The Newsletter of Youngstown All Breed Training Club 11801 Mahoning Ave. P.O. Box 397 North Jackson, Oh 44451-0397 http://www.yabtc.com 330 538-2907 Spring??? - By Marla Belzowski Editor Brrr..it spring really here yet? With the spring Obedience trial right around the corner, it must be here. I find myself making a list of things to accomplish each year;; clean the gutters, start planting flowers and re-invigerating the landscape, clean out the garage, get the lawn mower tuned up. I start making plans for summer shows, training seminars, doggie events I woud like to do and realize, I might not have time for everything with daily real job work tossed in there. Then I look at the club which needs a lot of outside work to get our new building ready for the Open House in June. Sometimes I just wish I could toss a blanket of snow back over my yard so I didn t have to mess with it.not! Spring Cleaning! Our Building is DONE! - Now the landscaping and outside work begins. But we still have a lot of cleaning inside to do as well. Each Saturday a small group of members will be at the club between noon and 4PM to work on landscaping and power washing club equipment, chairs, repainting items that need touch up. We need some items donated to the building. If you have contact that can supply the following, please contact Perri and let her know: * Large door mats: we are looking for 2 or 3 heavy rugs that are 6 ft by 20 ft. This will help keep the mud down and the large size will prevent the rugs from sliding. * Perineal flowers and shrubs. preferably flower items that die down in the winter and are easy to clean around in the fall Hostas, Day lillies, Columbines, Corel bells, Zebra or Pampas grasses, Irises, crocus, serbian bellflower (campanula), hardy iceplants, purple sage, cone flours, summer cerastium (snow-in-summer), and snow-on the mountian are some of the best items for our building. We will lay out a landscape plan once we know what types of flowers we have to work with. * River rock or white marble to line the wall of the building outside to keep mud from splashing up onto the brick. * Cans of gray gloss spray paint (for cleaning up and repainting our general class chairs). We need someone to volunteer to scrape the GUM off the rims of the chairs and power wash them too. * Outdoor trash containers: heavy made of plastic wood or rock faced so they don t blow around. Something like what you would see at a nature park classy looking and yet easy to clean out and unload. * Plastic/wood park type benches for outside. Something that can be grounded or bolted into in a concrete base so they are not taken. If you think of other items that will help you would like to donate, please e-mail it to Perri. March Madness - Mats Fund Raffle Is over! We made $5000 from the raffle for our mats and with this success we are looking to do it again in November to help fund the Exhaust/Fire Suppression Hood and Ovens for the kitchen. President: Perri Graf 330 547-2384 perri@embarqmail.com Vice President: Lori Baker 330-792-7975 SteLorBuls@sbcglobal.net Treasurer: Stacy Judge 330 506-6203 HearComesDaJudge@aol.com Recording Secretary: Deb Harper 330 638-5232 pearlharp@neo.rr.com Corresponding Secretary: Judy Drotar 330 637-4875 jdrotar@neo.rr.com Training Director: Dale Burrier 330 872-3277 dbairedale@aol.com Board Members are as follows: Kim Burrier Airedale63@aol.com Sharon Phillips Sharon14870@hotmail.com Elaine Shively emshively@sbcglobal.net Mary Mignogna mimarakitas@gmail.com
Leash Cutting & Open House Committee Next meeting at the NEW Building. Saturday: April 19-4:00 PM - Board Room Area Here s what is upcoming the next month: April 7 th Board meeting Final approvals from Board of Activities and VIP letters - Flyer/Advertising Wording April 19 th OH Committee meeting: Overview what needs finalized with OH Committee. At the meeting we will be stuffing envelopes to send out the VIP letters and distributing posters for the feed stores, pet shops and dog parks in the area. 3rd Week of April: Advertising goes live! VIP Letters sent out! Please contact the Committee LEAD to volunteer to join in your desired event(s) Meet the Breeds - We have 35 breeds represented so far! That s a great start and hopefully a few more will join in. Cut off for all Meet the Breed volunteers is May 1, so we can determine how much room to give each breed, mix breed, and our 4-H group