There are only two more months to attend the General meeting to ensure that you meet the attendance requirements to be able to vote for our Board of Directors. The Treasurer, Vice President, Sergeant at Arms, and board seats are opening. The direction that this club takes as we move forward is governed by you, the membership, and your input to our Board of Directors. If you are interested in running for a board seat, you should contact Mike Randall, who will be, as usual, running our elections. You must be a member for one year to run for a seat.

Our NRA Family Shooting Sport Camp is months away, Jerry McIntyre needs your help. Please contact him if you wish to participate in the planning or operation. His email address and phone are available in the club roster.

We are going to be cleaning up the property to the east of our fence that belongs to us, to reduce some of the brush and it will be then appropriate for use in our archery events. Even though we received a lot of rain in January, our property needs to be partially cleared of brush to make it more fire resistant as well as environmentally friendly to our quail and other animals that use our property for nesting or hunting.

By the end of February, the club should know how much money we are receiving in grants from the NRA. These funds were requested to underwrite our Boy Scout program, the NRA Family Camp, our proposed Boy Scout Archery merit badge program, and a Junior Trap League. We are keeping our fingers crossed that the allocation of funds will be close to what we have requested.

If you are good with your hands and would like to help, our work parties are always looking for a few good hands. Many members wait until the last two months to do their NMA and this makes the job our Range Chair, Jerry McIntyre, does tough. On the membership renewal form is a request by the board that you choose a quarter that you would like to volunteer your NMA time for. This allows Jerry to plan better on what the work party will be doing. I ask that you try and pick a quarter that will work and stick with the plan.

Work party cooks and sporting clays shootmasters are needed for the rest of this year. If you can help with either, please contact Jerry McIntyre for the cooking position and Robert Freed for the sporting clays. There are so many things that we need help with and by doing it with member volunteers, it eliminates the necessity of hiring outside help which increases the clubs expenses. We have not had an increase in dues for over seven years even with the cost of utilities and taxes rising. To keep from increasing our membership dues, let's keep up the good work of doing our maintenance ourselves. Increasing membership to close to our limit also helps. Do you know of a good prospective member? If so, please consider asking him/her to join and be their sponsor.

As always, more volunteer RSO's are needed to help staff the club rifle and pistol area so that members can take advantage our the clubs resources. If you want to volunteer, please contact Ron Diaz. Ron handles the schedule of our RSO's and would be appreciative of more staff for the range. Have a great month and we'll see you at the range.

The board of directors has voted to make all Rifle and Pistol events held at the club made free to our members. Non-members will continue to pay the gate fee plus event fees.

The board has also voted to make the Fun Shoot a free event for members only. Non-members, including guests of members, will pay a $20.00 gate fee. All targets including the 5 stand, if it is set up, can be shot at no charge. The free fun shoot event will run through 30 April, 2010.

Free trap shooting for members will be available from 9am-1pm the 2nd Saturday of each month. After 12pm, boxes of clay pigeons will be available to the members for $10.00.

To ensure all members have a chance to shoot that during signup, members can only sign up for one round at a time and, after completing that round, can then sign up for another. This gives everybody an equal opportunity to shoot.