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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Welcome FlyingMoray as Des Moines Trustee
By apjohnson @ 12:48 AM :: 219 Views :: 1 Comments ::

:: Des Moines Area, Club News (Non-GIRS)

I would like to welcome FlyingMoray (Joe) as one of the Des Moines area trustees. Due to other commitments, Brandon requested to step down and Joe was nominated to fill the vacancy. Please congratulate Joe on his new role and when you get a moment, thank your local staff for all the hard work they put into making the club great!

Interested in serving on the GIRS board as a regional trustee? Contact your local area trustee and see what you can do to assist them. You never know when a position might open up and you might be just the person we need to fill the spot!

Monday, April 19, 2010

2011 MACNA coming to Des Moines
By xroads @ 10:09 AM :: 700 Views :: 8 Comments ::

Thats right,

MASNA has accepted our bid to host the 2011 MACNA in Des Moines on Sept 9th to the 11th.

What is a MACNA? MACNA is an acronym for Marine Aquarium Conference of North America.

Think of a Fall Fest, and then mulitply it by 10. There is usually over 100+ vendors & 1000+ attendees, and over a dozen speakers.

What does that mean for us?

If we do a good job the club stands to make a decent amount of money. Money that can be used for Par Meters, Equipment, Speakers, improved Spring & Fall Fests, projects for libraries, schools, and zoo's, and anything else we can think of to better the club & our hobby.

What can you do?

We are going to need a ton of help! We will be forming a MACNA committee soon.

For now you can make plans to join us in Orlando this fall.

http://www.macna2010.com/

Saturday, April 10, 2010

DIY Acrylic Demo tricks and tips!
By B-Rad @ 9:50 PM :: 72 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Quad Cities Area

This Sunday April 11th, 1:00 till when ever.
Tips on cutting, molding, glueing and buffing Cast Acrylic.
Where My place, 3009 West Fulliam Ave Muscatine, Iowa 52761.
PM me if you have any Questions.

Friday, April 09, 2010

Website Issues
By apjohnson @ 5:57 PM :: 169 Views :: 2 Comments ::

:: GIRS News

As some of you may have noticed, we have been experiencing some website issues over the last couple of days. Our site gets a lot of traffic and in order to handle the traffic we have recently switched hosting providers. This has gone really well for the most part, but it's been determined recently that we need to increase our plan to give us more memory. We have ordered this upgrade and that should take care of the site issues. GIRS pays hundreds of dollars every year to host this site and provide excellent performance for our club members. As officers, we understand that the website is very important to the club and we do everything that we can to make it excellent for our users. Thank you for being patient as we sort through and resolve these issues.

I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our registered members for your support of the club. If you're not already a member and you value the information that the site provides you, the ability to connect with and communicate with other local reefers, the events the club puts on, and the friends you have made through your affiliation with the club, please support the club by being a member. Membership dues pay for things like website hosting, web software licensing and support, event expenses, regional parties and other things important to our club.

Finally, I wanted to think JB for all of his hard work on the website. He has supported the website for years and his hard work and dedication to making the site work well has really been instrumental in the growth and prosperity of the club.