WHAT A GREAT MEETING AND POTLUCK

THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY ASSOC. PRESIDENT NORMAN JONES AT 7:00 PM.
THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS GENERAL MEETING WERE READ BY ASSOC. SEC. MARILYN NIGRO

REPORTS WERE MADE ON THE STATUS OF THE ASSOCIATION BY THE BOARD MEMBER'S PRESENT:
NORMAN JONES, JEFF DECKARD. KAREN SHUSTER, MARILYN NIGRO, GENE GUSTAFSON, ALLEN SHAW, AND BILL GIBSON, DAN GILSON WAS EXCUSED. AND DAVE PRUHS WAS ABSENT.

THE ASSOCIATION IS DOING WELL, THE FUND RAISER'S FOR THE TEAMS TRAVELING TO THE BBQ CONTESTS, BOTH CAME OFF GREAT THE MEMBER'S TURNED OUT TO HELP AND SHOW THEIR SUPPORT.

NORM REPORTED THAT WE NOW HAVE 34 NEW KCBS CERTAFIED TASTING JUDGES, THE CLASS WAS PUT ON BY MR JIM MONIHAN, AND THAT THE CERTIFICATES ARE GOOD FOR 5 YEARS.

NORMAN SPOKE ON THE SPOOKY TRAIN RIDE AND THE THANKFUL Q THANKSGIVING MEAL AT THE FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION,  INFORMATION FOR BOTH OF THESE EVENTS WILL BE POSTED ON THE HOME PAGE.

JEFF DECKARD STRESSED THE NEED FOR MORE MEMBERSHIP PARTICIPATION, THE ASSOCIATION CAN ONLY REMAIN AS STRONG AS IT'S MEMBER'S.

THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 7:35 PM.
THE NEXT MEEETING WIL BE IN JAN, 2012, DATE, TIME AND PLACE WILL BE POSTED LATER

( THIS IS JUST A VERY SHORT VERSION OF THE MINUTES,  A FULL COPY WILL BE SENT ON REQUEST, BY USING THE CONTACT'S PAGE )

AFTER THE MEETING THE POTLUCK WAS GREAT NORMAN PREPARED CHICKEN WHICH WAS DELICIOUS AS ALWAYS, AND THE MEMBERS PROVIDED A TASTY TABLE FULL OF SALADS SIDE DISHES AND DESERTS, I SAW ALOT OF HAPPY FACES AND FULL STOMACH'S EXIT THE DOOR.

NORMAN PUT ON A GREAT DEMO ON HOW TO START A FIRE IN A CHARCOAL CMIMINEY, AND BOTH HE A ND JEFF, HAD A DEMO ON HOW TO PREPARE CHICKEN FOR COMPETION.

ALL IN ALL IT WAS A GRAND MEETING AND A GREAT POTLUCK, OH WE NOW HAVE 6 NEW MEMBERS SO WELCOME, AND WE HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE OUT AT THE ASSOCIATION FUNCTIONS.