1 Westie Updates Vol. 4 No. 12 December 7, 2017 President s Greeting Holiday Greetings!! *********Dues Notice- 2018********** Follow the link below to the dues notice and Imprint Lottery for the coming year. http://www.westieclubamerica.com/members/2018-dues-notice.pdf DUES NOTICE Looking for a Volunteer Dues must be paid before January 1 st 2018 You will need you Member Login Info to access the PDF. If forgotten contact Lee Trudeau at ctrudeau@optonline.net Chuck and Lee Trudeau are looking for someone to take over the duties of getting the monthly newsletter, Westie Updates out to the membership. If you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible!! ctrudeau@optonline.net
2 Cathy Blacklock Recording Secretary, WHWTCA 2389 Twin Lakes Dr. Uniontown, OH 44685 Tel: 330-618-7902 cajims@msn.com DELEGATE REPORT The Delegate Meeting was held in Newark, New Jersey September 11 and 12. AKC DELEGATE REPORT President Dennis Sprung announced 120 AKC clubs and 1,250 individuals have raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars to date for disaster relief. The AKC Humane Fund in addition donated $10,000 to the Houston Hurricane Relief Fund and donated an AKC pet disaster relief trailer to Houston. Up until that time Houston didn't have one. Speaking of the trailers, so far AKC hs raised, through the good efforts of all those involved, $1.6 million for trailers. We actually have 63 trailers currently in the field and there are six more in the pipeline. Joseph Baffuto, AKC Chief Financial Officer gave his report. Total year-to-date revenue of $41.5 million has been offset by total expenses of $36.8 million, which reflects an operating income of $4.7, above the operating income of $4.0 million at the same time last year. Revenues are up by $3.8 million dollars, a 10% increase. Litter Volume for the year so far is 140,000, an increase of 7%. Dog Registrations are currently at 335,000 which is also 7% above the period in 2016. Total Pedigree sales are 151,000 which represents a 4% year over year increase. Expenses recorded a grand total of $36.8 million dollars. This is an overall increase from 2016 of $3.1 million dollars or 9%. Payroll and benefits are up by $2.8 million, or 17% as our full time equivalent headcount has increased from 292 to 317.5 over the last 12 months. Investments have yielded a 7% unrealized gain this year. Rule Changes: Championships. A proposed amendment would include the dog awarded Select Dog or Bitch in the calculation of Grand Championship points for that award. Approved. Field Trial Rules and Standard Procedures for Pointing Breeds. This new paragraph would allow for a National Gun Dog Championship for Gordon Setters. The event is limited to walking handlers. Approved. A controversial proposal to change the process and procedures for disqualifying and reinstating a dog for biting at a dog show was withdrawn. It was announced, in 2018, work will begin on a new headquarters for the American Kennel Club at 101 Park Avenue opposite Grand Central Station, a prime location for tourists, visitors and commuters traveling to and from all parts of New York City and beyond. The AKC Museum of the Dog will occupy the first two levels of this imposing
class-a building, including the ground floor, and will welcome the world to America s greatest resource for and about dogs. Building upon thirty years St. Louis, the Museum s mission will remain: the collection, preservation, exhibition and interpretation of the art, artifacts and literature of the dog for purposes of education, historical perspective, aesthetic enjoyment and enhancement of the human-canine relationship. At the Herding, Earthdog and Coursing Committee, several new events were discussed. Farm Dog is a companion event to CGC for rural environment, with exposure to livestock, and gates. As of September, the sport had drawn over 150 events and 3000 entries. Trick Dog is a formalized demonstration of simple tricks performed on command. Scent Work is an AKC adaptation of Nose work. It involves six types of environment: Container, Exterior, Interior, Buried, Detective, and Handler Discrimination. All but Detective have four levels of competence. Initial competition was held in Ohio in September. The HEC Committee approved and submitted to Staff the Best Practices for Fast Cat. This effort paralleled earlier Best Practices for Cat. At the Parent Club Committee meeting, AKC Librarian and Archivist Brynn White led a discussion on how AKC can support club efforts to establish and maintain archives. Her advice and guidance is no charge to the club. A survey is forthcoming for clubs to respond with questions, problems and needs for archival support. There is a proposal to the AKC Board to make Parent Club Conferences a bi-annual event. Board action is pending. A proposal from the Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club would allow neutered dogs and spayed bitches, who are veterans, and who are champions to be entered in Best of Breed competition at Independent Specialties. As your delegate, I stand ready and able to assist with any issues you may be facing with AKC. Tom Barrie, Delegate * 972-442-9544 * opeterrpan@aol.com 3 NEW MEMBERSHIP CHAIRPERSON: Darlene Cox Davis 10119 N. 60th Street West Porter, OK 74454 918-688-0313 (cell) ridgmar@aol.com Attention Regional Clubs Calling all Regional Clubs! We would like to get a chart up on the
