Meeting Saturday

[EvilMel]

Hi guys, so I have been racking my brain trying to come up with some place to have the meeting.

Mancino's doesn't have an area for us to meet in, so I thought what about Stefano's? It would be on the strip, but they could accomodate up to 40 people in their back room area and it would still be pizza!

Let me know if this will work for you or not. The meeting is supposed to be this saturday. I was thinking around 12:30 if that's ok. So speak your mind here about it!

 

[fry-man]

The two buffets, Golden Coral and American Steak & buffet, have meeting rooms. We could eat and drink what ever we wanted.

 

[KafudaFish]

Sorry I cannot make it. It is my daughter's birthday and my wife would KILL ME DEAD DEAD DEAD if I went to the meeting. Enjoy.

 

[Runner]

Stefano's sounds good to me. I've never been there but am always willing to try a new pizza place. Timing is fine. I am sure one of my sons will tag along and enjoy the atmosphere.

 

[fry-man]

Mr Gatti's Pizza has a meeting room.

 

[EvilMel]

Yeah but I don't think they reserve it for anyone. Brent's jeep club met there and he said he didn't think they would ever reserve the room for them.

Plus I was thinking that this would be good for the people who live more out east (rather than having all the meetings on the west side, ya know?).

Is that your objection to Stefano's Eric, that it's not out west?

 

[fry-man]

Steffano's is almost as close for me.

 

[EvilMel]

Oh ok. So Stefano's it is...unless someone objects horribly to pizza.

I will make the call!

 

[salt newbie01]

Sounds good to me - count me in.

Mel will you bring the frags or should I follow you back to your place to get them?? which ever would be better for the frags. just let me know

 

[EvilMel]

Patrick...I think it would be better for you to come back to my house after the meeting but honestly as long as you have a cooler they will be fine either way. Sitting in a cooler for a few hours should be ok.

So either way.

 

[CaptainDave]

Somebody save me some pizza with the whole wheat crust Stefano's is awesome! I swear, one of these days I am going to be in Knoxville and be able to come to a meeting. Alas, Saturday will not be that day. You kids have fun.

 

[salt newbie01]

How far from the pizza place is your house Mel? If it's not too far I'll just follow you back because I have and hour or so drive after the meeting. I would rather not keep them out of a tank for that long.

 

[skwirl]

i will sure make it to this one... this way i can fill out my club member form, and pay muh dues.... can somebody bring me a form?

 

[Chris_Campbell]

Sorry can't make this one... dang I hate to miss pizza!!

 

[Runner]

I need some directions to add to the website. I've never been to this place.

 

[ct_vol]

Can't make it this Saturday... Going out of town for Easter... Oh well, I look forward to meeting everyone next month... Maybe then I can become a member... Hopefully I won't have any casualties between now and then...

Randy

 

[EvilMel]

Hey scott, it's right there in the middle of the strip.

Here's the address so you can maybe map it with map quest:
1937 Cumberland Ave

I get there by getting off of I-40 at the alcoa highway exit, then there's a couple of exits pretty immediately off of that. The first one is kingston pk/cumberland ave (not sure which one it's called at that point). I go left at the light there onto Kingston/Cumberland. It's down a bit on the left. It's SUPER easy to get to.

I hope that will help.

 

[EvilMel]

Hey do you guys have a topic in mind that you want to talk about? I have a couple of things in mind, but am open for new ideas. Sorry about this getting put together at the last minute (I've just got a ton of stuff going on this month).

Also, let's get a head count. Who is going to go and who is not going to go (unless you've already said yes or no on this thread previously). I called and booked the room so we are good to go for that.

 

[nwolfe]

Put me down for 2

 

[EvilMel]

Oh and btw one of my ideas for a meeting topic was starfish. There are numerous different kinds and people seem to buy them all thinking that they are relatively easy to keep and all reef safe but this is far from the truth. So anyways...we've never talked about starfish in reef tanks before, so I just thought that might be a good topic. I could do the presentation myself probably.

Another idea is zooanthid predators. We are all in a big frenzy of zooanthid buying but do we ever stop to think about the possible zooanthid predators and irritators that we could be passing around? that might be interesting too (we could always do one this month and one next month).

Any other ideas?