- I'm glad to see that SLAGA has finally decided to ask for dues. We have talked about it long enough without doing anything. I have belonged to many organizations in my days, but I can't recall of a single one that didn't charge dues. I paid mine a few days ago and I'm quite sure that it will be put to good use. Begging for contributions is not the way to go to sustain our great club. Bernie. Jack Konecker wrote: - Despite a few negative reactions to the idea of SLAGA asking for dues rather than donations, we are seeing our existing members starting to send in their dues for 2006. I know there is always a level of mistrust that comes when dues are mentioned in any context. But let me reiterate: ***** A Standard membership is free. ***** If you do absolutely nothing - you are still considered a Standard member (which is kind of sad because we really hope you do more than nothing!) It is your choice as to whether or not you want to be a Contributing member and pay annual dues. Paying dues replaces us begging for donations when the bank account is low. Ijust posted an article on the web site that better explains dues and membership. You can read it here: http://www.geostl.com/SLAGAPostNuke/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=36[1] Paul Konopacki SLAGA President 2005-2006 **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com[2]Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching[3] Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html[4] **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[5] with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field --- Links --- 1 http://www.geostl.com/SLAGAPostNuke/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=36 2 Http://WWW.GeoStL.com 3 //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching 4 //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html 5 mailto:geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field