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Happy New Year!

Beth Levine — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:24:37 +0000

I completely forgot about the year-end annual reports we’ve had for members the last few years, until I got one from Jo yesterday and it reminded me! Thanks Jo! In any event, now is the time to submit your annual reports for the WWWA website! Please send me a write-up of your activities and achievements in 2010. There is no charge, no limit on how much copy, and as many photos as you would like to submit with your report will be gladly accepted. Even if you think you didn’t accomplish anything big, or your dogs are mostly retired stay-at-homes, please share the highs (and lows) of your year with your whippets. There is technically no deadline, but in order to keep this slightly more timely and not have 2010 reports dribbling in late into 2011, lets try to get these submitted to me by the end of January. But if you miss the “deadline” no worries, I’ll publish it whenever I get it.

I’m also getting really bored with the current design of the website, which served its purpose as a nice transitional design from the old site to the new one, but I’m itching to try something different. Since the winter months are pretty slow, I’ll be working on a new design over the next few weeks. There really shouldn’t be any downtime on the site, but don’t be surprised if you visit it one day to find it looks different.

Also, I know this is very long overdue and I’m sorry it has taken me so long to accomplish this, but I will finally be working on the members-only section so we can move the club business stuff from the public site into a password protected area. Expect to hear more details from me in the coming weeks about that.

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and safe and happy New Year. All the best to our WWWA friends in 2011!

- submitted by Beth Levine

Practice update

Beth Levine — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:05:57 +0000

It’s come to my attention that I really messed up scheduling the October practices. We will keep the 10 October (Sunday) practice as it doesn’t interfere with a trial or race meet. However, the practice on Saturday the 23rd, is being rescheduled to Sunday the 31st. Please refer back to the Fall Practice Schedule post for more details about these practices.

The weekend of the 16th and 17th, WWWA is putting on two ASFA lure trials. They will take place at the Roy polo fields. Go to
http://www.wwwhippet.org/files/WWWA1010.pdf for the premium. For those of you who have sighthounds ready to trial but haven’t been certified, this is a very nice field for first time dogs. You will need to arrange for a by-dog to run with your entry. If you need help locating one, contact me and I will give it my best shot at finding one. We are keeping our fingers crossed that the large hay field adjacent to where we are now practicing is available and the grass isn’t too high. If it looks good, David can set up a a zig-zag for practice.

The following weekend, the 23rd and 24th, the Ridgeback club is putting on an ASFA trial and the Region 1 invitational. To enter the Region 1 invitational, your sighthound must have earned at least one point previously in an ASFA trial. The two Roy trials and the RR trial on Saturday give three opportunities to obtain the necessary points to enter the Region 1 trial. Certification runs will be offered before the trial on Saturday but will be limited to six. If you want to do a certification run you’ll need to notify the secretary soonest, and also provide a by-dog. Go to http://www.asfaregion1.com/2010/NWRRC1010.pdf for the premium.

For those of you into racing, as far as I know, there will be a double header NOTRA at the Sowards in Goldendale at the end of the month. There is also a NAWRA/NOTRA meet in Oregon the same weekend as the Region 1.

-submitted by Shirley Konizeski

It’s come to my attention that I really messed up scheduling the October practices. We will keep the 10 October (Sunday) practice as it doesn’t interfer with a trial or race meet. However, the practice on Saturday the 23rd, is being rescheduled to Sunday the 31st.

The weekend of the 16th and 17th, WWWA is putting on two ASFA lure trials. They will take place at the Roy polo fields. Go to

http://www.wwwhippet.org/files/WWWA1010.pdf for the premium. For those of you who have sight hounds ready to trial but haven’t been certified, this is a very nice field for first time dogs. You will need to arrange for a by-dog to run with your entry. If you need help locating one, contact me and I will give it my best shot at finding one. We are keeping our fingers crossed that the large hay field adjacent to where we are now practicing is available and the grass isn’t too high. If it looks good, David can set up a a zig-zag for practice.

The following weekend, the 23rd and 24th, the Ridgeback club is putting on an ASFA trial and the Region 1 trial. To enter the Region 1 trial, your sight hound must have earned at least one point previously in an ASFA trial. The two Roy trials and the RR trial on Saturday give three opportunities to obtain the necessary points to enter the Region 1 trial. Certification runs will be offered before the trial on Saturday but will be limited to six. If you want to do a certification run you’ll need to notify the secretary soonest, and also provide a by-dog. Go to http://www.asfaregion1.com/2010/NWRRC1010.pdf for the premium.

Shirley

aumbre@earthlink.net

November practice update

Beth Levine — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:48:06 +0000

A scheduling change for November to accomodate the WWWA race meet the 13th and 14th: practice the 13th of November has been rescheduled for Sunday the 7th of November.

-submitted by Shirley Konizeski

2010 Specialty

Beth Levine — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:00:34 +0000

With apologies for the late posting, and hopefully this is old news and everyone has already received a premium list anyway, but our specialty will be held August 6-7 at Argus Ranch in Auburn. The premium list and online entry are available from the BaRay Events website. Entries close Wednesday, July 21 so there is still time to get your entries in!

