Worker's Appreciation Dinner

Everyone gathered once again at Coker College for the traditional mid-week break that is the Worker's Appreciation Dinner. The conversation was lively as people from all the different flights were able to share their experiences from the first few days of the 2015 Master National testing.

An old friend, Woody Thurman, was in our midst and was introduced by Chairperson, Michelle Love.  He spoke to the crowd and sang a song while strumming his guitar much to the delight of the crowd. After that, he said grace before everyone filed into the buffet line in the back room. A dinner of savory chicken and pork tenderloin accompanied by roasted vegetables and wild rice was a welcome repast.

Everyone was given ten raffle tickets to put in the prize buckets with many Sponsor-donated gifts varying from Yeti mugs to dog mats … from Wet-Mutt jackets to Avery dog training bags … from Sport Dog electric fences to commemorative bottles of Master National wine and Retriever News subscription gifts. The video for Chase Away K-9 Cancer played as we saw many of our past titled dogs had been taken by cancer. A sobering statistic that 1 in 3 dogs competing in this event would get the deadly disease.

AKC Rep Russ Reavis, Woody Thurman and AKC Rep Jerry Mann