President’s Report “The crowd of JW supporters around the table was quite large..." ~ Cheryl Loesch Well, another Convention in the books! It was sure good to be back at Convention, even though it was “rabbitless” for me, due to being in the quarantine zone for an RHDv2 case. With proper biosecurity cautions, it is possible to attend sans rabbits. There were a lot of big moments and excitement for Jersey Wooly breeders at this one! First, congratulations to our big winners, Grace Anderson and Steven Buell for Open, and Makayla Wallock and Cody Landis for youth.
type. Well done, Bunnie Turley! Only one more presentation to go! The crowd of JW supporters around the table was quite large, and I think we nearly deafened the ARBA Standard Committee with our enthusiasm upon the announcement of Orange JW passing.
The GFA went well this year. Thank you to Amber Henderson for her careful follow through with donors to bring us so many quality donations! Thank you to Brenda Reilly for being our aucFor the first time, the NJWRC tioneer, to Haley Jewell for checkbooth won an award for its dé- ing rabbits over for DQs, to Chase cor. We came in 2nd place, with Austin for being our “Vanna” and a beautiful set of educational and displaying the rabbits, to Deidre fun displays on Kentucky prod- Edder for taking notes on puructs, put together by Julie Aversa. chasers, and to the very many of Julie certainly put a lot of thought you who helped with rounding and talent into the displays, and up pedigrees, minding the lineshe also tapped into some craft- up to go through the rabbits, and ing skills by a couple of fellow JW every other detail of the Auction. crafter and fanciers! I want to And of course, thank you so very personally thank Julie for every- much to those who donated rabthing she did for the club for this bits, and those who bid or purConvention. The displays, en- chased. couraging and scheduling much of the booth staff, attending There are many more thanks to countless meetings, staffing one give—so many of you stepped up of our show tables, and helping and helped, and I am so grateful with all of the planning. It takes for everything that each of you a few people to get all of the de- did to help out. We had booth tails attended to, and I could not helpers, show table helpers, banhave done everything without quet helpers, awards helpers . . . and so much more! Alex Williams the level of help that Julie gave. arranged our banquet; Haley and Oranges passed their 2nd I emceed. Brenda Reilley handled showing this year, with good re- purchasing the Sweeps awards, marks for the big improvement in Continued on page 14
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