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| Saturday, January 12, 2008 | |
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| Sunday, December 30, 2007 | |
**GIRS meeting announcement**
By slovan @ 12:51 PM :: 108 Views ::
0 Comments ::  :: GIRS Events |
The 2008 Greater Iowa Reef Society Board of Directors will be holding its first meeting on January 19th in Coralville, IA. The meeting will be held from 1:00-3:30PM and will be open to members and non-members alike. However, members will have the opportunity to win over $600 in prizes to be raffled at the meeting! Free refreshments will also be provided.
If you are not a member, now is the perfect time to join! We encourage membership dues to be paid via Paypal through our website, http://greateriowareefsociety.org Or you can simply join by filling out the form and send in your check or money order to the address listed on the form. The options is located under the "Join GIRS" tab on the right hand side of the front page. There will also be a computer available at the meeting for registration.
Below is the meeting schedule. As always, feel free to ask any questions.
Board of Directors Introductions
GIRS By law ammendments
GIRS financials
Changes to membership dues
Chat software announcement
Regional activities announcement
Questions and feedback
Announce raffle items and receive tickets
DIY Two-part solution presentation
Draw tickets for raffle items
Dry goods garage sale - Free to everyone, no buying or selling fees. Bring on the goods! Please be respectful of the meeting space and make sure items are clean and dry.
Directions:
IDT
2300 Oakdale Blvd
Coralville, IA 52241
From I 80, take exit 240(Coral Ridge Mall) and go north on Hwy965. Go past McDonalds and Super Wal-Mart. Keep going north and you will come to a stoplight. There will be an American Inn and a Culvers on that corner. Keep going north to the next stoplight. That will be Oakdale Blvd. Go right (east) on Oakdale Blvd. Go over the tracks and the building will be on the right hand side about 1/2 mile.
Thank you,
GIRS Board of Directors
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| Friday, December 28, 2007 | |
GIRS January Meeting.....
By einsteins @ 11:21 PM :: 75 Views ::
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We will be having the 2008 kickoff meeting Saturday January 19th at
1:00 in Coralville. The meeting will be at the IDT building at 2300
Oakdale Blvd Coralville, IA 52241.
Directions from I-80: From I 80, take exit 240(Coral Ridge Mall) and go
north on Hwy965. Go past McDonalds and Super Wal-Mart. Keep going north
and you will come to a stoplight. There will be an American Inn and a
Culvers on that corner. Keep going north to the next stoplight. That
will be Oakdale Blvd. Go right (east) on Oakdale Blvd. Go over the
tracks and the building will be on the right hand side about 1/2 mile.
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| Monday, December 24, 2007 | |
Sunday Super Chat.....Fun had by all!
By einsteins @ 10:50 AM :: 75 Views ::
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We had our Super Sunday Chat on the evening of Dec. 23rd.
There was a breif instructional demo by einsteins and a general chat session afterwards. We set a record for the most people in our chat room at one time (17)
Glaspie69 also won the original Frag pack and generously donated 4 of the frags back to be given away to another member. einsteins then added another frag to those 4 to make another full frag pack........Congtratz to reeffreak3652 who ended up the winner of the Frag Pack.
Thanks to Slovan who also gave away a frag for the first person who could identify " Who made the first official post on the GIRS new website".
Congratz to JB who won that Frag from Slovan.
The BOD sponsored this event and hopes to make the Live Chat a very active part of GIRS.
Stop in and see whos there and have a live conversation its quite fun!!
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| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | |
Sunday Night Live Chat
By einsteins @ 1:06 PM :: 110 Views ::
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We are getting together on Sunday evenings for live chat sessions. Come in and talk about our great hobby or bring your questions.
Remember our chat room is always open, so if you cant make the scheduled Sunday chats pop in any other time....
Sunday Chat starts at 7pm every Sunday evening....Hope to see you there!
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| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | |
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| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | |
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| Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | |
GIRS Board of Directors Elected for 2008
By jbrunken @ 4:28 PM :: 116 Views ::
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The club has just completed it's Board of Directors election for the 2008 Calendar year. The results are: - President - Billy Greenlee (bgreenlee)
- Vice-President - Sone Loval (slovan)
- Secretary/Treasurer - Jeremy Meyer (waverz)
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| Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | |
Reef Education courses now available online!
By CyberJester @ 9:09 AM :: 121 Views ::
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For those who are just entering the hobby and those who are experienced. There is a new resource now available to the home reef aquarist. A company is now offering online courses to aid the home enthusiast in our efforts to create natural aquatic environments. “Maco” has designed a series of course ranging from Reef Chemistry to Reef Husbandry. Here is a complete list of currently planned courses and their associated syllabuses.
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| Friday, November 02, 2007 | |
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