SCHELL ' S BORDER BATCH
Volume 29 Issue 4
Greetings Border Batchers and Outlaws. I am quite excited about this chapter right now as I sit here and write this column. There are a lot of good things to report. First, Stubiefest was a huge success this year. We had BCCA President Joe Germino on hand to help present the Firebrick Can of the Year plaque to Ted Marti. We had great attendance, a super time at all the events and new this year karaoke. We were front page news on the Sunday issue of the New Ulm Journal. If you missed it... you really missed out on some fun. Read Bryan Madsen’ s Beer Goggles column for blow by blow coverage written live at Stubiefest. Now down to business, and there’ s lots of it to discuss. First, the chapter dues have been increased to cover the cost of running the chapter. It has been a long time since we raised dues and the price of everything that we do to run the club has increased. See Bryan Madsen’ s column as new Sec / Treas on the next page for more on this topic. 2nd, Officer changes and additions in the club. A tip of the glass to my wife Judy for being chapter Secretary / Treasurer for the past 13 years. She kind of got stuck with job by becoming my significant other way back then. She has made many contributions to the club as an officer and simply volunteering to help with food for shows, setup, and many other small and large tasks. She will still be doing many of these things, but she begins her student teaching next month and simply has not had the time to be Sec / Treas for quite a while. That being said, a big tip of the glass to Bryan Madsen for stepping up and becoming the new Sec / Treas starting in 2008. Bryan has had lots of great ideas and brings some new inspiration and motivation to the club. Mark Stueber was elected as Sergeant-at-Arms, a new officer post in the chapter. Officers of the club are now officially considered to be members of the High Council of Outlaws and members of the“ Board of Common Sense” which governs our club. Our website has again been recognized by the BCCA as“ award winning” picking up 2nd place for best website, finishing a very close second to the Packer Chapter. This is 3 years in a row we have been recognized for our website. We are really pushing to our members to utilize the
website. It features a message board, a new classified ad section where members can post their want ads, plus show dates and info and much more. Check it out. Plus we are going to use the website to deliver the newsletter. With postage and printing costs skyrocketing we are going back to delivering the newsletter to as many members as possible electronically. We were the first chapter to do this, and now that I have high speed internet we have been able to return to doing this. My goal is to get 80 to 90 % of our newsletter recipients receiving the newsletter via the internet. This eliminates printing and postage costs. There will be a small group that does not have internet that will still receive a printed version. But the savings to the chapter will be very noticeable. We are making some minor changes to the newsletter such as moving the classifieds to the website and some other small changes that you will notice in the coming year. We have lots of fresh articles from a variety of writers and in my opinion one of the best newsletters in the hobby. We print only original stories from chapter members, no newspaper reprints or fluff from other publications. It’ s a newsletter you can be proud of and it’ s fun to read as well as informative. Our shows have been narrowed down to 3 great events, the“ Brewery Show” at Schell’ s, Stubiefest and our Christmas Party. Plus a minor event which is our party room at Guzzle, known as BB & BS. We have many new members. Many of which are from New Ulm and probably will gain some more
new members at the Christmas party. We have a great Schell’ s crowntainer we’ re raffling off, which will be given away at the Xmas party. Be sure to get some tickets for this great can. So as you can see lots of good things going on with this club. Keep on supporting your Schell’ s Border Batch. Get involved and use the website and attend the shows and events. Watch for more great things in the coming year. And support your local brewery.
Tom # 28855 President, Schell ' s Border Batch
Oct 2007
Inside this issue:
Sec / Treasures column 2
Backwash 3
Beery Pictures 4 & 5
Life through beer goggles
Upcoming Beer Events 7
Christmas Party flyer 8
Auction Block 9
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