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CONEJO QUIVER [email protected] www.cvarchers.com JANUARY 2016 1 From the Desk of the President Kurt Hoberg Tournament Range Concrete work will be starting soon, with the placement of the shooting line, ADA line, curbs, and other miscellaneous work. In response to El-Nino, Bob had a contractor complete placement of the rip rap rock for drainage, and also placed a number of wattles to divert runoff as due to our concrete delays the drainage system is not yet complete. The range came through the first osoo of the seaso ith iial issues ad the io uoff poles ill e remediated. The board is still working on logistics of range use for club members vs. when we host tournaments, and how to utilize this new exciting space for the entire club. If you have ideas and questions please let me know. Tournament News The 2016 Tournament season has started. The first weekend of the California State Indoor Tournament has completed, with over 15 CVA archers in attendance. The California State JOAD tournament is done, with standings and medals already presented. I ey poud of ou fist tie touaet ahes, as a fist touaet a e a ey stressful event. We had a couple of our youth archers overcome their first day nerves to come back on the second day to shoot strong and consistent. Overcoming these types of obstacles is what tournament shooting is all about, and our kids did great! After shooting completes the weekend of the 16th we will know how everyone placed. Look for final CVA standings in next months Quiver. On an interesting change of note, this tournament used a new scantron based scoring system, where archers filled in bubbles in a scantron scorecard in addition to a typical 2 paper based scorecard. The scantrons were fed into a system that allows for quick scoring as well as near real-time posting to a Website (www.ianseo.net). The site also allows for quick review of target assignments, standings, event information, and other interesting facts. Visit the site to learn more. Personally I liked using the new system to score and look forward to using it in upcoming tournaments. I'll be learning more about the system as it may be a possibility for use here at CVA for our tournaments. The following tournaments are coming up soon. If you are interested in shooting them browse to the links to get more information: Las Vegas Warm-up Invitational at the Easton Van Nuys Archery Center (Jan 23rd). NOTE: Recurve Only Tournament. http://www.esdf.org/vannuys/events- and-tournaments/las-vegas-warm-up-invitational/ US National Indoor and 2016 JOAD National Indoor held at Tulare, CA (Feb 26th – 28th) https://webpoint.usarchery.org/wp15/Events2/ViewEvt.wp?EventID=5155 The Vegas Warm-Up is one of my favorite events and is for Recurve Bows only. Indoor Nationals in Tulare is filling up fast, so if you are interested I would suggest registering soon. Let e ko if thee ae ay uestios ad Ill e happy to help JOAD / Adult Achievement Pin Program Cogatulatios to this oths Adult Ahieeet Pi pogram award earners. Great job and fine shooting! As of the time of writing this article, here are the achievements: Melissa Weiser – 2nd pin, shooting Barebow Brandon Newcomer – 8th pin, shooting FITA Recurve The JOAD pin program gains a new member once every few months, so there is room! For those youth archers who are interested in participating in the JOAD pin program 3 please see me during our Saturday Public Sessions. Congratulations to the following archers for their fine shooting! As of the time of writing this article, here are the achievements: AJ Hammerquist – 1st pin, shooting Compound Tara Grant – 8th pin, shooting FITA Recurve 3D Range We have had some issues on the 3D range with people removing trees and bushes, moving 3D targets from their permanent places, etc. I'm sure that people are trying to help on the range, however these ad-hoc changes are in fact undermining the intent of the range, which is to simulate a bow hunting experience. Bryan Tanger is the 3D Range Captain. Everything that happens on the 3D Range needs to go through him for review. His word is the final say on the 3D Range, so please extend to him the respect that his role requires. The progress on the 3D Range is a direct result of his vision and leadership. By adjusting the range, moving targets, taking shots that are not sanctioned and safe, the range suffers, and CVA has had to spend funds to remediate. Bryan will be penning an article in this month' quiver to discuss and expand on my points, so be sure to read and understand his message. Thanks! See you on the range! Your President, Kurt Remember, archery is easy. Shoot a 10, do it again! 4 From the Desk of the VP Bonnie Marshall Happy New Year Conejo Valley Archers!!! I would like to focus my article this month on our upcoming Open House Event. As we get closer to our 50th year as a club we can be proud to say we are a solid growing organization with a strong and supporting base of great members. As we go through this year I hope everyone looks back on some of the great memories you have had on the range with family and friends and continue to support our efforts to make sure that during the next 50 years we can give that experience to many more! The plan to have a huge 50th Anniversary Party is still on the books to run concurrent with the new Tournament Range Grand Opening. This keeps the cost directed at one large event instead of two smaller ones in the same year. So we will move forward for our annual event. OPEN HOUSE Saturday March 26th 2016 9am to 2pm Plans for Open Hose will include presentations of bow history, string making, arrow fletching and cresting, flint knapping arrowheads and all can take home a special gift! We will be serving a BBQ plate for $5 a plate and anyone who attends the Public Open Session will get a free lunch! We are working on some special guests. We will be conducting tours of the field and 3D ranges and will have club members on theses ranges showing off their shooting techniques for newcomers to see how we use the range. The Public Open sessions will still be running concurrently and our hope is to direct these people down onto the other fields as many attendees do not realize that there are any other parts to our range other than the JOAD Range and the parking lot!! Of course to make this a success we need YOU!! The best Open House will display our members and how they interact with each other and the diversity of what archery gives 5 us in shooting options and also in our members. Having as many members on the range will look impressive and as I have told every person that I interview during the eeship poess that e ae all the fae of CVA ad the oe the eie! Joe Tischler will be or has reached out to members to ask for specific help with certain presentations. We will need additional help in many areas though such as roving shooters, kitchen service, recycling, set up, clean up, manning tables as assistants, running tours, drivers with a truck (gas will be paid for by the club) and docents. The last two positions will be working together to expose the public to the ranges and will be vital in the process of exposing people to our club. All of these positions are easy to do and WE NEED YOU! PLEASE contact me to let me know what job you would like to help with. If I can get more than one person for a specific area then we can cut the hours that everyone will need to be at the range. Again many hands make light work for all! This is always a very fun event, so please make time for doing this. You can contact me at 805-427-5399 and remember first come first served for your choice of positions!! Bonnie Membership Corner The holidays ae oe ad o ost of us dot hae ay days off util Meoial Day! As sad as that is, it just goes to show how important having a membership at our club is. It is a place in our lives where we can go for a few hours and have a wonderful time with family, friends or just by ourselves. Remember to always let others know how great your membership is to have and how great it is to have a place like our club to be a part of. I would like to thank all of you who have renewed your membership on time and I hope you are enjoying all of its benefits. I will be sending out a final renewal reminder to those who have not yet done so. There is a normal amount of retention and loss of members each year but we work very hard to keep reducing that ratio. We continue to retain a higher percentage every year. 6 We also ask members who do not renew; why. It is very important that we know if members feel that they are being served and heard. I can tell you that my surveys from last year revealed that we continue to be a great club and although some are due to financial constraints, most non renewals are due to things like not having time to shoot, job changes, moving away or going to college.