Please join us for the first Des Moines Area meeting. The topic will be lighting with the main focus being on LED lighting. Remember all non paying me...

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Our tank tour is going to be on January 30th, starting at 1:00.

Information can be found in the Members Only Forums
(Forums > Club Member Forums > Club Business > Cedar Falls/Waterloo Area Tank Tour)

This is a member only event. If there are any non-paying members who would like to attend, please contact me. Non-paying members can attend one area's event to see all the benefits of paying the small fee of $20 yearly fee to become a paid member will be.

There will be 5 stops. We will be having a Poker Run style tour, where at each stop, each member will receive a card. 5 cards=5 stops, so if you make every stop you will have a perfect poker hand. The person with the best hand at the end of the tour will receive a $20 gift certificate to their choice of any GIRS supporting sponsors. I will get the winners email and have the card/certificate mailed to their home.

I look forward to seeing all of you there!

-Adam Pottebaum

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To finalize the 2010 trustee announcements, we're actually bringing on two more (for a total of three trustees) secondary regional trustees to Des Moines.  They are:

gb387 - Brandon Geier
Gered - Gered Burkhardt

These two guys, in addition to the primary regional trustee Rustin14 - Austin Reynolds, will be the Des Moines area trustees.  Please welcome your new trustees and thank them for their continued service to the club.

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Hey everyone!  I hope that all of you had a great holiday season and that Santa was good to you.  I am pleased to announce most of our 2010 Regional Trustees (one is still pending). 

Cedar Rapids / Iowa City
   Primary - CyberJester (Jeremy Orchuck)
   Secondary - Troy (Troy Avis)

Waterloo / Cedar Falls
  Primary - adampottebaum (Adam Pottebaum)
  Secondary - DavidM199 (David Mahncke)

Des Moines
  Primary - rustin (Austin Reynolds)
  Secondary - TBA

Quad Cities
  Primary - B-Rad (Rick Mercer)
  Secondary - matt the fiddler (Matt Manweiler)

Your regional trustees are currently in the process of putting together a calendar of events for the year.  If you have feedback on what kinds of events you would like to see, please let them know.  Also, please let them know that you appreciate the extra effort they put into the club to make things great for all of our members.

Also, planning is underway for the Spring Frag Swap...stay tuned for more details, but it's looking to be bigger and better than ever!

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