Hi List, It's me melissa haha, I think you all know who I am by now. Well I just wanted to email you all and tell you what a group of us have been doing lately. We have been trying to get more junior active in the breed. At the nationals I spent some time making a flyer and was passed out there. At this moment we want to get our ideas out to the public. like for juniors entries at specialties be bigger like more than just one entry. In order to have more juniors it would be nice to promote it by actually having the class offered (thanks to all who do and I understand why some of you dont) and maybe a nice juniors seminar. I think some handlers wouldn't mind helping out. Another idea was to start up a page on the gsdca website for juniors and a page on the review so juniors can get more recognition for their hard work and dedication.so they'd have their own little column and a picture to go with it. It would be nice to have that so gsd community realizes we haven't dissapeared off the face of the earth and we can possibly get our face out there. Those are just a couple of ideas we have come up with so far. Does anyone have any ideas that could help us try to reach our goals. Anything would be helpful. I've seen so many aussie juniors, sheltie juniors, pug juniors, ect. I would really love to see this happen with shepherds too so please do anything you can do to incourage a kid to become a junior. Melissa Chavez GsD & CwC ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. 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 - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================