Meeting attended by Carol &
Dennis Hooper, Tom and Carol Blandford, Edgar
Edmundson, Judy Novak, NancyJoy Craig, Wayne
Gifford, Lynn Fowler, Janene Jones, Norene
Stromberg, and Toby Young. It was held at Cheryl and
John Sargent’s home. She cooked a goat roast and
several salads, vegetable tray, watermelon, cookies
and brownies. It was a feast.
Meeting was called to order by
President Wayne Gifford. Introductions were made.
Reading of the minutes of the last meeting was
waived. Treasurer’s report was given. We have
$3213.89 in the bank. We took in $3846.04 on the
show and spent $4151.81, so we lost a little better
than $900 on the show. Primary cause was probably
the weather, lack of sponsorship of awards and not
as much advertising in the catalog.
Show committee: Janene Jones
received several email saying they enjoyed the
show. Lynn Fowler brought up that she and Norene
had to clean the bathroom with the shower before the
show and light bulbs needed to be replaced. It was
agreed that the fairgrounds maintenance man should
have taken care of this. Although comments were made
about the barns flooding and having to lead the
animals out thru the mud, it was decided that we
can’t do anything about the weather and changing the
dates of the show would not guarantee Mother Nature
would co-operate. General consensus is that the
timing of show was good, even though the weather was
bad and we couldn’t do anything about that. Moving
the show to another fairgrounds was discussed, but
expense wise Payette is the best deal. The new pens
will be completely finished by the fall sale. Our
thanks, to Janene Jones, Lynn Fowler and Norene
Stromberg for all their work putting on a great
show. Janene encouraged us to try and get more
local breeders participation. Dennis recommended
that letters should be written to ABGA about the
appearance of lack of consistency in the judging.
Market Committee: Goats went
high at Caldwell sale last week as there was a
bidding war between a gentleman from California and
Del Treasure and animals were bringing about twice
as much as usual. We will try to find out when he
is coming again so if we have animals to sell we can
take them in. Gary Custer is selling out his herd
due to health problems. Contact him if you have any
interest. His email is
laststand@onewest.net and his phone number is
(208) 733-9235. He has approximately 80 animals.
Wayne has a 3 month black fullblood buck for sale.
It was suggested we set up a classified section on
the website for members. Charges to be determined
by size of ad. We will contact Becky Gates who does
our website about the feasibility of doing a
classified page.
The local Payette County fair
always gives belt buckle at the Payette County fair
to all animals except goats. Wayne suggested the
local members from Payette County only donate
enough to provide the grand champion meat goat with
a buckle. Buckle will cost $200 to $250. Depending
on how many donate, that would determine how much
each will have to give.
Sale Committee: Entries are
due by July 15th. Pedigrees and
pictures are due at the same time. Cheryl Sargent
will handle raffle again. Members are encouraged to
sell or buy ads for the catalog. Consignors names
will be put on the sale flyer so potential buyers
will know what animals are going to be available.
Owners will be responsible for
getting their own animals from the barn to the sale
ring. Entry forms will be emailed and mailed as
soon as possible. Everyone was encouraged to get
their paperwork in early so we can get the catalog
out as soon as possible. We are going to mix the
bucks and does, fullbloods and percentages all up
this year so the folks wanting to buy bucks won’t
have to wait until the end of the sale.
Meeting was adjourned and we
all went to eat Cheryl’s marvelous food.
