Did you know it's only $6 a year to join?That's right! $6.00 is all that is needed for a single yearly membership to NMRE! That is a whole $.50 cents a month! If you join after January your membership is prorated! Do you know where your membership fee goes?Your paid membership goes directly to everything required to maintain the club itself. Each club has yearly bills to pay in order to remain in operation. Here is a list of the basics required to be an official club and hold shows: ARBA Charter - $25.00 a year Montana State Registration - $20.00 a year Insurance - Based on membership, average $75.00 a year Show Program - Average $45.00 a year. This totals an average of $165.00 a year to maintain an ARBA local Club to host ARBA Sanctioned shows. ARBA Requires at least 6 ARBA Members to be listed on the official ARBA Club Charter. President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, (Treasurer & Secretary can be combined if needed), Chairman of the Board, and two additional board members. The yearly bills that are not covered by membership fees, can be covered by funds received from entries. However, if there is still not enough funds, these yearly fees are usually paid directly out of pocket of club members just to hold the club open and/or to host a show. okay, so the club gets the money to stay open if I join.......but what do I get?Our members get the ability to enter within 72 hours of the show, enter by phone, request a specialty show for their breed (Providing the club has the funds to host), discounted entry fees for those who help out at shows, free entry fees for those members who are involved in all aspects of the show from start to finish (Obtaining venue, judges, awards, being secretary, superintendent, running raffle sales, food, drink, obtaining awards, setting up show room, breaking down show room, judging, registering, etc.) Having your breed sanctioned by the club for your National Sweepstakes Points (For those breeds in which 2 or more members have). You as a member may also choose to have a show in your area, providing the club has the funds to do so. You can help choose judges for upcoming shows and help decide how many shows to have! We are always looking for ways to give our members more benefits and are always open to suggestions and ideas! in the end....In a nutshell, $6 a year isn't going to break the bank....even if you dont want to run for office, or help at the show. Your $6 will keep the club open another year. Not to mention for $6 you get so much more back in member benefits!
We now have Early Bird Entry Forms available for you to download and print! This will make sending your Early Bird Entries easier!
Early Bird entries are limited to 10 per exhibitor and are due to be postmarked by April 1st. Early Bird Entries gives each exhibitor up to 10 entries at the Mail in Rate, but with the ability to email your entries in by the Email Deadline posted in the catalog! Good Morning NMRE Followers! Have you all received enough snow yet? I just wanted to make a quick note here that NMRE has adjusted the entry fees for the Youth show! Early Bird and Mail-In Youth Show Entry Fees are now $3.00, and Youth Show Email Entries are $3.50
Please note that these adjusted fees are for entering in the Youth Show only, not for a Youth who wishes to enter in any Open or Specialty Shows. For those of you whom have already sent in Early Bird Entry fees for the Youth Show, your account will still be credited. Any over payment will go towards any additional entries, or you may choose to apply that credit to purchase rafffle tickets If you would rather have a refund for over payment of the Youth Show Entries, please let me know, and a refund will be issued! (Please note this refund is only issued to those who sent Early Bird Entries for the Youth Show.) As always if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]! Hello everyone! We are gearing up for our new show season. Right now we are looking at doing some fund raising to pay the pre-show bills. We currently have one open show sanction and a mini rex sanction for May 4th in Missoula Montana. We would like to get another open sanction with a youth sanction. But we only have $33 left in the bank account.
To get the money to get the show up and running we are offering a discount on entries if you pay in advance. If you send in money now, you get to do email entries later for the snail mail rate. All money you pre-pay will go into the show program to go towards your entries. Money would be put towards sanctions, the show program, awards, building, and other bills that need to be paid before the show. Snail mail rate is $3.50, and email rate is $4, so if you enter one rabbit into both open shows, you would save $1 per rabbit by pre-paying. All we need is a few people to pay up to 10 entries, or $35, which is 5 rabbits in both shows, in advance to get this show going. If it turns out you don't enter enough rabbits to use up your credit you can choose to roll the credit over to the next show, or get raffle tickets. Please comment if you would like to pledge an amount. Christine Bailey, the show secretary will contact you. Or you can email her at [email protected]. |
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