 2020 and August 30, 2022, will be eligible for the 2023 Ram and Mountain Monarch Awards program. As for FNAWS winners, qualifying members must have legally and ethically harvested all four sheep in a free-range environment and be recorded with Wild Sheep Foundation using the WSF Hunt Report Form found on the website. The new day, time, location and format of the Ram Awards Program will be quite a change, but change is good according to Uncle Winston. Adding in an aoudad hunt giveaway, it’s going to be quite the event. We hope to see you there. WS
