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American Cichlid Association Update Jan 2010

Hello everyone and Happy New Year from the ACA!

I want to let everyone know what's new for 2010 and the ACA.
First off we have a new Board of Trustees! New BOT members are
Mo Devlin (Chairman)
Phil Benes, Vice Chairman
Dean Hougen, Secretary
Chris Borgese
Li Chih
Steve Edie
Eric Hanneman
Ted Judy
Patrick Kelly

Mo has initiated a great new promotion to Non-ACA members called the "3 for Free" program.
Here Mo will send an interested person thinking about joining the ACA 3 Buntbarsche Bulletins as samples with the hopes that they enjoy the journal and join the ACA! If you are not yet an ACA member and are curious about this program please follow this link.....

http://www.cichlid.org/index.php?pageid=three_for_free

Mo Devlin will respond to your request from the link above.

The ACA also has a new Newsletter Editor, Dave Hansen! ACA Members will get their quarterly Newsletters from Dave now.

The ACA Website has undergone some improvements by combing several servers into one and by consolidating information to the following web address, please bookmark this address as one of your Favorite cichlid sites....

http://www.cichlid.org/

You can find info about the ACA from the links on the left side of the Home Page and discuss ACA and Cichlid topics on the forum.

If you have previously registered to the ACA Website before and are having any trouble logging into the new site, please contact me so that I can fix any problem. Also, if you are a current ACA Member and are not seeing the "Members Only" Section of the ACA forum please LMK so that I can add you to the "Members Only" Section.

The ACA CARES Program is growing and if you have any of the fish that are on the following list, please register with Claudia Dickinson and become a CARES Member!

CARES SPECIES LIST~
http://www.cichlid.org/index.php?pageid=aca_cares_conservation_priority_list

Please check out our newest forum category: Cichlid of the Week! This is found in the "Members Only" section and is led by ACA Member John Neese! Please help us populate the Cichlid of the Week threads by adding your personal experiences with fish chosen to be showcased!

The biggest News for 2010 is the ACA Annual Cichlid Convention being hosted this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin!
You can find out all about this years convention and register at the following web page....
http://www.aca2010.com/

The Angelfish Society will be at the convention this year and will be judging all angelfish entries according to their standards and classes. This is a separate set of awards from the ACA show, which has one angel class with two subclasses. All angels in the TAS show will be entered in the ACA show.

This years convention is going to be fantastic! I am hoping for some real head to head challenges in the Show Classes and will be updating info as it gets closer and closer to the show!

The ACA is still accepting Bids for the 2011 and 2012 Conventions! Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a convention!

Please remember to send in your BAP award point scores to tmeeki@madisontelco.com for the Annual ACA Club Breeder Awards. So tally up your cichlid points from last year and let me know the results!

Please remember to contact Chuck Rambo about assistance with speakers for your club's events or meetings through the ZooMed sponsored Speaker Program....
http://www.cichlid.org/index.php?pageid=aca_speaker_program

Please remember to contact Kathy Stearns about show sanctioning with the ACA for your clubs fish shows!
http://www.cichlid.org/index.php?pageid=local_show_sanctioning

If your club has any News it wants added to the ACA Calendar or website please LMK.

Thanks,
Happy Fishkeeping
~Rich Dietz
ACA Club Liaison
www.cichlid.org
 
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