If you haven’t already signed up to volunteer for the Commercial Competition, please do so now. The 2010 Commercial Competition will be held the first weekend in June and your assistance is definitely needed. This event is a wonderful opportunity to meet winemakers, enjoy good food, and become better acquainted with other OCWS members. You can use the sign-up form at the back of the newsletter or download it from the website. There is a direct link to the form on our home page.

There are many areas where volunteer help is needed—stewarding, glass washing and drying, and computer input and verification. A sign-up form is included in the newsletter that identifies stewarding days, bagging nights, and other work parties with the times and dates. In order to qualify for stewarding, please sign-up for two additional work parties including one of the bagging nights and one of the other work parties such as moving to and from the hotel, set-up, sorting or ribbon mailing. We definitely need your support for our work parties in order to run a successful competition. The good news is that we will have hired help with the heavy lifting for the moves to and from the hotel as well as the sort. New members are encouraged to participate. No training is necessary as newer members will be teamed with competition veterans.

The Commercial Competition provides us with the wine inventory that is served at the Orange County Fair and revenue from those sales offsets the cost of conducting the Competition and also helps to support the goals of the Wine Society.

The deadline for signing up is April 24. You may fax your form to the OCWS at 714.546.5002 or mail to PO Box 11059, Costa Mesa, CA 92627. If you have any questions, please feel free to phone me at 714.326.8014 or e-mail at

leslie@ocws.org.

We look forward to your joining us for this important event.

Leslie Brown

Volunteer Coordinator

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