for their benching area. At our May Meeting, we will be setting up a mock breed bench and measuring out the ring areas. Committee Leads: Meet the Breeds + Poster Sessions - Lead: Jeannine Ciszak AKC Information Coordinator Mix breed ILP Lead: Glenda Russell Club Information Coordinator Info Tables Lead: Georgianne Doyle & Carol Sescourka 4Hers Host and Hostesses + 4-H Booth Marla Working on getting this arranged with Nikki Puccini and Shari Yuhas VIP Invites: Alice Coyne to draft letter for board approval - COMPLETED! Obedience Demo Ring Announcer: Dale Burrier/ Ring Judge: Kim Burrier Agility Demo - Ring Announcer: Sandy Irish/ Ring Judge:??? Rally Demo - Ring Announcer: Karen Vicich/ Ring Judge Mary Mignogna Conformation Demos Ring Announcer: Susan Fithian/Ring Judge:??? JR Handler Demos: Announcer???./Judge:??? Flyball Demo Lead:???? Videos to show on Sledding/Hunting/Herding Marla to bring Projector, Sharon Phillips to help set up video loop with dog bite prevention video as part of the Loop. Bring Videos to March Meeting Bake Sale/Min-kitchen staffing:??? Raffle?: Alice Coyne????? Sheet Cake for Open House Sue Bell Vendor booths Lead: Janet Robertson Sunday Run-Throughs Agility/Obedience/Rally Rally Judge: Caren Vivich Obedience Judge:??? Agility Judge:??? Registration Table:??? AKC Representative for Region Invited Dale Burrier - COMPLETED Parking Attendant Coordinator: Dale Burrier/Tim Sabo Building Set-Up:???? Formal Ribbon Cutting at 12:00 Noon (to include the town officials, our banker, our construction team and board members for a TV/Newspaper photo opportunity) Lead Marla Belzowski Assistant: Diane James - UNDERWAY Flyers: Design Diane James - COMPLETED Printing Steve Catalano - UNDERWAY If you are interested in being part of the committee or to volunteer to help with breed posters or part of set-up for this event contact Marla Belzowski legendhold@johnstown.net FYI: Dale Burrier can print the Meet the Breed posters for $20, but cannot laminate them. Please contact Dale to get your poster file to him. Kinko s/fed-ex can laminate if like. 2 Youngstown All Breed Training Club April 2014
Brags, Brags, Brags. From Dr. Dan & Rev. Vilma O'Neill Colonial Willamsburg,Va. was the setting for the SHOT (Sighthounds of the Tidewater) AKC Lure Coursing Field Trial March 15 where REINE, MBIF, DC, Diamond's La Reine Lionne FC got Best of Breed and finished her Lure Coursing Excellent title. It takes 45 CHAMPIONSHIP points after having the Field Champion title to get a LCX title. Not easy to do. Actually more Ridgebacks get the CD then the LCX. Reine's mom ARIEL won the veteran class both days, March 15 & 16. even helped me through Scooter s first competition offering advice and tips all the way up to the starting time. I cannot thank her enough. Another great teacher was Lotta Schafer. She put on a special class one Saturday to teach the weave poles using the 2x2 method. Right after the class I went home and built weave poles and began to train. Lotta said if done properly you could teach 12 poles in 12 days. She was right! Cindy Zeisler, and the other instructors I have worked with at YABTC, have taught Scooter and I so much. We have had a great experience at YABTC and plan on continuing to train and learn from the experienced instructors. They have set up a fabulous agility program! See you around the club and happy training, Beauty begets beauty, speed begets speed, type begets type. Meanwhile, in the show ring her sister KAYLA, Bronze GCH,DC,Diamond's Seven Karat Cut, SC,FC,CGC,TDI won Best of Breed at the Logansport KC in Indiana March 8. Both Girls are always owner handled! KAYLA, Bronze GCh,DC.Diamond's 7 Carat Cut, SC, CGC got a GROUP TWO at the Windsor KC show March 22 under Judge Wendy Paquette. Mom ARIEL got Selects March 22 & 23. Beauty & type win in the ring. Have passports, will travel!!! Dan & Vilma O'Neill From Terry & Scooter Scooter jumped his way into his first Agility Trial scoring not only a qualifying run in Standard Novice but also taking first place in his jump height of 20. Not too bad for Scooter and I s first trial event ever! We ran the course with only (1) refusal in the Chute (one of Scooter s favorite obstacles). Scooter ran the event in 48.5 seconds with a score of 95. Needless to say Scooter and I are hooked and are looking forward to the next Agility Trial. Scooter and I started at YABTC about a year