Volunteers Needed – Rat Rompers Trial Oct 12-13, 2024

BARN HUNT “CAMPING” TRIAL VOLUNTEERS

Volunteer Coordinator: Angela Payne

Please Click HERE to request a job for the day, or contact Angela directly by clicking on her name above.

We will be having food!

The Gem City Rat Rompers, GCDOC Barn Hunt Club is hosting a trial October 12-13.  We are looking for volunteers. Come have fun volunteering and learning what Barn Hunt is all about. Location is 542 Valleycrest Dr., Dayton, OH 45404. Building IS climate controlled!

Membership Meeting

There will be a membership meeting on Wednesday Sept. 25 at 7pm. Nominations for board positions will be presented. The nomination committee, consisting of Michelle Collett, Pam Murn, and Cathy Wright, will be taking nominations for the board. If you have someone you would like to nominate please contact one of them.

There will also be a discussion on the possibility of placing a cell phone tower at the land. The details will be presented at the meeting.

Please see the previous membership meeting minutes here: https://gcdoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Membership-meeting-6.30.24.pdf

Crashing the website – Registration

YES! We opened classes!

YES! I sent out the email to the membership first, as I always do, before trying to send one to the general public. I had to spend 30 minutes removing MEMBERS email addresses from the PUBLIC email list so that we could still use the free service to notify the public that the registration is open.

PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THE MAILCHIMP EMAIL NOTIFICATION LIST IF YOU ARE ALREADY A MEMBER! You get the email through the membership list, and you do not need the 2nd email to tell you that registration is open.

If you were sitting there, hitting refresh over and over, you have locked up the website by doing so. In your rush to get into the class you wanted, you have caused it to be slow, “jump all over the place” and not take your money.

Please! Do not panic. Do not encourage your friends to sit and click on the refresh button over and over waiting for it to open. Do not encourage non-members to worry about getting into classes or not. It is making it all dramatically worse, and even causing me to not be able to open classes on time, and worse, if there is a problem, I cannot get in to the website to correct any problems because the system is busy trying to show you exactly the same screen as before when you hit refresh.

Class Registration OPEN for session 5, 2024

Class registration is now open to everyone.

PLEASE REFRESH YOUR BROWSER TO SEE THE UPDATED SITE!

Please note: if you sit around day after day hitting refresh on the website, you WILL fill your browser’s memory with the old version of the site. Please clear your cache before hitting refresh again if you don’t see the updated site.

Karen Rheinberger – 11/22/69-9/1/2024

Karen L. Rheinberger, age 55, of Troy, OH passed away on September 1, 2024 at Kettering Health in Huber Heights.

She was born November 22, 1968 in Chicago, IL to the late Robert J. and Jean (Turner) Rheinberger.Karen is survived by her husband: Bob Fulcher; two stepchildren: Erin (David) Hartpence and Rachel (Kelby) Byrd; four grandchildren: Alayna, Aidan, Adam and Ellie Rose and many cousins.Karen was a member of St. Timothy Lutheran Church, Gem City Dog Club where she showed, trained and judged dogs for 25 years. She was a government accounts contractor for many years and was currently with CDO Technologies in Dayton.

Service will be held at 11:00 AM on Saturday, September 14, 2024, at St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Huber Heights with Pastor Joel Sutton officiating.

Family will receive friends from 10:00-11:00 AM on Saturday at the church.In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the family in care of Baird Funeral Home. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

Services

Visitation: Saturday,September 14, 202410:00 AM to 11:00 AM

St. Timothy Lutheran Church

5040 Rye Drive

Huber Heights, OH 45424

Remembrances and photos to be added to this post and viewed on GCDOC.com can be sent to [email protected]

Volunteer! – CGC Sept 19, 23, 24th, 2024

It is that time again for CGC Evalulators and CGC Helpers to sign up to help the Advanced Beginner class with their CGC testing.  Please check the Volunteer Opportunities page to sign up.  You will earn double volunteer hours and this is an easy way to get them. If you have any questions you can contact Rachel Corbett at [email protected].

The dates and times are as follows:

Thursday the 19th at 9:15am

Monday the 23rd at 4:45pm

Tuesday the 24th 6:45pm

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!

Thanks, 

Rachel

Emergency Exit Doors

Never leave anything blocking the Emergency doors, front or back. Not even for a minute. We have plenty of open wall space if you need to prop something up, don’t use doors and windows. It would also be appreciated if you took a look at the doors and be sure they are clear. These chairs remained leaning against the doors and windows all weekend, even with several people going in and out.

This is a very serious matter for a couple of reasons. First, if the fire marshal stopped in for a surprise inspection, we would be heavily fined. The second and most important, there could be serious injuries caused by objects blocking the doors. See below. (If I did it right)

Fast CAT Volunteers Needed this weekend!!

Please contact Ronalee at [email protected] if you can help out!!!!

GCDOC AKC FAST CAT event is this coming Fri(8/16)  Sat (8/17) & Sun (8/18)

We need club members to work or we won’t be able to do this event going forward for the club.

The following positions have to be filled:

Friday 8-12 & 12-4(probably will end prior to 4) need dog releasers for those handlers that come by themselves to run their dogs.   Need 2 for each time slot

Sat 12-4(probably will end prior to 4) need dog releasers for those handlers that come by themselves to run their dogs.   Need 3

Sun 12-4 (probably will end prior to 4)  need dog releasers for those handlers that come by themselves to run their dogs.  Need 2

Agility Volunteers for this weekend!

It sounds like some of you have had problems using the link previously provided. Unfortunately, Agility does not have their sign-ups on our website, so clicking the link and searching our website for the volunteer form isn’t possible. They only use a google document, which seems problematic for us to share. Here’s another attempt at sending the link.

If that link does not work, please feel free to contact Deb Werts. [email protected] or 419-733-1924.