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Sunday, December 30, 2007

**GIRS meeting announcement**
By slovan @ 12:51 PM :: 83 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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

Friday, December 28, 2007

GIRS January Meeting.....
By einsteins @ 11:21 PM :: 64 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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.

Monday, December 24, 2007

Sunday Super Chat.....Fun had by all!
By einsteins @ 10:50 AM :: 67 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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!!

Sunday, December 16, 2007

SUPER CHAT SUNDAY...First OFFICIAL Chat get together....
By einsteins @ 5:37 PM :: 40 Views :: 0 Comments ::

Chat Room Kickoff
The BOD will be hosting an official Chat Room Introduction on Sunday December 23rd. Please try to come by, as we will have a brief demo on the chat software and its capabilities.
We will be there from 7pm to 8pm officially but the chat can go on as long as you want to stay around.
einsteins has donated an SPS frag pack (5 frags) that will be given away sometime that hour (must be a club member and have a tank to support SPS to be eligible)

Come on by and be social and check out this awesome new tool on our website…

Maybe you will go home with a nice Frag Pack!!

Hope to see you there….Girs Board of Directors.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Sunday Night Live Chat
By einsteins @ 1:06 PM :: 89 Views :: 1 Comments ::

:: GIRS Events

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!