Upcoming Classes

We need volunteers to step up and teach our new schedule of classes!  As our bylaws say we cannot pay any member as an employee, we have also decided that we no longer wish to private contract our classes out as we had done for years.  This is because the private contractor could not find an insurance company who believed we held any liability so this person could not provide insurance to cover our exposure during these classes.  We also feel like this person was committing fraud since she is on social security disability and would not make an LLC to protect us from liability.  She said this was a hobby and she could make a small amount of money from a hobby without ramifications.  I doubt any of that is true!

What it comes down to is we simply need more volunteers to help us with this community outreach and fund raising venture.  Specifically, we need people (and we really need at least one man) to rotate through to teach handling classes on Monday nights.  Ruth has offered to teach every other week.  Duties will include putting down and taking up mats, inspecting each dog as in a conformation class, collecting money and getting it to Scotti, having every person sign a waiver of liability.

Tina will be teaching Rally on Monday nights.  This will be after handling.

We also have plans for Wednesday nights.  We want to offer Scent classes which Scotti will teach.  As she is wheelchair bound, we need a volunteer to construct and set up the hides.

The final class we hope to offer is Puppy Socialization aimed at puppies between 13 and 26 weeks of age.This will be a fun class, NOT a basic obedience class.    

Please contact Ruth about volunteering ASAP as we hope to begin classes the first week in August.  Our classes are not planned to have definite lengths, they will be run as the instructor chooses, usually with a drop-in option.  

As a reminder, Gary offers his handling class on Tuesday nights, and we will continue to have our meetings in the Whitacre Building the first Thursday of every month (the Fairgrounds has let us sneak in here for free as long as we don't make any money beyond collecting dues).  This should effectively block the other person from offering community dog classes of any kind in our area.