Officers and Board Members President Jerry Cerasini/770-475-3152 ponyguru@aol.com First Vice President Ginger Aldrich/770-380-9404 snofire@aol.com Second Vice President Mary Ellen Macke/404-310-5933 maryellen.macke@harrynorman.com Treasurer Beth Hawthorne/770-312-8448 smileypoms@gmail.com Corresponding Secretary Karen Mays/678-957-9544 karen@zencor.com Recording Secretary Bud Hidlay/770-423-0333 budhidlay@comcast.net AKC Delegate Ann Wallin/770-343-8804 ann.wallin@harrynorman.com Board Members Class of 2015 Gilda Mallik/770-394-4098 gilndon@comast.net; Kathleen Steen/770-751-0133 kathleensteen@bellsouth.net Carol Simmons/770-967-2105 cmsdals@bellsouth.net Class of 2016 Paul Averill, DVM/706-865-7010 Wayne Holbrook/770-664-5756 wayne_holbrook@mindspring.com Carl Vitner/404-291-0123 September Menu Atlanta Kennel Club Digest September 2014 Birthdays Wednesday September 17 t h NEW LOCATION! NEW LOCATION! NEW DEADLINE*(See below)!! Gr i l l e d Tr o p i c a l Ch i c k e n w i t h Sa l s a with Chef 's Choice of Starch, Vegetable, & Dessert Mixed Green Salad with Choice of Dressing (Fresh Sliced Fruit Plate substitute for dessert) Kids Choice: Chicken Fingers and Fries All Meals are served with Fresh Bread and Butter, Coffee & Tea Alternate Choices upon request when making reservations. Vegetarian Choice is available. Se p t e m b e r 17, 2014 Me e t i n g Pr o g r a m: Stewarding Procedures for Old Timers & Newbies! Still confused about the OH series and OH judging?. We have the solution for you! Still confused about the OH series and OH judging?. We have the solution for you! In anticipation of our coming show, where our members and friends help with stewarding the rings, our program will offer an interactive review of the best stewarding practices and techniques to help us be more efficient stewards. We will especially review the oft confused Owner Handler classes and the OH Group judging process. For newbie s, there will be info on basic procedures and tips for making the ring experience for exhibitors and judges be the best it can be. If you plan to steward at our coming show, please do try your best to attend. NEW Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel ~ Roswell 1075 Holcomb Bridge Road Roswell, GA 30076 Phone: 770-992-9600 www.atlantaroswell.doubletree.com Time: 6:45 pm Salads Served 7:15-8:00 pm Dinner 8:00 pm (Sharp) Program begins 8:45-9:15 pm Adjourn Directions: Take GA-400 North to Exit 7B Roswell exit and turn onto Holcomb Bridge Road going West TOWARDS Roswell; the hotel is located.5 mile on the left at the second traffic light, Dogwood Road. RSVP: DINNER RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED If you plan to eat with us! You are not required to have dinner however. Join us for drinks or come shortly before 8 for the program only and short business meeting following. Please be sure to call ahead for your reservations if you plan to join us for Dinner as the Restaurant has a cut off for reservations and cancellations. Contact our Kellie Holbrook - 770-664-5756 or email her at holbrookcc@mindspring.com *NO LATER than Friday at NOON (September 12 th ) prior to the meeting on the following Wednesday. If you are on the standing reservation September Birthdays : Jenny Baum 9/11 Charles Delashmutt 9/14 James Gibson 9/14 Margaret Imeson-Hines 9/18 Debbie Brown 9/21 Charles Walker 9/25 Sandra Cook 9/27 Dot Bates 9/28 Kathleen Steen 9/29 October Birthdays : Jo R. Sarbell 10/1 Irene Eskridge 10/2 Charles Lloyd 10/5 Jim Macke 10/6 Cindy Stanselin 10/6 Liz Goodman 10/7 Freda Kirtley 10/10 Paula Steele, DVM 10/11 George Cooper 10/13 Marilynn Lockhart 10/15 Bob LaBerge 10/15 Chuck Milne 10/16 Barry Staples 10/17 Wayne Holbrooke 10/21 Tom King 10/21 Janet Lucree 10/24 Lisa Favre 10/26 Beth Hawthorne 10/27 Anniversaries September Anniversaries: Chuck & Darcy Quinlan 9/11 Ginger Aldrich 9/18 Yvonne & George Cooper 9/25 Valerie Dombrowski 9/26 Doris-Jean Molin 9/28 October Anniversaries: Denise Nickerson 10/1 Tim & Lana Dorn 10/2 Gary & Ethel Oller 10/3 Carla Joyce 10/10 Pam Mingo Sain 10/10 Tim Sain 10/10 Jerry & Sharon Smith 10/14 Neil & Dot Bates 10/15 list and do not attend you will be billed for your meal. Price $25 adults (this price reflects samoyed@bellsouth.net the reduction to the members from the actual cost as Atlanta KC subsidizes all dinners in the amount of $5 each as a benefit of membership) and $5 for children under 12. If you have special menu needs please mention this to the Hospitality Chair when you make your reservations. If you decide later to attend you can order food to go in the restaurant & bring it upstairs to eat with us. Let us know if you can and a place will be held at a table. Birthdays are mid-month to mid-month. Anyone Missing? Please let us know so we can get our lists up to date!! Contact: Ginger Aldrich snofire@aol.com
