Volume I, Issue 5 NEW ZEALAND TIMES

1 Congratulations Convention Winners! Special points of interest: Blue Variety Ballot ARBA Results Board Minutes Much more!! Oct Dec 2008 Volume I, Issue 5 NEW ZEALAND TIMES OPENOPENOPENOPEN BOB & Best of Group Joe Combs - Black Jr Doe BOS Cooper & Esterline - Black Sr Buck BOV White Paul Grundtisch Jr Doe BOSV White Manuel & Linda Hidalgo 6/8 Buck BOV Red Manuel & Linda Hidalgo 6/8 Doe BOSV Red Manuel & Linda Hidalgo Sr Buck Best Display Paul Grundtisch Best White Fur Dean & Adam Benker Best Colored Fur Cooper & Esterline YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH BOB Brandt Walter White Jr Doe (Picture NA) BOS Bailey Lick - Black Jr Buck (pictured on left) BOV White Brandt Walter White Jr Doe (Picture NA) BOSV White Caleb Taulbee Sr Buck (Picture NA) BOV Red Ashton Hossman 6/8 Buck (Picture NA)

2 BOSV Red Destiny Sizemore Jr Doe (Picture NA) BOV Black Bailey Lick Jr Buck (pictured on left) BOSV Black Bryce Neer Jr Doe (Picture NA) PresidentPresidentPresidentPresident Vice PresidentVice PresidentVice PresidentVice President SecSecSecSec----TresTresTresTres Rick Shipe, JR Robert Swartz John Neff 191 Club Rd PO Box 18 1351 Holder Lane Oley, PA 19547 Tontogany, OH 43565 Geneva, FL 32732 Directors (expires 20010 Directors (expires 20010 Directors (expires 20010 Directors (expires 20010 David Klindt John Lodgson Jean Harris 21624 210th Street 5572 Rolling Hills Dr 38 Orchard Street Bettendorf, IA 52722 Kingsport, TN 37660 Naches, WA 98937 563-355-4091 423-349-6632 509-653-2751 Fred Saputo Dave Mangione Mark Mangelberger Box 21 10519 56 East PO Box 528 Bushkill, PA 18324 Circleville, Oh., 43113 Leakey, TX 78873 570-588-9476 (740) 477-3085 830-232-6344 Directors (expire 2009)Directors (expire 2009)Directors (expire 2009)Directors (expire 2009) Anthony Bell Charles Crabtree Dean Benker 8821 Kelly Lane 4023 Flatfoot Rd.))))

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4 Get your applica-tions ready if you would like the job. All you have to do is write for 6 issues of Domes-tic Rabbits magazine! There will probably be some directors posi-tions open also. You only have to write for 4 issues of the Newslet-ter each year! do find a little time to do some blue gill fishing. I ve become quite profi-cient at it and have studied it extensively. The freezer is well stocked each winter. If you would give me a little notice and would like to partake in a good fish din-ner stop by. My wife (Janellen) fixes a tasty shore lunch! Inciden-tally we also raise some good New ZEALAND Black rabbits in between assignments! ZEALAND pass its first presenta-tion. Looking both groups over in my opinion if recognized they could give all the other varieties a run for there money! They are truly impressive! In response to the Vice-President not having any duties and being assigned to write for the Domestic Rabbits magazine as part of his duties let me bring you up to speed!

5 I ve been writing a few paragraphs for 6 issues of the Domestic Rabbits for the past year. I also try and write a few words for the Federation Newsletter 4 TIMES each year. I previously served 3 terms as a Federation Director and also wrote a few para-graphs 4 TIMES a year for the Newsletter then. I m currently Vice-President (Past President Director) of the Ohio State NZRBA and write a few para-graphs for 6 issues of there Newsletter each year. I m Chairman of the Federations Judges Selection Committee and the Ohio State NZRBA Judges Selection Committee. Between hiring judges, judges canceling, and then rehiring judges this takes a consider-able amount of time. I m also doing the Open and Youth Sweepstakes Points for the Ohio State NZRBA. This only takes a few days each month as we only sanction 70+ New Zea-land Shows each year in Ohio. I m also President of our local Club and try to keep it function-ing in my spare time. As an ARBA Judge I m judging 25 to 30 shows each year.

