CMAS meeting on Saturday, May 16 at 11:00 AM

[FiberLux]

On Saturday, May 16, CMAS will hold an important meeting in room 236 at DeVry U in Addison, IL. We will discuss the plans and details for our two-day that is being planned for October 3rd and 4th at Stevens Convention Center in Rosemont.

Please plan to come and help us plan this exciting event. We will raffle several great prizes, including a full conference pass to WRC 09!

Chicagoland Marine Aquarium Society (CMAS) is pleased to announce the first ever World Reef Conference and Frag Fest, to be co-located with H H Backer’s 43rd annual Pet Industry Christmas Trade Show & Conference on October 3rd & 4th, 2009.



WRC09 is a two-day educational conference and Frag Fest for saltwater hobbyists and promises to be the Midwest’s largest reef related conference event in 2009. The location for WRC09 is the Donald Stevens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.



Join us for two days of live presentations by top reefing experts, attend unique hands-on workshops, visit with the top manufacturers in the reef-keeping hobby, purchase livestock from any of over seventy top fraggers from around the Midwest, meet and talk with friends and fellow hobbyists and win some awesome reef-related prizes in the huge two-day raffle and even enjoy Chicagoland in the fall!

Oh yea, one more little detail….

For the first time ever, you as a hobbyist will gain access to the H H Backer Pet Industry and Wholesalers’ show floor. On Sunday, October 4th, WRC09 Conference attendees can spend a few hours visiting the Backer Aquatics Hall. The Backer Show is the largest and most important pet industry event of its kind and all of the major aquatic manufacturers and wholesalers will be exhibiting there. As a WRC09 full conference attendee, you will be able to see the latest in aquatic hobby products and visit with some of the largest manufacturers and wholesalers in the world.

The two-day WRC09 Conference pass will include all speaker sessions, preferred notice and selection of the conference workshop sessions, ten free raffle tickets, access to our juniors reef experience for the younger reefers, the largest ever two-day Frag Fest, special access to the Backer Aquatic Hall on Sunday, free admittance to Backers famous All-Industry party on Saturday night and lots of freebies.

See you at the planning meeting on May 16th

 

[jlenhardt]

I'm in the process of setting my 120 back up so I hope you don't mind if I just set in on the meeting and see what goes on and meet some of you. I wish I was in town for the show but with my job it's not going to happen. But, if I was in town I would be going but my wife would take away my credit cards and check book.

 

[FiberLux]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14985068#post14985068 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jlenhardt
I'm in the process of setting my 120 back up so I hope you don't mind if I just set in on the meeting and see what goes on and meet some of you.

Everyone is welcome at the meeting. Please join us!

 

[FiberLux]

Everyone is welcome!

The meeting will be at 11:00 AM

If you are thinking of attending WRC in October, please attend!

If you are wanting to work at WRC in October, please attend!

If you are a LFS / Vendor / fragger / trader and want more information on WRC, please attend this meeting!

All local reefers are welcome. You don't have to be a member of CMAS to attend this meeting!

We will raffle one Full Conference pass at this meeting!

There will be additional raffle items, so come and win!

See you there!

Boyd

 

[LatinoHeatCHI]

Price still the same for non CMAS members for these meetings Mr. Presidente? Hopefully I can get out on a Furlough from the Warden!

 

[FiberLux]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15017814#post15017814 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LatinoHeatCHI
Price still the same for non CMAS members for these meetings Mr. Presidente? Hopefully I can get out on a Furlough from the Warden!

The meeting is free to non-members! CMAS members get in for 50% off!

 

[newreefer2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15018714#post15018714 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FiberLux
The meeting is free to non-members! CMAS members get in for 50% off!

That's a much better deal than I got last time. Last time I was told since I have paid dues through 2011 I had to pay an early dues penalty sort of like the credit cards do to us.

 

[FiberLux]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15019543#post15019543 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by newreefer2
That's a much better deal than I got last time. Last time I was told since I have paid dues through 2011 I had to pay an early dues penalty sort of like the credit cards do to us.

:lol: Thanks for the suggestion!

Okay, so non-members are free! Members get a 50% reduction from the non-members price! Finally, anyone who is paid up through 2010 gets 75% off the non-members price......

You got it, anyone paid up through 2011 gets 95% off the non-members price!

Pretty soon, we'll have to pay eveyone to show up!

Oh yea, that's what the raffle is for!

Boyd

 

[LatinoHeatCHI]

That's the only reason I put in for my furlough for tomorrow. Thanks for the reply Presidente.

 

[mystery_reef]

what did i miss about the WRC and MWFF at the meeting?!?
is the info the same as the papers handed out at the rockford fest? thanks.

 

[FiberLux]

Thanks to everyone who came out to the meeting. And to everyone who won the raffle prizes!

