CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

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Hello all,

Hope all is well! Wow we had the best auction that I can remember. I think the Saturday date helped tremendously as the people just kept coming! A lot of good deals were had! I would like to thank the runners that never stopped Phil and Ernest doing chits Gary and Kandys handling the money and slips. A big thank you to Mike Majer who did excellent auctioneering along with Brian Glazier and Hayden Pounder out of the Peel Club. I had to tap out as my voice and throat stopped making any sounds! I found a new calling in running, and I am not too bad, if I say so myself. Jon and Annie did great at the canteen sold it out. Dan did great job keeping the bags flowing to the auctioneers Erin, Brett and Shawn for audio. Cindy selling the raffle tickets and Pam who welcomed people at the door and sold tickets for the tank raffle Tom for procuring all the items we had for the raffle! If I missed anyone my apologies. The December meeting is our Christmas Party and will be a good time for all who can attend! See you there.

Jim Chalmers

President

Hello all,

Hope you are enjoying the fall weather and colors! Time to look at getting you ponds and fish ready for winter. This time of year, you spend more time in your fish room and see if you want to get new species to raise. There are a number of clubs that will be having auctions Hamilton is on Sept.28 and ours will be on Nov. 09/24 so make a list of things you need. At our meeting on October 7/24, we will be talking about mentoring people who may be interested in sitting as an executive member or on committees. Try it you may like it! I will see you all Oct. 07/24 doors open at 7pm! Also, if you can bring nonperishable food items for the food bank it would be great. Hope to see all who can attend.

Jim Chalmers

President

Hello all,

 As you are probably aware we have a new meeting hall! It is located on Thorold Stone Rd. Niagara Falls and is more than adequate for us. When you turn off Thorold stone Rd into the parking lot you will see a meeting hall on your right It is a stand alone building on the premises. I would like to thank all who offered up suggestions on where to look for a meeting place. The auction was a success and we are steadily getting back to financial stability. Starting in September we will be looking for speakers to come and give their talks on our hobby. This will be our last meeting of the season and elections for office will be held! Looking forward to see all who can attend. Have a great summer!

Jim Chalmers

Interim President

Hello

Hope all is well! The weather is changing and time to fire up your ponds and get them ready for the summer season! The fish are swimming near the top of the pond stretching their fins and looking for food. As you are aware, it’s been a very tumultuous start to the year, but I have every confidence that we will survive as a club and be better than before. As the Interim President, I would like to thank the Executive for working tirelessly to get us back on track and secure our sponsors and friends and let them know we are still here. We will be having an auction on June 2 to raise money and will be looking for lots of help from our members! See you at our meeting April 29.

Thanks

             Jim Chalmers

The beautiful month of June is finally here and with that comes our final meeting of the year. The 2022/2023 club season has been a great one with no interruptions from the pandemic giving us a full year of meetings, auctions and fun.

This club season has brought us many great speakers, the provinces biggest fall auction according to C.A.O.A.C. and hopefully the largest summer auction to come. During this year we have also revamped the website with lots of useful information for members and the public alike at www.scaas.ca. We have finally found a new home for the club at the Columbus Club of Niagara and hopefully we can spend many years at this location in Niagara Falls. I would like to thank Trish and Cindy for all the hard work they did trying to secure this new venue. Without their time and dedication this would not be possible and we would have probably not had a place to hold our meetings, if it weren’t’t for them.

At our final meeting, we will hold our pizza and potluck party as well as our club election to choose the executive committee for the following year by our current club members. We will also be accepting early membership payments for the next club season. Remember that if you renew your membership in June, you will be able to avoid the $5.00 price increase in membership fees that will take place starting September. Senior memberships will not be affected by the price increase and will continue to stay at their current rates.

Canada Day July 1 is just around the corner and is the date that we are holding our summer auction at our new found home, The Columbus Club in Niagara Falls. If you have not already pre-registered as a seller, you may do so by contacting Trish prior to June 25 at SCAASAUCTIONS@GMAIL.COM. By pre-registering this is to solely procure your seller number for the auction, otherwise you may also be able to do so the day of the event if you prefer. At the auction there will be food and drink for sale, as well as raffles and prizes.

With all that in mind, I would like to thank all club members for their participation, as well as the executive committee for all the hard work that they have done this year to keep this club up and running. I hope to see you all in September at our new location. I would also like to wish you all a safe, happy and fun summer.

Jon