[GSAS-board] south sound club (fwd)

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Figured this is probably a better form for Shawn's message.

FYI, there used to be a club called South Sound Aquarium Society!

  - Erik

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Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:40:28 -0700
From: takehl <takehl@comcast.net>
To: erik@thekrib.com
Subject: south sound club

Hi my name is Shawn Heifert.  I live in Dupont, WA.  If you are unfamiliar with that 
town, I'm not surprised.  It is a fairly new development about halfway between 
Tacoma and Olympia.  I am 27 years old and live here with my fiancée Theresa 
who is stationed at Ft. Lewis at Madigan Army Medical Center.  I am relatively new 
to fish keeping and the aquarium hobby, however I feel that I have been educating 
myself extensively over the past three months since I started my African Cichlid 
tank.  I was curious to know if there was a aquarium club in my area.  From my 
online research I found that there was none, though I don't know if I exhausted all 
of my resources.    This leads me into another issue, have you ever considered 
branching out into other chapters?  I think the south sound area would be a great 
place to start.  Since my beginning this hobby I have been working with a great 
local fish store in Lakewood called Aquarium Paradise ( www.aqauriumparadise.com ) 
They are a family owned and operated store carrying a wide supply of Fresh and Salt 
Water fish and supplies.  I think they would make a great local resource for 
information and they have the contacts with major suppliers to spark possible 
lectures and demos.  Now I of course haven't talked to them about this.  This right 
now is all in theory.  There is also three local fish stores in the Olympia area.  I 
have visited one, Extreme Marine, that does reef setup workshops.  I think they all 
could be worked into the mix either through workshops/clinics or at the very least a 
discount program.  As a side note Aquarium Paradise has room at there store to even 
host meetings, just food for thought.  I think a club in the south sound area would 
be a huge success.  I know there are people out there in the same situation as I am, 
looking for a community of hobbyists that share the same love of fish keeping and 
aquariums with.  In our hobby, the more knowledge you have will ensure that your 
experience is a happy one for you and a healthy one for your fish. And n!
o other 
relationship can promote that education better than that of the one between yourself and people that have know-how and experience.  A club in our area would facilitate the meeting of beginning hobbyists and experienced ones.  All this without having to drive to Seattle to get it.  I propose a South Sound Chapter of the Greater Seattle Aquarium Society.  We would work in conjunction with the Seattle Club in format and purpose.  All in all providing a closer resource for hobbyists in the south sound area.  This is all very ambitious, I know.  This, as I said before, is all in theory of course.  But I was hoping that by talking with you I could get a better handle on what is out there or what we could help to create.  Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Shawn Heifert

PS I attached a pic of my aquarium, let me know what you think!

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