Annual Membership Meeting — Thursday, May 12, 2011
Annual Membership Meeting
The Annual Membership Meeting has been scheduled this year for May 12, 2011, 7:00 pm, at the Pizza Research Institute, 530 Blair Blvd. We will supply pizza, you will of course BYOB (Buy Your Own Beer).
The purpose of the meeting is three-fold. First we will elect a new Board.
Our second goal is to recruit members to volunteer to help make the events we put on, the forays, the MPA Mushroom Show, the monthly speakers and the Yearly Fungal Feast, happen. We have several committees to ease the load on individuals and bring new ideas and energy to our programs. You can be a part of these events.
Committees include:
- Mushroom Show 30 year Anniversary Celebration, to help organize something special for the coming show.
- Forays, to help identify and scout new areas
- Speakers, to help find new and interesting speakers. Come tell us what you are interested in and with your help we can do it. If you can imagine it, you can make it happen.
Thirdly, we like to have fun. The Board is a fun[gal] group of folks that just like to have fun with mushrooms, so please come to the meeting, share the free pizza, and get involved. We need your ideas and energy. Come on down!
Vote by E-Mail
For the first time CMS will conduct the Board election over the internets. For those of you for which we have a valid email address, instructions will be sent out by email. Please vote by May 11th.
If you have not shared your email address with us, there are two ways you can vote. One way is to send your email address to us so we can send you the voting link and share things like this with you in the future. Don’t worry, we don’t sell your email address to the highest bidder; it’s kept private and only used for electronic versions of the Monthly newsletter and infrequent but pertinent emails about upcoming events. Email membership@cascademyco.org if you’d like to get the voting link.
The other option is to vote in person at the meeting with us. Regardless of how you choose to vote, we hope to see you at PRI on May 12th.
Truffle Dog Training Sponsored by the North American Truffling Society — Saturday, May 7, 2011
Noted dog trainer, Jean Rand, will lead the third NATS truffle dog training seminar at
The Forestry Club Cabin at Peavy Arboretum in Corvallis, Oregon, on Saturday, May 7, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Jean and Gusto, “Oregon’s most proficient truffle dog”, have been featured in training seminars at the Oregon Truffle Festival and for NATS, and are sought after to determine whether plantations are producing truffles. The seminar will be a combination of lecture, fundamentals of scent training and practical fieldwork.
Attendance is limited to six dogs and four audits. A waiting list will be maintained.
Fees must be paid at time of registration. All dogs will be required to be under handler control and be well mannered in the company of other dogs and people. Aggressive or disruptive dogs will be ejected from the class without refund. Current rabies vaccination required for participating dogs.
Beverages and Continental breakfast will be provided.
Dog and owner training
Audit class, sans dog
For questions contact:
Marilyn Hinds,
President
North American Truffling Society
mkhinballard@peak.org
General Meeting — Thursday April 14th, 2011
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene.
Our April speaker is John Donohue, propertier of Northwest Mycological Associates. John will be speaking on “Mushrooms with a Mission” about his development work with mushroom farming in Vietnam and Cambodia.
John Donoghue has been growing mushrooms in the PNW since 1976 and was among the first people in Oregon to produce shiitake. During his formative years with mushroom cultivation he had a 10,000-log shiitake farm in Corvallis that produced shiitake year round. At the same time he worked for many years in the wild mushroom business during the infancy of the wild-mushroom harvest in the Pacific Northwest. He now works with most of the specialty mushroom farms in the Northwest and elsewhere and continues to do applied research directed toward improvement of specialty mushroom production.