CLUB OFFICERS President: Jerry Alexander(898-8945) Vice President: Ronnie Courvelle(850-4207) Secretary: Mike Nickels (712 326-5779) Treasurer:Brent Simmerman(597-9497) Trustee:Ed Rebarich(345-7608)
Trustee: Dave Holthouse (291-0211) News Editor:Lee Pereksta(592-3856) 3D Coordinator: Mike Palm(590-3439) Indoor Range Coordinator Tom Bocman (344-8019) Indoor range phone (734-7272)
Key Dates to Remember
Tuesdays - Indoor Leagues 6:30 pm
April 5 - Club Meeting, 7:00 Indoor Range
May 23 - First Outdoor 3D, at the Archdiocese camp
March Club Meeting The March meeting was held on March 1 with 25 members in attendance. We discussed the Wahoo shoot and several club issues. We also voted in 4 new memberships.
New Members We voted in four new memberships at our March meeting. Our newest memberships are Josh Hansen, Bart & Rebecca Witte, Ken & Cathy Sindelar, and Jack and Barb Santee. Welcome to the Ahamo Archery Club.
Wahoo Update
Wahoo 2010 is now history. We had 370 shooters and everything ran as planned. Thanks go out to all members that helped.
Members attended planning meetings, inventoried targets and equipment, found and signed up target sponsors, cut trees, loaded equipment, worked 2 long days setting up the range, ran registration, policed and ran shooting lines, helped with registration, and took down all of the equipment and targets after the shoot.
Without the help of all of our members, putting a shoot like this on would have been impossible. Thank you to all that helped.
A couple of special notes on the shoot. Dick Sousa again did a super job organizing everything for the shoot. He planned and ran all of the meetings, coordinated the work parties, went to 2-rivers to line up the trees, spent 2 long days helping to set up, spent all day Saturday and Sunday working the shoot, and even went back to Wahoo to patch holes in the wall caused by errant arrows. Many, many thanks Dick.
Thanks also to Dave Holthouse for his computer skills during the shoot, and for his help at workparties, especially for hauling one of the trailers during the tree cutting activities.
A big thanks to Jesse Gonzalez again for the use of his trailer multiple times, and his help during tree cutting, loading trailers, setting up and hauling targets and equipment.
Thanks also to Mike Stanner for the use of his trailer, and to Sharon for hauling it out for tear down and helping clean-up.
Another thanks to Akiye for all of her work organizing the food and the food committee for the shoot, and to all of her helpers.
Another thanks to Mike Vandeman for making our new bionic cuyote, for obtaining the scaffolding we used to shoot from, and for all of his help inventorying targets and setting up the shoot.
Mike Palm was also a great help at this shoot. As our 3D coordinator he coordinated the targets used for the shoot, supervised set-up, and spent a great deal of time on the tower with his wife Tammy, running the shoot. Thank you Mike.
Mike Nickels was also an invaluable club member, he coordinated getting the bow for the raffle to the shoot, the score cards, the trophies, the sponsor money, and much much more.
Finally, there’s our club president. Jerry helped everywhere. He got a taste of registration, sorting cards, and running the tower and the shoot. His wife Diane was a great help with the other wives in the kitchen.
Thanks also go out to those that helped with registration, and to those that helped run the lines, and at all of our work parties. Without the help of all of our members this shoot would not have been able to pull this off.
I have lots more pictures. Be sure to be at our annual banquet next year to see them.
Club News
Now for something a little more serious. At our last meeting we noted that the money in the pop can was disappearing. Our pop machine was broken so we put pop in the refrigerator and left a can out to hold the money from club members when taking a pop. We noticed on several occasions there were dollar bills in the can one day and they were missing the next. I hope that our thief was someone that was really in need. If not, then shame on you. Because of that, we will no longer be putting pop out for members. If you want, you can bring your own down and can use the refrigerator to hold it, but the club will no longer be providing it.
Another sad note, we mentioned at our last meeting when talking about bringing beverages down, that alcohol was strictly forbidden. We are a family club, and we have stressed time and time again that alcohol and shooting do not mix.
About a week before Wahoo, some of us noted that there were quite a few empty beer cans in the garbage at the indoor range. This is something we can not tolerate. There will be a board meeting prior to the next club meeting to discuss this, and we will be presenting a policy for handling anyone caught breaking club rules at our April meeting to the members in attendance.
We also noted at our last meeting that our grain scale was missing. The equipment at the indoor range is the property of all of us. Taking or abusing our equipment is shameful. It is there for all to use, and we should take care of it.
On the positive side, when I stopped at the range after Wahoo, I noticed that the grain scale was back in its box. Hopefully, someone just took it by accident and returned it when they discovered that. Thanks to whoever returned it.
It is still important to note that we need to treat the range as if were our own homes. Do not mistreat any of the equipment there, keep it clean, and be courteous of others that use it.
Other Club News
Another happy note, Wahoo is over and we have a month off. Our next shoot is on May 23. So relax for the next month, and gear up for the outdoor season.
We will be discussing the outdoor range and setting it up for our 3D’s at the next couple of club meetings.
We opted to host only 3 outdoor 3D shoots this year, so lets do a good job setting them up, publicize our shoots, and hopefully draw a lot of shooters.
With that said, we did commit our club to support in setting up and running a Reinhart 100 shoot in July. All we should need to provide for that is workers. Watch for news on this shoot in the next couple of newsletters.
Newsletter Items
If you have a hunting picture or story, please send it to me, I’d like to put it in the newsletter. If you have an item for sale, send me the information to put in the newsletter as well.
Please email me anything you would like to add to the newsletter, or contact me for my mailing address. You can even give me your article at a club meeting.
