Our new flyer for the upcoming show!!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Monday, December 13, 2010
Meeting notes for December 12, 2010
Hello everyone!
This is still Rebekah editing the blog. I'm trying to find a way to hand it over to Tye, but can't figure it out. If you know how to do this, please help me out! Thanks! In the meantime, I'm transferring the notes that Tye typed out. Thanks Tye for the help! I added a little bit in the parenthesis.
** Voted on Officers, they are as follows -
President - Casey Ramos
Vice President - Aaron Jackson
Secretary - Tye Turner
Treasurer - Caka Household, lol (officially Rebekah:)
** Aaron Jackson's contact info:
cell: 512-696-9071
e-mail: aajrealtor@yahoo.com
** We talked about dues but nothing ever came of this, I do think we said not to charge dues and they can make a donation and buy a shirt. As long as they are a participating member, but I am not sure. (- Yes, we decided NOT to charge dues b/c there's nothing to give a paying member in return. If people want to donate money, that's great. But we're going to operate more on a volunteer type basis.)
** Check on outstanding money owed to the club.
** We are only having the one show this year in Georgetown, you already have all of that covered. But there was talk of concessions and I believe John & Sherry were talking to a guy who has done this for us or them before, but still not sure of which day is ours. Need to call Elaine (?) and talk to her about the concessions. (- Yes, Casey needs to contact Elaine and talk about this. John agreed to contact the last guy we used.)
**Advertising was also discussed, we decided to put an ad in the Gazette, as well as a flyer, which Aaron was going to redo and make current and I will post it all over the net and send out a mass e-mail and FB message as well as the forums I am a member of. I can also have it cross posted. We also discussed putting it in the Thrifty Nickel as well as the Austin, San Antonio, Waco, surrounding area newspapers.
** Raffle - I know I can get several things, and Travis said about the guy with the treadmill as a donation. We will get this together. And I am taking notes on who is donating what if it is a smaller business, to send out thank you cards. ( We discussed how important it is this time around to get all the contact info for the raffle donaters. Last show, we dropped the ball on this and would like to do better next time.)
** Trophies & ribbons are taken care of from what Casey said, they are all being put together and done at his house.
** Need to select judges & check on air flights for them, the sooner the better, lol. (Kerry's already sent out an e-mail with some info on this! Thanks Kerry! We still need to get judges approved by the ADBA before we move forward with booking flights, hotels, etc.)
** Contact, not sure of the guy's name, about books for the raffle. ( Fat Bill)
** I am going to call Lucretia and Tom about doing a little speech and setting up a table for the EBA.
** We also decided on 6 places to donate too, with a budget of $150.00, so $25.00 to each charity. Charities are as follows: Animal Trustees of Austin, TownLake Animal Shelter, Blue Dog Rescue, Bastrop Animal Shelter, Georgetown Animal Shelter & and I was thinking either the EBA or the RPOA, as I cannot find a shelter in Hays Co. Will look in the phone book and see what I can find.
** Is still a little bit away but need to find a representative to go to Las Vegas or ask Elaine to pick it all up for us. That is Feb. 25th.
** I also have contact info for Tom Lundberg, Laura Dapkus and Lucretia Ashcroft, i will send that to you when I get it all written down. I hope these notes are ok. (This is great- thank Tye!)
Next step is to get moving on picking the judges. We need to work on contacting Heather about this.
Thanks to all who attended the meeting! It was the best turnout so far this year, I believe! Awesome!
This is still Rebekah editing the blog. I'm trying to find a way to hand it over to Tye, but can't figure it out. If you know how to do this, please help me out! Thanks! In the meantime, I'm transferring the notes that Tye typed out. Thanks Tye for the help! I added a little bit in the parenthesis.
