| WE SUGGEST COPYING, PASTING AND PRINTING OUT THESE INSTRUCTIONS. The location of this event will be at The Sturgeon Falls Arena, 219 O'Hara St, Sturgeon Falls, Ontario P2B 1A5. Motel List for our out of town Exhibitors (in no particular order): Lincoln Motel 191 St Front, Sturgeon Falls, ON P2B 1A6 (705) 753-0880 - Comfort Inn 11 Front Street, Sturgeon Falls, ON P2B 3L3 +1 877-753-5665 - Champlain Motel 155 St Front, Sturgeon Falls, ON P2B 2H7 (705) 753-1300 - Sturgeon River Inn 30 Bay St, Sturgeon Falls, ON P2B 3G6 (705) 753-1320 - Moulin Rouge Motel 175 St Front, Sturgeon Falls, ON P2B 2J1 (705) 753-2020 - Paradis Motel Sturgeon Falls 11702-17 Hwy, Cache Bay, ON P0H 1G0 (705) 753-0787 - Sunshine Motel & Rv Center 11921 Highway 17 W, Sturgeon Falls, ON P2B 2S8 (705) 753-0560 Exhibitor Move-In: "Home & Leisure Show": Thursday, May 3, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. & Friday, May 4, 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.. (Indoor vehicles and larger displays should come in as early as possible on Thursday morning). Outdoor Exhibitors including food vendors: Thursday, May 3, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. only. All displays from both days must be completely set by 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 4 as the Show opens promptly at noon. If you can, please come early on either day to avoid delays. Show staff will be present to assist you with any problems that might arise during the Move-In period, but Show Management cannot provide manual assistance during Move-In or Move-Out. Please ensure that you have adequate staff to unload and set up your own display. Show Hours: Friday, May 4, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m., Saturday, May 5, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., & Sunday, May 6, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m A check-in table will be located at the Main Entrance to the arena. Please report there upon arrival to pick up your Exhibitor badges, as well as to be shown where your booth is located. Exhibitor badges will be available here at the start of each day, for the current day only. Please do not attach anything to your curtains, as we will be charged for any holes in these rental items and will in turn have to collect these damages from you. If you have a lightweight sign that you would like to hang from your booth's curtain rod, we recommend using metal shower curtain rings, or if you would like your sign to hang a little lower, try bending a piece of a coat hanger into an “S” shape and hanging one end over the top bar of your curtain, with the other end attached to the upper corners of your sign. Indoor booths will be equipped with an eight foot high ivory colored curtain at the back of your booth, with two three foot high ivory curtained side walls, (one side wall for corner booths), two chairs and access to an electrical outlet if these have been requested. Tables are in very short supply, so please bring your own if possible. If you have ordered power to your booth, you will also need to bring a three prong CSA approved extension cord. For indoor exhibit spaces, a 25 foot cord should be more than long enough. Outdoor exhibitors would be wise to bring cords totaling approximately 200 feet. Exhibitor Move-Out begins after 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, and all displays must be removed that evening. Under no circumstances will any exhibitor be permitted to begin packing before our advertised closing as it will affect other Exhibitors who wish to stay open until the end of the Show. As well, our Insurance Carriers will not cover any injuries to the public should an accident occur. Move-Out, compared to Set-up, is generally completed within just a couple of hours, so please be patient. Although our staff will be the last to leave after the Show closes each day, and the facility will be locked up tight behind us, we strongly recommend that small expensive items on your table be covered with sheets, or taken with you at night. Show Management cannot be responsible for articles that go missing. Please speak to us in advance, if you are unsure of leaving a particular item. Advanced Tickets at $5.00 each are now available for special clients who you might like to invite to the Show. These should be ordered right away, to ensure you have ample time to distribute them. On Move-In days we will only be available at the arena, so please ask any questions now, or come and see us during our set-up at the arena. We encourage our Exhibitors to offer a draw for a prize in their booth. Although it may seem like just another expense, these draws are actually an excellent way for an Exhibitor to collect a list of “Qualified” leads which can then be followed up on after the Show has ended. A draw will also keep people in your booth for a longer period of time. Please let us know what your prize will be, so we can promote it for you on our web site. In addition to your own booth draw, something new that we will be doing this year is holding draws every half hour for prizes at the Main Entrance. We have purchased several dozen small prizes on our own to start this promotion off, but if any Exhibitors would like to have one of their prizes included, (with their business card taped to it), we would be happy to give your gift priority placement on the tables. This is a voluntary donation for those who are interested. Advertising: If you are the owner of a local business that places regular newspaper ads, a banner or star burst in your ad inviting people to visit your booth at the Show, is always a great idea. If you have a large message sign board outside of your place of business, adding: “See us at The Sturgeon Falls Home & Leisure Show, (or The Sturgeon Falls Outdoors Show) This Weekend”, will certainly help to increase traffic to the Show and to your display. If you have not yet placed a similar note/link on your web site, this should be done as soon as possible. If you are enrolled in any other shows prior to ours, why not let people who visit your display know that you will be involved at our show on May 4, 5 & 6, by having a flyer on your table announcing it? We are very excited about this event, and look forward to meeting you. |
| ADDED: FEBRUARY 21, 2012: For Door Prizes in the past, we have simply gone to a Giant Tiger, Canadian Tire or a Walmart and bought dozens of prizes for about $20.00 each to give away to our winners. While these prizes have always been well received by our visitors, we got to thinking . . . "If these companies aren't supporting the Show, why are we supporting them?" So this year for all Shows, most of our Door Prizes will be $20.00 Gift Certificates that can only be redeemed with Exhibitors at the Show! Its our way of thanking you for joining us. Since we don't want anyone to copy these certificates, we are not making a sample available online. When you arrive to set up your booth, be sure to ask our staff to show you an example of what these Gift Certificates look like, as well as the security features we have added to them. As always though, we also will still be accepting any prizes that you might want to donate to our "Prize Table", but that is completely on a volunteer basis. It does give you visibility in two areas of the Show, as almost every visitor stops at our prize table to see what is available. |