The Scarlett Letter. The Golden Triangle Irish Setter Club, Inc January 2013

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1 The Scarlett Letter The Golden Triangle Irish Setter Club, Inc January 2013 WELCOME 2013!!! Happy New Year to all!! Our Year in Review~~ Thank you to each and everyone for making 2012 a huge success by helping in one way or another. It has been a great group effort of Teamwork!! We may be small but always do everything in a BIG way! >Our show weekend continues to be successful. With our consistency each year, we now have had majors ALL 5 DAYS!! We are known for our hospitality, location with electric and water at no charge to the exhibitors, nice trophies and great raffles! And of course, all of our smiling faces and helpful hands!! THANK YOU! >Our few fund raisers have been successful over all. Thank you to all of our members who have chaired, sold and bought items. >We welcomed several new families to our membership; John & Cheryl Scheck and their WPG, Flyer, BIS silver GCH Fireside s Rio Grande JH; Denise & Michael Hall and their family of Irish Setters, Macy, Olivia, Connor and Julia ; Karren Harrison with her Irish Setters, BIS BISS GCH Shadowmere s Sentimental Journey, Nikki. Audra, and more that I am not sure of the names; Mary & Jamie Lamphier and their Irish Setters BISS Bronze GCH Erinfyr s Sport Talk, Lucas. Downey, JR and many more that I am not sure of the names. They have Gordons and English also. And Bobbi Lou and Nathan Fisher with CH Christyview s Rock n Roll Hall of Famer, CGC RAE, Blake. Whew~~~ how wonderful! You can see photos of some of their dogs on our Meet the Members page. >We have added several new puppies; George s Cassidy, Shadowmere s Chasing the Dream; Coleen s Twister, Shadowmere s Storm Chaser; Karren s Abbey and Alice, Shadowmere s Chasing Butterflies and Shadowmere s Chasing Rainbows. >We welcomed a few litters, O Dorsey (Ruth White), Shadowmere (Karen Harrison) and Kellyn (Denise Hall). Ahhhh-puppy breath! >We welcomed new Rescues! Wonderful forever homes for Johnny into the Fiser family and Iris into the Morris Family. Thank you to Joan and Robin for making these 2 a part of your family. >We had several dogs that had some accomplishments with earning Championships, Grand Championships, AKC levels of bronze and silver, CGC, many Rally levels, Obedience levels, nose work, field work, Hunting titles, and the best ones, Counter Surfers and Couch Potatoes our favorites!! >We had several members down with some serious health issues and all are recovered or still on the road to recovery. Ruth White, Deb Lawrence, John Scheck, Dan Ling, Al Nogrady & Kelsey Hall. Continued good health to each and every member and their family. And to the Rainbow Bridge~~

2 >George s girl Callie, Robin s Lucy, Nikki s Max, & Lisa s Nellie. >Sally s Evan s brother May the shamrocks fall softly~~~ As we head into 2013, we wish everyone many blessings for a good year in all that we do. Dog News Congratulations to~~~~ Cleveland- Richland Co KC (thurs), Medina KC (fri), Richland Co KC (sat) Western Reserve KC (sun); >Coleen with Twister, Shadowmere s Storm Chaser, for RWD and Best Puppy on Thursday. >Deb & Skip with Claire, BISS GCH Courtwood Cobblestone, CGC TT, for BOS & 3 GCH pts. on Thursday, Select Bitch & 3 GCH pts on Saturday and Select Bitch & 3 GCH pts. on Sunday. Thank you to Kim Haupt for handling Claire. Deb & Skip would like to thank all of Claire s handlers for 2012; Coleen, Kim Haupt, Jamie Lamphier, Lisa Moreau & Karen Booth. With only 2 group placements earlier in the year, Claire has remained on the Top 20 All-breed Irish list from March through November. They are hoping to stay there for December, too. They are pretty excited as Claire was not in the ring for about 5 months of the year and only one show weekend a month from September through December. She will be retiring in a few weeks. It s been a fabulous career for which they are thankful to have experienced. In addition, thank you to Coleen for her great talent of grooming and keeping her beautiful! >Bobbi Lou Fisher with Blake, now CH Christyview s Roll n Roll Hall of Famer,CD, RN, RA, RAE, for WD on Thurs & Fri and then WD/BOW on Saturday to finish his Championship! Congratulations on your new Champion! >John & Cheryl Flyer, BIS GCH Fireside s Rio Grand, JH, for BOB both Thursday and Friday. Thank you to Coleen for handling Flyer. John and Cheryl are excited to have Flyer entered at Westminster this February. Flyer was in the top 5 by the cut off in October which qualified him for an automatic invitation. Flyer has ended the year as #1 all-breed and #3 breed. Congratulations to John and Cheryl, along with Coleen for her great presentation of Flyer all year. Good luck in NYC!!! A time for Reflection~~~~ Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. ~~ Helen Keller submitted by Jamie Lamphier Smiling Shamrocks Tally Ling

