Tuesday, 7/30/24
We had so many individuals reaching out about whether or not they won as they weren’t able to watch the live recording (also below) that we did the list of winners first. The emails to all 76 winners will follow. Many of you I have already spoken to. Thank you for your patience.
Christy Mattey
Founder
OPEN-Bees
7/27/24
OPEN-Bees Supporters,
We have secured our cameraman and the live drawing will be Sunday, July 28th at 7pm EST. This live recording will also be posted on our public OPEN-Bees Facebook page, our closed group OPEN-Bees Facebook page and our website, http://www.open-bees.com.
We will be doing it exactly like last year. After talking to many bourbon groups, many admins as well as our counsel, we are continuing the random bottle to random ticket drawn live.
The list of winners will also be posted on our website once they are audited.
Based on the locations of the individuals that have won bottles, we will map out our drop off schedule. Our goal is to get everyone their winning bottle as quickly as possible.
If you have any questions about anything at all, my cell phone is 330-705-5891 and you all have my email.
I wish you all the best of luck and we are incredibly grateful for your support.
Christy Mattey
Founder
OPEN-Bees
July 16th, 2024
As of 2:33pm today we have a Jacksonville Barrel Pick winner! Congrats Brian H. we are now officially down to the last 100 🎟️’s. And thank you Chris Bickett – we will 🥃’s to you when he cracks it open! Website will be updated by midnight. Let’s goooooo!
Thank you for your support!
Tom & Christy Mattey
July 3, 2024
OPEN-Bees Supporters,
We did it! We have surpassed the 1,500th ticket!
As promised, we are now setting the drawing date. After much thought and collaboration, we are going to have the drawing on 8/3/24 or sooner if we sell the 2,000th ticket before 8/3/24.
Hopefully, you all know that after we sell ticket 2,000, the Weller Millennium will be added as the 76th bottle.
We want to be explicit about a few important rules:
1. If you are not happy with the 8/3/24 draw date and would like to discuss this decision, please call my cell phone at 330-705-5891.
2. We will not include the Weller Millennium until 2,000 tickets have been sold.
3. We will not sell more than 2,000 tickets.
4. This has been a labor of love and one of the hardest things we have ever done. We don’t drink bourbon, but we have a passion for children to have their God-given civil rights to literacy. Thankfully, you have a passion for one, the other, or both.
This charity raffle exploded in Jacksonville, Amelia Island, Michigan, St. Louis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Tennessee. We have had some heavy-hitting repeat supporters, and I really hope you know how grateful we are.
For those of you that went out on a limb and bought one ticket or just shared the flyer, we are truly grateful. It took a village.
We (insert you) have helped so many families over the last two years. After the winners are announced, you will get an email with a redacted list of families as well as redacted thank you notes from parents and evidence-based training we have afforded so many.
OPEN-Bees is not the only one making a difference. Without you, there is no us.
Thank you so very much!
Tom & Christy Mattey
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