Forwarded mail....

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Some mail about the ALA convention.  Also, the board meeting is next
Tuesday, I think at Red Robin at the waterfront.  I have one article
total, from Dave.  It may be a very small issue this month.

  - Erik

-- 
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 08:40:46 EST
From: Robert P. Cashin <rcashin@juno.com>
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Hi Everybody,

        It?s that time of year again, the American Livebearer Association
convention is coming up. The details are listed below.

        Putting on a convention is a challenge and financially somewhat
of a risk. We look to people like you to help us reduce that risk by
sponsoring a category in the show. That way, the income pays for the
awards for that category and the expenditure is lower for the
organization. Your contribution will be recognized in the convention
booklet and on a poster in the show room. Receipts can be provided if
requested. The show categories are listed at the end of this message.
Those with a name after them are already sponsored. The others are
available for a fee of $25.00 US. Make checks payable to ALA and mail to
Bob Cashin, 3012 McKee Road, Erie, Pa. 16506-1714.

        You can help even if you can?t sponsor a category. Please spread
the word about the convention, plan on attending, enter fish in the show,
bring items to the auction ( which is the best livebearer auction in the
United States ), bring money from friends who can?t make it but want
fish, etc.

                                                Thanks, Bob Cashin

American Livebearer Association Convention

Dates:  May 14-16, 1999
Location: Harley Hotel of Cleveland West
                   17000 Bagley Road (at Interstate 71)
                    Middleburg Heights, OH 44130
                    440-243-5200
                    (Free 24-hr/day limo to/from the Cleveland Hopkins
Airport)
                     room rate -- $69/night plus tax (1-4 people)
                     Convention costs - $55/person (includes free
T-shirt)

Speakers:  James K Langhammer -- retired curator of Belle Isle Aquarium

                      Juan Miguel Artigas Azas -- Collector, hobbyist,
underwater
                photogragher
                      Gil Rosenthal -- Ph.D. candidate at the University
of Texas at Austin
                        Thesis: The behavioral ecology of visual
signaling in the Rio
                Panuco basin swordtails.
                       Chuck Bialon -- IFGA guppy breeder

Short Topic Speakers:  Tom Neal -- subj. - Anableps
                       Bob Cashin -- subj. - Fish Names
                       Dave Williamson - subj. -  to be announced
Other noteworthy participants:  Ray "Kingfish" Lucas
Assisting Club:  Cleveland Aquarium Society
More Information:   Rich Serva 330-650-4613  rjserva@goodyear.com or
                                                   goodeids@aol.com
                                      Dave Williamson 330-945-4326

AL A Show Classes

1.  Guppy - Male, Half Black Body Color, Delta Tail
2.  Guppy - Male, Snakeskins, Delta Tail
3.  Guppy - Male, Solid Color, Delta Tail
4.  Guppy - Male, Varigated Color, Delta Tail
5.  Guppy - Male, Other Tail Types
6.  Guppy - Female
7.  Mollies - Domestic and Natural Varieties(Poecilia latipinna,
velifera,
                petenensis, mexicana, sphenops and their hybrids)
8.  Swordtails - Common Finnage (X. helleri)
9.  Swordtails - Fancy Finnage (X. helleri)
10. Variatus & Platies - Common Finnage (X. variatus & X. maculatus)
11. Variatus & Platies - Fancy Finnage (X. variatus & X. maculatus)
12. All other Xiphophorus species
13. Gambusia & Related Genera (Gambusia, Flexipenis, Brachyraphis,
                        Belonesox, Heterophallus, etc.
14. All other Poeciliid species (including Limia)
15. Goodeids - Torpedo Body Shape (Ataenobius, Characodon, Illyodon,
                Xenotaenia, etc.) - Chuck Bialon
16. Goodeids - Deep Body Shape (Skiffia, Ameca, Xenotaca,
                                        Xenoophorous, etc.)
17. All Other Livebearers (including halfbeaks) - Maurice Phillips
18. Pairs Class - Livebearers only - male and female of the same species
19. Family Class - Livebearers
20. Livebearer photography

Best of Show Domestic - Bob Cashin
Best of Show Wild (except goodeids) - Pat Hartman
Best of Show Goodeid (Frances Hubbs Miller Award) - The Fish Factory



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