3 Birthdays 2 nd Laura Williams 12 th Sally Evans 31 st Tally Ling Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!! Continued Get Wells wishes for John Scheck as he recovers from a stroke a month ago. John is doing very well. After several weeks in the hospital and rehab, he is resting at home. Cards can be sent John at 203 Kensington Court, Pittsburgh PA Events & Activities Steelers Raffle 20% of the proceeds go towards our trophy fund. Thank you to Deb for chairing this fundraiser. Thank you to our members. The winner was Cheryl Scheck. Christmas Party/Meeting Sunday January 13 th, 2:00 p.m. and will be at the home of Deb & Skip Lawrence. We will hold our optional gift exchange. Wrap a gift of NOT more than $25 (can be less) without a tag on it. Everyone is asked to bring a side dish/salad/dessert of your choice. Please RSVP by January 7 th to Deb at dlawrenc@verizon.net or March 2013 Lottery - Tally Ling will chair this fundraiser. Tickets will be mailed out to each member with a cover letter containing all information. Unfortunately, they were not ready before Christmas due to a printing error. 20% of the proceeds will go to the trophy fund. This replaces our Santa Photo event. Groom Right Grooming Table Raffle see info under Memorial Weekend Cluster

4 Shows/ Specialties 2013 MSDA (March 2nd & 3 rd ) - The trophies for the MSDA show will be embroidered towels. We will again support the entry of Irish at the Saturday show. Memorial Weekend Cluster (May 23 May 27) AKC paperwork George is busy at getting the required paperwork in order. We have been approved by ISCA. We are listed in the December MEMO to the Members. Show Secretary Lisa Edwards Trophies Deb Lawrence - Trophies for Thursday, Friday and Monday have been purchased. They are going to be embroidered towels. For our Specialties, Saturday will be Walker Works art. Sunday will be Rough and Tough reversible Quilted crate mats. Raffle item Chairperson Joan Fiser - This year s raffle item is a Groom Right Grooming Table OR $250 cash for those not interested in the table. Proceeds help cover the costs of the specialty. The table has been purchased. Tickets will be $1 each or 6 for $5.00. Those will be available the first of the year. If you want them sooner, contact Joan. Grounds the check has been sent in to reserve our area for the 5 days. Judges Lisa Edwards is our Show Secretary/Chairperson - Sweeps assignments that have been accepted are for Friday, Corinne Miklos, Saturday, Cindy Partridge, Sunday is Carol Richards, and for Monday, Debra Thornton. Our specialty Judges are Carol Brown and George Marquis. Friday s Irish Setter judge (Trumbull Co KC) is Dr. Robert Indeglia. Monday s Irish Setter Judge (New Castle KC) will be Don L. Evans. Thursday has not yet been posted. Hospitality Chairperson Shirley Semich - We have hired JR s Bar B Que to take care of the main entrees. They will do whole ham and grilled chicken on Saturday and our burgers and dogs on Sunday. We will need a committee to organize and chair the hospitality. Shirley is need of at least 2 other people each day to help set up, organize and break down the hospitality tables. Members will be asked to donate a side, salad, dessert, each of the two days. In order to keep the costs near to what we have had budgeted, we will continue to handle our hospitality the same way as we have in the past. Ring Decorations Chairperson TBD Basket Raffle Chairperson Deb Lawrence - The proceeds from our annual basket raffle will go towards covering costs of our shows. Each member is asked to donate a basket or items to go into baskets. Deb will put the basket together and wrap it. Please get your basket/items to Deb early; March thru the end of April is great. The finished baskets go to Joan s Motor home in advance to be transported to the show site. ISCA National Specialty The national Specialty will be held in Fairfax VA the week of April 15 th. Reservations for the Host Hotel opened on September 1 st. The host hotel is The Hyatt Fair Lakes and the show site is Frying Pan Park. The Host Club will also hold a Specialty on Sunday following the National show. There is a Parade of Rescue held on Saturday. April 20 th. Anyone who owns a rescue can participate. If you want to join the rescue parade, contact Joan for the information. She can answer any questions. Joan is NOT in charge of the Rescue Parade

