Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Official Announcement for the Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014!!!!!!


Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014 : EVENT & TICKET RESERVATION INFORMATION

Is there any information on-line?  Well, now (officially), there is.
I am organizing another

YAKIMA BIGFOOT ROUND-UP !! 
October 10 and 11, 2014
additional Sasquatch Revealed Talks October 12th
Yakima Valley Museum, Yakima, Washington

If you were at the May 2009 ground-breaking conference and tribute banquet, you will know this is a unique bigfoot event. Our goal is to present the BEST EVIDENCE for the existence of these hominoid creatures known as sasquatch, bigfoot. It is also a goal of this event to pay tribute to some of the pioneer researchers responsible for documenting evidence of their existence many years ago - to recognize their achievement. This year we will pay tribute to Bob Gimlin, Roger Patterson, Jerry Crew, Al Hodgson, Grover Krantz and have a memorial slideshow of Rene Dahinden.  Finally, we hope to bring together many like-minded sasquatch / bigfoot researchers whom we hold in high regard. Not everyone attending has to give a presentation and we make sure there is plenty of social time scheduled to allow for interaction in a relaxed setting.  That about sums it up. Carpe diem, my friends. The Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up is BACK! This year only...

Location:  Yakima Valley Museum, 2105 Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA 98902

Friday, October 10, 2014
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.  Registration and Meet and Greet Social Mixer.  Private after-hours viewing of the Sasquatch Revealed exhibit for conference attendees.  Includes hors d'oeuvres, snack foods and complimentary soft drinks, beer and wine. Speakers and other researchers will be available to meet and greet during the mixer.
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Christopher L. Murphy “Curator Introduction to Sasquatch Revealed  Exhibit” and  “Pioneers of Bigfoot Evidence  - Jerry Crew, Al Hodgson, Bob Gimlin, Roger Patterson, Rene Dahinden and Grover Krantz” (w/ Tom Yamarone, Jeff Meldrum and others).



Saturday, October 11, 2014
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.   Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014 Sasquatch Lectures
1:00 – 1:50 p.m.  Dr. John Bindernagel  “Current Scientific Evaluation of Sasquatch Evidence”
2:00 – 2:50 p.m.  Dr. Jeff Meldrum  “Best Evidence for Sasquatch to Date”
Break
3:10 – 4:00 p.m.  Bill Munns  “The Patterson-Gimlin Film Examined – When Roger (and Bob) Met Patty”
Break
4:15 – 4:40 p.m.  Bob Gimlin “Recounting October 20, 1967”

Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014   Tribute Banquet
5:45 – 6:15 p.m.  Pre-dinner Cocktails and Conversation
6:15 – 6:30 p.m.  Seating for Tribute Banquet
6:30 – 7:45 p.m.  Local Delicacies Buffet Banquet
7:45 – 8:00 p.m.  Dessert
8:00 – 9:00 p.m.  Tributes to Pioneers of Bigfoot Evidence
BOB GIMLIN, ROGER PATTERSON, JERRY CREW and others!



Sunday, October 11, 2014
Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014   Sasquatch Revealed Lectures
$15 / separate admission   $35 / Reserved Seat in Rows 1 and 2
12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
12:00 p.m.  Introduction and Welcome to General Public Attendees
12:10 – 1:00 p.m.  John Mionczynski  “Evaluation of Sasquatch Habitat”
1:10 – 2:00 p.m.  Ron Morehead “Sierra Sounds Recordings Revisited”
Break
2:20 – 3:10 p.m.  Cliff Barackman  “Bigfoot Evidence from Bluff Creek”
3:10 – 3:30 p.m.

Tickets for the Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014
We can accommodate 150 people for the Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up Tribute Banquet. 
A few dozen more tickets will be available for the Friday Meet & Greet Mixer, the Saturday Bigfoot Evidence Lectures and Sunday’s Sasquatch Revealed Talks.

TO RESERVE YOUR TICKET(S), 
send an email to TOM YAMARONE at
tyamarone@pacbell.net  
subject: Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014

TICKET PRICES:
Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up
$70   General Admission  - includes  Friday Meet and Greet social mixer and Bigfoot/Sasquatch Pioneers Presentation, Saturday lecture series and tribute banquet.
$95  Reserved Ticket – includes all of the above with a reserved seat for the movie in a private row, reserved seat in Rows 1 through 3 for the lecture series.  


Sunday’s Sasquatch Revealed Talks  
General Admission: $15
Reserved Seating: $35 (reserved seat in row 1, 2  and 3) NOTE: if you have purchased a reserved seat for Friday and Saturday, this will carry over to Sunday’s event.


Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up commemorative T-shirt: $15  / XXL or larger $17
(We prefer you to pre-order your t-shirt and pay in advance.  Shirts will be available at registration on Friday. Produced by Sasquatch Prints of Pocatello, Idaho.)


Special hotel rates available at our host hotel, a 2 and 1/2 star property where all of the participants will be staying.  Information will be provided by email upon registration. 

