[TheForge] Speaking of age...

[Jerry Smith]

Frosty,

How about webcasting your meeting and also setting up
a round robin use of CD's or DVD's made from those
meetings? I am member of the ABA here in the states,
and loosely associated with a couple of Canadian
groups. Last year it took a good while to get to the
annual meeting, this year my arthritis is bother my
left foot too much to make me a happy camper for
travel in our present weather.

Let's bring our meetings in to the modern age!

Jerry


--- Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com> wrote:

> It's a thought Jerry.
> 
> The problem that's stopped the previous attempts at
> an 
> Alaskan organization is distance. The Canadian
> border 
> is about 600 miles from our place and the nearest
> town 
> in Canada is Beaver Cr. Yukon Territories another 
> 75-100 miles or so. White Horse is the first "city"
> and 
> an easy day's drive from the border.
> 
> At our last organizational meeting we had guys drive
> 9 
> hrs. in BAD weather from Fairbanks and three guys 
> pooled to come up from Kenai a 5 hr. drive in BAD 
> weather. Fairbanks is about a 7 hr drive on a decent
> 
> day and Kenai is a 3 hr. drive on a good day. We
> held 
> the meeting in Talkeetna about 2 hrs. north of 
> Anchorage and 1 hr. north of me to make it a little 
> easier on the interior guys who wanted to attend.
> 
> We're probably going to set up on a regional basis
> with 
> as loose an organization as law allows. There are
> guys 
> who're interested but they live so remote they'll 
> probably never attend a meeting. Phil and Jake the 
> Russian for instance
> 
> http://www.galenavillageblacksmith.com/
> 
> They can be a "chapter" (or whatever we call sub
> groups 
> of the club) and participate online. The internet
> and 
> decent connections in the bush is what's likely to
> make 
> this attempt at an Alaskan organization work.
> 
> As much as I'd love to see a large conference hosted
> in 
> AK I don't think we'd get a big turn out.
> 
> Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. 
> <grin>
> 
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
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> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
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> 
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
> 
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> 
> From: "Jerry Smith" 
> <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>
> 
> 
> > Frosty,
> >
> > Have you looked to see if your Canadian Brothers
> next
> > door have blacksmith association? You could always
> > volunterr to hold CanIron 10 in Alaska :)
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> 
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