Regina Philatelic Club
PO Box 1891, Regina, Sk. S4P 3E1
http://nonprofits.accesscomm.ca/reginaphilatelicclub/
24 August 2006
Dear Fellow Stamp Collector:
Once again the days are getting somewhat shorter and the evidence that the season is turning is starting to accumulate. I hope that you have had a nice summer break and are looking forward, despite the looming winter, to getting back into a regular routine in the autumn. All is not gloom, of course, for part of that routine is our stamp ‘season’.
Our first meeting for the 2006-07 stamp year will be on Wednesday, 6 September 2006, at the Cochrane High School library. The meeting will commence at roughly 7:30 p.m. with the official meeting kicking off at the usual time of 8:00 p.m. The first meeting will be a business meeting as we catch up on the news, discuss the highlights of the year to come, and go over the numbers. An auction will round things off as per usual, so please bring in material.
The following people are your Executive for the year. Please do not hesitate to contact any should you have any issues or concerns with respect to the RPC’s operations. Particularly helpful are any suggestions you may have to make our club better and to serve your needs and interests more fully.
President Ian Yeates
Vice-President
Secretary Al Goudie
Treasurer Steve Porter
Library Vik Kaczkowski
Programmes David MacDougall
Directors Keith Foster
Merv Frederick
Bob Grocholski
Anne Hoffman
As a reminder, our meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month that the school is open. We may lose the occasional meeting date due to those fairly frequent occasions when the school is closed for a variety of reasons. At this point I do not think we will lose a date because of Easter. However, this issue and any other breaks that may arise will be identified ahead of time and all will be informed closer to the date.
The Annual Banquet Night is our last meeting of the year and is on June 6th. More details on that event will be passed on next year – we won’t meet on June 20th.
The Annual Show is a definite highlight of our year. This year it has been booked for February 17th and 18th at the Seven Oaks Inn. As you may recall from our discussions last year, there exists uncertainty at this point regarding the location of our show due to the renovations intended by the Seven Oaks. We will learn more about this issue by the end of the autumn (at the very latest).
As ever, I would like to encourage you to give some thought to a potential display that you may wish to put together. Each frame can take 16 sheets, or pages, and the number of frames available for a particular display is up to three, albeit more can be arranged as necessary. I think this an important part of the hobby and would like to see more participation in this area. I would like to emphasize that the RPC does not have a competitive show per se. Displays are put together that reflect the interests and enthusiasms of you, the owner. If you can, please do prepare a display.
Dues will remain at $10 per year. Steve Porter, our Treasurer, would appreciate exact change.
The conduct of our meetings won’t change from current practice – we’ll commence with a bit of socialising. At 8:00 p.m. we’ll conduct the business end of the meeting – e.g. President’s Introduction, Members News and Views, Secretary/Treasurer Reports (once a month), Meeting Programme event (as arranged), and close off with the auction. The proposed programme for the year will be handed out at the first meeting, and will be available thereafter.
I would like to reiterate my invitation to pass on any suggestions you may have to improve the club, its programmes, add new members, etc. It is your club and any input you may have is welcomed.
If you need to contact me about anything, don’t hesitate. My co-ordinates are as below:
Ian Yeates
546-4123 or isyeates@accesscomm.ca