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Colorado Judges/Handlers Seminar - Thursday, August 21, 2008
A Judges/Handlers Seminar will be conducted at Haystack Ranch on Friday, 9/29 at 7:00 PM.
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Fall Election for 3 Directors
There are three directors whose terms expire at the end of 2008. Those are Brice Romero, Stu Wange, and Joe Bubulka. It is unclear if any or all of them will run for re-election. We will have an election commencing in October. At this time the APLA is solicting for those members who wish to run for a 2 year term.
The requirements are to be a current member in good standing. You need to submit your nomination letter no later than September 20th. This letter needs to or should contain the following items.
*The office you are running for. Here it is director.
*Why you feel you would make a good director.
*Any goals or objectives for the APLA you would have if you were elected.
*Your length of membership with the APLA.
*Amount of and type of APLA officer or event experience as well as other dog organizations.
*Dog experience relative to titles attained, training, judging, hunting, etc.
*Your letter must contain your name, address, phone number, and email address.
*And lastly your letter must contain 10 current members who support your nomination and whose permission you have attained. List their addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. (Double check this information for completeness and accuracy. Nine current members won't pass, it takes 10 members.)
The nomination letters need to be received not later than September 20th by Larry Kimble, 1112 Birdie Drive, Independence, KS 67301, 620-331-4066. No express over overnight mail requiring receipt signature. Also, email your letter to lkimble@cableone.net by the same date.
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Revised Certified Pointing Retriever Rules - Thursday, March 13, 2008
Effective with the spring hunt tests the Certified Pointing Retriever rules have been revised. The revisions are in red under the Rules tab and Certified Pointing Retriever. The changes are in two areas. The first area is "Scoring" where an individual category score of 1 1/2 or lower will result in failure. Also, the total score is changed from 18 to 21 points. The second area is the change and replacement of the last sentence under "Point".
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Holly Cart - new APLA secretary - Thursday, August 14, 2008
Due to Shawn Hoover's resignation as secretary, Holly Cart has accepted appointment to fulfill Shawn's term through 2009. This is per our by-laws. Holly was the runner up in the recent election to Shawn. Shawn will continue to be active in the APLA, but due to personal reasons he was not able to spend the necessary time that the secretary position requires
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August 2008 Newsletter available - Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The August 2008 is now available under the "NEWSLETTER" tab. The mailed out newsletter is coming to you now.
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Colorado Test update Motels - Friday, August 08, 2008
Do to the Democratic National Convention is in Denver that week.
The Hotel and Motel are our full or very high priced.
Here are some other options
Castle Pines Motel - 125 S. Wilcox St, Castle Rock, Colorado 303-688-9728
Castle Pines Motel - 807 Wilcox St, Castle Rock, Colorado 303-688-1207
Falcon Inn - Monument, Colorado 719-623-2863
Dale Merritt
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Online Hunt Test Registration System - Friday, August 8, 2008
MEMBERS STILL NEED TO MAIL YOUR ENTRIES TO THE HUNT TEST SECRETARIES!
On line entry of dogs by members is not yet available. This phase is for the hunt test record keeping only. This past Spring season, APLA successfully rolled out version 1.2 of our custom built Hunt Test Registration System (HTRS)! All Spring HT results are available on http://www.americanpointinglab.com/site/Dogs/tabid/108/Default.aspx.
In case you have not heard about our new system, HTRS is an online, password protected, application which will allow real time access to membership data as well as certification data. The following features and benefits were included in this release of the software.
* Membership information as well as certification information can be cross checked and updated in a prompt manner.
* Hunt Test Secretaries can easily enter test scores which will lead to quicker certificate generation.
* Improve the turn around time from Hunt Test Events to the results being posted online.
* New accounting reporting features:
> Ability to enter one payment to cover multiple entries.
> Refunds for scratch entries (if applicable).
> Create income summary report.
* Allow BOD Secretary to add/update memberships on line (mail-in only).
* Add bird count report enabling HT secretaries to keep track of birds.
* Enhanced Reports
> Alternate row shading for easier viewing.
> Input translation to ALL CAPs when HTS enters data all lower case or proper case so reports and HT Booklet looks uniform.
* Enhanced scoring for quicker certificate generation.
> Add owner name and address to score report.
* Enhanced judge's sheets program allows HT secretaries to print judge's sheets at once.
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Fall hunt test information updates
Check the website hunt test premiums for updates; like judges, times, etc.
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Fall 2008 Larkspur, Colorado hunt test information
Premium and Entry Form Now Available
read more...
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Fall 2008 Decorah, Iowa hunt test information
Premium and Entry Form Available Now
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Fall 2008 Williamston, Michigan hunt test information
Premium and Entry Form available now!
read more...
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Fall 2008 Rileyville, Pennsylvania hunt test info
Premium and Entry Form available now!
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Fall 2008 Monroe, Washington hunt test information
Premium and Entry Form available now!
read more...
