Re: [AGA-mcm] convention '10 etc

[" Mike Hellweg" <mhellweg511@charter.net>]

November '10, '11, or '12 - whichever the AGA wants.  If November of 2010, 
then we'll need to get the ball rolling with the hotel pretty soon.  There 
are plenty of hotels around, but the ones we'd like to use fill up fairly 
quickly.  They're already booked for spring of '10 (proms, graduation 
parties, weddings, conventions).

Do we have any convention guidelines (room nights, hotel space needed for 
vendor room, silent or regular auction, speaker rooms, etc.)?

Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:20 PM
Subject: [AGA-mcm] convention '10 etc


>I was unofficially supposed to get started Months Ago on Spring 2010
> Florida.  I haven't done this.  I'm a little stressed, but not that
> stressed as there hasn't been a super interest by anyone else yet.
>
> As always, it's really a matter of just getting the ball rolling.  When he
> was out speaking here last year, Luis Navarro kinda volunteered his wife
> to help us find a hotel (she's in the industry).  I could call him and ask
> if that offer's still good.   But mainly I'm just curious if everyone else
> is still onboard with this plan.
>
> Mike: I think St. Louis would be a great venue for the AGA, and you guys
> in MASI are very hard workers.  I know you'd do an excellent job.  If we
> did pull off Spring '10 in Florida, then I would think the next open slot
> would logically be November '11.  But if Spring '10 isn't in the cards,
> maybe November '10?
>
>   - Erik
>
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009,  Mike Hellweg wrote:
>
>> Speaking of the Convention DVD, that reminds me. My local club, the 
>> Missouri Aquarium Society, Inc. (MASI) is interested in
>> hosting an AGA convention or helping the AGA to put one on here in St. 
>> Louis. We were thinking of 2010 or 2012. Is there any
>> interest in hosting one here in the middle of the US?
>>
>> Along with a good sized local club heavily into aquatic plants and 
>> planted tanks, we have a large number of active hobbyists who
>> are also active volunteers and we have a sound treasury. We have 
>> cheap(er) flights from either coast and one day driving
>> distance for nearly 40% of the US population, we've got one of the top 
>> zoos in the country (and it's free!) one of the top
>> botanical gardens in the world, and many other interesting things to 
>> do....plus a choice of very nice convention hotels close to
>> the airport and major interstate highways that have hosted aquatic 
>> conventions before (ACA - 3 x, AKA - 2 x, IFGA and IBC once
>> each).
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> Erik Olson                                                        Sent 
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> erik at thekrib dot com


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