Gold Card Sales Underway; Major OSBC Fund-Raiser
The Oconomowoc Sports Booster Club Gold Card sale, a key annual fund raising event, is underway.
OHS athletes from all sports teams are participating by selling the Gold Cards to family members, relatives, friends and neighbors. All proceeds from the sale go to the Booster Club and ultimately right back to support our student athletes their teams. Every athlete is asked to sell 10-21 Gold cards with prizes starting when 10 cards are sold.
Bob Johnson, a director of the OSBC, says that while the club encourages participate on the part of coaches, teams, and athletes, it is not mandatory and has no bearing on an individual’s standing with any sports team nor does it affect the level of OSBC funding support for a team.
New this year, the club is giving the fall sports teams an extra incentive. If the team averages at least five cards sold per athlete, the team will get $3 per card sold as a bonus.
Johnson says, “We will take in to account winter and spring sports request if they had athletes that sold. Our goal with the incentive is to increase overall card sales, which will provide more funds for all sports.”
The Gold Cards sell for $20 each. The cards still have the normal merchants that offer various discounts that are good over and over again for a year. Jack Safro Ford this year is offering a free oil change! This one deal pays for the card.
The great deals from Subway, Valvoline, and all the others can still be used as in the past. Quiznos Sub again has two great deals. Todd’s Grill offers four uses of $5 off and Olympia has some great discounts for skiing and golf. Domino’s again has a great deal on the front of the card. Burke’s is back this year and is offering four uses of a free appetizer.
Other local vendors participating include Books & Company, Great Clips, Silver Lake Auto Center, Whelan’s Coffee & Ice Cream, The Chocolate Factory, Rosatti’s, Java Hut, Cousin’s Subs, Fiesta Cancun, Taco Bell, Rocky Rocco, Arby’s, Papa Murphy’s, Sammy’s Taste of Chicago, Culver’s, Schlotzsky’s Deli, and Subway.
In addition to the deals on the card, the purchaser can get extra deals online by getting a free membership to AbenityRewards.com. The link to the site is on top of the card. There they can gets deals to places like Sam’s Club ($10-$25 gift card w/membership), Marcus Theaters, Office Depot, Dell, Southwest Vacations, Sprint, Amazon, and many others.
Cards were handed out on Monday, Aug. 6, and again on Tuesday, Aug. 14. Sales proceeds must be turned in on either Aug. 23 or Aug. 30, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the OHS Field House. Apparel (t-shirts and shorts) for the top sellers will be available at those times.
Parents interested in selling cards to friends, co-workers, etc., are encouraged to do so.
Prizes**
Sell 10:
Get a Shirt & Free card for every 10 sold (2 at 20, 3 at 30…)
Sell 21:
Get both Shirt and Shorts
Get in the drawing for a $100 Gift Card
Get a Under Armour Cooney ¼ zip embroidered pullover or some other item
Top Seller:
Gets a Gift Card valued at $1 per card sold
** To guarantee a seller receives their shirts, shorts and hooded sweatshirt, they must come back to the high school on a collection day to turn in their money and unsold cards.
For more information about the Gold Card program, contact Johnson at [email protected].