** Voted on Officers, they are as follows -
President - Casey Ramos
Vice President - Aaron Jackson
Secretary - Tye Turner
Treasurer - Caka Household, lol (officially Rebekah:)
** Aaron Jackson's contact info:
cell: 512-696-9071
e-mail: aajrealtor@yahoo.com
** We talked about dues but nothing ever came of this, I do think we said not to charge dues and they can make a donation and buy a shirt. As long as they are a participating member, but I am not sure. (- Yes, we decided NOT to charge dues b/c there's nothing to give a paying member in return. If people want to donate money, that's great. But we're going to operate more on a volunteer type basis.)
** Check on outstanding money owed to the club.
** We are only having the one show this year in Georgetown, you already have all of that covered. But there was talk of concessions and I believe John & Sherry were talking to a guy who has done this for us or them before, but still not sure of which day is ours. Need to call Elaine (?) and talk to her about the concessions. (- Yes, Casey needs to contact Elaine and talk about this. John agreed to contact the last guy we used.)
**Advertising was also discussed, we decided to put an ad in the Gazette, as well as a flyer, which Aaron was going to redo and make current and I will post it all over the net and send out a mass e-mail and FB message as well as the forums I am a member of. I can also have it cross posted. We also discussed putting it in the Thrifty Nickel as well as the Austin, San Antonio, Waco, surrounding area newspapers.
** Raffle - I know I can get several things, and Travis said about the guy with the treadmill as a donation. We will get this together. And I am taking notes on who is donating what if it is a smaller business, to send out thank you cards. ( We discussed how important it is this time around to get all the contact info for the raffle donaters. Last show, we dropped the ball on this and would like to do better next time.)
** Trophies & ribbons are taken care of from what Casey said, they are all being put together and done at his house.
** Need to select judges & check on air flights for them, the sooner the better, lol. (Kerry's already sent out an e-mail with some info on this! Thanks Kerry! We still need to get judges approved by the ADBA before we move forward with booking flights, hotels, etc.)
** Contact, not sure of the guy's name, about books for the raffle. ( Fat Bill)
** I am going to call Lucretia and Tom about doing a little speech and setting up a table for the EBA.
** We also decided on 6 places to donate too, with a budget of $150.00, so $25.00 to each charity. Charities are as follows: Animal Trustees of Austin, TownLake Animal Shelter, Blue Dog Rescue, Bastrop Animal Shelter, Georgetown Animal Shelter & and I was thinking either the EBA or the RPOA, as I cannot find a shelter in Hays Co. Will look in the phone book and see what I can find.
** Is still a little bit away but need to find a representative to go to Las Vegas or ask Elaine to pick it all up for us. That is Feb. 25th.
** I also have contact info for Tom Lundberg, Laura Dapkus and Lucretia Ashcroft, i will send that to you when I get it all written down. I hope these notes are ok. (This is great- thank Tye!)
Next step is to get moving on picking the judges. We need to work on contacting Heather about this.
Thanks to all who attended the meeting! It was the best turnout so far this year, I believe! Awesome!
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Updates
Those of you who are getting e-mails, know that the vet clinic was a no-go. We just didn't have enough people behind it and our club officers are really busy. Maybe we can try again next year.
The big news to share is that we have our show dates set for next year - April 2nd and 3rd! We have the Georgetown show barn reserved for that weekend as well.
We need to have our officer elections sometime before the end of the year so we can update Heather. As you know, an officer update is a requirement before the beginning of the new year.
Any ideas on a meeting date to elect officers? Or should we nominate/vote via Internet?
The big news to share is that we have our show dates set for next year - April 2nd and 3rd! We have the Georgetown show barn reserved for that weekend as well.
We need to have our officer elections sometime before the end of the year so we can update Heather. As you know, an officer update is a requirement before the beginning of the new year.
Any ideas on a meeting date to elect officers? Or should we nominate/vote via Internet?
Monday, August 2, 2010
Vote, vote!
Thanks to all who voted! It looks like the club blog idea was approved of, so continue it will! :)
The next poll is more of a head count. We need to know who is going to be dedicated to making it out for the vet clinic in the park in September! You can put in your vote on the poll, and if you want to comment more specifically just click the comment button for this post OR e-mail everyone.
