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1 KATHY BOURLAND EDITOR MARCH 1, 2018 Gold Diggings Newsletter of the Mile Hi Golden Retriever Club President s Message I just finished watching the 142 nd Westminster Kennel Club annual dog show. The Olympic Games are taking place on the other side of the world. Mile-Hi GRC will host our annual awards banquet at the end of March to celebrate members accomplishments in 2017 and planning is underway for the many fun events we will host in Good sportsmanship is crincal for the success of each of these events.. I know many arncles and blogs have been wrioen about this topic, but it s always helpful to pause for reflecnon and remind ourselves how to keep the world of dog sports fun and invinng to all. Sportsmanship is defined as fair and generous behavior or treatment of others. The AKC Code of Sportsmanship notes that sportsmen commit themselves to the values of fair play, honesty, courtesy, and vigorous compennon, as well as winning and losing with grace. These are honorable ideals that we should all strive to embody, but we are also human, and strong personalines and opinions can make it difficult to stay on the high road. The AKC has a new resource that I encourage you to explore and make use of when you find yourself in a difficult situanon. The Working it Out Guide is a do-it-yourself guide to dispute resolunon for the AKC MEMBER MEETING GOLDEN FUN MATCH AWARDS BANQUET AGILITY TRIAL March 24, 8:30am March 24, 9:30 am March 25 April 6-8 Matrix Dog Sports Matrix Dog Sports Maggiano s Englewood Douglas Fairgrounds, CastleRock 1

2 MHGRC MARCH 1, 2018 community. It covers three main situanons: 1) Internal Club Disagreements, 2) Dog Ownership Disagreements, and 3) Cluster Event Disagreements. The document walks people through how to resolve such disagreements on their own, but then details how to appropriately escalate the problem if a mutually agreed upon solunon cannot be found. The AKC has taken it one step further to provide medianon and arbitranon services through the InternaNonal InsNtute for Conflict PrevenNon & ResoluNon ( CPR ). Again, I encourage you to read through the guide and take advantage of this resource when needed. Thank you to all the good sportsmen in Mile-Hi Golden Retriever Club. I hope to see you at the banquet to celebrate past successes and plan for connnued success in whatever sport(s) you choose. President Sharon Albright GCH Starz Ready And Watching, CGC, THD Tycho Pamela & John Biard Madera Canyon Kennel Club 11/13/2017 Judge Judy Taylor Select Dog New Grand Champion!!!! 2

3 Mile Hi Golden Retriever Club Membership Mee6ng November 19, 2017 Marcie Werner, President, called the mee6ng to order. The October 2, 2017 membership mee6ng minutes were approved. The mo6on made by Suzie Jordan and seconded by Bruce Evashevski. Board Representa6ve Reports: Vice President Report: Pam Biard No addinonal new members, recent newer members are transinoning in. Treasurer Report: per Kathy Janda Bank Balance at November 18, 2017: $27, Handout provided of Income, Expenses, and Gains/Losses. Field Report: Nancy Ego Mitch White Seminar, at Kenny TroO s property, the first weekend of August. Hunt Test, September th at Cherylon Loveland s in Orchard. Three of the four judges are secured. Training Days to be announced. Agility: per Michele Janowick Agility Trial April 6, 7, and 8 th, 2018 at Douglas County Fairgrounds. Jim Gregory will chair the event. Jim is currently working on signing judges. Kathy Janda will chair the July Agility Trial. Kate Bullock volunteered to chair agility for the Specialty. Fun Match: Suzie/Francie December 9, 2017 at Matrix Dog Sports Volunteers and Judges snll in need. Rally/Obedience/ConformaNon offered. IntroducNon to Barn HunNng also offered. Old Business: Christmas party is Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 11:30AM at Anne Shannon/Eric Foster s home in Evergreen. InformaNon via Constant Contact. Senior dogs 10yrs and over are welcome. Please let Anne know if bringing a senior dog. The club will supply the main course, side dishes per alphabet. Each person brings $20. Gil for the exchange. Specialty is August 16-17, 2018 at Island Grove. Angela has volunteered to be in charge of trophies Board : Slate President: Sharon Albright Vice President: Suzie Jordan Treasurer: Mardee Kayser Secretary: Maureen Murphy Obedience: Kate Bullock Agility: Michelle Janowick Field: Nancy Ego ConformaNon: Carolyn Kovacs MoNon made by Bruce Evashevski to accept the above slate of officers as the 2018 Board. All nineteen members in aoendance accepted the slate. Congratula6ons to our 2018 MHGRC Board! 3