THANK YOU for your interest!   IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPONSOR THIS NOT-FOR-PROFIT EVENT, Please contact me as well. ANY ASSISTANCE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Tom Yamarone  tyamarone@pacbell.net

Monday, August 11, 2014

Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014 Update 8-11-14

Hello,

Hope this finds you enjoying your summer.
All is going well with the planning for the Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up, October 10, 11 & 12, 2014.

In the last two weeks, I was able to make a very good agreement with our host hotel, 
The Oxford Inn
1603 E. Yakima Avenue
Yakima, WA
phone: 509-457-4444
reservations: 800-521-3050
GROUP NAME: Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up  
GROUP RATE:  $81/night (1 or 2 beds)  -  my agreement asked that the final rate with taxes be a flat $90 per night. (that is a very good discount from their regular rate.)

The hotel offers very nice rooms - all with a view of the Yakima River.  They have coffee and refrigerators in the room, a pool and hot tub and a continental breakfast as well as other amenities. Here is a link to their TripAdvisor reviews and hotel details:

TICKETS and T-SHIRTS; COMPLETE YOUR RESERVATION; MAKE YOUR PLANS

We plan to have a Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up t-shirt design available later this week. Please hold off on your ticket payments so that you might include your t-shirt order. The shirts have always been the best souvenir and this year will be no different. 

For now, let's finalize your reservation. Your ticket reservations are guaranteed as long as payment is made 30 days prior to the event.  (September 10, 2014 is our goal to receive your payments.)

What is important now is for you to reply to this email with the names as they will appear on the event name tags and what level of ticket(s) you are reserving.

Also, go ahead a book your room and make your travel plans. We are very excited for this gathering and tribute conference. As was the case in 2009, we have some very special activities planned and some wonderful people who are going to be joining us. This will certainly be a fitting tribute to Bob Gimlin, Roger Patterson, Jerry Crew and other pioneers of bigfoot research. And fitting to bring us altogether in Yakima while the SASQUATCH REVEALED exhibit is on display for the rest of the year. 

NEW TICKET PRICES REFLECT BANQUET COST
Friday & Saturday Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up Conference and Tribute Banquet
$70 General Admission includes Friday Meet & Greet w/ complimentary beverages and snacks, Saturday lectures and banquet. Note: price change was due to banquet price increase.)
$95 Reserved Seats for all presentations in Rows 1 and 2. Plus all of the above.

$15  Sunday Sasquatch Revealed Talks  (Noon to 3:30 p.m.)
Cliff Barackman, Ron Morehead and John Mionczynski (pending confirmation)

$15 Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up t-shirt (printed by Sasquatch Prints, Pocatello, Idaho)




I would prefer this method. There are only 120 tickets to process so this is a very manageable amount of processing.
If you would like to use PayPal, my email address & paypal account is:
tyamarone@pacbell.net
Please add $5 to cover the PayPal fees (or "GIFT"  me the money w/o any fees).


Take care,
Tom 

Friday, July 18, 2014

Further Updates on the Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014 from Tom Yamarone

Hi everybody,

Greetings friends of the Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up! Hope your summer is going well. 

There is no news as of today to report regarding a host hotel or our banquet. And that's OK. Everything is  locked in as far as our primary speaking line-up and event dates and time.s
Items not locked in:  a large group screening of the film "Willow Creek" - waiting to hear back from the director regarding the details. And John Mionczynski speaking on Sunday. He will be attending the event, but I had not broached the subject of his presentation prior to the distribution of the tentative agenda. We will speak when he is out of the mountains in early August. :-)   And so it goes...

It works for me to update you after returning from my trip to Oregon next weekend that includes a stop-over in Yakima. At that time, I will have discussed our banquet menu with the caterer, photographed the event location and chosen a host hotel.  Once I've returned to California on Tuesday, July 29th, I will email you all Wed or Thursday.  I plan to take payments by check - Paypal will be an option, too - between August 10th and September 10th. That period will be sufficient and will allow me to ensure all costs are detailed prior to payment. 

Everything looks great for this to be another one-of-a-kind gathering like we had in 2009. Our goal for this Round-Up is for there to be a few excellent presentations and plenty of time to interact in a relaxed, social setting. And, of course, a wonderful banquet on Saturday night followed by tributes to Bob Gimlin, Roger Patterson, Jerry Crew and Al Hodgson. Sunday's lecture series was added to benefit the museum but as that gets finalized, it may be an excellent set of talks for an extra $15. 

For now, enjoy your weekend. Don't hesitate to email or call with any questions. 
take care, 
Tom Yamarone
tyamarone@pacbell.net
925-858-9711
Livermore, California

P.S. Also the Sasquatch Revealed exhibit is on display until early December.  The Yakima Valley Museum has done an excellent job with the exhibit and it is very impressive.  Here are a few photographs I took in April.



Updated Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up 2014 Video!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqlApmfiI30&list=UUS9Z9Ij7Y1DkQh-oO0iuhAg