02 June 2009

Hunting & Fishing Assoc:

Well last night was the monthly meeting. The guy that I was hoping to replace must have felt some pressure somewhere along the line and got off his butt and got some work done. We now have all new membership cards (though I have to say mine looked a lot better!) and the membership rolls are supposedly up to date.

However I did make a few suggestions that I hope he listened to. Like the membership renewal notices. He sent out 75 letters only to get one renewal. Ummm, if he had sent postcards instead of letters he would have spent half as much as he did. Also, if he had just used email for those who have computers, those would have cost nothing to send. (I should mention that we have quite a few members who are in their 70’s and 80’s and some who are illiterate and don’t use computers)

He didn’t like the postcard idea until I told him we can get postcard blanks from Office Depot or Staples and print them off of the home computer. He didn’t want to buy pre-printed postcards.

He didn’t like my nicer membership cards because there were pictures on them. That would use up a lot of ink. Well, yeah. But it looks a heck of a lot nicer too! I want to be able to pull my membership card out and show someone and not have it look like an amateur made it. Like it does now. At least he used business card stock this time and not just cut up pieces of paper.

I’m a little relieved and a bit disappointed at the same time to not have to do this for the Assoc. Relieved because I didn’t really want the responsibility and disappointed because I want the cards to look nice and the membership rolls to be accurate. Even with the new cards, he has no good way to mark the cards to indicate who has range privileges. And he didn’t mark mine or M’s card to show we can use the range, even though we paid for it!

The next hand gun permit class is scheduled for the 22^nd and 23^rd of June. So just add that to the things to do this month!

I’m done! Catch y’all later!

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