Price Seniors Center

222 W. San Antonio St., San Marcos, Texas 78666, 512-392-2900 Operated by the Greater San Marcos Area Seniors Association

Carolyn Fielder  Wins Red Bird Quilt

Something seemed to be "rotten in Denmark," as goes the old Shakesperian saying about suspicious circumstances.  

For several months, the Price Seniors Center has been selling tickets for a raffle to win a quilt named "Red Bird" -- a very special quilt, previously won by Price Special Events Director, Marie Jager, who had  now donated it to the Price Center in an effort to raise some needed cash for its on-going renovations.  Raffle ticket sales had abounded.  The drawing box overflowed.

Two days before the drawing, scheduled at the Price Center's annual Christmas banquet, Carolyn Fielder "stuffed the ballot box" (so to speak) with a $200 purchase of 120 tickets.  
Almost unbelievably --  especially for those present who had also bought tickets with high hopes -- one of Fielder's ticket stubs was pulled from the box.

Jaws dropped.  "Foul!" cried the Master of Ceremonies, Ron Jager.  Members of the quilt sale committee (including Fielder) cast furtive glances at one another.  Others just laughed --  or cried --  assuming that the Illinois governor must have somehow been involved in a secretive insider rigging.

A hurried  investigation was launched into Fielder's dresser drawer in search of that rotten thing in Denmark.  Lo, there it was: the winning ticket receipt -- but -- for a ticket Fielder had actually bought three months previously,  having had spent the evening  selling raffle tickets to Taco Cabana customers,  including a $5 purchase of her own.

Talk about wasting $200!  Despite all the innuendo,  Denmark wasn't rotten, after all.   (A subsequent trial drawing of three tickets actually turned up still another Fielder ticket, so forget about the odds.)

Ultimately,  almost $1,800 was netted to apply to carpeting in the upstairs part of the Price Center -- eleven percent arranged by  Carolyn Fielder, who just happens to be secretary of the Seniors Association!  All too fishy not to be true.