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THE WHIPPET NEWS THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN WHIPPET CLUB JUNE 2010 AWC OFFICERS President.... ............................................ Russell McFadden 505-753-6782 APPLICATIONS FOR AWC MEMBERSHIP Vice President.... .................................... Connie Brunkow 217-431-8972 Treasurer... ............................................ .David Samuelson 651-454-4174 � Suzi Bender, 804 E. Burk Rd. Colbert WA 99005 509- Secretary .......................................................... Cindy Scott 719-594-9974 466-6886 [email protected] Sponsors Rene’e ................................. 3655 Cragwood Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80907 Clayton, Dani Jacobsen Board of Directors: Class of 2011……….Lisa Costello, Cindy Scott � Jill Hopfenbeck, DVM, 34 Fisher St., Uxbridge Class of 2012: ….Connie Brunkow, Russ McFadden, Kay Nierengarten Class of 2013: .... ...Henry Heil, Christine Hopperstad, Donna Lynch, MA 01569 508-278-7102 [email protected] David Samuelson Sponsors: Shirley Cooney, Jane Cooney-Waterhouse AKC DELEGATE.… ............................ …..Donna Lynch 508-636-0705 ASFA DELEGATE:…………………………... CJ Foxx 303-424-5144 COMMENTS regarding applicants may be sent to — AWC COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Membership Chair Kay Nierengarten, 5654 Chalstrom Dr., Archives ......................................................... Bo Bengtson 805-646-3151 Saginaw, MN 55779 — or emailed to: Health. ................ Drs. Connie Austin, Connie Brunkow, Lisa Costello [email protected] Futurity .......................................................... Kathy Slater 618-585-4677 Judge’s Education ........................................... Mary Dukes 704-843-7195 Membership .......................................... Kay Nierengarten 218-729-8003 Parade of Honors ............................ Alice VandenBussche 315-945-2672 WELCOME NEW SUBSCRIBERS Performance Events ............................... Dr. Lisa Costello 815-695-1930 WELCOME BACK: LAST ISSUE ROM Program ............................................ Donna Lynch 508-636-0705 Lynne Armstrong, Concord, California; Kenneth Carter, Show ................................................................ Cindy Scott 719-594-9974 Portland, Oregon; Stephanie Connerton, Mt. Airy, Mary- Top Twenty ............................................ Linda Waggoner 541-347-2171 land; Donna Lynn Evans, Torrington, Connecticutt; Shirley Versatility .................................................. John Heffernan 413-369-4399 INDEPENDENT WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS: Fremo, Moorhead, Minnesota; Priscilla Gabosch, Collings- Whippet Health Foundation ............... Mary Beth Arthur 414-355-4776 wood, New Jersey; Jill Hopfenbeck, Uxbridge, Massachu- Whippet Rescue, WRAP ............. Dr. Barbara Henderson 301-490-6598 setts; Pirjo Muhonen, Helsinki, Finland; Debra Parravani, Applications for AWC membership may be obtained either on request from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Rita VanHaeren, Tongeren, Bel- Membership Chair Kay Nierengarten, 5654 Chalstrom Dr., Saginaw, MN gium 55779, or emailed to [email protected] TIME TO RENEW: AWC website: www.americanwhippetclub.net Gisela Burke, Nancy Crader, Patricia Edgington, Patricia Breeder Referrals: Mary Downing [email protected] George, Susan Hendrickson, Ellen Kristensen, Geoffrey THE WHIPPET NEWS Waddell Newsletter Editor ................... Christine Hopperstad, 130 34th Ave. E., Seattle, WA 98112 phone & fax 206-322-5872, [email protected] Assoc. Editor ……………….Kirsten Hopperstad, [email protected] Dear Readers, Annual Editor ............................ Wendy Clark, 5088 Breckenhurst Dr., After a lot of help from David Howton I am finally able to Hilliard, OH 43026 614-777-0124 [email protected] offer the option of Paypal payments for newsletter subscrip- One year subscription rate for monthly newsletter & annual: tions and charges for advertising. To take advantage of us- online only $25.00, print $45; foreign: online only $25, print $60 ing this way to transfer funds, all you need to do is go to the Advertising (on a space available basis): Full page, one photo -- $50.00, each additional photo $10.00 AWC website http://www.americanwhippetclub.net/ You will Full page, camera ready -- $40.00 (preferably emailed as an attachment, find the link to the newsletter information page on the left or printed out on standard paper) hand side. Thank you David!! — Next weekend the Cana- Text only, no photos: Full page -- $35.00, Half page -- $25.00 dian National Specialty up across the border from here Photographs should be originals and will be returned. should be great fun with a second specialty and a show and Pedigrees must be typed in standard pedigree format. DEADLINE — The first day of the month for that month’s issue. go complete with coursing and conformation to round out three days of competition and lots of visiting. Perfect sum- THE WHIPPET NEWS ANNUAL Current issue: 2009. Back issues available for 1986-2008 (except 1987 & 1990 through 1992). Cost: $25.00 mertime events. — Sad news... BIS SBIS Am. DC Can. Fin. each ($30.00 foreign), which includes shipping; all funds in U.S. dollars, Nor. Swed. Ch. Sporting Field's Jazz Fest, SC, FCh, ROMX payable by check or money order to Whippet Annual. Mail to Annual died recently just shy of his 16th birthday. He was not only a Editor Wendy Clark (address above). Purchase can also be made through lovely balanced dog himself with great talent in the show PayPal at: http://www.americanwhippetclub.net/awcpages/ awcannualbackissues.html ring and on the coursing field, but also produced outstanding The American Whippet Club and The Whippet News assume no responsibility for children all over the world. statements or claims made in the letters to the editor or advertisements that appear in its publications. National Show Chair Cindy Scott 719-594-9974 [email protected] President’s Message Eastern Harriett Lee 434-295-4525 [email protected] It’s June 14th. At 2:00 am this morning I got home after spending Midwest Pat Richey 330-735-2486 time at the Saluki Club of America (SCOA) National held in Lexington, Ken- [email protected] tucky. The SCOA National is held in Lexington every year during the first week North Central David Samuelson 651-454-4174 of June. It is their permanent site or at least it has been the site used for the [email protected] last 30 plus years. It is an outside show at the Kentucky Horse Park in June – South Central Nancy Billups 806-381-0601 did I emphasize that enough? – it’s held outside annually in Kentucky during [email protected] the first week of June. This show, in my opinion, is absolutely one of the worst Southern David Howton 770-345-2120 shows ever put on which is a really sad comment since it is a National Specialty [email protected] (isn’t a National supposed to be the showcase for a breed held in the best con- Western Pam Magette, 562-598-8717 ditions possible?). The ring was in a different location this year than the last [email protected] time I attended this show a couple of years ago (I know, you would have thought I would have learned from my first experience but some of us need to AWC SHOW CALENDAR be hit with a baseball bat twice before it sinks in) so it was on a more level AWC 2011 National Specialty, 2/2/12—2/9/11 field but that was the only improvement that I could see. Even though it was Lexington, Kentucky, Judge Harriett Nash Lee level this year, the ring size was ridiculous (I heard both 75’x75’ and 100’x100’ (Winsmith) http://www.awc2011.com for dimensions) because you practically needed binoculars to see the dogs if South Central Regional Specialty July 3rd held they were on the opposite side of the ring. I exaggerate not - I have 20/20 with the Oklahoma KC Cluster, Breed Michael vision so it’s not like I’m blind. We (my traveling companion and I) got there on Dougherty, Sweeps Todd Miller (JOMYR). July 4, Wednesday evening (June 9th) so we missed the first two days of pouring rain Lone Star Whippet Club Support, Sweeps Denise which turns the beautiful Kentucky Blue Grass field into a steam bath when the Travis, Breed Mrs. Jane Forsyth. rain stops and the sun comes out. The exhibitors in the Futurity and Sweeps AWC Western Regional July 30, Lompoc, CA. classes got to deal with this. Thursday and Friday were just hot and muggy Breed Allan Pepper (Canada); Sweeps Floyd Gale until a storm front moved in on Friday just as Reserve Winners Bitch was being (Beach-brook Afghans) Weekend judges Mary Lou judged – I was racing to get our stuff to the van so it wouldn’t get drenched so Harris & Daniel Dowling. Bradshaw, Supt. I never saw the class being judged. A friend’s canopy we were under blew into Midwest Regional Thursday, August 5, Judge the vendor’s setup behind us and a couple of others belonging to other people Reggie Nesbitt, Friday Connie Alexander, Saturday were destroyed by the wind all while the judge was trying to pick his Reserve Wendy Gay, Sunday Geir Flykt-Petersen. Sweep- placement. When we got up Saturday morning and it was raining again we stakes Friday PM, Judge Crystal McNulty. packed up and came home without staying to suffer the elements while watch- North Central Regional August 27, with St. Croix ing Best of Breed. Oh, and I might also mention the SCOA annual meeting is Valley Combined Specialties and St. Croix Valley held under the tent ringside – again in the sweltering heat – and there is no Cluster, Lake Elmo, MN. Breed Lori Nelson host hotel so everybody just stays wherever they will take dogs in hotels scat-