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Florida Alpaca Breeders Association

Sunshine State Alpaca

EXPO and Auction

"An Affair 

 To Remember"

Jacksonville Equestrian Center

13611 Normandy Boulevard

Jacksonville, Florida 32221

February 6th, 7th & 8th, 2009

Alpaca Auction Friday, February 6th

AOBA Certified Show Saturday and Sunday, February 7th & 8th

The Florida Alpaca Breeders Association

is excited to have you as our guest at

The Sunshine State Alpaca EXPO and Auction 2009.

This year promises to be filled with fun and new ideas

for our Exhibitors and everyone in attendance.

We are adding the convenience of on line registration,

which hopefully will make your registration process much smoother.

This year, we are adding the “Kid’s Corner” complete with fun projects,

Pet A Paca, coloring contests and much more.

We are also inviting all of you Fiber Enthusiasts to enter

your favorite Handmade Alpaca Craft in our

“What do you do with the Alpaca Fiber” Contest.

We hope that you will plan to join us. Please

contact us if you have any question.

Sincerely,

Jane Dula, President

Jamie Flores, Vice President, Events Coordinator

Rita Smith, Secretary

Lori Smith, Treasurer

Jean Riley, Auction Coordinator

Deadlines

January 14, 2009—deadline for Show Book Ads

January 25, 2009--$10.00 late fee for entries

January 28. 2009-- No refunds/cancellations of stall space

February 6, 2009-- No refund of entry fee will be allowed unless a veterinarian’s certificate of illness, injury or death is presented to the Show Superintendent

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT CHECK IN TIMES

Check in times are Thursday, Feb. 5th from 10am-6pm and Friday, Feb. 6th from 8am-2pm. There will be no check in available on Saturday before the show. All alpacas that are checked in "after the barn door closes" will be charged a fee of $5.00 per alpaca and part of the proceeds will go to the Alpaca Research Foundation. If you have an EMERGENCY ONLY and cannot check in at the allotted times please contact the Events Coordinator at

727-278-3996

If you would like to advertise in our showbook handed out to all

Sunshine State Alpaca Expo attendees

click here for the form.

New for 2009

This is an excellent opportunity for you to show the general public all the wonderful things that can be done with our alpaca fiber and maybe win a great PRIZE!!! Do you make purses—hats—scarves—puppets………….the possibilities are endless…

Enter your Handmade Alpaca Products in our Contest. Starting from the "opening of the gates" on Friday to Sunday at 1200 Noon the attendees of our EXPO will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite Alpaca Product! The winner of this Contest will receive a "gift certificate" compliments of The Florida Alpaca Breeders Association!

See the Forms section for the information on the Contest and Entry Form. 

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 Kid’s Corner and COLORING CONTEST FOR ALL AGES!!

What a great way to "get the whole family involved" than to have a child’s artwork displayed. We will be adding an assortment of pictures for all ages to color to our EXPO website. They can be downloaded and printed ahead of time or will be available at the EXPO. Won’t it be great to see a group of children around a table coloring pictures of our wonderful Alpaca, asking questions and going home to share with their friends the Wonderful World of Alpacas? We will also have the "Pet A Paca Program" and fun crafts for the kids. This was a huge success last year and we plan an even bigger event this year.   Click here for ages 3 to 5     Click here for ages 6 to 10   Click here for ages 11 to 14

See the FORMS section for all the information on the "Kid's Korner"

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FREE TO THE EVENT-PLATINUM--GRAND SPONSOR’S

This year FABA is offering a choice of 2 free items for our Event-Platinum and Grand Sponsors Take your pick from the "Get Your Farm Name Out There Program" which allows you to send any information about your alpaca, farm…to us and we will put it in the Exhibitors Bags for FREE OR Receive 2 FREE Banquet Tickets to our Saturday Night Dinner. The Florida Alpaca Breeders Association is a great group of people that want to make sure all or our attendees have a good time!! This year will be no different.

If you decide to be an Event, Platinum or Grand Sponsor—just email me at shiloalpacas@tampabay.rr.com and let me know which "freebie" you would like!   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

DO YOU HAVE BACK TO BACK ALPACA TO SHOW???

This year FABA will be setting up 4 "holding pens." We have had this request a number of times from those exhibitors that have multiple alpaca to show and have a hard time running from the barn to the ring…

You spoke—we listened!!