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| January, 2011 |
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Ed Hamilton SDTFS member and well known zoologist Ed Hamilton passed away over the Christmas holidays. Ed was a good friend to many of us and President of the San Diego Botanical Foundation. There will be a memorial service on Saturday, January 15th from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The service will be on the patio in the middle of the Floral Building in Balboa Park where we hold our San Diego Tropical Fish Society monthly meetings. There will be light sandwiches, and attendees are asked to bring deserts to share.
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Editor's Message
.As you look over the events for this year in the listing below I think you will agree with me that this is going to be a really big year for SDTFS. We already have a lot listed for early in the year, and there will still be more events lined up over the next couple of months. In fact, I left out some of the smaller events that will occur, such as a meeting of the California Guppy Group on January 16th. if you are interested in attending it will be in Room 104, of the Floral Building directly across the patio from our normal monthly meeting room 101. It will start at 2:00 p.m., and be over about 5:00 p.m. There will be a small guppy show and an auction as well as planning for the big guppy event of the year, which you will find listed on April 16 and 17 below. If you are interested we would be delighted to see you there.
Charles Pratt |
January 8, 2011 - Annual SDTFS Installation Dinner. Begins at 6:00 p.m. Cost $8.00 for members, $13.00 for non members. Salad, Shrimp, Chicken, Strip Steak and sodas. Beer or Malts cost extra. Officers will be installed and there will be a drawing for gifts which will be supplied by the club. Gifts may be "stolen" up to 3 times. It will be at the Boll Weevil, 685 Saturn Blvd, Imperial Beach. The Boll Weevil is at the intersection of Saturn Blvd and Palm Ave, just off Hwy 5. The dinner will be Buffet style.
January 9, 2011 - Monthly meeting. Jim Herman. Jim is an accomplished tropical fish hobbyist who has collected in the wild and bred many species of fish. He will show us a video of Aquarama, 2005, which he attended in Singapore. Aquarama is one of the World's largest tropical fish shows.
February 13, 2011- Information Cram! Three or more presentations in series by John Pitcairn on live foods, David Huie on a topic to be announced, and Charles Pratt, Breeding Bettas.
March 12, 2011 - Field Trip to Freshwater Flora and Fauna, 2137 Via Corte in Escondido. This is David Curtright's home and greenhouse.
March 13, 2011 - Daylight saving time begins. Mark Ferguson, Setting Up a Planted Tank.
April 10, 2011 - Annual Spring Auction
April 16 and 17, 2011 - California Guppy Group IFGA Show in room 104 of the Botanical Building in Balboa Park. This is the only West Coast International Fancy Guppy Association approved show in 2011. Helpers will be needed starting on Friday the 15th. Email prattc@adminoff.com or phone Charles Pratt at (619) 267-2236 for more information.
April 30, 2011 SDTFS party in Karen Kees' garden.
May 08, 2011 - Mother's Day and Membership Meeting
May 21, 2011 - Field Trip, Tijuana Estuary, Chair Bill Cline.
June 12, 2011- Program TBA
July 10, 2011 - Program TBA
August 14, 2011- Program TBA
September 11, 2011 - Program TBA
October 9, 2011 - Program TBA
November 4, 5, 6, 2011 - Daylight Saving Time Ends. Annual Show in Balboa Park.
November 13, 2011 - Fall Auction
December 11,
2011 - Potluck, Room 101 (Our normal meeting room) If attending alone bring one
hot item, if two people, bring one hot and one cold. Awards for the November Auction
will be given. Elections for officers for 2011 will be held. The dinner
will begin at 6:00 p.m. There will be no auction this month
A Few Words About this eBulletin, Software and the Monthly
Email. Publishing an eBulletin can be done in many ways. There are
some interesting aspects to web publishing, and particularly to a web
based periodical. One of these aspects is that things can change very quickly in
the computer world. I use a program called Microsoft FrontPage to prepare the
publication. However Microsoft no longer supports FrontPage, so at some point it
is likely that we will have to move to different software. To get the
publication actually up on to the web I use a program called WS_FTP. Microsoft
Windows Vista does not support the old software used in the Help menu in
WS_FTP, so it also is getting old and we will need to change from that at
sometime in the future. Ever since we have been publishing I have used a program
called Thunderbird to send out the notices each month that this eBulletin is up
on the web and ready for you to read. A virus infected my computer this past
month, with the result that I had to wipe my hard disk clean, and reinstall
everything on it. As part of that process I moved to Gmail to send out the
notice, so you may see a slightly different appearance in the email you may have
received that the eBulletin is on line. But moving to Gmail offers some
advantages over the old way, so that is good. When I cleaned my hard disk I also lost all the names and
email addresses to which I send that notice every month. Fortunately, a
very valuable SDTFS Board member Norman Brown maintains the member database, and
he has sent me an Excel spreadsheet with the info for existing members, and even
a few who may not have renewed yet. However we may have lost a few names
that were on the list I maintained that were not on the membership database.
Going forward Norman and I are now on the same page with the member database. He
will be sending me a whole new list each month, and I will not have to enter any
email addresses myself. So the situation is that existing members will have received
the monthly email, from which you can get to this eBulletin. As most of you
know, you also can simply go to the website, www.sandiegotropicalfish.com
and reach the eBulletin on that site. If you hear anyone mention that they are
not getting the monthly email, the solution is simple. Tell them to just pay
their dues and give us their email address. *************************
