I am very excited and hopefull of becoming a Member of your W. PA Club. You girls are all on the RIGHT Mindset, to want to make changes for the benefit of not only the Club, but your people that are showing dogs. WAY TO GO. This is a time when we ALL need to make every effort to Encourage New Members, New show people, New Handlers. Clubs that are Stagnant and don't want to put money back into the members needs, or don't have Positive Benefits for their members will learn the Hard Way. Tari Kridler www.kridlersgermanshepherds.com Hi Amy, This club is demonstrating what is needed to make them a growing, successful club!. My hat is off to them and to you for your report. If there is any way that our PC can assist please have them contact any Board Member. Nancy Harper Futurity Chair Board Member ----- Original Message ----- From: <almanya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <CHGermanShepherdShowDogsList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:02 PM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] gotta club brag (a little long) Hi all, I just have to brag.........I went up to my old hometown of Beaver Falls, Pa. for 3 weeks like I do yearly to visit all my family and attended the Canfield Ohio shows which are always a great fun weekend and the Northern Ohio puts on such a nice circuit and a spread of food for all. They do a great job!! My brag is for the GSDC of Western Pa. which is my hometown club. I have made some very nice friends in this club and they invited me to their club picnic at the Canfield show grounds. They are a small but mighty club who is really trying to fund raise and build up their treasury to keep going. I knew being my hometown I wanted to support them........these are a great group of people!! They had a lovely picnic with all sorts of awesome home cooked foods, they invited all their puppy buyers to attend and the puppies played games like bobbing for hot dogs (too cute to see). They honored me with the privilege to judge a fun match which was really cool since we went over and moved every entrant like a regular match but didn't place them and rather gave each one a certificate and a goody bag for coming and participating........wow there were some big grins from ear to ear after each one got their award. They had a 50/50 raffle and Chinese auction for some really nice items to help fund raise and they did real well. Their members have a heart of gold and are truly dedicated to the breed........I thank Pat & Vicki for all their hospitality and nice cool visits in the A/C of the motor home when it was extremely hot outside and the rides to the potty on the golf cart....you guys were lifesavers!! I enjoyed meeting their members Jodi, Tammy, Donna and several others. I hope everyone that can, attends their shows coming up and if you have any nice items they can use for auctions donate them! They are very determined to build up their club and end result it's very good for our breed! I plan to join their club and support them from afar.........Amy Amy Safdir Almanya Shepherds www.almanyagsd.com ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================