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Wild Rose Elementary School
36W730 Red Haw Lane
St. Charles, IL 60174

Open Show: $35 one day/$60 two
GLC Members: $30 one day/$55 two
Collector's Class: $10 per class for two-day showers; $20 per class for one-day showers.
Performance Challenge: $65, includes model.
Proxy entry: $5/horse (capped at the regular non-member price).
Please note: There will be a $40 charge for any checks returned for insufficient funds.

All attendees of the Great Lakes Congress 2008 Live Show agree that the officers, members, and invitees of the Show conducted by the Great Lakes Congress, Inc., as well as the personnel of the Wild Rose Elementary School and their respective organizations are not and shall not be responsible for any liability loss including theft, personal injury, or property damage arising out of or in connection with the Show. The show hall will be secured each evening. Exhibitors will be able to leave items on their tables.

Once at the school, please enter for the show through the double doors numbered 23 at the southeast end of the building. You may load and unload at door 20 at the east end of the building (as there are no steps there), but you must move your car to the parking lot after you are done.

Directions from I-90:
From I-90 you can exit from the west and from the east onto Randall Road. Take Randall Road south, past Route 20 and Elgin, to the stop light at Red Haw Lane (at the top of the hill). Turn left (the only way you can go) onto Red Haw Lane, come down the hill, and you will see the school on the left. Drive the block past the school and take the second street to the left, Thornly Rd, at the end of the block, to enter the parking lot.

Directions from I-88:
From I-88 you can exit from the west and from the east onto Farnsworth Avenue north. Take Farnsworth Avenue north, past Batavia, and you will go past FermiLab and the Kane County Cougars Stadium. When you cross Route 38 in Geneva, Farnsworth becomes Kirk Road. Continue on Kirk Road going north until you reach the stop light at Route 64 (Main Street). Turn left on Main Street, going west. Cross the Fox River and turn right two blocks (2 blocks on the left, one block on the right) past the river at Route 31 (Second Street). Just past where the road goes down to one lane, turn left onto the second street, Indian Mound road. (If you take the turn on Route 31 and go up along the river, you've gone too far.) Take Indian Mound up the hill and at the stop sign, turn left onto Red Haw Lane. Go one block and turn right onto Thornly Rd, where you will see the school.

Approximately 5 minutes away from the show hall is the Fairfield Inn & Suites.
2096 Bricher Road
St. Charles, Illinois 60174 USA
Phone: 1-630-845-5500

They have reserved a block of rooms at the rate $102/night. Just mention Great Lakes Congress or GLC. Reservations must be made 3 weeks prior to the event to get the discount. The rooms are 2 double beds.

1. ALL ENTRIES should be received by March 14, 2008, and be paid in full by the show date.
2. No fee/entry sharing is allowed. Everyone must personally own the models they are exhibiting, unless they are being proxy shown. Proxy entries must complete the Proxy Entry form and will not be allocated table space (this shall be the responsibility of the proxy shower unless other arrangements are made).
3. GLC, Inc’s Refund Policy is as follows: If you cancel on or before March 21, you will be refunded 50% of your entry fees. If you cancel on or after March 22, your entry fees are forfeited.
4. Exhibitors will ONLY be allocated table space for days for which they are registered and paid.
5. If an entrant wants to add a day to show, we will have to do it based on availability only; if we have the space, then you can pay the difference to add the day.
6. This year we regret to announce that we will not be able to honor seating preferences for show entrants. The only exceptions to this are as follows: special exhibitor medical needs, vendor table needed adjacent to show table, multiple family tables (i.e. parent-child pairs). Exhibitors will be offered a first-come, first-choice table selection EACH day.
7. EVERY ENTRY IN EVERY CLASS WILL HAVE HALF A 3 x 5 CARD WITH IT WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: Side 1: Class name and number, and horse's breed and gender. Side 2: Horses name and owners assigned initials. In addition, entrants may use string tags with the same information to prevent confusion as horses are removed from the ring. OF Plastic horses entering both breed and collectability will need two cards (i.e. One for class 23 Thoroughbreds Breed and one for class 65 Thoroughbreds Collectability).
8. The doors to the hall open at 4 pm. Friday, and at 7 am. Saturday and Sunday.
9. Any relative of a judge is ineligible to show in that judge’s division.
10. It is expected that all show attendees, whether guests, sellers, showers, stewards, or judges, will exhibit good showmanship qualities at all times. Please take up any concerns with the show secretary.
11. To be awarded in all divisions: Classes 1st-10th place will receive custom ribbons, collector classes will receive custom rosettes first to sixth place, and Champions & Reserves will receive custom rosettes.
12. To qualify for a championship, any model must have placed 1st or 2nd in the applicable classes. Champions will be determined by a combination of the following: total point value of applicable class placings, point averaging, and judge’s decision. Classes like Anything Goes, and Animals and Fantasy Figures do not count towards championships.
13. No smoking in the building per state law.

