Animal Tracks

Date: May 2 & 3, 2009

Location: Ohio Expo Center, Bricker Building, Columbus, OH

Dear Exhibitors, Vendors and Guests:

Welcome to our fifth Buckeye Alpaca Show. The Buckeye Alpaca Show is a non-profit show. In the past four years the show has donated over $100,000 to the International Camelid Institute (ICI) and the Clinical Services Veterinary Fund at Ohio State University.

We have committed $30,000 to the Ohio State University to pay for the speaker program for the 2010 International Camelid Health Conference for veterinarians and breeders to be held next March. This will help pay for honorariums and travel expenses for all or the majority of the speakers, affording Ohio State University the opportunity to invite an exciting and impressive panel of the top camelid educators from around the world. We encourage you and your veterinarian to attend this program and take advantage of the incredible learning experience that your commitment to this show has helped to make possible.

We want to give a BIG thank you to our sponsors. Their sponsorships help to make this a quality show. They are to be congratulated.

It has been said that volunteers are not paid because they are "priceless." That is a perfect description of our volunteers. They donate their time and talent throughout the year. No show can be a success without great volunteers and we have the best. When you see a volunteer be sure to thank them. At the next show you attend consider volunteering.

Now, relax and have some fun this weekend. Enjoy meeting old friends and make some new friends, both 2-legged and 4-legged.