Yes, we had several updates to the WRC program. We'll make sure to update the website and this space in the next few days

Boyd

 

[newreefer2]

I found the meeting to be special. I printed off this thread and left the house at 8 a.m. to attend the meeting. At Dwight I pulled over to put the address in my Garmin GPS....found out something interesting about the GPS....If you put Addison, IL and a room number into the thing it says no matches found...same thing if you put in Devry U. So I stopped at a gas station checked a map and made it to Addison by 10:50...I then began asking locals how to get to DeVry U....and they didn't have any better Idea what street it was on than I did.....So after driving around asking and getting bad directions time move forward and at 11:40 i figured that I had probably missed the meeting anyhow and began the 3 hour trip home. Did stop at a nice LFS because they were willing to disclose their street address. I hope that the seven hours of my life spent today so that the October event would be a sucess was more satisfying to the club than it was for me because I am done...My dues are paid more than a year in advance....please cancel my membership in CMAS and refund the dues paid but unearned....because I am done....done....done...if I sound ****ed then I have done a geat job of hiding how I really really feel.

 

[Pufferpunk]

This is why I don't have a GPS. I depend on the old fashioned system of maps. Usually there is one posted in this thread.

 

[newreefer2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15024653#post15024653 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pufferpunk
This is why I don't have a GPS. I depend on the old fashioned system of maps. Usually there is one posted in this thread.

You are wiser than I was but even a map requires a street or address to locate something smaller than a city.

 

[skunkmere]

i went to the meeting at 11am and didnt get back till 6pm i stopped at some fish stores and time just flew by. good meeting, nice to meet new people.

 

[LatinoHeatCHI]

Did you ask for an address? I'm a local truck driver & can get around. I've even been to your neck of the woods. I would've helped as I'm sure everybody else would have as well. It sucks because you if you went just a little further on 355 you could've seen the building from the highway. I work down the street from there & know if you were as close to North Ave. they should've directed you there.

 

[LatinoHeatCHI]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15024828#post15024828 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by skunkmere
i went to the meeting at 11am and didnt get back till 6pm i stopped at some fish stores and time just flew by. good meeting, nice to meet new people.

RIGHT ON. I had a great time & got to add my own lil 2 cents. Learned a little, inputted a little & even got to win something for my fuge. Wish these meetings continued in the summer as the winter time is my hardest working time of the year & when the bulk of my vacation time is taken.

 

[newreefer2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15025644#post15025644 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LatinoHeatCHI
Did you ask for an address? I'm a local truck driver & can get around. I've even been to your neck of the woods. I would've helped as I'm sure everybody else would have as well. It sucks because you if you went just a little further on 355 you could've seen the building from the highway. I work down the street from there & know if you were as close to North Ave. they should've directed you there.

If you are asking if I asked the locals for an address yes, I did. If you are asking if I posted for an address before I left....no when I printed off the thread I thought I had the address but once I was in the car on the road without a phone number for anyone in the club and without a street or address I really didn't have anyone but the locals to ask and they were clueless. It was my error for not seeing if full information was given but since we had so much info on the October event I thought when I printed off the entire thread that there would be adequate information to find the meeting....my bad for assuming or trusting....

I guess the real reason for my bowing out is I belong to BNARC, GIRS, Rockford Reefers, CIMA, and I just can't justify the time. I know that I have the full address to the BNARC meeting today and I have never had any problem finding their meetings which are closer and have some nice workshops......CMAS doesn't need me.....I think the membership are great people and I will see many of you as I work the other four clubs events but Boyd asked for some time for the October event and I gave him 7 hours....that is about half the time I worked at the Midwest Fragfest, the BNARC fragfest, etc..the time spent working their booths and helping people set up was much more satisfying than wandering Addison ..so it is time for me to pull back alittle and I know I won't be missed at CMAS

 

[LatinoHeatCHI]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15024653#post15024653 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pufferpunk
This is why I don't have a GPS. I depend on the old fashioned system of maps. Usually there is one posted in this thread.

You Hit My Main Nerve! :lol: You have no Idea how many drivers Assume that the GPS will get them somewhere & can't read a mapbook?! They end up calling me for directions! Professional drivers!?:mad2:

 

[newreefer2]

I should not have posted so soon after I got home after getting lost and missing the meeting....nothing good ever comes from getting upset....I know that but am not as good at living it as I would like....I am still a work in progress and am trying to be a better person.....Rob, I will consider helping with the event....don't cancel my membership to CMAS....but realistically I probably won't be able to drive up there for meetings 6 hours just to get there and back really cuts up a weekend....so send me what I need to know....like the hours and days you need help....How I get in....what helping involves.....Again, I was disappointed I missed the meeting...I am glad it was good....I am sorry I voiced my disappointment the way I did...CMAS is a good club with great people.

I hope I did not burn bridges with other CMAS members with my lapse of judgement. I appreciate the great advice people have shared with me and hope to continue to have great exchanges of ideas in the future.
Carl:strooper: