June 2009 - Kitchener Waterloo Aquarium Society

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Hi All,
From the President’s Desk
Hello All,
From The Editors’ Desk
Well where has the time gone? We now have a new Executive
and Board of Directors, and although some of the faces are the
same, we have some new people.
I would like to thank the previous BOD for your effort and
contributions to running the club, also a big thank you if you
are returning. I would also like to welcome Beth Graham and
Dianna Daigle for taking over the Library, Ryan and Kelli
Barton for taking the BAP, Ed Koerner for taking the HAP. I
expect all our programs will be up and running again, and we
will see certificates awarded at our meetings.
We have started planning for “Oktoberfish”, if you would like
to play a leading role contact Al Ridley the Oktoberfish Chair.
This is the last meeting before summer, so I would like to wish
you all “fun in the sun”, I’m looking forward to those nice
warms days and long evenings, and I plan to use my newly
acquired motor home a great deal this summer. I may have to
take up fishing again!!!!
The club has been contacted by the University of Waterloo to
participate in a research project regarding fresh water filtration
systems, so we should know more at the meeting (page 13).
June is pizza night, tank giveaway night and an evening of
fellowship and friendship, so be there or you miss out.
See you at the meeting,
Geoff Money
President, KWAS
First, we’d like to wish you all a happy, safe and prosperous
summer. We’ve already started our vegetable garden. Have
you?
Second, we’d like to announce a new policy for the covers. In
recent months it’s been hard to print some of the entries from
the online contest due to the small resolution of the winning
images. At the same time there have been some fantastic shots
by non-regular contributors who lost out by just a hair on the
forums. So, to encourage a wider set of people to submit their
photos and to enable a wider variety of fish, we’re going to take
submissions directly. Send any photo you wish to be considered
for printing in the newsletter (or on the cover) to
cam.turner@gmail.com. The minimum dimensions for the front
cover are 2400x1800 pixels but send any image along and we
may use it somewhere else inside an upcoming edition. Thanks!
Lastly, on page 22 you’ll find our latest plea for more articles.
We’re willing to bribe you for them now. Not having enough
material for each newsletter and scrambling for content at the
last minute is very stressful. Help save us from an early grave
and write something.
Have a great summer and hopefully we’ll see you at the June
social, the picnic in July or at the general meeting in September
if you’re back from summer vacation by then.
Take care of each other,
Cam Turner & Tanya Morose
Newsletter Editors, KWAS
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