Hello Animal Science Club! Here are the minutes from this week's meeting:

Dues
Today was the last day to pay dues! Hopefully everyone was able to get their $10 in to Matt.

Thank You Notes
In order to thank the companies for their generous donations to our auction, Thank You notecards were signed at the meeting. Cards will be going to Ag Industrial and Atlantic Tractor for their pedal tractor donations, and we're also thanking Bigg's Inc. for their donated auction item of the upright toy engine. These auction items brought in about $250, and the entire auction ended up making $714. This money will be donated to AgrAbility.

Ag Carnival Re-cap
We had a really great turn-out at Ag Carnival, and it was a lot of fun. Our pedal tractor event was a hit--although (as the boys painfully found out) an event much better suited for the ladies. Some winning highlights for the ANSC Club were Matt for placing 1st in the pie-eating contest, and Jen and Megan for coming in 1st place in the pumpkin chucking. The ANSC Club's team New Holland finished up in 4th place for the overall day's events! Awesome job, everyone! If anyone has suggestions for next year's Ag Carnival, please email Amanda at akilby@udel.edu.

Service Report
Sally, a representative from AgrAbility, would like to come and give a talk about her organization. However, she isn't available to come to our meetings on Wednesday. The club needs to decide if we would be willing to attend her guest talk on some other day of the week, and what day would be best for the club. Although the Animal Science Club has been raising money for AgrAbility for some time now, we've become slightly detached from the organization, so it would be very beneficial if Sally came in and explained to us more about AgrAbility. We will discuss this matter further at a future meeting.

Hayride
A contract has finally been drawn up between the Animal Science Club and Alpha Zeta. Some of the key aspects of the contract include:
-ANSC club and AZ will share responsibility of publicity, planning, filling out appropriate forms, and getting drivers.
-There will be at least six designated spots for haunted scenes along the route, with ANSC club responsible for at least 4 of the spots, and AZ responsible for at least 2.
-All profits from the hayride will be split as 60% to ANSC club and 40% to AZ
-ANSC club is required to provide at least 22 people each night, and AZ is required to provide at least 12 people. For every participant who does not show up on a given night, that club will receive a 1% deduction in profit.

Forms requesting funding from the Allocations board have been turned in, and our event is officially registered with Activities and Planning. As far as publicity is concerned, we have a kiosk in Trabant reserved for 10/20 from 11am-2pm. Flyers and signs are being designed by AZ, and we will hopefully be distributing them soon.

For those of you who are station leaders, you need to email Jen with your ideas and preliminary budgets ASAP. We're just two weeks away from the hayride, so we've really got to get ourselves in gear. Attached is the finalized station lists. If your name is not on the list, and you would still like to help out (we can use all the help that we can get!), please email Jen at jenp@udel.edu. Any other questions or concerns about the hayride can also be emailed to me at jesshall@udel.edu. NOTE: times for the Haunted Hayride have been slightly modified: The hayride will be on Friday, 10/21 from 7-11pm, and on Saturday, 10/22 from 6:30-11pm (with a kid-friendly ride from 6:30-7:30).

Kahunaville!
We ended the meeting by adjourning to Kahunaville for some country line dancing. Hope everyone had fun!

That's it for this week's meetings. Our next meeting is Wednesday, 10/12 at 6:15pm in 037 Memorial. Have a great Homecoming weekend, everyone... and try to stay dry. ;)