5 but can direct anyone to the right person(s). Each rescue dog gets a great bag of goodies!! GTISC will be providing the bags of goodies! Deb, Skip, Joan and Coleen are planning to attend. We will meet up with our out-of-state members, Mary & Jamie, Denise and Karren. We will be well represented! Website- Thank you to everyone who sent a Christmas photo for our home page. THANK YOU to Tammy Boice for doing such a great job of keeping our Website current and interesting. Deb thanks Tammy for her suggestions to make it better. From the Rescue Side~~~~ Tails From the Hills New Year s Edition By Bella O Shea Ace canine reporter For the past few months Ed and I have been collecting quotable quotes for the new year: Dogs.do not ruin their sleep worrying how to keep the objects they have, and obtain objects they have not. There is nothing they have to bequeath except their love and their faith. Eugene O Neill When the Man waked up he said, what is Wild Dog doing here? And the Woman said, His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Rudyard Kipling I used to look at my dog and think if you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking, and he would look at me like he was saying if you were a little smarter I wouldn t have to. Fred Jungles I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship from a dog that you can get from no other source. Doris Day I think dogs are the most amazing creatures, they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. Gilda Radner We give dogs time we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It s the best deal man ever made. Dogs teach us many things about being a better person..that people don t teach. Unknown M. Faclam He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Unknown

