News & Updates

Optional Extras: Casino or Dinner/Theater

We have arranged with Petersen Carefree Travel for optional extra (i.e., they cost you extra) features at the convention.  Arrangements to participate in either or both of these activities should be made directly with

Petersen Carefree Travel
2581 McMenemy Street
Little Canada, MN 55117
Tel:  (651) 787-0413
Fax:  (651) 787-0412
evie@Petersencarefreetravel.com
http://www.Petersencarefreetravel.com


Treasure Island Casino

Either or Both of
 Thursday, September 2, 2010
 Friday, September 3, 2010

Pick up at 4:00 p.m. and return approximately 10:00 p.m. to Sheraton Bloomington

Cost:  $25 per person for each day
Receive  $15 Isle Play per person
Receive $3 food coupon for four-hour stay and play at the casino

Indicate date(s) desired:  Sep. 2 or 3 or both
Give Name, Address, Birthdate and Home telephone
Plus Casino card number, if any.

Mail Information and check payable to
"Petersen Carefree Travel" to
 Petersen Carefree Travel
 2581 McMenemy Street
 Little Canada, MN 55117


Dinner Theater
Old Log Theater

Friday, September 3, 2010
$74 per person includes
Performance of play "The Dixie Swim Club" (a comedy) and
Dinner with choice of entree: Prime Rib or Walleye Almandine
Entrees include mixed green salad, Potatoes O'Brien, vegetables, French bread & butter, apple crisp dessert and choice of beverage

Pick up at 4:45 p.m. and return approximately 10:45 p.m. to Sheraton Bloomington

Indicate Name, Address and Home telephone and
choice of dinner -- Prime Rib or Fish (Walleye)
Mail Information and check payable to
"Petersen Carefree Travel" to
 Petersen Carefree Travel
 2581 McMenemy Street
 Little Canada, MN 55117


TWINS BASEBALL

The Minnesota Twins will be playing at home in their new "Target Stadium", facing Detroit, Texas and Kansas City.  The dates and times of the individual games are as follows:

7:10 p.m., Tuesday, August 31, 2010:           Detroit
7:10 p.m., Wednesday, September 1, 2010:  Detroit
7:10 p.m., Thursday, September 2, 2010:     Detroit
7:10 p.m., Friday, September 3, 2010:          Texas
6:10 p.m., Saturday, September 4, 2010:      Texas
1:10 p.m., Sunday, September 5, 2010:        Texas
1:10 p.m., Monday, September 6, 2010:      Kansas City

Information can be found at http:\\minnesotatwins.com

Remailing at the 2010 Convention

 

Cyd in Oregon has agreed to repeat her coordination of “Remailing” as she did for the 2009 New Hampshire National Sweepstakes Convention.

 

“Remailing” is the process by which sweepstakes entries are forwarded to sweepstaking friends who mail your entries from different states.  The theory and justification for the practice is that the judging agencies often have different bins or bags in which entries are stored and that entries from different states will be in different bags, thus increasing your probability of being in the bag from which the winning entries are selected.

 

Remailing is the geographic analogy to the temporal sending entries over the length of the sweepstakes rather than sending in all entries at once.

 

As practiced at the convention, it is technically not “remailing” because the sweepstakes entries are brought to the convention rather than being mailed.

 

Those wishing to have entries mailed from other states prepare their entries, sort them into state packets and bring them to the convention.  If desired, mailing dates (which should be after September 10, 2010) can be requested.

 

Volunteers from each participating state offer to take the stack of entries for their home states back with them for remailing from those states.

 

Cyd assumes the tasks of  coordinating the remailing personnel, gathering the remailing entries at the convention, sorting them into states and distributing them to the remailing volunteers.