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Ending Cash Balance as of

Treasurer ' s Report

September 30, 2009 $ 2,857.56

Total Cash $ 4,425.56

Penny Lane: A Message From Your Secretary / Treasurer

Well I’ ll put on my Treasurer’ s hat for a minute & fill you in on things Border Batch things financial. First of all thanks to each of you who helped to make our Hamm’ s Scene-o-rama raffle a huge success. Ticket sales were brisk & a good number of our members participated in helping to get them sold. A ninth hour push by the B & L helped to clear out a good chunk of the remaining tickets. Be sure to patronize them when in New Ulm as a thank you for their support. One more thanks to Steve Miner for donating the sign. That was really above and beyond the call of duty. Steve & Sue are being presented with a gift certificate for the donation as well as the fact that Steve was the leading ticket peddler. I’ d say as a result of some very prosperous fundraising & events over the last couple of years the Border Batch coffers are fuller than ever before. I’ d like to think we could lay off of the aggressive fundraising for the time being and enjoy the rewards. However, if anyone comes across a quality breweriana item to use for a future raffle by all means contact an officer or use your good judgment & acquire the piece. One important consideration would be finding a piece desirable to our members & contacts to ensure good sales. Purchasing the item at reasonable price in order to make the raffle worth the effort involved in ticket sales is another consideration. If you have ideas or input to what the chapter should be doing with its finances be sure to participate in one of our meetings or get with a Chapter officer or Board Member.

As an aside I will be taking a much needed hiatus from Life Through Beer Goggles for the time being. Look for a tid bit of commentary & color here in Penny Lane to tide you over until the column’ s return. So for starters stew on this dark moment in brewing history. About 1640 Wilhem Krieft of the New Amsterdam Colony was the first to tax beer in America. This led to the first known formal protest by colonialists of taxes in 1644. To the best of my knowledge these early colonists were at least wise enough not to demonstrate their protest by throwing kegs into the ocean!