Judges Selection Committee 2013-2014 Please call committee members from the appropriate group to suggest judges for consideration by the selection committee which meets several times during the year. Please remember not everyone suggested can be placed on a panel due to a variety of reasons however club member input is given priority. We do work with our sister cluster clubs and also have a policy not to hire the same judge for the same show 2 years in a row. Since we do share judges with the other cluster clubs, we tend to try to hire judges approved for several groups, if possible, to control expenses through judge sharing. Members provisional for any breeds are also given a priority as well as suggestions from specialty clubs for their supported entries. Show Chairman Kathleen Steen 770-751-0311 - kathleensteen@bellsouth.net Sporting Mary Ellen Macke 404-310-5933 - maryellen.macke@harrynorman.com Working Carl Vitner 404-291-0123 - samoyed@bellsouth.net Hounds Jerry Cersasini - 770-475-3152 ponyguru@aol.com Non Sporting Dot Bates - 770-475-0410 - n_bates@bellsouth.net Toys Candy Wright 678-851-4633 - chiggerbug@gmail.com Herding Dr Carmen Battaglia cbattaglia@mindspring.com Terrier Gilda Mallik 770-394-4098 - gilndon@comcast.net Digest Coordinator: Gi n g e r Al d r i c h - Snofire@aol.com - 770-380-9404 Send any brags or articles of interest to Ginger. Mail Address: P.O. Box 242, Murrayville, GA 30564. We b m a s t e r: Jim Macke - jimmacke @comcast.net o r Ma r y El l e n Ma c k e - Ma r ye l l e n.m a c k e @h a r r y n o rm a n.c o m 404-310-5933. Call or email either Mary Ellen or Jim for website questions or help. Cards and Flowers : Ma r s h a Gre e n e - toydog@ballsouth.net - 770-851-0130 Please note our new chairperson is Marsha Greenee Please think of our members who have recently had surgery or otherwise been under the weather! Br a g s: Please send any brags to Ginger Aldrich for the Digest Snofire@aol.com, 770-380-9404, P.O. Box 42, Murrayville, GA 30564 (usually to be received prior to the 1st of each month)
Me m b e r s h i p: Gilda Mallik - g i l n d o n@c o m c a s t.n e t - 770-394-4098 No First or Second Readings in September. Mi k e Ra f a n a n 9530 Poston Rd, Jonesboro, GA 30238 Ph o n e : 229-221-2465 rafananmarcial@yahoo.com Bre e d: Smooth Fox Terrier, Tree Walker Coonhound Sp o n s o r s: Carol Simmons, Karen Mays Michelle Conroy 3023 Manning Drive, Marietta, GA 30062 bluedane20@gmail.com Bre e d: Great Dane Sp o n s o r s: Ginger Aldrich, Leslie Hotchkiss Raquel Roberson Rojas & Juan Rojas P.O. Box 12253, Atlanta, GA 30355 Ph o n e : 770-296-1580 getshugawear@yahoo.com Bre e d: Silky Terrier Sp o n s o r s: Ann Wallin, Kelly Holbrook Karen Byrd 4575 Hurt Bridge Road, Cumming, GA 30028 Ph o n e : 770-844-0312 678-523-1376 dakabyrd@bellsouth.net Bre e d: Papillon Sp o n s o r s: Kay Allred, Rose Hidlay Member information Update: Chris Bowker 4005 Eugene Avenue, Kennesaw GA 30152... bowmanor@bellsouth.net Ju n i o r s: Th e AKC Ju n i o r Sh o w m a n s h i p Fa c e b o o k Pa g e Check it out Juniors and Juniors supporters! https://www.facebook.com/akc.juniors
An n o u n c e m e n t s: Atlanta Obedience Club, Inc. Member of The American Kennel Club The Atlanta Obedience Club s Speaker for the Wednesday, October 8, 2014 Club meeting will be Dr. Sam Franklin,MS,DVM,PhD,DACVS,DACVSMR, Assistant Professor, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at the University of Georgia School of Veterinary Medicine. Because of the increasing importance of Sports Medicine in the lives of Canines, the Atlanta Obedience Club wanted to give as many people as possible an opportunity to hear Dr. Franklin. So please join us for our meeting in October to hear Dr. Franklin. Dr. Franklin will be speaking on a variety of topics including Arthroscopy, Minimally Invasive Surgery and Sports Medicine. Dr. Franklin is a Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Surgeons and a Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is one of the first DACVSMR in the country. Information for the meeting: Date: October 8, 2014 Time: 7:30 PM Location: AOC Training Building Address: 1193D Beaver Ruin Road, Norcross, GA 30093 Please bring a chair as we have a limited number in the building. Questions: Gail LaBerge, outland@laberge.org, 770-271-7246
