Fundraising Opportunities Spartan Speedway has a program designed to partner with local groups to raise funds for various needs through ticket sales. This program involves no money up front. You do the selling and you keep the profit.
- The track facility will provide your group with custom printed tickets for your group to sell. The tickets will have a specific date that they can be used, along with a rain date (just in case).
- You sell the tickets for a price of your choosing, but typically about $10 per person would be a good selling price.
- Every custom ticket, redeemed on your specific night, would be charged to you at $5 per ticket. You would be billed only for the tickets redeemed on that night (keeping in mind that many people will not use the tickets they've purchased). Once again you will only be billed for tickets used that evening, not the un-used tickets. This alone will have a positive impact on a very successful fundraiser.
- For example, if your group has 1000 tickets printed and you sell all of them for $10 a piece, you bring in $10,000. Let's say 300 of the 1000 tickets sold are redeemed on your specific date, the management of Spartan Speedway would bill you for 300 tickets @ $5 each, a total of $1500. Your profit would be $8500. It's as easy as that!
- You will have no money invested up front, only the time spent selling the personalized tickets. We do the rest.
Many good dates are available, so if this is something that is of interest for your group or organization, please contact Jim Leasure, at (517) 244-1042, to select a date or to answer any questions you may have.
Tags: Fundraising Opportunities Tickets Program Money Profit Non-profit
by Jon Chase — Mar 25th 2010 at 1:30PM
A reader asks: One of my college housemates just moved out, which is a good thing, but he took his TV with him. This is a bad thing. So I'm looking for a PC monitor that can do double duty as a TV, too -- something reasonably big, as good quality as possible, fast enough for console games and is around $350 or so. I'm stuck with a laptop 12-inch screen until you reply, so hurry up and just tell me what to get! Dear Reader: On those gray days when we wake up in the morning and wonder what it all means anyway, it's questions like these that bring us around and get our blood pumping again: We do it for the children!
Sob stories aside, your question is actually a good one, since a dual-purpose monitor is a great solution for a lot of people who don't have the space, cash or inclination to get multiple flat screens. And, while we're under the impression that many college kids already watch TV shows almost exclusively on laptops and monitors, movies and console games are inherently social activities that benefit from a communal screen.
We looked high and low for candidates that meet your needs: a 24-inch or larger, 1080p LCD with HDMI and DVI inputs, an excellent brightness level and contrast ratio, speedy response, an overall high-quality picture and a price under $350. We found several models, but, after some testing, finally settled on a favorite: the
Samsung Syncmaster P2570, available online starting at $309. (The slightly upgraded
P2570HD is currently $325 on Amazon; see below for more info.)
The P2570 features a 1080p, 24.6-inch screen, HDMI, DVI, RGB and composite inputs (along with analog and optical outputs for hooking up additional components), an impressive 2 millisecond response, 300 candela brightness, and a really sharp bezel and stand. By default, the brightness was set to staring-at-the-sun levels, so we dropped them by half. Similarly, the colors definitely needed calibration, but otherwise, it was plug-and-play wonderfulness, whether with a laptop or a cable box.
As a PC monitor, it easily fits two expanded browser windows with space to spare and is razor sharp without any flicker, banding or other issues. We also watched 1080i cable TV, which looked crisp and colorful. During HBO's 'The Pacific,' the monitor easily handled fast-motion sequences and dark scenes -- not as well as our Sony Bravia, for sure, but very well all the same. While 24.6 inches isn't exactly a cinema experience, it's plenty big from eight feet away, or so.
The only major setback we'd note is the lack of speakers, which are included in some other companies' comparable monitors. (In its defense, the P2570HD has them built-in, along with an HDTV tuner, but it suffers from a slower response time.) Plus, we're a little bummed that the stand doesn't swivel or tilt. Still, for us, the P2570's image quality, as compared to other manufacturers' models, more than makes up for those drawbacks. All in all, we're sure it'll be a welcome sight for your sore, suffering eyes.
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We wanted to take some time out to express heartfelt thanks to the marketing parternships that we have entered into here at Owosso Speedway. We are very blessed to have business's in our community that are active in our motorsports community. We have been in contact with some and many more to be contacted in a few short weeks. 
