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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: Washington Club Meets - Cascade Spring Show

« Last post by Laurie Ashley - Selah Farms on January 30, 2025, 09:30:36 pm »

I was told today, that the postmarked entry deadline needed to be March 1st or later, to qualify to hold meets at this springs shows.  I am understanding that the 2 meets I requested for upcoming spring shows had deadlines BEFORE march 1st, and thus wouldn't be able to be put in the march newsletter, so wouldn't comply with the policy and as such have been canceled as breed club meets.  I am now out all of my entry fees, as there is no point in exhibiting the birds if there is no meet.  One of the shows was canceled due to AI scare, but the other show I was looking forward to quite a bit. 

I'm learning as I go, forgive my mistakes of not understanding the policy correctly previously. 

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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: Washington Club Meets - Cascade Spring Show

« Last post by Mindy Waters on January 30, 2025, 08:41:55 pm »

I didn't forget. I had a reason I waited to request the meet to be included in the spring newsletter instead of the winter newsletter. Exactly four entire months in advance of the show (November 15th, the date things are required to be sent in for the winter newsletter) I was not sure I would be able to make the 4 hour trip (one way) to this specific show. I was waiting on a follow-up appointment with my son's orthopedic surgeon to see if he was going to be needing to schedule his knee surgery soon. He will need surgery, but the timing is what we were waiting to find out because his growth plates are not closed. After his appointment, I was able to confirm that we could still go to the show. And I also confirmed with other members in the area that they were planning to attend as well. No fun having a meet with just one exhibitor. That's why the request was made in December instead of November. I posted it here on the forum to let others know as well as in my local poultry and local Ameraucana group to make sure everyone has ample time to plan. I apologize for assuming the meet policy as written meant the deadline was March 1st. Is March 1st NOT the date? Is March 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 9th, etc an acceptable date? The policy may need an actual hard date added for clarity so that myself and others do not assume the newsletter publication date IS that date if it is not.

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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: Washington Club Meets - Cascade Spring Show

« Last post by Russ Blair on January 30, 2025, 06:23:59 pm »

I have sent an email to Emmett to try and get some clarification. Apparently someone has contacted him insinuating that I may be “politicking” or attempting to cause “club infighting” which is far from the truth.

 I am beholding to uphold our constitution, by laws and our policies (including our meet policy) and that is what I am attempting to do. We have a meet policy for a reason and it pertains to all our members equally. Which is why some other members meet request could not be requested.

Scott did forward me an email containing this meet request, that Michael sent in on December 31, 2024 that I was not CC on. I will not assume why I was not included and will wait for Emmett to reply to my email.

I would like to say according to our archived newsletters this meet has always been confirmed and published in our winter newsletter not our spring newsletter. Which makes me believe that someone may of forgotten to send this meet request in so it could be published in a newsletter per our meet request? I trust Emmett will be honest in his answers and we will soon have the information needed to confirm this meet doesn’t violate our meet policy.

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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: Washington Club Meets - Cascade Spring Show

« Last post by Mindy Waters on January 30, 2025, 03:09:17 pm »

The info posted on PSC is from last year's show. It has not been updated yet for this year, which is why I spoke with him about it. He said the entry date will be the same or later for email entries, which is how the majority of entries are sent in.

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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: Washington Club Meets - Cascade Spring Show

« Last post by Russ Blair on January 30, 2025, 02:39:16 pm »

According to poultry show central it says March 1 is post mark entry deadline? 

https://www.poultryshowcentral.com/Cascade_Spring_Show.html

Mindy since you apparently forgot what is stated in our meet policy here is the reason that we require meets to be placed prior to entry deadline.

Members need to know well in advance when and where meets are placed for planning purposes.



Here is a link to our meet policy in its entirety if you want to review it to avoid this mistake in the future? https://ameraucana.org/DnLd/Ameraucana%20Alliance%20Meet%20Policy%204.7.2024.pdf

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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: Washington Club Meets - Cascade Spring Show

« Last post by Mindy Waters on January 30, 2025, 01:42:29 pm »

How does it fall to meet the policy? The entry deadline is March 3rd.

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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Friendly Reminder

« Last post by Russ Blair on January 30, 2025, 12:43:41 pm »

I would just like to take a moment to remind all our members that as your current elected President I should be included in all club business emails like Meet request, Meet Reports, points questions etc. This can be done by simply CC (carbon copying) me in your emails to the directors in charge of meets or points. The reason being is mentioned in our constitution under article 1

The President shall endeavor to see that all officers properly discharge their duties and may assist with any duties as he/she sees fit.

If I am not included in the conversation I do not know what request have been made or if there’s an issue with any director not properly discharging their duties. My email address is slicktree {at} hotmail.com, which is also found in my bio on our website under directors tab, if you did not have it or if you have any questions. Thanks for reading this and thank you for allowing me to serve as your president.

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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: 2025 meet requests

« Last post by Russ Blair on January 30, 2025, 12:27:40 pm »

Laurie the upcoming meets are still listed? At least I can still find them on our website???

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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: 2025 meet requests

« Last post by Laurie Ashley - Selah Farms on January 30, 2025, 10:04:28 am »

Ok will do! Thanks

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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: 2025 meet requests

« Last post by Russ Blair on January 30, 2025, 09:45:05 am »

Laurie, Scott Lepak has been given the task of director in charge of meets and meet reports. Here is his email address  Scottelepak@gmail.com please CC me on any meet request and meet reports you send him slicktree@hotmail.com that way I am aware of them and they don’t get lost or misplaced.

Brian Bailey should have posted the new meet report and meet request form. I will look into it tonight when I get home. Unfortunately Michael Muenks is having some medical issues so I am unaware of any meet request that were sent to him.