and a half ago with no training experience. Since then we have completed the Puppy Class, Relationship Class, Intro. to Agility, Beginner Agility and Agility 2. I also got Scooter his CGC. I have had great instructors for all of the classes including Glenda Russell. She was my instructor for many of the classes and I have learned so much from her. Her methods and instruction have taught me and Scooter so much. She E-Mail your Brags or Stories too us! Newsletter@yabtc.com or LegendHold@johnstown.net Welfare Items Dale and Kim Burrier lost their 12 year old Airedale Weezey, Airecraft Alouise Warbird CDX RE and then shortly following and after a sudden onset of a splenic tumor, lost their 8 year old girl Sara, (Ch ptd) Coldstream Airecraft Saratoga, CD. Cindy Zeisler lost her Golden Diva: My sweet Golden Diva went on to the Rainbow Bridge on Feb 19. She taught me so much about unconditional love and how to play agility. I am grateful she did not suffer a long illness. I'm also grateful to my wonderful dog friends for all their hugs and words of comfort. Apil 2014 Youngstown All Breed Training Club 3
Welfare Continued. LuAnn Stuver Rogers lost her boy Quinn Rattlebridge-Harlequinn Man, VER, CD, BN, RE, OA, AXJ, NAP, NJP, THD - Feb. 24, 2001 - March 31, 2014 Quinn was my do-everything, heart-ofmy-heart dog. He spent nearly 12 years as my therapy dog Pet Partner, spending hundreds and hundreds of hours bringing smiles and comfort as a member of Love on a Leash at Robinson Memorial Hospital and making many other therapy visits. He earned obedience, rally and agility titles and was the first Cavalier to earn the American Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club's (ACKCSC) Versatility title. Despite never having been shown in the breed ring, he won best of Opposite Sex (Veteran Sweepstakes) at the 2012 ACKCSC National at 11 years old, besting multiple Grand Champions. He was a beautiful dog, inside and out. I will hold him in my heart forever. I had lots of compliments on the new building. Everyone loved our facility. Hope this kick off event leads to many many more down the road! Best in Match - 3-6 months Belgian Tervuren named Modoc Owned by Samanta Adams from Perry, Ohio Best in Match - 6-9 months Irish Setter named MJ Owned by Krista Musil from Strongsville, Ohio Best in Match - 9-12 months Newfoundland named Mike Owned by Marilyn Getz from Campbell, Ohio Best in Match - 12 months or older Bernese Mountain Dog named Burton Owned by Chelsea Luoma from Thompson, Ohio Shows closing soon The Premium for the Westmoreland County Obedience Training Club's June 6-7-8, 2014 Obedience & Rally Trials is now available. Copies will be available on our website: www.wcotc-dogs.com or may be requested from Cecilia Daly, Trial Secretary at Calnik@verizon.net Rally and the Pre-Classes will be offered on Friday. Results of the Puppy Match in March! The Premium for the All-Breed Training Club of Akron Annual Rally and Obedience Trial May 9-11, 2014 is now available. Premium is available on our website: http://abtca.mysaga.net/other.html Entries close at 6pm on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Report from Shelly Kacenski After a "rocky" weather report we decided to go ahead with the Fun Match on March 2. Nevertheless we had a decent turnout despite the snow that fell. As the day went on the snow melted and the roads were fine by the end of the match. We started judging at 10:30 am and were done at 1 pm. It was another successful year. There was an obedience show n go in the afternoon as well that ended around 4:30 pm. 4 Youngstown All Breed Training Club April 2014
TRAINING DIRECTOR S CORNER Well Waddaya think? Is the new building everything you thought it would be? Fredrick Stanley To me, it seems like we re in someone else s building it just hasn t really hit home that we have a new place! Be that as it may, we have a whole lot of learnin to do, to use our space wisely, and new procedures to ensure we don t forget things. Last one out each day/night, make sure you check BOTH doors and check the bathroom lights, too! Gentle reminder: Instructors please remind your students to keep all dogs on short leads, and respect other s space! We plan on offering the new foundation class on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, for those who wish to build a better bond with their puppies. Dates/times T.B.A. Trainers, check