4 Master NaNonal: final discussion on club membership. The monon made for a revote by Nancy Ego, seconded by Kay Walker. Result was: 13 Yes/4 opposed-monon passed. The club will rejoin the Master NaNonal. GRCA MHGRC Column: Leslie Blythe has graciously wrioen our column for 13 years and is looking for a successor. The responsibility includes submiong an arncle quarterly. Interested members, please contact a board member. New Business Diane Nest: will chair the Awards Banquet for 2018 Master Amateur Club: monon to support by Kathy Frizell, seconded by Bruce E. MoNon passed. Specialty: Agility Chair-Kate Bullock Obedience Chair: Francie Pusateri Board Discussion/Agenda: audience ideas 1. Guidelines/Event Budgets per chairperson/judge s gil guidelines 2. Propose membership dues increase for Volunteer requirements/decrease usage of club coupons. 4. Possibility of linking volunteer hours to qualificanon for trophies? Mee6ng adjourned at 3:30PM. Mile Hi Golden Retriever Club Board of Directors Mee6ng Minutes January 28, 2018 Present: Sharon Albright, Suzie Jordan, Mardee Kaiser, Nancy Ego, Maureen Murphy and, Kate Bullock. 1. MeeNng Minutes: a. December 30, 2017 meenng minutes reviewed and approved by members present. b. Future meenng minutes to the board for review by the 15 th of the month. c. November 19, 2017 meenng minutes will be posted in the March newsleoer. 2. Upcoming Event dates: a. February 24, 2018-next BOD meenng the Golden Library. b. March 17, 2018 Membership meenng i. Conflicts with Obedience and Agility events. OpNons include : ii. Move up one week to 3/10 in a new locanon: Kate and Carolyn to determine by 2/12. iii. Move to 3/24-? LocaNon. iv. Club meenng 3/11 and match in April. c. March 25, 2018 Awards Banquet: Diane Nest chair-informanon on website. d. August 16-17, 2018 Island Grove: Island theme! i. Agility Chair: Kate Bullock: has Judge Preferred Master 4

5 ii. Obedience Chair: Francie Pusateri: Judge Rick Garvin iii. Ribbons: Jean Herbert iv. Trophies: Angela McLean v. ConformaNon: Carolyn Kovacs: Thursday Sweeps: Judge Monica McGee/Thursday Judge: Jane Jensen. Friday Sweeps: Judge Robin Baker/ Friday Judge: Betsy Smith. Judge s fees will be donated to GRF. vi. vii. Grounds: Bruce McLean has stepped in for Mark. Need Hospitality Chair. 3. CCA discussion: Sharon will look into this as a possibility at our December match. 4. Leslie Blythe memorial opnons: 5. Trophies: a. BBE Trophy: agreed -Leslie/Mark to renre and keep the trophy. Currently, the trophy is broken. The club will pay the repairs for this trophy, esnmated at $ b. DonaNon $ to GRF in Leslie s name. c. Flowers when service announced. d. Dedicate the August Specialty to Leslie Blythe and Jean Kistle (long Nme club member that also passed this year). e. Dedicate the Club s GRCA column to Leslie Blythe and Jean Kistle. a. Bred by Exhibitor proposal: 2017 winner-same criteria, will receive a crystal bowl, chosen by Jean Herbert for the Awards banquet. Criteria for 2018-to be determined discussion deferred to March/April. b. Criteria for 2018-TBD-discussion of mulnple opnons deferred to March/April. 6. AKC Working it Out guide: AKC: steps to follow for disagreements within clubs, issues on dog ownership, etc. InformaNon on the AKC website. 7. Ideas from the November membership meenng: February meenng discussion points a. Guidelines/Event budgets per chairperson/judge s gil guidelines. b. Propose membership dues increase for 2019: increase by $5. per category. c. Volunteer requirements/decrease usage of club coupons (decrease costs). d. Possibility of linking volunteer hours to qualificanon to trophies. e. Fund raising ideas for By-laws: last update 2012: a. Review and propose updates slated for April BOD meenng. 9. Financial Audit: a. Mardee to check when last audit done, to be done q5yrs. b. Per Mardee: can be done by non-board member or pay a CPA. 5

