Jackie

Dearest friends and family of Jackie Clemens,

We would love it if you could join us to celebrate Jackie's life at a memorial this Saturday November 10th, at 10:00am. We'll gather in the Hazen & Jaeger chapel at 1306 North Pines Road in Spokane Valley, Washington. We will tell a few stories about Jackie and thank all of you for enriching her life. There will also be a chance to tell a brief story of your own if you wish. There will be sweets and coffee afterwards.

If you can't make it in person but there's a story you'd like us to read aloud on your behalf, please send it to me.

There will be a smaller, separate event the previous evening: a Catholic mass in Jackie's honor, Friday November 9th, at 7:00pm by Father Roy Floch at St. Paschal's Church, 2521 North Park Road, in Spokane Valley. At this mass there will be selected Bible readings but there will not be a chance to share stories.

Jackie's remains will rest at St. Joseph cemetery in Spokane Valley.

In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to SpokAnimal C.A.R.E., a humane society that places about 200 homeless animals in homes each month. (Click the 'donate' pawprint at the left side of this page.)

Jackie and her wonderdoggies touched so many lives -- if we missed anyone we apologize... please feel free to pass this along.

---Jackie's sons Ben & Michael

News flash

     Congratulations to Tubby and Cagney on gaining the first leg towards their CDX title with a score of  192!! Way to be!

HUGE Congratulations to Sylvia and Julie and Jenn and Abby and Spencer on their wins at the APDT Rally competition at Sit Happens!  Calgary.  Lots of loot, eh???

 

"Hi, Judi,

We had a great weekend in Calgary at the APDT Trial, Julie finished her Level 3 title with a 2nd place.  She also received high in trial on her 2nd level 3 run and a high in trial on her 4th Level 3 run.  I entered Julie in 12 runs and she Q’d in 11.   I am so please with her, all the work is finally paying off.  I will email Jenn and tell her to send you her results.  As you can see from the picture Jenn, Abby and Spencer also had an amazing weekend.  See you soon."

No club day on Saturday, November 3rd.  

We resume club days on November 10th at the Cowley Hall

with Rally O and Obedience competition run-throughs beginning with Novice Obedience and Excellent Rally O at  9:00 a.m. sharp. 

This will be our last practice run before the Lethbridge Dog Show.

Scent hurdle practice afterwards. 

***Those with new dogs or dogs new to obedience and rally may practice from noon until 1:00 p.m.***

Drop in for members is $5.00, non-members $10.00....  See you there. 

Good luck to all of you heading to Red Deer for the dog show this weekend. 

Remember to post your wins as email to us so we can brag on your behalf. 

The Prez

Battle River Results

Hi, everyone,

 Just to let you know, Maureen and Levi got another leg towards their RAE with 86 in excellent Rally and 87 in Advanced.  Good job.
 And in conformation, Zsuree, Joan's pretty Belgian girl, got a 2 pt. major and now needs 4 more points for her championship. "Drummie" is happy about this.  Joan and Dani completed their Rally Novice Title with a score of 98/100.  
And Maureen worked her butt off and managed to get 61 dogs through in four hours.  
Pumpkin spiced latte to celebrate while they get ready to hit the road.
And we lift a glass of amber ale in a toast to success.

For those of us at home, Sarah, Amanda, Jolene, Shar, Barb, and Renee were at the "Hall" for dog club early to practice our Open obedience and Rally Novice, Advanced and Excellent courses.  Man, that excellent course was too cool.  The Prez thinks she'll keep that for the 'real' thing.

All dogs did very well as did the young lesson dogs who showed up with their owners to practice their street obedience with Corgi, Sibe, Dane and two All Canadian dogs.  Great to see such dedication. 

No Dog Club next weekend as we have too many members away at seminars and dog shows.  

Oh, good luck to Jenn and Sylvia this weekend as they head for the Sit Happens! APDT rally trials.  We hope you clean up on the ribbons, girls.

Can't wait to see everyone at the Suzanne Clothier seminar next weekend.  Fingers crossed in hopes that we will find much to add to
our 'tool boxes' on dealing with aggressive and reactive dogs.

The Prez 

Seminar Cancelled

Wow !! Seventeen people turned out for our second SAWHDA Club Day at the Cowley Hall.
It seems that having two rings going at one time is a good thing because we finish both competition
Rally from Novice to Excellent and also Novice and Open obedience run-throughs before noon, which allows others to practice various exercises with dogs that are not doing competitions just yet. We played with scent hurdle dogs and were very much surprised at the results.

We have the hall rented again this Saturday starting at 9:00 a.m. with Open Obedience and Novice Rally O.  Hope to see you all there.

On a sadder note, we have had to cancel our Deb Girvin 
Obedience seminar on November 24th.  Confusion with the dates.  But no worries.  We will attempt to rebook in the new year!  Entries will be returned immediately.  The Prez apologizes.

Good luck to those going to Camrose this weekend.  May the roads smarten up for you. 

The Prez 
                                                  Poem From Mojo....on Snow

                 Snow is no fun when you have long hair!
                 It balls up on your feet, your face and elsewhere.
                 It's worse when the shiba and sheltie are there.
                 They run me right over and don't even care.
                 I'm back in the house where I'm happy to be.
                 There's Darryl and Judi and the cats and ME!
                              The way it should be!!!

Great Start to Fall Training

A good turnout to our first Hall Club Day for obedience and rally o.  Liz and Judy with their flatcoats,

Jenn with Spencer and Abby, Sylvia and Julie, Barb and Lanny, Shar and Ryder/Mesa, Lore with her

cardigan corgis, Heather and John with their Summer and Delys, Deb with Beckett bean, and Judi with 

Drummer and Castle. 

Great to see everyone again. The young dogs have really grown up over the summer and it's nice to

see everyone get back into the swing of things as though we truly haven't been away.

We have decided to try to book the hall for the 13th and the 20th of October as the 

'tentative' client hadn't confirmed the hall Friday.  So I will email Cindy and let her know that

WE want it.  

Again, we'll do obedience from 9:00 to 10:30 and Rally O until noon.  

We will offer an hour of 'other stuff' ..... is that technical enough for ya???? 

Treibball has come up as something of interest and we just happen to have

a 15 minute video of how to begin.

Scent hurdle practice will be another something of interest if our teams from the south

are going to race in Lethbridge in November. 

So, until next week, Happy Heeling, and Happy Thanksgiving as well!!

Much turkey to you..... or not.  

The Prez 

SAWHDA Fall Hall meet Satuday

Hi, Everyone,
Just a reminder that our first SAWHDA meet at the Cowley Hall begins October 6 at 9:30 .
Add some canine fun to your Thanksgiving weekend by joining us Saturday for some obedience and rally obedience practice.

Our next practice will be October 27th.

Best wishes to Marilyn Lee who is in the Pincher Creek hospital.  We hope you escape soon.

Get out there and do some Fall tracking or Draft dog work before the snow falls, and send us some Fall pics of the dogs.

Safe trip to Nancy and Dick as they head off to South Africa !


The Prez.