out Karen Pryor s web page, at http://www.clickertraining.com/blog Please let me know if you have a question, problem, idea! You can always approach me at the club, or you may contact me by email: airecraft@aol.com or dbairedale@aol.com You may also reach me at 440-220-0551, which is my cellular phone. Thanks to all of the instructors who were able to make it to the instructor s meeting last month! I believe we accomplished a good deal of updating many procedures we needed to set, with the new building. One of the things discussed was the need for specialty classes to be held for problem-solving in both agility and obedience. If you have an idea for a class that would deal with a specific problem, let me know, and we ll set something up. This would be at least several weeksduration, or as needed to solve a particular problem with dogs attending the class. Nikki Puccini attended the Denise Fenzi seminar at Cleveland All Breed several weeks ago, and she will present what she learned, to interested club members. Stay tuned for day and time for her presentation! We now have twice the building to take care of Cleaning the flooring will now be doubly important, as well as bathrooms, kitchen, lobby, etc. I will present to the board a plan to credit club members for cleaning the facility, much like instructors can earn credit to reduce their yearly dues. Those who clean regularly, will be rewarded! Apil 2014 Youngstown All Breed Training Club 5
Lee Jackson Award Tribute to Lee Jackson Lee Jackson was one of the founding members of Youngstown All Breed Training Club. Before the club was established, several people met and trained their dogs at Pioneer Pavilion in Mill Creek Park. They later moved to GF Hall on Logan Avenue in Youngstown to train. Lee spent many hours and much of his own money to keep this club active. He was known as Mr. Youngstown All Breed and served as president of YABTC for 18 years. Lee was also president of Mahoning Shenago Kennel Club. Lee was an AKC judge and one of 3 people in the nation to receive the distinguished 1977 Midwest D Ambris award. Unfortunately Lee passed away before he could receive the award. Both Lee and his wife Kay competed in obedience with Dachshunds and Belgian Sheepdogs. Kay also was Trial Secretary for many years. They had three dogs titled as Companion dogs. Lee had a good sense of humor and had one of his wire haired Dachshunds registered with the name of DAMMIT March of 1978, in honor of Lee Jackson the first Lee Jackson award was given in tribute of him and has become a yearly tradition of YABTC. This award is given to and outstanding and dedicated person who has served our club in honor of Lee Jackson. This year s recipient of the Lee Jackson Award went to Sally Payne. Sally has been a member since October of 1998. Since joining the club she has been very active in numerous club activities. She has made food for the trials both obedience and Agility, helped in the kitchen, stewarding at matches and trials, help move equipment, made agility equipment, made toys and leashes for trials, and donated many things to raffles. She has been known to help with equipment maintenance, and participated in in many demo s at hospitals and nursing homes. She has taken care of the ribbons and awards at the agility trials for many years. Congratulations to Sally Payne for this great honor. 6 Youngstown All Breed Training Club April 2014
Northcoast Coursers of Ohio is offering 2 days of Coursing Aptitude Tests at Austintown Park May 17 & 18. Pre- entry ONLY - $15. Deadline for entry forms is May 14. A photographer will take photos of those finishing a title. Contact Field Trial Secretary Christina Garret at 805-878-2420 or c.rauch@live.com or Judges Dan & Vilma O'Neill at 330 207 7340. mbifdctempest@aol.com OPEN to ALL dogs. AKC registered breeds & All American dogs. Tally ho! Apil 2014 Youngstown All Breed Training Club 7
