THE PEACEKEEPER
STARFLEET
2011 CHAPTER
NEWSLETTER
OF THE YEAR
USS Niagara, NCC-75634
Volume 12, Issue 08
A Member Group of STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc.
October 2013
Niagara Falls,
New York
Chosen as Site
for IC 2015
by GEN Mark H. Anbinder
STARFLEET International
Conference Liaison
Ithaca, New York
The selection process is over, and it's time to announce the location for STARFLEET's 2015 International
Conference! Normally, we try to announce each winning International Conference bid at the IC two years prior, so
we would normally have announced IC 2015 at IC 2013 in Dallas. However, a few factors conspired to delay the
process, including the hotel selected by one bid team deciding late in the process to stop being a hotel, if you
can believe it!
My sincere thanks to all of the teams who bid on IC 2015, including a couple of late entrants that re?
sponded to our pleas for additional bids. We ended up with some very attractive proposals, and I'm grateful for
all the effort people put into this process.
But, we only have one International Conference per year, and so we must select one host and venue. It's
my pleasure to announce that the site of the 2015 International Conference will be Niagara Falls, New York. Ni?
agara Falls is a tremendously popular tourist destination that spans two nations, with adjacent communities in
Ontario, Canada and Western New York.
IC'15 will be held at the Conference & Event Center Niagara Falls, with guest rooms at the adjacent Sher?
aton at the Falls Hotel. The IC is being hosted by a team that includes USS Hadfield, USS Niagara, USS Serling,
and USS Accord, making it truly an International Conference. Of course, since we'll be right next to an interna?
tional border, I'd encourage all U.S. members who don't already have a passport to make sure they get one be?
tween now and then. The event will be entirely within the U.S., but it's a great opportunity to pop across the
border into Canada, even if it's only to walk on the bridge near the Falls.
The IC 2015 team is working on a web site, which should be available shortly, and they'll be making their
own announcements before long. Usually, the IC teams have several weeks between being notified they've been se?
lected and the public announcement, but in this case it's just been hours, so we should be patient and let them
set things up in the coming days.