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From: sas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <sas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Alan
Skinner <skinneraf@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2022 4:06 PM
To: SAS - Mailing List <sas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [SAS] Re: Greetings
Hello Ed,
Thank you for your e-mail, well unfortunately the SAS as a club is pretty much
inactive at this point. The covid-19 pretty much took down the SAS club mostly
from the lack of meeting space. Our regular meeting place, the Spokane Falls
Community College planetarium and the other locations are off limits at this
point.
If you or anyone would have a meeting location like a classroom that can be
used the first Friday of each month from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm please post your
info here.
I have looked into several city public libraries and they are not open in the
evening and were not interested in booking continual events month after month.
Millions of dollars spent on nice new public buildings and you cannot really
use them. Thank God for the taxpayers!
As far as club activities, apparently there are club star parties at our
observing site - fishtrap, west of town. This is at the new moon. You can find
a map to fishtrap on the SAS web site.
Also, there is some kind of Facebook page for the SAS, there may be some
information found there.
We also have a SAS club newsletter (“The Asterisk”) that has stopped
publishing. The last newsletter was in October 2021, eight months ago.
I have attached the last Asterisk to this reply.
If we can find a new meeting location for monthly meetings, the first order
would be to elect a new board of directors and review SAS society functions and
operations and what is left. And get the Asterisk back in operation as well as
collect SAS dues.
The Spokane Astronomical Society is the oldest Astronomical Society in the
nation (since 1932) it would be a great loss to have it disintegrate because
the leadership vacated their positions.
Alan
On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 7:23 PM Edward Gill
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Greetings
I am new to Spokane and would like to join SAS. I have been to the web site and
Facebook page but am unclear how to contact anyone about joining other then by
mail.
Ed Gill