6 That takes care of most of my week-ends. I ve been told more then once that I do a pretty good job on New ZEALAND rabbits! I don t know if I hold the record or not, but I judged Californians at 24 different shows in one year! As I ll be approaching 70 at the end of my term as Vice-President I ll probably not run I arrived home from the ARBA Convention on Thursday evening. Trying to play catch-up today (Friday). I have to be on the road at 5:30 AM tomorrow morning for a Saturday and Sunday rabbit show at Medina, Ohio. No rest until Monday. I should be just about shot by then! Congratulations to all youth and open winners at the Conven-tion! I m sure class winners, variety winners, and breed win-ners will be published else-where in the Newsletter. I did see a lot of new class winners this time at the Convention. This just goes to show you that we can all climb mountains on any given day. It takes dedica-tion to your rabbits and determi-nation as a breeder to climb to the top!

7 For all you first time winners my hats off to you! It was great to see the Broken New ZEALAND pass its second presentation and the Blue New Page 3 Volume I, Issue 5 officers. The minutes of the Board meeting and the Open meeting are listed elsewhere in this Issue . One highlight of the Board meeting was the passage of Sweepstakes rules for meat pen competition in open and youth. Thanks to George Rai-sor, he was able to get sponsor-ship of the yearly awards for the meat pens from Hubbard feed and Mana Pro feed. Details will follow. Please read the minutes as a few by-laws changes were made in the open meeting. I appointed a special committee to look into changing the way we select BOV White and BOB judges at ARBA conventions. I have been receiving complaints for several years now and will be looking for new ideas from the committee in how to make this fair for exhibitors and judges alike. We had a great showing of Bro-ken New Zealands, with 40 being exhibited and the pas-sage of the 2nd showing of the Brokens by the ARBA Standards Committee.

8 Way to go Dave! The 3rd showing will be in San Diego . The Blue New Zealands were presented by Sue Schmidt and were approved by the com-mittee appointed by me and then passed the ARBA Stan-dards Committee. Way to go Sue! I must say I was impressed by the Blues this time and the junior pair were really nice and I loved the dark blue color, which by the way is what the Stan-dards Committee wants to see next time. We must send out another ballot with the question of to accept or reject the Blue New ZEALAND . The Blues have been around a long time and they deserve a shot at being accepted, just like the Brokens were. The Blues would go very well with the Blacks. If the Blues pass our vote, I think this is enough for new colors. These are my opinions and this is It sure was good to see every-one at the ARBA Convention in Louisville! This certainly was a good one to attend. It was great to see large numbers of New Zealands in the open and youth. We had about 800 in the open and about 250 in the youth.

9 Congratulations to all the winners and a complete brake down of the classes will be found in this Issue . Also in the youth, a New ZEALAND meat pen won again this year! Let s try for 3 in a row. All our raffles and auction went great, and many thanks to eve-ryone who donated items. We had so many great raffle items and the rabbit raffle went great and a big thanks to Terry Grubb for donating the pair of whites. These fund raisers keeps our treasury in good shape through-out the year. We had a good Board meeting with 100% attendance from our where I stand about it. I would like to see Broken Reds. I have been trying to get them going, but due to limited cage space, I passed them on to Fred Saputo. I really think the Broken Red will help the solid Red out dramati-cally. In the Spring we will be headed for Bloomington, IL for the Na-tional NZ show. Sue and Arnie have everything planned out for us and looking for a large show. The Californian National will also be held in conjunction with our National.

10 Info is elsewhere and on the website. I have lots of litters now and hopefully will have many to show. Keep those nestboxes full and warm and have a Happy Holiday season. Presidents Message Rick Shipe, Jr. Page 4 NEW ZEALAND TIMES Dave Mangione for getting this great line up of Quality NZ s for the auction. Also, thanks to all of the members who donated these fine animals. With 50% going to the sellers and the other 50% going to the Federa-tion, these Fund Raisers are so important to The Federation. I would also like to mention the additional generosity of Pete & Lori Basgil for dontating the full 100% to the Federation. Total Raised $ with $ going to the Federa-tion. Banquet:Banquet:Banquet:Banquet: This was one of the best banquets that I have ever attended. The food was very good and there was plenty of it. Thank-you Donnie Hornback for taking care of this, it was super. Congratulations to Bob & Peggy Crawford for being awarded the Outstanding Member Award, a well deserved honor.