6 c. Insurance update: Treasurer has policy, pays premiums, connnue with same agency and renewal date is August. 10. Website: a. Recommended updates: need a volunteer to update the webmaster. 11. Job DescripNons: a. Get your job descripnons to Suzie-plan to have in our notebook-easy access for club members to access. Key informanon for members to know what posinons entail. 12. Volunteer Hours: a. Discussion at 2/24 BOD meenng b. Breeder lisnng-clarificanon and start date? 13. Membership Directory a. Print-some members do not want that informanon readily available-? keep those names off lisnng, do not print,? view for members only. b. Suzie to updated list to all members by end of February aler 2018 memberships logged. c. Membership to Yahoo group- Deb Andersen to post? Budget : next meenng 6

7 Mile Hi Golden Retriever Club General Membership Mee6ng Minutes January 28, 2018 MeeNng called to Order at 2:00PM by Sharon Albright, President. 1. Read/approve MeeNng Minutes: a. November 19, 2017 Membership meenng minutes to be posted in the March NewsleOer and approved at the March meenng. b. BOD December 30, 2017 meenng minutes have been posted in the last newsleoer. 2. BOD updates: a. Treasurer: i. To date, $26, in the bank. b. VP/Membership i. Membership renewal/dues now due though the end of January. A batch of checks were recently deposited. ii. Suzie is currently updanng the membership roster. iii. Notebook: building a resource of job descripnons, event descripnons and the how-too s for future reference. If any member has chaired an event, has words of wisdom for the next member, please send your informanon to Suzie. 3. CommiOee Updates: Specialty- Island Theme a. ConformaNon: i. Thursday Sweeps: Monica McGee/ Thursday Judge: Jane Jensen ii. Friday Sweeps: Robin Baker/Friday Judge: Betsy Smith iii. The judges have agreed to a donanon to the GRF in light of judge s fees. b. Obedience: Chair-Francie Pusateri i. Judge: Rick Garvin c. Agility: Chair-Kate Bullock i. Judge Maryanne Deal d. Grounds: Bruce McLean, thank you for stepping up. e. Hospitality: Need Chair step right up! NON-Specialty: f. Obedience: March-Golden s Only Fun Match- looking for judges. Looking at opnons for the match and meenng as the 3/17 date conflicts with exisnng obedience and agility trials. g. Field: Nancy Ego WC/WCX July 29, 2018, need Chairperson and Judges. Training days July th, working mostly on water. First day-members only, second day, will open to all. LocaNon is Kenny TroO s property in Wellington. 7

8 Possibility of a February training date at the Coffey s property. Julie Knutson-possibly will give us a training day as well. Mitch White Seminar at Kenny s TroO s 8/4-8/5/18. There are 12 working slots, unlimited audinng slots all levels. Open now; sign up via Mitch s website. Closed to the public unnl March 1 st. Mitch is offering private lessons on Friday, 8/3, at $50./ hour, need to pre-sign up. Hunt Test is September 15-16, need Chairperson, Francie Pusateri is our secretary. Three of the four judges are retained. 4. Announced-Titles and Trophy applicanons are due to Jean Herbert by 2/8/ Memorial to Leslie Blythe: a. Leslie/Mark properly requested renrement of the BBE trophy. The club will pay for the repairs for the trophy and will be kept by Mark. b. The GRCA column and the August Specialty will be dedicated to Leslie and Jean Kistle (long Nme club member who also passed). c. DonaNon of $ to GRF in Leslie s name. d. Flowers when the service occurs. e. Suzie will send a card in the Club s name. 6. Old Business: a. GRCA news: Club column-sharon will ask Leslie Andersen if she is interested. 7. New Business: a. NewsleOer content ideas: include brags, events, health arncles, and arncles that highlight our members. b. Submit ideas/requests for educanonal presentanons and club events to Sharon or board reps. i. Ideas: NutriNon/ReproducNon/Local AKC Rep dunes/chris Zinc/Early spay and neutering. c. There is an AKC Work out Guide on the AKC website that aids clubs in working out different issues that arise within the club community. 8. Upcoming Events: a. 2/24 BOD meenng b.? 3/17 mee6ng and match-conflicts with established agility and obedience events stay tuned for possible changes here. c. 3/25 awards banquet: cost $27. to Diane Nest, chair. d. 4/6-Agility Trial, at the Douglas County Fairgrounds Mee6ng adjourned at 12:20. Minutes submi[ed by Maureen Murphy, Secretary 8

