Small favors intended for all banquet guests must be brought to a designated location in the ballroom foyer between the hours of 1:00-2:30pm on Saturday before the banquet.
You will need to put your favors in each of the large gift bags provided (one for each dinner attendee), which will then be placed on the banquet table seats once filled by the region 1 team.
The proposed amendments and resolutions for the 2026 Annual Meeting are now available online: 2026 Amendments and Resolutions
7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Dress in your best Roaring 20’s attire and join the celebration!
$100 prize for each category winner!
BEST IN SHOW – Grand Prize Winner
The Highland Oasis
The “On the Road Again” coordinator, Cheryl Coleman, needs your photos for the 2026 On The Road Again show that starts off the festivities for Saturday night’s Awards Banquet.
We need your help so that ALL areas are represented. Please add a camera to your ‘show bag’ or use your smartphone to photograph fellow exhibitors during your free time. The more candid the shot, the better the picture. Higher resolution photos are key for being used in the presentation. Low resolution can cause photos to become fuzzy when enlarged, and people/cats are unrecognizable. If the subjects in the photo are so small you can’t recognize anyone or anything, it may not be usable.
Send your digital photos via USB/Flash Drives or download sites (such as TransferBigFiles or dropsend) to Cheryl no later Friday, June 5, 2026. Most photos are sent to Cheryl via your REGIONAL OTRA coordinator. However, please feel free to send them yourselves via the above methods if you
would like.
SPECS
• Digital files should be a minimum of 1200 x 900 pixels in size. Prefer JPEG format, not PNG.
• Photo ID: identify the photo of the exhibitor getting a national win. If it is someone who has died, please rename the file with their name, and let Cheryl know it is someone for the Memorial Section of OTRA. Or put those individuals in a separate folder.
• All photos must be scanned – please do not send original photos. Cheryl will accept USB keys/Flash Drives or zip files via Transferbigfiles.com and/or dropsend.com to:
cherylcoleman.2016@outlook.com Email Cheryl for her mailing address, if you are planning to send a physical device.
• If you want any of the USBs returned, you MUST include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Otherwise, they will not be returned.
All OTRA and Memorial photos are due on Friday, June 5, 2026 – photos will NOT be accepted after the deadline, no exceptions.
Advertise in this year’s Delegate Book! Congratulate your friends, promote your Breed Club, advertise your show or let everyone know about yourself and your accomplishments.
Deadline for receipt is Thursday, May 28, 2026 – submit payments here
Duplicate awards for National Winners and Breed Winners can be ordered in advance and will be available at the Awards banquet. Prices are based on the award being picked up at the Annual. The deadline for ordering to guarantee pickup at the Annual is May 28, 2025.
Order your duplicate awards here: https://catalog.cfa.org/annual-duplicate-awards.php
Declarations are now closed for the officer and regional director positions. The final candidates are:
President:
Vice-President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Region 1 (North Atlantic):
Region 2 (Northwest):
Region 3 (Gulf Shore):
Region 4 (Great Lakes):
Region 5 (Southwest):
Region 6 (Midwest):
Region 7 (Southern):
Region 8 (Japan):
Region 9 (Europe):
China Representative:
International Division Representative:
Celebrate this years Annual by donating towards the Delegate Bags!!!
Now is the time to showcase your club or event for the upcoming season, by including your club gift in the 2026 Annual Delegate Bag! There is plenty of time to order your donation. Some ideas have been, bookmarks, custom pins, rubber jar openers, luggage tags, hand sanitizers, first aid kits, sewing kits, game cards, pens, highlighter, post-its, cat toys, litter scoops, mints, bandaids, magnets, chip clips, small water bottles, reusable bags, snacks (pretzels, chips, cookies, granola bars, candy). Most can be found and personalized on-line. Some online sites are AliExpress, Temu, Amazon, Etsy, Oriental Trading or just Google it! If you can dream it, you can get it inexpensively put onto a product to advertise your event! Last year many Out-of-Region show producing clubs made sure their upcoming shows were already on the minds of exhibitors by placing a gift in the Delegate Bag.
We’re asking that you order ( 350) of your items, however you choose to create them, whether that’s a formal product that’s engraved or just a snack bag with a sticker showing off your club’s gift. Please remember all donated items should be labeled or personalized by the club or donor so we can easily identify who gave what donations. Please ship them directly to:
Joy Yoders Dey,
8 Dewberry Drive,
Eastampton, NJ 08060
to be received no later than Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
Region 1 will have a team of volunteers (feel free to join us!) stuffing delegate bags at the Annual with YOUR club’s gift and information on your upcoming event! Any questions? Reach out to Alene (sinend.ta@gmail.com) or Joy (manxcat123@comcast.net) and we’ll be happy to assist if we can.
We need your donations by Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at the latest. This is the cutoff date.
Please make sure your club is part of our celebration in the birthplace of CFA!!!
The CFA Annual Awards Banquet will be held on Saturday, June 27, 2026 in conjunction with the CFA Annual Meeting. The cocktail hour, with a cash bar, will be from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m.
Dinner choices are:
A. Chicken Breast with Champagne Cream – $80.00
B. Pan-Seared Salmon with Herb & Garlic Cream Sauce – $90.00
C. Filet Mignon with Peppercorn Sauce – $110.00
The deadline for reservations is June 11, 2026.
Make reservations here: https://catalog.cfa.org/annual.php#banquet
