BEFORE THE MEETING DINNER
If anyone wants to meet for dinner before the meeting you
can join us at Panera Bread at 91st
and Memorial at 6:00.
President's Message
Fourteen people - 9 members and 5 guests - braved the
possible bad weather to attend MCKC's Second Annual Westminster Wine Tasting
Party. There was lots of good food (and wine!) and everyone had a
great time visiting and watching the final night of the Westminster Show.
Members Charles & Phyllis Simmons' entry in the wine tasting won Best
White and guest (and soon to be new MCKC member) Donna Bennett's entry
won Best Red. Donna was also the winner of the drawing for a wine
book. Tulsa was well represented at Westminster with
local professional handlers Linda Clark, Brenda Combs, and Perry Payson in the
Groups. MCKC members Bonnie Berney & Helga Kamp's new Chinese
Shar Pei Ch
Chaoyang's Chick Magnet at Asia was awarded Best of Opposite Sex - CONGRATULATIONS!!
We all missed Lori Finlayson & Deby Harber who were lucky
enough (along with Bonnie & Helga) to be in NY at the show.
Hopefully this fun Westminster party
will be held again next year!
Secretary Deby Harber has been forwarding alerts and
updates concerning Oklahoma
House Bill 1332. To keep the updates to a workable number we will
only be forwarding news from AKC and the Oklahoma Animal
Interest Alliance - a group based in the Oklahoma City area that tries to
get accurate information to local and state leaders in the hopes of getting
reasonable and enforceable laws passed. The MCKC Board has been trying to
join this group so we can add our voices and resources. We need an
MCKC member to head up our efforts so if you would like to take this
position please contact me.
One interesting note - MCKC member Julia
Ziegler was in OKC and spoke with the force behind HB 1332 Ms Denney and
also Representative John Sullivan's Legislative Assistant. Ms
Denny said she loves dog shows, knows they bring a lot of revenue to Oklahoma, and feels
her bill would not harm show breeders. Mr Sullivan's Assistant
told Julia that they shut down their phones and computers when the
onslaught of calls and emails came in before the vote. So Julia
questions how much good such campaigns do to sway our leaders.
The Board will soon have some VERY EXCITING NEWS about
MCKC's future shows. But for now to keep you updated we will hold our Spring
Show in Grove on Sunday, April 12th. This will be our last show in
Grove and plans are for us to hold back-to-back shows in Tulsa from now on.
We had hoped to be allowed to hold shows the last weekend of August at Expo
Square this year but since that would mean we would have held three
shows in 2009 we needed AKC Board approval to do this. They would
not give us approval, plus West Central Oklahoma KC moved to this weekend, so
we have scraped plans for an August show. The Grove show will be our
only show this year - the Board hopes we can get a B Match maybe coupled
with a Meet The Breeds scheduled for this year and then move-on to an EXCITING
2010!
Karen Gibson, President
andauerwhp@aol.com
918-299-1114
