Maybe somebody can talk to the Dobe people. For their 100th, they put on a Lallapalooza Centennial. <http://www.dpca.org/faithful/ event.htm>Jeff Helsdon who coordinated, begged borrowed and... well... did a fantastic job, got volunteers and more volunteers. Got media on prime time and pre-event. I don't know if they coordinated it with their national. DPCA is now in the news again with Jeff's team. If we could stop trying to put blame everyplace and start working together, maybe we could get our GSDs in the National Spotlight and get GSDCA there,too? Is GSDCA doing anything in the 7/11 "Finding One Another?" event? I know that some of UScA members are involved. http://dpca.org/news/category/in-the-news It is my honor to report to you that after several months of work behind the scenes, the DPCA will be in the forefront of this national commemoration that will be broadcast internationally. Jeff Helsdon and the team he assembled for our centennial will be working on the Finding One Another http://www.findingoneanother.org/ project and will represent DPCA and our dogs. We really need to start pulling together. IMO Stormy On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:21 PM, baerentatze312@xxxxxxx wrote: > In a message dated 8/3/11 1:02:36 PM, israelfriedberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > writes: > > >> Not sure that I agree. You never want to spend good money to chase >> bad > money. I donâ??t care if we take a loss now if the loss will >> be a > lot less than the loss would be later. The question is how >> much are we > obligated to pay that we canâ??t get out of and how >> are things > shaping up with likelihood of this making a profit or >> what will the loss > be based upon what we know today. Then we can >> make a new decision based > upon what we know today. >> >> Sam >> > > I agree with you Sam, it's like throwing good money after bad as > they say. > I think the biggest issue our club has is communication. No one is > an > island to himself or herself, and no one is more important than > anyone else in > this club, regardless of Board position. That said, do we have a > plan in > place with all the t's crossed and the i's dotted for 2013? The > first > thing that comes to my mind is where are we going to get the > commitment for the > huge number of volunteers that would be needed to help host this > thing? > How many left coasters are going to be able to get there and support > this let > alone people from the rest of the country. How much money are we > really > spending to impress the GSD world. With the way our national > economy is going > who knows what financial shape most of us will be in two years from > now? > Check out gas and food folks. And one of the biggest issues is how > this > club's officers in the last meeting dis the local clubs by snatching > the Purina > funds from them for their futurities to apply to the National fund. > Is that > to make the books look better? From what I hear, when voting on this > issue, our parliamentarian did not abide by the rules she is bound > to enforce. > Just remember without the local clubs and membership the GSDCA is > nothing. > Regards, > Pat > > = > = > = > = > = > = > ====================================================================== > POST is Copyrighted 2011. 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. > > Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. 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