Happy Birthday Monika!

Beth Levine — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:39:56 +0000

Dad (Ambrose), brother Maurice, Monika and grand-dad Smitty FOREVER YOUNG

Am. Can. Ch. Whimsy’s Chamonix – May 24, 1995

(Fairfax Alcyon Cool Water ex Am. Can. Ch. Whimsy’s Amazing Grace)

On Monday we celebrate 15 yrs. with Monika, along with her brother Am. Can. Ch. Whimsy’s Hahnenkamm, owned by Anne Jacobs. Am. Can. Ch. Val d’Isere has crossed the Rainbow Bridge along with Whimsy’s Courchevel and Whimsy’s Innsbrook, both pointed in the ring.

Monika, the matriarch at Whimsy, is dam to Am.Can.Ch. Whimsy’s Speedwell, Am. Can. Ch. Whimsy’s Pipsissewa, Ch. Whimsy’s Water Lily, and Am. Can. Ch. Whimsy’s New Way to Fly (from 2 litters) and not to be forgotten – our Ambassador of the Breed: Whimsy’s Sweet Pea (Tyler).

WHIMSY WHIPPETS ~ Mary, Chris & Chrissy Downing

April 11 practice photos

Beth Levine — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:40:14 +0000

For those of you who attended practice on April 11, I’ve uploaded the photos taken and generously supplied to the club by David LeBlanc. This was David’s first experience photographing dogs running the lure, and he got some really great shots! Many photos are out of focus or with the dog not centered in the frame, but as we know it is not easy to get good photos of running dogs and I think he did great for his first time! Thank you David for your time and generosity!

There are over 500 photos. I did not have time to go through and weed out the “outtakes” or do any photo processing so these are more or less how they came off the camera, except that I ran a batch process to reduce the file size since each photo was originally in excess of 5MB!

Feel free to save copies on your own computer. To do this, click on each thumbnail to see the larger view, then right click on the photo and save to your own computer. As I said, I did reduce the file size and resolution to post these online, but I do have all the original photos on CD, so if you need a high resolution original, please feel free to email me; be sure to identify the photos you want by number (hold your mouse over the thumbnail to view the number).

If you use these photos in advertising or on your websites, I’m sure David would appreciate the courtesy of a photo credit.

Feel free to pass the gallery link along to anybody who was at practice or who might be interested.

Race Practice April 11 2010

Photos taken by David Leblanc at our April 11, 2010 race practice.
Click on the link above or the thumbnail to view the gallery.

519 Photos

April 11 practice update

Beth Levine — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:32:07 +0000

We have a new field that we are going to try out for practices. It is located about two miles south of the eastern edge of downtown Snohomish. I’ve placed the Cascade Family Fliers link below. Click on “location” for a very good map on how to get there. There is signage at the turnoff of the main road. The road becomes dirt/gravel and goes under the railroad tressle. It is a large field, about 50 acres that is used primarily for haying which is done three times a summer. However, a wide strip the length of the front of the field is kept mowed for a model airplane club usage and an adjacent side is also kept mowed for the owner’s private landing strip. We will be using the landing strip when the model airplane fliers are there. We will talk to the hay farmer around mowing time to see if we can use the whole field after mowing for some actual course work and maybe certifications.

The strip is quite long. David estimates over 200 yards, the owner will mow a couple of days prior to practices, and it is relatively level. The field is partially fenced with a very large creek/ditch on two sides. We may, from time to time, be there simultaneously with the model airplane fliers but the group in Richmond does this all the time and has had no problems with the dogs.

Signup and practice begin at 11:00. Late arrivals will be added to the bottom of the board. While we strive to have at least two runs per dog, if we are working down the second draw it is possible that late arrivals will get only the one run. One other really nice point, with the length of the field, those of us who are conditioning our dogs for race meets, we can opt to do back-to-back runs. Please be sure to let the signup people know if this is what you want.

Here’s the website addy so you can see some of the field http://www.cascadefamilyflyers.com/location.html

- submitted by Shirley Konizeski, aumbre@earthlink.net

Show Committee Meeting Directions

Beth Levine — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:51:04 +0000

The original post about the Show Committee meeting has been updated with directions to the meeting location.

Annual Member Report deadline

Beth Levine — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:27:43 +0000

Just a reminder that the January 31 deadline for your annual reports is fast approaching. Please refer to the original announcement for more information about this feature.

To date I’ve only received a few of these, and I’m thinking of discontinuing this feature in the future as there just doesn’t appear to be much interest in it.

Annual Awards Reminder

Beth Levine — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:13:20 +0000

Just a quick reminder to send in your awards applications to Mary ASAP if you have not already. The original deadline was March 15 but Mary is graciously extending it to April 1. Please see the post previously published for the awards information and application. Mark your calendars, the Awards banquet will be held on April 15, time and location TBA.