9 Mile Hi Golden Retriever Club presents: Goldens Only Fun Match To benefit the John & Tracy BisseOe Scholarship At the CSU Veterinary School Date: Saturday, March 24, 2018 Time: 9:30 am Registration 10:00 am Judging begins Fee: $10 per entry Obedience classes: Novice, Open, and UNlity Beginner Novice, Grad Novice, and Grad Open as requested Rally classes: StarNng with a Master/Excellent level course, followed by Advanced/ Intermediate/Novice level course Conforma6on: Puppies, Adults, Veterans and Best of Breed All parncipants are invited to aoend the MHGRC General Membership mee6ng at 8:30am Breakfast will be provided. RSVP to Kate Bullock at stevencreek@msn.com for breakfast. New locanon! Matrix Dog Training Center 9975 Wadsworth Parkway, M4 Westminster, CO All parncipants are invited to aoend the MHGRC General Membership mee6ng at 8:30am Breakfast will be provided. RSVP to Kate Bullock at stevencreek@msn.com for breakfast. 9

10 Agility Brags By Michele Janowiak CH PACH2 Jema s Last Of The Mohicans, Hawkeye RE AX AXJ MXP11 MXPG MJP11 MJPG PAX4 OF MFP T2BP CGC CCA Owner: Michele Janowiak & Jennifer Grossnickle CSPC Agility Trial, January 6, 2018 Double Q CSPC Agility Trial, January 7, 2018 Double Q CKC Agility Trial, February 16, 2018 Double Q CKC Agility Trial, February 17, 2018 FAST 4 th Place, JWW 4 th Place New Title MJP12 CKC Agility Trial, February 18, 2018 Double Q Jema s Struong My Stuff, Strut NJP Owner: Michele Janowiak & Jennifer Grossnickle CSPC Agility Trial, January 7, 2018 Novice JWW 1 st Place CKC Agility Trial, February 17, 2018 Novice FAST - 2 nd Place CKC Agility Trial, February 18, 2018 Novice FAST - 2 nd Place Novice JWW - 1 st Place Obedience Brags by Kate Bullock Kingsgold Guilty as Zin "Zach" Winners Dog 2/19/18 Colorado Kenne; Club Angela and Bruce McClean Kingsgold Yesterday's Child Star" Angela & Bruce McClean 2/17/18 Continental Divide Herding Association Trial 1& 2 Barn Hunt Novice- 2nd Place Barn Hunt Novice 3rd place Elysian's I Yam What I Yam, UDX OMI RE SH TD WCX TATER" Jeanne Von Barby UTILITY 1ST PLACE COLORADO KENNEL CLUB 2/17/18 Bridgeton Writers a Paws Trophy "Trophy" Linda and Paul Stranahan Long Peak, Jan 13, First Place first CDX leg CKC, Feb. 17, 3rd place second CDX leg CKC Feb 18, 1st place, third CDX leg and Title CKC Feb 19, 1st place bonus CDX leg Fly'n Paws Long May you Run CDX RAE2 MX MXJ "Becker" Laurie and Dave Ingram CKC Feb 17 Utility! 1st place 1st leg CKC Graduate Open 3 first place for 3 extra legs 10

