Marty Earle Memorial Polish Herd Advancement Youth Fund

04/20/2026

The first recipients of the Marty Earle Memorial Polish Herd Advancement Youth Fund, Blake & Bristol, used their $500 award to help purchase Rockets "C U in Court”, a beautiful Jr. REW doe. We are looking forward to following her progress this year 🐰❤️ Congratulations ❤️🐰

04/13/2026

Congratulations to Blake & Bristol Hegemier, the 2026 recipients of the Marty Earle Memorial Polish Herd Advancement Youth Fund award !! They will receive a $500 credit to be used for the 2025 APRC Youth Scholarship Auction at the National Show in Wisconsin on April 18th.

Our family would like to thank everyone who applied. We had 11 very worthy applications, and choosing one recipient was no easy task.

Youth: Please watch for the upcoming announcement regarding the opening of our 2027 application.

04/11/2026

We will be announcing this year's recipient of the Marty Earle Memorial Fund on Monday, April 13th. We are awaiting a few outstanding references, and then we will make our final decision. This has been tough because they are ALL worthy recipients.🐰 Stay tuned...

04/05/2026

Reminder: Tomorrow by 5 pm is the LAST CHANCE to apply. All of the details are online at

Please refer to the Guidelines for this Fund before filling out an application. Youth Applicant is REQUIRED to be in attendance at Polish Nationals in order to participate in the auction; no proxy bidding will be allowed.

04/01/2026

Don't miss the deadline 😊 Be sure to read the qualification details 🐰

03/14/2026

I would like to thank Ashley Sloan from the Rusty Feed Bucket 🐰for the donation of the beautiful Rabbit Clock for the Marty Earle Memorial Youth Fund Raffle. Thank you to the Pandemic Palooza Club for allowing us to raffle off this clock, raising $123 for the Fund!! ❤️
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03/04/2026

The Cayuga Lake RCF has donated the judging fees collected from the Empire State Polish Rabbit Club's Specialty Show BACK to Marty's Youth Fund, for a total of $156 🎉

Add that to the other donations collected all weekend, and a total of $404 was raised for Marty's Memorial Fund 🐰🎉♥️🎉🐰

THANK YOU!!! ❤️

03/02/2026

Today we celebrated Marty Earle's Memory during the Empire State Polish Rabbit Club's Specialty Show, by wearing some of his crazy hats!! ♥️ ON TOP OF THAT... the Cayuga Lake RCF Club helped us to raise a total of $248 for the Marty Earle Memorial Youth Fund!!!!
♥️♥️Donation Jar Total: $124
💙💙50/50 Raffle Total: $125 ($63 for Marty's Fund)
💛💛Pointer Hill Gift Certificate & Standard Cover Raffle Total: $61

Thank you to Renee Damoth & Jamie Damoth for supporting this great cause, and for taking a moment of silence in the morning, to honor Marty. 💛💙♥️💜 And THANK YOU to everyone who supported and donated this weekend!!!

Don't forget to spread the word about Marty's Memorial Fund - Applications & Donations are being accepted at https://www.aceintheholerabbitry.com/marty-earle-memorial-youth-fund