Notice of Annual General Meeting
20 Dec, 2011
The AAC's Annual General Meeting will be held on:
Saturday, February 18, 2012, at 1:00 pm
Club Canin Chomedey
SportXpo
2890 boul. Dagenais,
Laval, Qc
AGENDA
Audited 2010 books
Appoint auditors for 2011
Detailed reports of AAC activities of 2011
CindySwiney
President AAC
Welcome to the new Members Only Web Pages!
08 Dec, 2011
The AAC Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the members only web pages are ready to launch.
This project has been ongoing for some time. Special thanks to Brenda Witt, the programmer who has generously worked on every idea presented to her, and Brian Cooper, who has always been willing to lend a helping hand. It would not have come to fruition without them.
You will need your AAC membership number to log in. If you do not know your AAC number, please contact Heather Taylor .
Initially, all members will log in with the password that you were using to access the On Course in 2011.
If you cannot remember the password, please contact Blanche . Once in the system, you will be prompted to change your password.
It will be possible for you, the member, to change all your membership information, name, address, phone and email on the new site. All relevant information will be updated when you renew your membership for 2012.
At this time, the site will mainly consist of On Course and AAC business. We hope to have the current rule book ready for download in the very near future, as well as any rule updates that have not yet made it into the next revision.
We hope to make it fun as well as informative and we would appreciate any ideas you may have in how it should look and what it can do.
Blanche
AAC Administrator
Click here:
Volunteers Needed for Discipline Committee
08 Dec, 2011
In accordance with Section 3.2 of the By-laws, the Board of Directors must appoint seven (7) regular members of the AAC, one from each Region, to act as the Discipline Committee for a term of three (3) years.
The voluntary Discipline Committee is authorized to hear complaints and take appropriate action, as defined in the Policy and Procedure documents of the Discipline Committee, if it finds that an offence has been committed.
We are currently in need of a volunteer for the NB/PEI and Vancouver Island region. Should you be interested in serving your Association in this capacity, please forward a brief résumé to the attention of:
- Blanche Cooper
- RR#3, 8041 Observatory Road
- Granton, ON
- N0M 1V0
- email:
The deadline for all submissions will be December 21, 2011.
Weave Pole Subsidy
06 Oct 2011
October 21, 2011 will be the last day to apply for a weave pole subsidy. If your club has held a trial between 1 September, 2010 and 31 August, 2011, the club is eligible for a
$50 subsidy.
If you intend to apply for this you must contact Heather Taylor by midnight October 21, 2011 at:
NEWSFLASH!
Amended Bylaws Receive Approval
13 July 2011
I am happy to report that Corporations Canada has, after a few conversations with our lawyer, given ministerial approval to the amended bylaws, as voted on this past March.
The approval was faxed to our lawyer on July 8 and was effective as of April 19th.
What does this mean? In the most immediate sense, this means that we are now looking to add a director for the Vancouver Island region in this upcoming election.
It also means that the new board will need to determine how the staggered elections will take effect for the following election.
The next pressing concern will be to update the Policy & Procedure documents for the Discipline and Appeals Committees to make sure they complement each other.
Following that, all Policy & Procedure documents will be checked to make sure that they are compliant with the amended bylaws.
The new legislation should also be coming into effect in the next year or two. As we have previously mentioned, the lawyers have assured us that these amended bylaws are a good first step to being compliant with the new legislation.
However, even the lawyers do not yet know exactly how the legislation is to be implemented but they will keep us informed and help us stay compliant with Corporations Canada.
A copy of the new amended bylaws will be made available to the AAC Club announcement list and to all regional AAC member lists.
If you have any questions, or would like a copy of our new amended bylaws, please feel free to contact any of the Board of Directors or the Executive or email me directly,
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Cindy Swiney
President/Présidente, AAC
ELECTIONS 2011
20 May 2011
Believe it or not, we are once again in an election year!
Nominations for all positions will be accepted July 1. The closing date for nominations is September 30. Nomination forms, job descriptions and the election process rules will
be available on the AAC website and in the July issue of On Course.
If Industry Canada approves the amended bylaws before the nomination process closes, an additional director position will be added for the new region of Vancouver Island. If
approval comes at a later date, a by-election for the Vancouver Island director may be necessary.
Volunteers needed for 2011 Elections: Nominating Committee
For this upcoming election, we will need to appoint a nominating committee, as per our current bylaws:
8.2 Nominating Committee:
A Nominating Committee of three (3) members shall be appointed by the Board of Directors no later than June 15thof each election year.
The Nominating Committee Chairperson shall preside over the election proceedings. Information on the Nominating Committee members shall be inserted in the next ensuing issue
of AAC’s official newsletter and shall also be made available on AAC’s Web page.
If you are interested in being a part of the Nominating Committee, please contact me at:
Happy Campaigning!
Cindy Swiney
President/Présidente, AAC
IFCS World Team Announcement
To all the those who are thinking of applying for the team that will be representing Canada and the AAC at the IFCS championship in 2012, tape your runs
at your AAC Regionals, at any USDAA Regional, at the AAC Nationals and at any international event you run. Furthermore, tape 3 Master Snooker runs and 2
AAC Challenge runs from the 2011 season.