We will be taking a brief break (about 30 minutes) for lunch on Saturday and Sunday. Outside food is allowed, and there are restaurants on nearby Rt. 64.

Performance Challenge classes are not NAN Qualifying classes.

Performance Challenge classes are not NAN Qualifying classes.
The Performance Challenge is a long standing Great Lakes Congress tradition. Exhibitors show against each other with the very same model--and it is a secret until the first class is about to start! Models will be traditional scale and exclusive only to the performance challenge. And, exhibitors get to keep the exclusive Peter Stone mystery model! (What a deal!) The Performance Challenge will be held on Friday, April 4th, at 5 pm. Cost for entering is $65. Entries in the Performance Challenge are limited to 22 exhibitors. Entries must be received by March 12, 2008. Entries will be chosen by a random drawing on March 15, 2008. All entrants must follow all entry guidelines to be eligible for the Performance Challenge. Failure to follow these instructions will result in a disqualification of the entry.

All performance challenge entries must submit the Performance Challenge Entry form in addition to the GLC Live entry form. Entries must be accompanied by full payment and a SASE for notification of entry in the challenge. All undrawn entries will be returned. All entrants must abide by these rules: Only one entry is allowed in the Performance Challenge per family. Exhibitors must compete in every Performance Challenge class (get creative!). Models may not leave the ring once the classes have started. Tardiness to the Performance Challenge will result in forfeiture of entry and a refund.

GLC will be holding a swap meet on Friday, April 4. Cost is $10 per table. Setup begins at 5 pm.; the swap meet will run from 6-9. Come swap and shop with your fellow hobbyists, and observe the infamous Performance Challenge!

We will be holding raffles throughout the weekend. Tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for $5. We will have a ribbon buyback program as follows: Every 5 flat ribbons are worth one raffle ticket, champion or reserve rosettes are worth two tickets each, and overall grand and reserve rosettes are worth five tickets each.

We will be having a silent auction the weekend of the show to benefit our 2008 event. The auction will begin at 10 am. on Saturday, April 5, and conclude at 2 pm. on Sunday, April 6.

Sponsorships for the Live Show are accepted. Sponsorship of a division/championship/class will include your name or company announced as the sponsor during the show. A Division sponsorship is $10, Championships within the Division are $5 each, If you are interested in specific classes, they are $2 each. We are also introducing snack sponsorships! We would like to offer various snacks and bottled water throughout the day for everyone. The snack sponsor is $20.

There will be a RESS Challenge Class this year! Please see additional information in the RESS packet.

Judging consistency in each division is our goal. The Great Lakes Congress reserves the right to interchange judges between divisions and provide judges other than those listed when necessary. If you have an entry in a class that was created, finished, or previously owned by the judge, please let the show secretary know and another judge will be assigned to that class. When a judge and the stewards are attending to a class, please do not disturb them. All judge’s decisions are final.

GLC 2008 Judging Panel:
Performance Challenge = Jenna Nejman
OF Halter = Karen Zorn
OF Collectability = Kathy Tomlinson
CM & OF Performance = Liesl Dalpe
China Halter, CM Glaze, & RESS Challenge Class = Karen Beeson
Resin Halter & Workmanship = Jenn Tate
CM Halter = Bev Manderfeld
Collectibilty Displays = Jamie Rott & Liz Cory

Meet Frank! The crankiest mule yet, sculpted by Yvonne Davey of Stillwater Valley Studios, cast by Mountain View Studios, and available ONLY at GLC Live! Frank may be SM-sized, but he’s packed a lot of attitude into that 4” body. Unpainted resins will be available at the show on April 4-6, 2008. Pre-order yours today by filling out the form in the show packet downloadable at the top of this page! Cost is $60 for GLC members or $70 for nonmembers. GLC reserves the right to limit the number of SRs ordered per person.