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Ohio Aquaculture Association |
August 2001 |
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Ohio Aquaculture Association |
August 2001 |
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2001 OAA Board of Directors |
Greetings! It was just a year
ago when we were working to organize the Annual Meeting and Banquet for
the year 2000. As the folks that attended know, this was a great time in
eloquent surroundings. This was a brave move for your Board of Directors
to book an event where we were going to pay more than twenty-five
dollars per person for food and beverages. We planned this event for one
hundred and twenty-five people and only had about seventy attend. This
ran up our per person cost which resulted in us breaking even on last
years banquet. The food was out of this world and the room was abuzz
with members talking all night long! I am very proud of the level that
we elevated last years meeting to and promise that this year will be
even better!
As for great accomplishments, the July Workshop at New Philly was an unbelievable success! In the last OAA Newsletter I asked the Membership, “ to exhibit unprecedented support” and I must say, you folks came through! We earned over ten thousand dollars profit to help strengthen the OAA treasury. We had producers come in from eight or nine states to share and learn with us at this event! Now, let us look well to the future! November 9th will be the date of our 2001 Banquet. The 10th will be a workshop and our Annual Meeting. Most important of all, on the 10th, we will elect the officers that will lead the Association for the next two years! Please read the article on this event elsewhere in this issue of the OAA Newsletter. Please register early so we know we have the funds to acquire all the trimmings to make this the best event yet! Here is an issue that we need your help on. Through the efforts of your Board we have a $500,000.00 line item in the U.S. House, Agriculture Appropriations Committee Bill. This line item is called “Ohio Aquaculture”. It has cleared the House and now has to be acted upon by the Senate. PLEASE let Ohio US Senators know how you feel about the good that this money can do for Ohio and the Nation. Here are the phone numbers for the two Honorable Senators from Ohio, Sen. Mike DeWine 202-224-2315 and Sen. George V. Voinovich at 202-224-3353. Your Board did receive the twenty-five hundred-dollar grant that I spoke of in the last Newsletter. These funds came from the Ohio Governor’s Office of Appalachia. This brings our total from grants up to seventy-five hundred dollars this year! The Board is putting the final touches on a request for a thirty thousand dollar grant and should be submitting it very soon! With the sunshine, must come the rain, which brings me to the EPA Screener that some of you have received and more of you will receive. This is a long detailed process; the OAA Board has written letters and comments to the EPA in the hope of softening the impact of this action. The Screener will go to six thousand producers and it will be followed up with a detailed questionnaire going to about seven hundred and fifty producers. If you get the EPA Questionnaire, plan to take about a week to fill it out. I wish to encourage you the answer all the questions truthfully and to the best of your ability. Be careful! Make no mistake; this information will be |
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