Thanks!
~Rebekah
The next poll is more of a head count. We need to know who is going to be dedicated to making it out for the vet clinic in the park in September! You can put in your vote on the poll, and if you want to comment more specifically just click the comment button for this post OR e-mail everyone.
Thanks!
~Rebekah
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Veterinarian update from Tye!
Yes, he will do it! Our clinic was penciled in tentatively for now as he does not have his son's football schedule for A&M for this next year, but he will get that soon. He said we have to do all the advertising and if we paid his gas he said he has no problem coming to do it. I told him he was the only pit bull friendly vet I know and he is awesome and he just smiled and chuckled, and told me he had a influx of pit owners since I had been coming to him :p. He said he would hold it on a Sat. afternoon which would be the 25th between 2pm - 4pm. It would be himself and two of his helpers. Prices are as follows and $1.00 from each vaccination goes back to the club.
$5.00 - Rabies (dog)
$10.00 - Distemper/parvo (dog)
$10.00 - Distemper (cat)
$10.00 - Leukemia (cat)
He also told me this is the cheapest you would find anyone to do the cat vaccinations as well as the distemper/parvo for the dogs. I just wanted to pass along the info. ttys
$5.00 - Rabies (dog)
$10.00 - Distemper/parvo (dog)
$10.00 - Distemper (cat)
$10.00 - Leukemia (cat)
He also told me this is the cheapest you would find anyone to do the cat vaccinations as well as the distemper/parvo for the dogs. I just wanted to pass along the info. ttys
Meeting notes for July 18th, 2010
Heart of Texas Club Members,
Thanks again to the 4 members who made it to the meeting last Sunday! (Not to mention two tiny members - Jonah and Eliana :) )
We had originally planned to meet at Pfluger Park in Pflugerville, but after realizing how small the turnout was and feeling the squelching heat, we moved the meeting location to Casey's house. Thanks to Casey for the hospitality!
Our main topic of discussion was the fun show we've been thinking of doing for some time now.
* We decided that our overall goal and focus for the fun show (aside from fun:)) should be to educate folks on the APBT and provide information for anyone interested in joining our club or showing within the ADBA. After much discussion, we decided that we didn't want to cater too much to the "bully" fad that's all over our area right now. But instead, educate people on the proper structure, conditioning, preserving, etc. of this great breed of dog! Not to say we wouldn't be completely accepting and welcoming of those who own primarily "bullies".
*We talked again about finding a veterinarian do some sort of vet clinic/vaccination drive prior to the fun show. We figured if we scheduled this vet clinic event several weeks before the planned fun show, this would give us one way to advertise for it. During the vaccinations, we would like to have some packets of info made up to hand to people including information on the APBT, showing within the ADBA, articles and info on BSL, membership form, and a flyer advertising for our fun show. We realize that most of the dogs showing up will not be APBTs, but this is still a way for us to get our club out there and possibly make some money! The proposed dates for this vet clinic is September 25 or 26. We would like to do this in a park - preferably in Central Austin area. Any ideas on a good park?? Tye is talking to her veterinarian about helping us put this on. We are still waiting to hear back on what he's willing to do.
* The dates that look best for a fun show this Fall are October 23 or 24. This would be approximately 3 weeks after the vet clinic event.
* We felt the fun show also should be located in a park near Central Austin.
* As far as advertising goes, the newspaper hasn't been real successful yet, but that's still an option. Other suggestions were Craigslist, Dog forums, Facebook, Myspace, and posting flyers everywhere possible.
* We would like to have food available for people at the show. Any good ideas? John and Sherry - do you happen to have the phone number for the good BBQ concession guy we've talked about at previous meetings?
*We wrapped up discussion doubting whether or not we'll have enough people dedicated to helping this events take place. If there are only 4-5 people willing to come out and help, these plans might not become a reality. If you are willing and available to come out and help, or if you know of others that would be interested, please let us know! That way we can continue on with plans without doubt and hesitation.
