Tailwagger March, 2005<title>  </head> <body text="black" link="#330066" vlink="#9966ff" alink="#006600" bgcolor="white"> <img src="images/linklogo.jpg" border="1"> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/index.html"><img src="images/linkhome.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Home Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/about.html"><img src="images/linkabout.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to learn about the Inland Empire Collie Club"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/events.html"><img src="images/linkevents.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to learn about Inland Empire Collie Club's Upcoming Events"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/clubhistory.html"><img src="images/linkhistory.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's History Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/rainbowbridge.html"><img src="images/linkrainbowbridge.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Rainbow Bridge Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/picturegallery.html"><img src="images/linkpicturegallery.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Picture Gallery Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/breedhistory.html"><img src="images/linkbreedhistory.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to learn about the Collie"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/links.html"><img src="images/linklinks.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Links Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/va.html"><img src="images/linkva.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Versatility Awards Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/romp.html"><img src="images/linkprom.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Performance Register of Merit Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/conformation.html"><img src="images/linkconformation.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Conformation Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/obedience.html"><img src="images/linkobedience.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Obedience Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/tracking.html"><img src="images/linktracking.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Tracking Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/herding.html"><img src="images/linkherding.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Herding Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/agility.html"><img src="images/linkagility.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Agility Page"></a> <a href="http://www.inlandempirecollieclub.org/rally.html"><img src="images/linkrally.jpg" width="75" height="40" border="2" alt="click here to go to the Inland Empire Collie Club's Rally Page"></a> <div style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> INLAND EMPIRE COLLIE CLUB <img src="images/tailwagger3-05.jpg" border="0" alt="Tailwagger March 2005"> Collies: They Stick with You THE TAILWAGGER March, 2005 Suzanne Schwab, Editor <a href="mailto:sschwab@icehouse.net">E-mail Suzanne</a> What We Have Been Doing Our January 20 meeting was held at Sharon Holden’s. Our February 10 meeting was held at Joyce Berk’s house. Attendance at the February meeting was a bit low as many members stayed home drinking home remedies of their choice in an attempt to kill off flu bugs. Sharon reported in January that we had $2628 in our bank accounts. Linda Ward reported that due to some scheduling conflicts at the Grant County Fairgrounds we will be having our April Specialty spread among a few buildings. Conformation, obedience, and our pot-luck will be held in a three separate buildings. Details of what’s happening where will appear in the premium list. Club members may reserve grooming space for $ 5. Linda also reported that we’ve had good support for trophy donations both by members and by clubs and individuals on the coast. Thanks to all the generous donors who have contributed to making our 50th Anniversary Specialty, special. We will also be raffling a Precision Metal Crate valued at $1200. Tickets will be $5 each or 5 for $20. Thanks to Eileen White’s technical expertise, and picture and copy contributions from Linda and Tanya Ward, Karen Hathaway, Bonnie Young and myself we now have a very spiffy brochure and poster to distribute to vet offices, pet supply stores and training clubs showing off the collie as a valued family companion. The brochure describes our club activities and gives contact information so that people interested in becoming more involved in activities with their collie, or people considering adopting a collie will know how to get in touch with other cool collie folks. Copies should be available for everyone at the specialty. We are also putting together a slide show in celebration of our 50th Anniversary to be shown at our April Specialty. It will include pictures from those ancient days when we wore bell bottom pants and it was our waists that were thin and our hair that was big instead of vice versa, as well as photos of our more recent activities in the show ring and with our collie companions. I’m hoping that it will be possible to transfer this to a DVD or VHS tape that members can purchase at cost if they are interested. AKC is sponsoring an Award for Canine Excellence. Karen suggested that we have some pretty excellent canines living with us, and that we should prepare nominations for some of our dogs. We can send our nominations to Karen, and she will forward them to AKC. Deadline to get the nominations to AKC is June 15. From the AKC website, the criteria for selecting the ACE award are as follows: “To qualify, the purebred dog must be AKC registered or registerable, and have performed some exemplary act, whether large or seemingly small that has significantly benefited a community or individual. One award will be given in each of the following five categories: Law Enforcement Dog, Search and Rescue Dog, Therapy Dog, Service Dog, and Companion Dog..... Each of the five honorees will receive a cash award of $1,000 and an engraved sterling silver medallion, which they will receive at a special presentation ceremony at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship in Tampa, Florida in January 2006.” We will be holding a conformation/obedience fun match at Trent Elementary School on April 2, starting at 8:30 AM. Assistance from all members in helping ring steward and set up and tear down is appreciated. Brags Conformation: Cheryl Hess reports that her smooth collie, Josh, was BOW at the Tacoma KC shows back in Jan. for a 3 point major. His sister, Katie, CH. Bloomsday Kiss Me Kate, was BOS.† At the Puyallup Dog Fanciers the following day, Josh was WD for his final points making him CH. Bloomsday Noble Gesture.† Josh finished with 4 majors from the Bred by Exhibitor Class. <img src="images/tailwagger3-05_02.jpg" border="0" alt="Tailwagger March 2005"> GETTING TO KNOW OUR MEMBERS Joyce Berk is one of our long time members. She is a Spokane native who has always been involved with animals, including her husband Gordon’s horses and cattle. She worked for 7 years at an animal clinic, and maintained a boarding kennel and grooming shop into the 1990’s. She became interested in collies when she met Gordon’s friend Chuck Stolz. Chuck was one of the founding members of IECC, and Joyce was smitten by one of his collies who accompanied Chuck on a family visit. Chuck gave Joyce a wonderful male collie named Mack. After attending her first dog show, Joyce was bitten by the show bug, and in over 40 years she still hasn’t recovered. At one of her first shows Joyce met a youngster named Bonnie Scollard who was showing her collies, and they struck up a life long friendship. Joyce and Bonnie eventually acquired a rough tri male that they named Glenacres Shadalon O’ Shayn who became their first champion. They combined Joyce’s Glenacres Kennel name with Bonnie’s Shadalon Kennel name, and Shadaglen Collies was born. Over the years, Joyce and Bonnie co-bred many champion rough and smooth collies, had some nice wins at the national specialties and in the group rings, and in the early 80’s had the thrill of seeing a youngster of their breeding named Amberlynn Bright Tribute go BIS from the classes. A few years later, they decided to branch out to a breed that could be shown year round. At least that’s Joyce’s story, although I suspect that she really wanted a breed that doesn’t need a lot of grooming and whose feet don’t have to be trimmed. At any rate, Shadaglen Collies became Shadaglen Collies and Salukis. While Bonnie has continued to maintain the collie portion of the partnership, Joyce has bred and shown four generations of salukis. Her bitch Zara turned out to be an excellent show dog. Although she’s now more frequently seen outside the hound ring cheering her lovely male Daryl on to another group placement, Joyce can still be easily persuaded to hang around with us collie folks, helping at fun matches and other events, and even grooming a collie or two at our specialties. </div> </body> </html>