Secretaries Report from December

Get your diaries out we have the dates for our stock shows next year;

Presidents at York on the 3rd of Feb, Deanna Williams doing the honours.
Intermediate at Bury and Radcliffe on the 6th of April, Ros Waring keeping the female thing going! And very nice to have a couple of different faces behind a Northern table
YSS at East Yorkshire on the 7th of September with Vice President Ken Beecroft sorting the youngsters and the adult support, hope you can manage the travelling to the show Ken, and to finish the year our President Tom Stratford is sorting the adult Stock show and supporting YSS at East Lancs on the 23rd of November, both restoring the male balance, not forgetting experience, but I am too polite to add up the years they have spent behind the judging table.
Deb and I had a trophy stock take and a couple appear to have disappeared into cyberspace, the YSS Junior and the ASS yearbred, or someone’s loft, so could you please have a look when you get your Christmas tree down. You can’t miss them, they are too heavy to hang on the tree although they could have Santa’s name engraved on them.
Hope to see you all at our ASS, which will have passed when you are searching for the trophies, and please don’t forget to return your trophies for Bradford so those lucky enough to win are not disappointed.

Deb and Gary

Yearbook 2008 is now ready for printing.

Thanks for all your articles and yearbook adverts. The yearbook is now finished and Gary has it for final review and printing.

Our previous editor Danielle Hodson did a marvelous job before, but had to give it up to go to University. How she managed to do the yearbook and study for her A levels I will never know. Anyway shes off to University now, and I would like to thank her for her commitment to the yearbook wish her the best with her studies.

It was a lot more time consuming, than I first thought, and chasing people for updates takes time, not because they don't respond, its just theres so many people to talk to and dwarf people like to talk! Disasters along the way, the laser printer broke, and the 60-Day trial copy of Microsoft publisher expired 1 week before I was finished so I had to buy a copy.

I'll not give any clues as to whats in, but its around 96 pages this year.

Some new things will be announced at Bradford 2008, the new Calendar and the website will be launched officially.