Thanks everyone! Let's continue supporting and preserving this amazing breed!
~Rebekah Caka
Thanks again to the 4 members who made it to the meeting last Sunday! (Not to mention two tiny members - Jonah and Eliana :) )
We had originally planned to meet at Pfluger Park in Pflugerville, but after realizing how small the turnout was and feeling the squelching heat, we moved the meeting location to Casey's house. Thanks to Casey for the hospitality!
Our main topic of discussion was the fun show we've been thinking of doing for some time now.
* We decided that our overall goal and focus for the fun show (aside from fun:)) should be to educate folks on the APBT and provide information for anyone interested in joining our club or showing within the ADBA. After much discussion, we decided that we didn't want to cater too much to the "bully" fad that's all over our area right now. But instead, educate people on the proper structure, conditioning, preserving, etc. of this great breed of dog! Not to say we wouldn't be completely accepting and welcoming of those who own primarily "bullies".
*We talked again about finding a veterinarian do some sort of vet clinic/vaccination drive prior to the fun show. We figured if we scheduled this vet clinic event several weeks before the planned fun show, this would give us one way to advertise for it. During the vaccinations, we would like to have some packets of info made up to hand to people including information on the APBT, showing within the ADBA, articles and info on BSL, membership form, and a flyer advertising for our fun show. We realize that most of the dogs showing up will not be APBTs, but this is still a way for us to get our club out there and possibly make some money! The proposed dates for this vet clinic is September 25 or 26. We would like to do this in a park - preferably in Central Austin area. Any ideas on a good park?? Tye is talking to her veterinarian about helping us put this on. We are still waiting to hear back on what he's willing to do.
* The dates that look best for a fun show this Fall are October 23 or 24. This would be approximately 3 weeks after the vet clinic event.
* We felt the fun show also should be located in a park near Central Austin.
* As far as advertising goes, the newspaper hasn't been real successful yet, but that's still an option. Other suggestions were Craigslist, Dog forums, Facebook, Myspace, and posting flyers everywhere possible.
* We would like to have food available for people at the show. Any good ideas? John and Sherry - do you happen to have the phone number for the good BBQ concession guy we've talked about at previous meetings?
*We wrapped up discussion doubting whether or not we'll have enough people dedicated to helping this events take place. If there are only 4-5 people willing to come out and help, these plans might not become a reality. If you are willing and available to come out and help, or if you know of others that would be interested, please let us know! That way we can continue on with plans without doubt and hesitation.
Thanks everyone! Let's continue supporting and preserving this amazing breed!
~Rebekah Caka
Sunday, July 18, 2010
July Meeting Update
Hey Everyone,
I haven't quite gotten together my notes for the meeting today, so I'll try to get those up tomorrow.
The members who showed up for this July 18th meeting were myself (Rebekah), Travis, Casey and Tye.
We had good discussion about future fundraisers opportunities and a fun show this Fall, but were discouraged wondering how many club members would actually be committed to helping with these ventures! We really need more involvement before a lot of these plans can spring into action. Anyway, more details of the meeting to follow!
In the meantime, check out the new blog and take the poll to your right to tell me what you think!
Give me any lengthy ideas via the "comment" button below!
Thanks,
Rebekah Caka
I haven't quite gotten together my notes for the meeting today, so I'll try to get those up tomorrow.
The members who showed up for this July 18th meeting were myself (Rebekah), Travis, Casey and Tye.
We had good discussion about future fundraisers opportunities and a fun show this Fall, but were discouraged wondering how many club members would actually be committed to helping with these ventures! We really need more involvement before a lot of these plans can spring into action. Anyway, more details of the meeting to follow!
In the meantime, check out the new blog and take the poll to your right to tell me what you think!
Give me any lengthy ideas via the "comment" button below!
Thanks,
Rebekah Caka
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