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Up-Coming YABTC Events EventsMeetingsActivities April 4 Two AKC Rally Shows 8:00 AM 6 PM? 5 & 6 Spring AKC Obedience Shows 8:00 AM 5 PM? 7 Board Meeting 7:30 PM 19 Open House Meeting 4:00 PM May 5 Board Meeting 7:30 PM 10 Open House Meeting 4:00 PM 12 General Membership Meeting 7:00 PM June 2 Board Meeting 7:30 PM 14 OPEN HOUSE!!! 8:00 AM 4:00 PM 15 Show n Go 8:00 AM 4:00 PM Peanut Butter Cranberry Dog Treats Inspired by Doggie Dessert Chef and Bullwinkle.com Makes: about 3 dozen 2-inch cookies 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup canola oil 2 eggs 3 tablespoons peanut butter 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup fresh cranberries, roughly chopped 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup oats 1/2 cup cornmeal 1. Preheat the oven to 400ºF. 2. In a medium bowl combine the water, canola oil, eggs, peanut butter and vanilla. Set aside. 3. In a large bowl whisk together the flour, oats and cornmeal. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the wet ingredients. Stir well to combine. Fold in the chopped cranberries. 4. On a well floured surface roll the dough out to about a 1/3 of an inch thickness. Using your dog s favorite cookie cutter shape, cut out the treats and transfer to a baking sheet. 5. Bake for 20 minutes. Turn off the oven and leave the treats in there, allowing them to cool and crisp. Store in an airtight container. Apil 2014 Youngstown All Breed Training Club 9
Member of the Month Questionnaire: Please feel free to answer as many or as few of the questions as you like. If you think of another question to add in, please submit it and I will consider adding it to the list. Please keep your response to 650 words or less so that it will fit on one page of the newsletter. Please include a photo of yourself involved in a hobby that is not associated with your dog and one of you and your dog(s). Name: What is your day job or formal education/career or if retired your former career? Where are you originally from? How many places/states have you lived in? and did you train dogs there? 1. When did you start training dogs? 2. What was your first title you put on a dog? 3. When was your first show? 4. What breeds have you had and how did you pick the breed that you have now? 5. How many dogs have you trained? 6. How many titles have you completed? 7. What was one of your most memorable shows? 8. What was one of your most memorable titles or legs? 9. What is something special about you that is not dog related? 10. Do you have any hobbies that are not dog training related you would like to share? 11. What do you enjoy most about dog training? PLEASE E-MAIL the completed form to legendhold@johnstown.net so it can be included in our newsletter. Between 2 and 3 members will be included per month as we have space. 10 Youngstown All Breed Training Club April 2014
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Club Member Dog-related items for sale For each sale generated from a newsletter ad, we ask that you donate $1 or a reasonable amount (for items over $100) from each sale to the building fund. ITS A BREEZE TOO SOFT SIDED CRATES: - SOLD! Last one available Metal Crate! 1) $33.00: Champion Wire Metal Folding dog crate, front and side doors, 30L, 20W, 22H. White color. Like New. Used only a few times indoors. Recently bought, but too small for dog. FEATURES: Foldable suit case design allows for portable and easy storage. Each door is equipped with secure and simple slide bolt latches. Tough Coated ABS Pan. Durable and Easy to clean. Rounded Edges - Safer for puppy. No assembly required. Call Deborah Stewart (daytime or evening before 9 PM) at 724-981-0858. Can meet at YABTC on the nights I have class or if you are traveling in Hermitage, PA area, can try to meet. Club Member Dog-related items for sale For each sale generated from a newsletter ad, we ask that you donate $1 or a reasonable amount (for items over $100) from each sale to the building fund. For Sale - Black wire car-barrier - $35 Great for keeping dogs in the back seat or cargo area in a sport utility or small van. Never used. Too small for my large van. e-mail me to have me bring it to club to look at or try out the fit in your dog-taxi : legendhold@johnstown.net or call: 740-817-0022 Marla Belzowski Advertisments: YABTC accepts paid ads from vendors and any other For Profit business. 1/4 page $9 for 3 months, 1/2 page- $18 for 3 months, and full-page $30 for 3 months. Ads of other AKC Sanctioned Non-profit Clubs are free. All Advertisement proceeds go to our Building Fund. YABTC is a 503-C Non-Profit Club. Apil 2014 Youngstown All Breed Training Club 13
From: YABTC 11801 Mahoning Avenue P.O. Box 397 North Jackson, OH 44451-0397 To: The Newsletter of Youngstown All Breed Training Club April 2014 14 Youngstown All Breed Training Club April 2014