CALENDAR UPDATE

I wanted to give the group an update on the calendars as we did a big pickup this week from locations where the calendar was being sold and had a really good day at Lawson Heights Mall for our autograph session last weekend.

I am happy to be able to tell you that in just over a month we sold 561 calendars, and made a net profit of over $6000.00 that will go to SCAT programs.

At the start of this project, since we got going so late in the year, we thought we might sell 50 or 100 calendars, and we anticipated it would be primarily at 'test' year so we could learn from it and do it big next year. We did learn a lot, but we sure underestimated how many we might sell in our first year!

There were other benefits to this project as well. We received over $300 in donations at our two public sale events at the Co-op and Lawson Mall. We talked to a lot of people and educated them about what SCAT does, and numerous individuals indicated they were interested in fostering or volunteering. And we know Street Cat's name and information about our programs and how people can help will be hanging in homes and offices all over Saskatoon; we can't wait to see what effect that will have throughout the year!

We still have calendars left, and as we have already covered all our expenses, every calendar sold puts $20 back into SCAT's coffers. So please feel free to continue to tell people about it!

Thanks to everyone who helped with the calendar project or promoted the calendars in any way. Happy New Year - the year of "Men with Cats".