Continue the Tradition! Volunteer to Steward! It is a long tradition of the Atlanta kennel Club for our members and friends to steward our Fall Show. That is virtually unheard of in these days for a show the size of ours. I extend a very heartfelt thank you to all of you who have volunteered to steward and made that accomplishment possible. But now it s another year and another dog show and we need your help to extend our string of successes. So again I ask you to volunteer to steward for all or part of the day of our show on October 18. Please help us out and volunteer this year so we can keep the tradition alive. The ring steward is our ambassador of hospitality and good sportsmanship to the exhibitors. For many exhibitors, the ring steward is the only representative of our club that they will meet at our show. I hope many of you will volunteer to steward and help to extend the warm and friendly Atlanta Kennel Club hospitality in which we all take pride. I hope all of you that volunteered last year will do so again this year. We ask our more experienced members to please volunteer again, to help at least part of a day. Your experience will be invaluable as some of our newer members learn their way around the ring. And for our newer members, this is a great way to start getting involved. We need all of you! Please help us staff all of our rings with our own members and friends (you don t have to be a member to steward, bring your neighbors or co-workers, what a way for them to learn about dog shows!) For those of you that are still wavering, remember we will send you a free reserved parking pass AND there will be a free lunch. I m sure you will agree that it s worth at least a few hours of your time to be able to enjoy a gourmet lunch arranged by our own Chuck Milne. Our lunches are now legendary in the dog show world. It sure beats dog show food. I m sure none of you will be able to resist volunteering with these enticements. Now for a personal plea. I know a lot of you are sitting there reading the Digest and thinking I m willing to help but I ll just wait until Jim calls me. Please help me out and go ahead and pick up the phone and call, or fill out the attached form and fax it, or even mail it. Those of you reading the Digest online just go ahead and email me now. But whatever you do, even if you insist on waiting for my phone call, please help continue the Atlanta Kennel Club tradition of hospitality and volunteer to steward. We can schedule you around other commitments you may have at the show so don t let that deter you. If you are inexperienced, we ll pair you up with an experienced steward for some OJT... You may call me at 404-583-5783, e-mail me at jimmacke@comcast.net, or mail the sign-up form to me. Thank you, Jim Macke, Chief Ring Steward (Fall, 2014 Show)
Atlanta Kennel Club Steward Sign-up Form I volunteer to steward at the Atlanta Kennel Club Fall Show on October 18, 2014 Name: Phone: (Home): (Business): E-mail: Address: City: State: Zip: When Available (examples; all day, until noon, after judging of Maltese): Not Available (examples; during judging of Weimaraners, during judging of toy poodles and 1 hour prior): I would like to steward for (breed or judge): I am experienced: yes no I need training: yes no Comments: Please return to: Jim Macke 13275 Cogburn Road Alpharetta, GA 30004 Fax: (770) 667-1878 Email: jimmacke@comcast.net For additional information call 404-583-5783 or email jimmacke@comcast.net Just let me know if you want to help the club and call or email ASAP we will work around your schedule
FDA Issues Warning Letters for Unapproved Tear Stain Removers Used in Dogs and Cats August 29, 2014 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing warning letters today to companies manufacturing unapproved animal drugs to remove tear stains in dogs and cats. These products, including Angels Eyes, Angels Glow, Pets Spark, and exported products Glow Groom and Health Glow, have not been reviewed by FDA for safety and effectiveness. These tear stain removers also contain the medically important antibiotic tylosin tartrate, which is not approved for use in dogs or cats, nor for the treatment of conditions associated with tear stains. Tear stain remover products are used to treat tear staining conditions around the eyes of animals, which, in particular, is associated with a condition called epiphora, mostly in cats and dogs. FDA has serious concerns about unapproved animal drugs. Unapproved animal drugs are not reviewed by FDA and may not meet FDA s strict standards for safety and effectiveness. These tear stain drug products may be subject to additional enforcement action should the products continue to be marketed, such as seizure of violative products and/or injunction against the manufacturers and distributors of the violative products. -- --