website of all the specialties for 2018. Please send you specialty date(s) and judges to ctrudeau@optonline.net as soon as possible. If we can get it up in January our members can start planning the shows to attend in 2018! 4 Spring imprint closing date The next Imprint closing date is February 28 th!! Please support our magazine with your ads and articles. The magazine is the archives of the club and needs your commitment to continue. We will NOT be sending out continual reminders of the deadline for content and advertising. 25 Year Member Bios Attention all WHWTCA Members!! Please remember if you are a 25 year member of the WHWTCA, you should be sending in your bio for the History Project. We are missing a number of these bios and they are so important in helping us maintain our history and archives. You can find details about the History Project Bios on the website at: http://www.westieclubamerica.com/whwtca/whwtca-verbal-history- Project.html Thank you! Members Business card ads Have you considered placing your business card ads in the Imprint each issue? It s a great way to share your business information or your kennel details with over 500 members and subscribers! Place your business card ad for $40 or a year s ads for $125.00 Imprint volunteers and rules Imprint Volunteers Features Coordinator and Contributor: Lisa Curry NJ lmcurry@gmail.com - Advertising Coordinator: Dawn Martin PA westie@ptd.net - Commercial Advertising: Dawn Martin Westie@ptd.net- Marketing Manager: Linda Servin MA lindajservin@comcast.net - National and Roving Show Results: Fred Askin MD faskin@jhmi.edu - Regional Club Coordinators (results and news): Jenny Auger Maw NM jennyaugermaw@gmail.com & Kenny Fodill VA heattman@msn.com - Text Coordinator & Circulation Manager: Charles Trudeau, CT ctrudeau@optonline.net All text sent via Email to: Charles Trudeau Text Coordinator ctrudeau@optonline.net Advertising Rules WESTIE IMPRINT, the official publication of the West Highland White Terrier Club of America, Inc., is mailed quarterly to club members and to the AKC Library. Members copies are mailed via Bulk Mail. Subscription rate (U.S.) - $48.00 Bulk Mail Subscription
rates outside United States vary by location; please contact the Circulation Manager for specific rates. Individual issues are available for $15.00 or 4 for $50 each, including first class postage. Copyright 2015 West Highland White Terrier Club of America, Inc. All rights reserved. The entire contents of the Westie Imprint is fully protected under federal and state trademark and copyright laws and no portion of Westie Imprint may be reprinted without the written permission of the editor. The opinions expressed in the articles herein are those of the authors and not necessarily of the editor or the Officers and Directors of the Club. The editor reserves the right to edit all materials submitted for publication. The editor welcomes comments, suggestions, and expressions of opinions from the readers. ADVERTISING RULES The Westie Imprint is the official publication of the West Highland White Terrier Club of America, Inc. (WHWTCA). Ads will be accepted only from WHWTCA members in good standing. Ads will be accepted for dogs that the advertiser owns, co-owns, or bred. A stud dog owner may submit ads for a dog sired by his/her stud dog. Members cannot submit ads on behalf of non-members. Advertising in the Imprint is a benefit of membership and the ad content must clearly be that of the member. Only club member s contact information can be included in the ad. If any of the co-breeders or co-owners are not WHWTCA members, then their names may be listed in the ad, but not their contact information. Ads must include the names of all owners of record or none (owners of record refers to owner or owners listed on the dog's AKC registration). If the names of the breeders are included in the ad, all breeders of record must be included or none (breeder of record refers to breeder or breeders listed on the dog's AKC registration). It is the responsibility of all advertisers in the Imprint to ensure the accuracy of all references made to official field/obedience/show wins and awards. Retouched/enhanced photos are NEVER allowed. The cover of the Imprint must be in portrait format only. We will not accept a cover that is printed in landscape format. In other words, the magazine must not be rotated in order to view the front cover. Errors in club publications will be handled at the discretion of the committee and on a case-by-case basis. Formats: Digital ads are accepted in the following formats tiff or jpg. Copyrighted Material Photographic and digital images are subject to copyright law. It is illegal to reproduce images taken by a professional photographer or owned by someone else without the consent of the owner. The exception is official show photographs of your win. Any other image -- unless the image was taken by the advertiser -- must be used with the consent of the photographer. The advertiser member releases WHWTCA and assumes all liability regarding copyright infringement. 5
6 Payment for ads will be accepted from members only. Make checks payable to WHWTCA and mail to the Advertising Editor. A $25.00 charge will be made for all returned checks. All checks must be in US Funds and drawn on banks with an USA address. Any other foreign checks, money orders, etc., must include an additional $12.00 bank service exchange fee. All payments are to be submitted to: New Chat List Dawn Martin, Advertising Coordinator 141 Tittle Road, Saylorsburg, PA 18353 westie@ptd.net - All ads sent via Email If you have not yet joined, there is now a new chat list for club members. Please contact Cathy Blacklock cajims@msn.com or Anne Sanders Anne@westiesnw.com to get signed on!!
