Santa Clara Valley Canary and Exotic Bird Club
PETERSON JR. HIGH SCHOOL, SUNNYVALE
El Camino & Ham Streets
NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY MARCH 13, 1983
Pot Luck 1 P.M.
Meeting 1:45 P.M.
A - G Dessert
H - P Hot Dish
Q - Z Salad
Please bring your own table service
PROGRAM: We finally did it! We've been trying to find a good time to ask Haig Sarkisian to come talk to us about Roller canaries for the past three years but found ourselves conflicting with breeding season or Roller show season or something. He WILL be with us this meeting and he plans to bring a team of his fantastic singers. Even you hookbill people are in for a treat if you've never heard Roller song ... and I know some haven't. These are the opera singers of the song bird world!
MANY THANKS... to George Fernandes for taking the time from his busy schedule to audit our books once again. A valuable service to the club and it is much appreciated, George.
ALSO THANKS... to the members who have brought birds for the raffle table so far this year: Glenn Corlew, Nikkie McClatchie and Pat McMullan in January and Mary Volpe, Ron Fournier and Bill Cooper and Mel Culrose in February. Keep it up, Folks, We have to build the bank balance or go to paper mache trophies next year! Remember - those donations are meant to be birds OR bird releated items but any items of interest will do. How about that thing-a-ma-bob that Aunt Tessie sent for Christmas two years ago that you've never decided what to do with? Everybody has an Aunt Tessie, right? Members who have signed up to bring BIRDS for the March meeting are: Bertha Andrews, Ralph Barnes and Ruth Indiveri.
ROSTER: is folded into this newsletter so you can slip it out and keep their phone numbers so it would be convenient if those numbers were supplied so we can add them. ALSO the books indicate that a Dr. MacNamee and Sam & Elizabeth Smith have paid dues but that is all the information we have on them... which means that they aren't getting much for their $12.00! If whoever sponsored them will supply Nikkie and me with their addresses and phone numbers and bird interests we'll get them on the list.
By the way, when Lynn Giordano, V.M.D. spoke at a W.B.B.S. meeting a couple of months ago, she dropped the interesting tid-bit that the pox that hits the hookbills is apparently an entirely different entity than canary pox. I'll let you know more as soon as I find out more. If any of you already know more, contribute it to the newsletter, will you? This is supposed to be a CLUB newsletter, not just a "Pat McMullan Speaks"letter!
MONEY TALK... Storing the staging is costing us $500/year at present. We have lots of other, better uses for $500/year. Does anybody out there have a garage sized (or slightly smaller) space to volunteer? Does anybody out there have such a space he'd like to rent to the club for, say $200/year? Does anybody out there have any creative ideas for storing that staging between shows while saving that drain on the treasury? Think, Folks.
APPOLOGY... I had the membership cards for this year to include in the last newsletter and completely forgot to put 'em in. Mea culpa! Sorry about that. They are stapled in this time.
WHEW... had to stop in the middle of typing this letter and chop up a giant Eugenia tree that fell with the first hammer blow of wind yesterday. It went over toward the street instead of onto the house, thank God; hope you all survived that storm in equally good shape.
WANT AD: Ruth Indiveri needs two Yorkshire Show Cages.
FOR SALE: Diane and Malcolm Cox find that their lives are suddenly too full and they have to get our of birds for awhile. Selling out: Pair Princess of Wales (surgically sexed); cockatiels; Bourke's; Ringnecks and flight cages 3' x 3' x 8' and 3' x 3' x 11'.
EXOTIC FOLKS... We realize that the last few meetings have been heavily oriented to canaries, just worked out that way. Chuck is working on getting a slide/tape presentation from AFA for April on various ways of building aviaries which should have some good tips for all aviculturists.