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Fall 2008 Girard, Kansas hunt test information
Premium and Entry Form Available Now
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Fall 2008 Afton, Iowa hunt test infromation
Premium and Entry Form Now Available
read more...
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hooligan
Southern California and Vancouver Island
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| 06/30/2008 4:24 PM |
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Just got back home from Julie Knutson's seminar in Minnesota...
Kudos to the Minnesota club for putting together a well-run event! Lots of work went into it, and it showed. Jay and Troy should get a BIG thanks from everyone!
Really had a great weekend. Minnesota has some NICE dogs, and some really great folks. It was nice to meet so many people from the forums!
Stu-! Where WERE you?!? I came from Vancouver, for goodness sake...
Bug report-WAY TOO MANY MOSQUITOES the size of helicopters. One crawling tick-and NO chiggers!
Needless to say, TONS of super information and insight from Julie were to be had this weekend, and as usual, she cleared up my confusions and pointed me in the right direction. The yellow dog and I have a plan!
Ron Ames was there taking lots of pictures with a really nice camera. Here are a couple of pics of Churchill on point, since everyone likes pointing pics. The picture files are HUGE, so I cropped them (badly)-hope he doesn't mind! The mosquitoes bit the poor dog so many times in the face that he swelled up-Julie said he looked like a pit bull! You can kind of see his fat nose in one of the pics.
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2Blackdogs!
Kansas City Area - GO CHIEFS !!!
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| 06/30/2008 6:57 PM |
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| I was just logging in to ask you guys why we have not seen a report yet from the seminar! Was thinking that you all were just too weak to type from all the blood loss due to the mosquitos ! Hehe |
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Lab Guy
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| 07/01/2008 7:15 AM |
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This was my first seminar and to put it simply, it was awsome. It went from being the kid in the back of the class that never says anything because he can't see to finally getting the correct prescription glasses ... Everything is much clearer now. All that I've read in "The Book" makes so much more sense.
Just a quick recap of the weekend ...
All in all we had great weather, a little rainy to start with but not bad. Saturday was in the low seventies and overcast with rain in the am. Sunday was sunny with highs in the mid seventies with NW winds at about 20 mph.
We had 8 older dogs, one 7 month dog that looked like a horse (The big goober head as Julie called him), and four puppies. Saw some great points from the older dogs and from a couple of the pups.
Most of us were from MN but the longest distance traveled goes to Marlana coming all the way from British Cloumbia. One person came from NE, one from MO who had to fight severe weather on the way up Friday night. One couple came from SD and a few people from WI.
Special thanks goes out to Ron Ames who must of taken about a gazillion pictures and burned DVDs for all of the out of staters and for a few of us from MN (those of you that did not get a disc let me know and I will burn copies for you).
But most of all a huge thaks goes out to Julie for all of the help that she gave all of us. The majority of us are first time hunting dog owners/trainers and she helped us see that our dogs (and ourselves) are capable of so much more than we ever imagined.
I'll post up some pictures when I get some time.
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stuw
North Central Minnesota
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| 07/01/2008 8:17 AM |
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Marlana.. I really wish I could have been there.. work relateed issues had me working all weekend..
I'm truely sorry I missed this event.. sounds like Jay and Troy did a fantastic job getting this organized.
With any luck we can get Julie back up here for another event someday.. but try to arrange it for fall after the mosquitoes are gone..
Churchill looks great..and I look forward to seeing all the other pictures
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311Hemi
Mounds View, MN
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| 07/02/2008 7:56 AM |
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Wow...what a weekend. I am just finally getting recovered after the very little sleep Saturday night and the sunburn from being in the sun all day Sunday!
A big thanks to Jay,Troy, Layne and anyone else that helped out, and
especially Julie for taking the time to come to MN to put on this
seminar. There was a LOT of information and I hope I remember half of
it. Julie may not believe to much in giving corrections to dogs, but
she had no issue with giving corrections to trainee's 
. It was great to be able to watch other handlers work various dogs and
see areas that they could improve. I learned a lot this past weekend
and this will definitely help me with both the current dog and the new
pup in a few months. Watching those advanced dogs lock up on point
during the upland training is a SWEET site. Got to see some very nice
dogs this weekend and look forward to watching them progress.
It was nice meeting everyone from out of state and any new members to the club!
Marla....Churchill looked great....you have a very nice dog there!!
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rames14
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| 07/04/2008 7:12 PM |
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| It was a pleasure for me to take pictures of those fantastic dogs. I have really enjoyed my two visits with the Minnesota club (the other at the APLA trial). Marla, Churchill looks great in the pictures. He did a great job. I enjoyed meeting Julie and learning how my next lab will be trained. Only a year and a half to go. I am going to the Colorado APLA trials in September and hope to meet some breeders there. Thanks for sharing so much information at the seminar. |
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Huntin_Fool01
Oldham, South Dakota
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| 07/10/2008 9:07 PM |
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| Anyone know if they are going to have another anytime soon?? |
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