News

Club Members,

We had a delicious pot-luck luncheon at Joan’s and a very productive meeting as we move forward on our hosting of the NARBC National Show on May 9, 2009 in conjunction with the Finger Lakes Rabbit Breeders Assoc. Open/Youth – Jersey Wooley & Fuzzy Lop Specialty Shows in Canandaigua.

Several important matters need to be brought to the attention of those who were unable to join us on Feb.21:

1)       Those who ordered T-Shirts and Aprons, they are now in and can be picked up from me. If you plan to attend Fulton, please let me know and I will bring your order with me to the show. Shirts are $10 and Aprons $15. Checks should be made out to: NYS Angora Club.

2)       Tickets for our year long raffle need to be sold!!!! We need to raise funds to cover our costs. If you need tickets, please contact me and I can give you some along with a poster that shows the items. We will draw the raffle at the banquet on May 9. PLEASE HELP US SELL THESE. You can go to our website to see the items as well. $1 a ticket or 6 for $5.00. Thank you for your help.

3)       We are putting together 6 boats as “basket” centerpieces for the tables at the banquet on May 9. We are filling them with different items and each boat will be auctioned off to raise money for our NYS Angora Club. Our lovely auctioneer, Linda Cassella, will lead the effort. Please consider donating items to each boat and we do have a theme for each boat. You can bring them to any show before hand or if you see me or the person/captain in charge of their boat; each boat will have 2 stuffed rabbits in it:

a.       Fondue Boat – Jack Bailey

b.       Candle Boat – Karin Bailey

c.       Candy Boat – Robin Gottung

d.       Yarn/Woo Boat – Joan Hasting

e.       Kitchen/Gourmet Boat – Linda Cassella

f.         Wine/Cheese Boat – Charlotte Schweikart (but of course!!!)

Help support your club and make a donation or two and help raise funds for the NYS Angora Club. We always have a fun time doing this!

4)       Door prizes will also be given out like we did at the ARBA convention in Kentucky. Each person purchasing a ticket to the banquet will automatically receive some tickets and additional tickets can be purchased at the banquet. So if you have some items to donate as door prizes, please drop them off to us.

5)       The banquet will be Saturday evening at 7 p.m. at the EconoLodge Hotel and will cost $21/person. This is only a $1 increase over the cost of our last banquet that we had in 2006 in Frankfort. This will be a catered buffet with: roast beef, roast turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans w/carrots & almonds, tossed salad, roll & butter, cookies & brownies, and coffee/tea. A bar is available for soda and legal beverages. Karin will be taking your reservation NOW, so send them to her with a check: NYS Angora Club.

6)       Hotel bookings. We have only 5 rooms booked as of our meeting on Feb. 21. We need at least 10 for the discount!!! So please don’t wait to book. The information is on the website or you can contact me via email for it.

7)       We will have a “Silent Auction” at the showroom and would like to have 3 – 5 top notch items. These funds will go to the “Research & Development Fund” that the Wisconsin Club has established to support the work of our NARBC on the broken varieties. Let me know if you have an item.

8)       Linda Sue Kolassa has welcome hanging buckets for the exhibitors to the show. We would like to fill them with items. We have 25 buckets. Some suggestions and sign-ups so far are: a.       hand sanitizer   b.       gloves (Joan)   c.       garbage bags (Linda Sue)   d.       mints (Linda Cassella for minty fresh bunnies)   e.       bandages   f.         pens   g.       wet-ones (Linda Cassella checking into)

If you have other suggestions, please let us know and help to DONATE. We want to keep up our excellent reputation as a warm and friendly club!

Please get involved and we will need all your help day of show. We look for a great show and time.

Jack Bailey   NYS Angora Club   President

Pictures of Angora Demo day at the New York State Fair , Syracuse NY August 26, 2008

Clink on link above for photo album of display

On Tuesday, August 26th the NYS Angora Club held its 8th annual Angora Day at the New York State Fair in Syracuse. Club members sheared and plucked coats, spun, and generally shared information relating to the care and use
of angora fiber. Once again we were delighted to be highlighted on Laura Hand's noon time show on Channel 3 (Syracuse). Jack Bailey, President of the New York State Angora Club (asisted by Linda Kolassa), brought two Angoras for the interview. The white English Angora Sr. Doe, which won BRIS, and a Satin Angora.

March 18, 2008

Dear Club Members,

Hope all of you are hopping along with Easter on the horizon. Earliest it has been since 1913, way before my time!!!!

I am sending along the results of the voting for a judge for our NARBC Specialty show in Canandaigua in May 2009:

Here are the results for the 2009 National show judge selections

ROGER BUSTLE       10   VOTES
ROBERT FRIZZELL      5   VOTES
STACY EASTON        2   VOTES

A BIG thanks to Robin Gottung for doing all of the paper work and correspondence and counting on this project. It was greatly appreciated!!!! The judges have been contacted and informed of the results. So now we move on with our plans at hosting the national show.

Please remember that we are collecting anything connected to chocolate for our basket donation for our auction at the NARBC banquet in Louisville in October. It can be edible, drinkable, wearable, etc. If you have donations please bring them to a show and give them to be so I can make up a basket. Some have also suggested that we do a wine and cheese basket (NYS products) with additional items as well. Please no cheese this early, but the other items you can drop off to me as well.

Don’t forget our NYS specialty show which will be at the Finger Lakes Show in Canandaigua on May 10. Check the website at http://fingerlakesrba.tripod.com and you can download the entry form and information.

Remember we are collecting bottles for our bottle tree at NYS Convention aka Grand Finals and we are sponsoring a holiday raffle table with items for Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Christmas. So put them aside or bring them to a show and give to me so that we can start stockpiling items.

Linda Kolassa has spun and knitted a beautiful shawl that she is willing to raffle off to support our hosting of the National Show in 2009. I need about 4 other items to put on a ticket, so please contact me ASAP if you have something that can be added to the raffle ticket so that I can get them out there and start selling!!!

A commercial message!!!! I am running for the office of Treasurer for NARBC, so when your ballot comes I would appreciate a strong show of support from our NYS club in the voting. We need to make sure that we all vote period! It is important for us to be involved or otherwise the decisions will fall to just a select few in NARBC and that is not a good thing. I appreciated all your participation in the voting for a judge, 17 cast votes was not bad at all! The more that participate, the wider the circle of involvement, bodes well for all of our clubs.

Happy Easter to you all and hope to see you in Fulton.

Jack Bailey NYS Angora Club President

New York State Fair Entry Forms

Thread Day at Owasco

New York State Angora Club does Demo at Auburn NY Sept 16/06