NEFHRC Fall 2014 Hunt Test – UPDATED 07/18/2014!!

NORTHEAST FLORIDA HRC
September 6 & 7, 2014
REGULAR & UPLAND HUNT

Enter on Entry Express at entryexpress.net.  Or mail premium to Hunt Secretary, Sherri Osborne.

Cutoff for Entry Express is Monday, August 25, 2014.  A $10 late fee will apply to all entries received after August 25, 2014!

Enter early to avoid a late fee and to ensure your spot in the Hunt Test!

LOC: Whisper Creek
St. Augustine, FL

Hunt Chairperson: Dan Middleton
55567 Bear Run Rd.
Callhan, FL 32011
(904) 251-5904
themiddletons0528@comcast.net

Hunt Secretary: Sherri Osborne
95119 Osborne Trail
Fernandina Beach, FL 32034
(904) 753-1155

osbornequarters@aol.com

Premium can be downloaded from http://nefhrc.net/premiums/nefhrc-fall-2014-premium-v4.pdf.

NEFHRC Fall Hunt Test – Date Change

The dates for the NEFHRC Fall Hunt Test have changed.  Due to numerous conflicts, the Fall Hunt Test is now scheduled for the weekend of September 6 & 7.  This is the weekend after Labor Day and as far as we can tell, conflicts with no other tests or events.

We are in the process of finalizing the location.  As soon as everything is set, we will make a firm announcement and will post the premium.  As with last time, entries can be made via Entry Express to expedite processing.

Please keep watch on the blog for further information!

 

July Newsletter Posted

The July 2014 Newsletter has been posted to the Newsletters Page.

Concerning Whisper Creek

It has been brought to my attention that in the past week there has been people hunting at whisper creek. No one has permission to use fire arms with live ammo at Whisper Creek. I was told that 3 of our club members stopped the hunters and ask them to leave on 3 different occasions. Thank you and Good Job!! If this happens again the property owners want us to call the police and report it. Please call me asap also.

If you have any questions concerns or comments please let me know.

Thank you,
Sherri Osborne
904-753-1155
President NEFHRC
Hunt Test Secretary

Judge’s Seminar

Coastal Empire HRC is hosting a Judges Seminar

Saturday, June 28 9:00am

Holiday Inn Express & Suites
35 Bluffton Road
Bluffton, SC 29910
866-757-2002

If you’d like to attend and need accommodations, and want to stay at the Holiday Inn – call soon. It is the busy season; as of Friday, I believe they had only about a half dozen rooms available.

If attendees are interested, we can order boxed lunches from the Honey Baked Ham shop and eat in.

 

Website Calendar

The website calendar has been updated.  The menu at the top of each page no longer includes a link for “Calendar”, but instead includes a link for “Events”.  This is the link to the new calendar.

There are a number of improvements with this new calendar:

  • The event details can include more specific information, which is accessible when you click the event name.
  • The event detail page automatically includes a Google map, with a link to Google maps
  • You have a choice of views – month, day, or list
  • There is search function at the top of the calendar page
  • There is a feature at the bottom of the page to allow you to add calendar events to your iCal (or Outlook calendar)

Despite all the added features above, there are one or two peculiarities:

  • The previous/next buttons are at the bottom of the page.  This shouldn’t be too much of a problem since you can use the “Events in” box at the top to move to another month/year.
  • The search function is only for the currently visible month displayed, it does not search all events in all months.
  • The menu “name” must be set to Events. It’s an automatic type thing with this plugin. But, I think you will get used to it fairly quickly.

In that vein, the Event calendar has been updated to include Hunt Tests scheduled and posted through November 2014.  Be sure to check out the new Event calendar for all events scheduled.

As always, if you have any problems or questions/comments, please forward them to me at webmaster@nefhrc.net.

NEFHRC President’s Message

Hi Everyone,

We will be having a meeting on Wednesday June 25th at 6:30pm at Jacksonville Gander Mountain. I urge every one to attend. We will be discussing and voting on a number of club matters.

Also our Fall Hunt Test is just around the corner. We have a lot of positions that need to be filled. Please think about and let me know what area you would like to help or learn about. We, as a club, run this test and need every one to help out where ever they feel comfortable and can.

Also, we have a lot of conflicts on the weekend of the Fall Hunt Test for this year and the next 2 years, which may require a change of our Hunt Date.  As you know, the Hunt Test weekend is Halloween weekend (Friday), Florida/Georgia game weekend, and the AKC Treasure Coast Hunt test weekend.  I would like everyone’s input on this matter. Please attend the meeting for discussion or call me with your concerns.

The National HRC meeting was last week end. I would like to let everyone know about the meeting and things that were discussed and voted on there.
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Club positions that will be coming opened in the near future…..
Hunt Chair
Hunt Test Secretary
Treasurer
Please let me know if you have an interest in any of these positions.

Thank you,
Sherri Osborne
904-753-1155
President NEFHRC
Hunt Test Secretary
www.nefhrc.net
www.osbornequarters.com

Pictures from Annual Picnic Posted

Let's go swimming!
Let’s go swimming!

 

 

We have posted some pictures from the NEFHRC Annual Picnic held on May 17, 2014 to the Image Gallery.

If you have some photos you’d like to have added, please forward them to Karen VanDonsel, our Webmaster, at karenvandonsel@gmail.com.  Please forward full size images and full resolution.  Karen will resize them, as necessary.

Altamaha Retriever Club Event

Altamaha Retriever Club, along with Eukanuba, is sponsoring a great training/health two-day event on June 21-22, 2014.  In addition to hunt test/field trial training, it is a wonderful opportunity to get health testing/certification done.

For more details, please download the flyer at http://nefhrc.net/documents/june-21-workshop.pdf. If interested, please contact Jacob Weaver at jacobweaver@bellsouth.net and/or register as soon as possible.  They must have a minimum of 40 dogs in order to secure the physicians to perform eye and cardiac testing!

Please note, the event has been moved from Jessup to Mossy Pond Retrievers Lodge in Offerman, GA.

We encourage you to download the flyer (which was also included in this month’s newsletter) to see the great opportunities available at this weekend event.

 

June 2014 Newsletter Posted

The newsletter for June 2014 has been posted to the Newsletter page.