7 New advertising details A message from the West Highland White Terrier Club of Northern Ohio.. We ve planned a holiday get together for Friday the 8 th at Bravo restaurant including a gift exchange. Then, once the holidays are over, pretty much everyone in Ohio burrows in for the winter. We re counting on warmer weather to arrive by planning our summer specialty the first weekend in August. You may have heard plans are underway for a LARGE air conditioned arena at Canfield, but that won t be finished for 2018. So come along for a last old fashioned Canfield. The cluster has decided to repeat Christmas at
8 Canfield and we ll need some more decorations for our building. As you re getting out things this month and find something you don t to wish to keep, put it aside to bring along next summer. We have some great sweepstakes judges slated for 2018. Possibly someone you ve never showed to before. Diane Orange and Pat Logan-Hale. And two new pieces for your collection of our exclusive dinnerware will be part of the trophies. Come and see. Chris Schriber. Now that the year 2017 is coming to a close, the WHWTC of Indiana would like you to start thinking about attending our 2018 specialty. It will be held on Friday, March 16, 2018 with the Louisville Kennel Club show at the Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, KY. Our approved judges are Susan Napady, regular classes, and Jan Parcel, all sweepstakes. It again will be an opportunity for five sets of those elusive majors. Judges for the other shows in the Kentuckiana cluster will be announced in the next UPDATES. Come join us for a fun weekend with our Southern Hospitality! You won't regret it! Help support the 2018 Roving in Perry, Georgia hosted by the WHWTC of Greater Atlanta, Inc with a heavy duty high quality cotton grooming apron with large pockets. Exquisitely embroidered with the 2018 Roving logo "Georgia on my Mind" Ready to ship in red, bright green, turquoise, and khaki. Additional colors available for an extra $4.00. $44 includes shipping. Email your order to Kristine Tarrer, Show Chair At krmt@tarrerlaw.com Red Bright Green Turquoise Khaki
9 Our Westie Specialty will be in conjunction with Trenton Kennel Club on May 6, 2018 at Mercer County Park in West Windsor Twp., NJ. Sweepstakes and Veterans judge will be Joan Murko; * Mr. Harry O'Donoghue from Ireland will be judging the regular classes at our Specialty Show on May 6, 2018 in conjunction with Trenton Kennel Club. We also have a Supported entry in conjunction with Garden State All Terrier Club on May 4, 2018 at the same location. The Sweepstakes judge will be Anne Van Walleghem. Effective immediately, please take note of our club's new mailing address: WHWTCC PO Box 50814 Santa Barbara, CA. 93150 Thank you, Sue Lezatte, Treasurer Fundraising Brand New to the Westie Shop, Also will be available at Kimberton Roll-Up Picnic Blankets Back in Stock! These blankets were almost a sell out at Montgomery this year. PVC Backing helps to keep you clean and dry Rolls up for easy storage Hook and Loop closure Size: 52 Long X 46 Wide Rolls up to 9 x 13 ½ Priced at $30.00 plus s/h Makes a wonderful gift too! Navy plaid and light blue plaid available. Navy plaid, Light blue plaid and Red plaid available!! Contact ctrudeau@optonline.net to get yours!!
10 Brand New Shirts in 2 colors, are now available on our website!!! Original new artwork by famed Westie Artist Barbara Hands!! Click on link below the photos. http://www.westieclubamerica.com/fundraising/index.html Black ball caps back in stock!! $22.00 + s/h Contact ctrudeau@optonline.net for these new items!! Montgomery or Bust T-Shirts Very Limited Numbers left. In stock we have in size: Medium - 1 Cardinal Red ($28), 1 Ash Gray ($20) Large - 4 Cardinal Red ($28 ea.) and 7 Ash Gray ($20 ea.) XLarge - 1 Aqua ($28 ea.) Plus $7.50 shipping To make an order Email: ctrudeau@optonline.net
11 Older issues of Imprints now available at a discount!! Mailing Guide for Shipping Imprints Issues prior to 2013 Cost each Shipping Cost Shipping Method Winter 2009 Centennial Ed. $ 6.35 $ 3.95 Media Mail one (1) $ 5.00 $ 4.00 1st Class Two (2) $ 5.00 $ 6.95 Flat Rate Envelope 3 to 4 $ 5.00 $ 10.95 9.5 x 6.5 Priority Box 5 to 10 $ 5.00 $ 12.95 Med. Flat Rate Box 2013 to Current Cost each Shipping each Shipping Method 2013, 2014 $ 8.00 $ 4.00 1 st Class 2015-2017 $ 8.00 $ 4.00 1 st Class Note: Earlier issues, prior to Winter 2008 are now available in very limited numbers. To place an order, contact ctrudeau@optonline.net
12 Make checks payable to: WHWTCA Mail Check to: Charles Trudeau, 478 West Hill Rd., Stamford, CT 06902 Available Issues: SPRING SUMMER FALL WINTER 2008 NO NO NO YES 2009 YES NO YES YES* 2010 YES YES YES YES 2011 YES YES YES YES 2012 YES YES YES YES 2013 YES YES YES YES 2014 YES YES YES YES 2015 N/A YES YES YES 2016 YES YES YES YES 2017 YES YES YES = Centennial Issue Winter 2009 Westie Updates next issue The next issue of Westie Updates will come out on or around January 6 th, 2018. Please send your information, dates, announcements etc. December 30th, 2017 to ctrudeau@optonline.net