6 For me a house or apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog. Roger Caras While he has not in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, and eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose, or a succession of heart rendering sighs to get his meaning across. Jean Little And now a not so brief announcement from my people: ATTENTION. ATTENTION. ATTENTION.. Our Day has been darkened by every Dog Lover s worst nightmare. On Tuesday December 12 at 4:30 PM, while Pam and I were at the barn mucking stalls, Bella ran through the tunnel and on to route 60 with heavy Christmas traffic! Ed received a broken up cell phone call from a female saying that someone or something was going down the busy highway. He counted horses and asked for a repeat of the information as the reception was very poor on the cordless phone. We were over 300 yards from the house. It seems that Bella was at the end of the driveway smelling for kitties at the garbage drop and followed neighbors out through the tunnel. In a panic Ed ran from the barn, down the very long driveway, and through the twenty yards or so of water in the tunnel underpass. With water in his shoes and wet to the knees and in thirty five degree weather Ed was in a frantic attempt to find our beloved dog while Pam ran up the steep hill to get the truck parked by the house. After Picking Ed up on the other side of the tunnel they drove down the road. Which way is down the road? No Bella there! Then Pam took Ed up and dropped him off at Help for Animals which is five blocks up route 60 from Goose Creek Road. Ed was inquiring to see if Bella was there badly injured from the traffic. No success,! Ed left his phone number and started walking back down route sixty. Pam with her female intuition and saying a prayer, headed back down the road to a car that was parked across the road and down from the tunnel. Bella was in the back seat of the car! The lady foresaw the impending disaster and called for her and into the back seat of her car Bella leaped. Pam introduced herself as one of Bella s People. This local lady who is now known as our hometown hero was busily talking on her cell phone trying to make contact with us. The phone number on Bella s ID tag was not updated with our new number! The lady agreed to follow Pam back down the road toward Help for Animals where Ed met the lady that lovingly picked up Belle from the middle of a busy route sixty. After a brief period of crying, thanking, and hugging, Bella, Ed, and Pam were reunited. The lady, Robbyn Thompson, is a teacher at the local high school. She is a hometown hero, at least to us. BTW, she was a former student of Ed and remembered him from years earlier.. We thanked Robbyn who owns an 11 year afghan hound. On Wednesday, December 13, Bella, Pam, Ed, and the mouse went to PetCo for new ID tag and collar. Bella s ID tag had the old phone number on her making it impossible for Robbyn to contact us. Bella now has a large, shiny, heart shaped ID embellished with rhinestones to sport around her neck. It is engraved with our names and current phone number. As an afterthought we should have also included her Home Again microchip registration number. Pam and I from now on are not going to let our guard down with Bella ever again! She is like our doxie crew and is subject to the moment of curiosity, which killed the cat!!!! We hope everyone has a Happy New Year. Our New Year s Resolution is to try to keep up with Bella and our doxies! Never take a second for granted. We do not want to lose her. Hopefully we can keep her till she becomes a grand ole dame with a pretty white face. Pam and I are thankful that we did not have to put Bell s picture on a poster for a lost dog, or something worse. We love this goofy creature and our home would not be the same without her and the Doxie crew. Final thought.. We never really own anything in life; we only have a little time to enjoy what little we have. Happy New Year and Love to all, Bella O Shea and Her people, Ed & Pam ISCA Membership Dues Update For any GTISC members who are also members of the Irish Setter Club of America, please note that Membership renewals sent back in November and possibly early December have been lost in the mail. Most of us who receive ISCA Flea-bytes s have been notified. If you are not signed up to receive the Flea-bytes, and are a member of ISCA, you can check on the ISCA website for dues received. It is set up by zip code and followed by your initials. You must resubmit them if yours was never received by January 31 st.

7 Club News and Reminders Membership Renewals are due to Deb Lawrence by January 31 st. Notices were sent out in November. If you are in need of another copy, please let Deb know and she will send it as an attachment. Nominations/Elections Shirley Semich is our Nominating Committee Chairperson. Committee Members are Skip Lawrence and Lisa Edwards. The slate at this time is; President Bob Semich Vice President Joan Fiser Corresponding Secretary George Towle Recording Secretary/Treasurer Deb Lawrence Board Member Ruth White Board Member Tally Ling We are looking to fill a third board member position. Contact Shirley if you are interested or want to nominate someone. Remember; more is better. Elections are scheduled for January 13 th. The annual Board Reorganizational Meeting will be held after elections. This will include a planning schedule for the year. If you have any ideas for events, fun days or fund raisers, please let a board member know by elections. The Golden Triangle Irish Setter Club, Inc President Bob Semich Vice President Joan Fiser Recording Secretary / Treasurer Deb Lawrence Corresponding Secretary George Towle Board Member Ruth White Board Member Tally Ling Rescue Joan Fiser Caring Shamrocks Tally Ling Newsletter Deb Lawrence Editing Coleen McGee & George Towle Tails from the Hills Ed Prichard Dog News information provided from members ALL articles welcomed! Christmas Party dinner invitation on next page

8 You are invited~~~~ Golden Triangle Irish Setter Club INC Annual Christmas Party Meeting Sunday January 13, :00 p.m. Location Skip and Deb Lawrence s 1210 Lane Ave. Natrona Heights PA Menu bring your favorite covered dish, appetizer, desserts, salad, side~~ beverages of all kinds will be provided Gift Exchange OPTIONAL $25 limit dog or dog related gift, wrapped and not tagged 2013 Elections will be held RSVP by January 7 th dlawrenc@verizon.net OR if you know what food you are bringing, let us know so we can share and get organized!