RULE CLARIFICATION
Gambler rule clarification,effective IMMEDIATELY (Feb. 17, 2011):
Once the gamble
whistle blows,the gamble line becomes live and the handler is required to stay behind the line, even if the dog has not yet begun the closing sequence.If
the handler is inside the gamble area when the whistle blows, the handler must leave the gamble area immediately.
Notice of Annual General Meeting
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Training Troop's Rescue Fundraiser Agility Trial
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Wet Creek Stables, Balzac, AB |
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AGENDA |
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Audited 2009 books |
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Appoint auditors for 2010 |
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Detailed reports of AAC activities of 2010 |
Cindy Swiney
President/Présidente, AAC
SPECIAL REFERENDUM NOTICE
2011 REGIONALS APPLICATIONS
Deadline to receive Regionals Applications is fast approaching.
Applications must be received by January 15, 2011.
Applications received
& approved to date include QC, ON, SK/MB/NUN.
Cindy Swiney
President/Présidente, AAC
Rule Book Update - November 01, 2010
The first shipment of rule books left BC October 29, by ground courier, to Heather in ON. Then the process of stuffing the envelopes and sending them out begins.
Cindy Swiney
President/Présidente, AAC
On Course & By Laws Draft October 2010
The new issue of the Electronic On Course and the 2010 By Laws Draft are ready and have been sent out by email. If you are an AAC member and have not received
an email notifying you how to access it, please email Blanche at .
Please make sure that your spam filter has been set to receive email from this address and the follow the instructions carefully. You must type the username
and password exactly as written, they are case sensitive.
Blanche Cooper,
AAC Administrator
Rule Book Update - October 18, 2010
The English copies are all done -- just waiting for the divider tabs. In the meantime, the French copies will be done with the expectation that all will be
shipped to Heather next week. From there, they have to be stuffed and mailed.
Cindy Swiney
President, AAC
Rule Book; Critical eyes are appreciated.
Before we format & send the updated rules out to the printer for the red binders, we would appreciate hearing back from you about any mistakes, misprints, or
missing information by July 16th so we can make sure to add or remove them and get it "perfect."
Fresh, critical eyes are appreciated at this point
in the ongoing saga.
Cindy Swiney
President, AAC
YAHOO! The Rule Book
It's here! The long awaited, updated rule book! An on-screen version will be available to all and members will have access to a printable 8.5x11 version. Formatting
of the smaller inserts for the red binders require a bit more time but should be at the printers before the end of July. Once printed, all members will be receiving
their copy by mail, including those who were new members in 2009.
Thank you to Kathryn Harvey, for volunteering her time to format the rule books,
and thank you to all for your patience.
Cindy Swiney
President, AAC
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Team Relay Now a Single Level Class
January 1, 2010
At its July meeting, the Board opted to make Team Relay a single level class open to all dogs and allowing for pairing of dogs at any level and division. The
original thought was to have team follow a title structure similar to that in place for Steeplechase. Subsequent discussion, however, resulted in a lowering
of those requirements to parallel the higher-level titles in place for the other games.
The result is the following;
- MTRDC requires: four Masters Team Qs
(team Qs earned at the Masters level prior to January 1st. and/or at the single-level
after January 1st.)
- Team Relay Bronze, 10 Team Qs
- Team Relay Silver, 25 Team Qs
- Team Relay Gold, 50 Team Qs
Starters and Advanced team Qs earned prior to January 1st., count toward the bronze, silver and gold levels but not the MTRDC.
Thank You To Retired Judges
With the renewal of AAC memberships every year, there also comes the occasional notification that, for various and often unknown reasons, someone is resigning
from the judging ranks. Some may think this is a good thing, as it potentially allows newer judges more opportunities to put their skills into practice
but most of us, I think, regret seeing them leave. Not only do we lose experienced judges, we lose their creativity in course design that takes the majority
of us years to perfect and we lose their insight on rule interpretations, an ongoing learning process as many will attest to.
Below is a short list of retired talent that we can pull from our records but it is not, by far, a complete list. Please take a moment to thank the judges
we have lost over time for their contribution in helping the AAC grow and move forward.
Cindy Swiney
President/Présidente, AAC
- Carolyn French - 2010
- Audrey Hawthorne - 2010
- Roberta Harrison - 2008
- Wesley Barnaby - 2008
- Sheldon Pineo - 2008
- Jonathan Brown - 2008
- Barbara Brown - 2007
- Tim Renneberg - 2007
- Harold Smit - 2007
- Judy McKenzie - 2006
- Dee Gleed - 2006
- Brenda Goodbody - 2005
- Fran Mc Veety - 2004
- Karen Marshall - 2004
- Kay Whitehead - 2004
- Mindy Lamont - 2004
- Julie Byrnes - 2003
- Diana Pierce - 2003
- Kim Fitzsimmons - 2003
- Lynn Bauer - 2002
- Rick Palylyk - 2002
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