11 Field Report By Nancy Ego We have a lot of exciting activities coming up this summer for the field dogs. June 24 th will be a training day at Gun-Club Labs, Julie Knutson s property in Orchard. Mile High members only. I will try to get flyers and a gunner and we will focus mostly on water. Please RSVP. $10.00/dog plus flyer fee if we have them. July 27 th will be a member s only water training day at Horsetooth Retrievers in Wellington, Kenny and Marci Trott s property. July 28 th we will be at the same place and will open this to other trainers, there will have to be a limit and Mile High members will have priority, more info to follow. $10.00/dog. The WC/WCX will be on July 29 th, again at Horsetooth Retrievers. Watch for the entry, I believe we will have it open for other breeds as well. Thank you Susan Faulkner for chairing. Our water seminar with Mitch White will be the following weekend at Horsetooth Retrievers. The Friday private lessons are full, I m not sure about working spots, but there is no limit to auditor spots. I have heard nothing but very good remarks about Mitch White so we are looking forward to it. I am working on an introductory day for people and dogs new to field, or very young puppies new to birds. This day will also include opportunities for blind and marking drills for more experienced dogs and handlers. Watch for details to follow. This will be in Littleton, south metro area. Still working on a date for that one, I need a volunteer to be head marshall for the hunt test in September, and also an equipment person. Please don t make me start calling around! Brags from 2 of our lucky members who are wintering in Texas where the water is not frozen: Heads Up All Aboard** - Ticket Owners Kathy and Warren Frizell Tejas Retriever Club Giddings, TX Jan 20-21, 2018 Derby JAM! Heads Up Bend The Rails MH WCX- Trax Owners Kathy and Warren Frizell Bluebonnet Retriever Club Anderson, TX Jan 13-14, 2018 New Master Hunter!! Heads Up Bend The Rails MH WCX- Trax Owners Kathy and Warren Frizell Waterloo Retriever Club Manheim, TX Jan 20-21, 2018 Master Hunt test pass Congratulations! Conformation Report not submitted. 11

12 Mile-Hi Golden Retriever Club 2018 Calendar of Events Date Event LocaNon Jan 28 Board of Directors meenng. Immediately before mem Northglenn Rec CenterNorthglenn, CO January 28 General membership meenng Northglenn Rec CenterNorthglenn, CO February 24 Board of Directors meenng Jefferson County Library, Golden, CO March 24 March 24 General membership meenng with breakfast before t Matrix Dog SportsWestminster, CO Goldens only match (conformanon, obedience, rally) Matrix Dog SportsWestminster, CO March 25 Annual awards banquet Maggiano s LiOle ItalyEnglewood, CO April 6-8 Agility trial Douglas County Fairgrounds Castle Rock, CO May 13 General membership meenng Northglenn Rec CenterNorthglenn, CO July 6-8 Agility trial TBD July Field training water only Open to MHGRC member Horsetooth Retriever Kennel Wellington, CO July 29 WC/WCX tests Horsetooth Retriever Kennel August 4-5 Mitch White field workshop Wellington, CO Horsetooth Retriever Kennel private lessons available on Aug 3 Wellington, CO August Specialty show Island Grove Regional Park Greeley, CO August 17 General membership meenngaler specialty Island Grove Regional Park Greeley, CO September Hunt test Wellington, CO September 23 General membership meenng Northglenn Rec Center November 11 December 1 or 8 Northglenn, CO General membership meenng annual meenng and Northglenn Rec Center Northglenn, CO Fun match (all breed obedience/rally, spornng dog co Matrix Dog Sports Westminster, CO December 16 Holiday party TBD 12

13 2018 ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET Sunday, March 25, :30am Maggiano's Little Italy 7401 South Clinton Street, Englewood, CO (I-25 and Dry Creek) $27.00 per person Includes Family style lunch plus coffee, hot/cold tea, soda, tax and tip There will be lots of food and as always, great company. For those who haven't attended the awards event, please join us and experience this wonderful annual event. RSVP with payment (checks: MHGRC) by March 15, 2018 : Diane Nest 6379 S Harlan Way Littleton CO dianenest@msn.com phone: