Are you smarter than a 5th Grader 2009

Following eight successful annual fund-raisers, the Youth will again host a fund raising Valentines dinner on Saturday February 14, 2009, starting at 6:00pm in the Community Building. Dinner and entertainment will cost $15.00 per person, $25 per couple. Please fill out a reservation form by Sunday, February 8 (no reservations accepted after that date). Only 80 seats, so make your reservation early. Entertainment is our adaptation of “Are You Smarter Than a 5^th Grader”. As this is fund-raiser, three lucky folks, selected by vote, will be asked to “compete”. Voting will be made by donations made to the Youth. As an added wrinkle this year, we will also be selecting 5 “students” to help the contestants.

The nomination rules are:

1) Any person can be nominated.

2) Voting in favor occurs by making a “nominating donation” to the Youth.

3) Anyone can make “declination contributions” to have votes removed.

4) Any “declination votes” subtract from the “nominating votes”.

5) The nine people with the most “nominating votes”, minus “declinations votes” through Saturday, February 7, will be in a final run-off election. Names of the 9 people will be made public in Church on Sunday, February 8.

6) Early contributions count more. Six weeks ahead, each dollar donated (nominating or declination) is worth six votes. Five weeks ahead, five votes. Up to the week before the cut-off when a dollar is worth two votes. During the last week, after the cut-off, it’s 7 votes/$ on Sunday, 6 votes/$ on Monday decreasing to the day of the play, it’s one vote per dollar.

7) Contributions can be made starting on Sunday, January 4.

8) Donations for selection of the final three people will be accepted up until the end of the dinner on February 14, just before the game starts.

9) At that time, the five people, not in the top nine, with votes closest to zero will be the “student helpers”. The most recent donation will determine any tiebreaker.

10) Brenda Young, Ray deFriess and Bill Waddell will collect donations. Their computations are final.

11) Daily status reports will be posted on the church web site.

Gail Smith will be the Game Show Host, unless she’s one of the “contestants” or “students” (a definite possibility). A guest Host will fill in as needed. Plan on coming to the dinner and enjoying the entertainment. This year, all money raised will go to pay for members of the youth to go to camp, ASP, or other mission trips.