October Meeting

With pouring rain and thunder and lightning it was hardly a fit night for man nor beast but quite a few hardy souls made it to the monthly meeting at O'Gara's last night.

The meeting was very efficient owing mainly to a lack of new business and our successful cultivation of uncontentious agendas.  Link to October 2013 Minutes

Dana and Phil are knocking it out of the park again with the annual Learning Curve education weekend, for which we will return to the Best Western Kelly Inn, Plymouth, MN, February 21-23, 2014.

The Learning Curve will welcome back Bill Lynk, CML, CPS, CJIL, M.Ed. who will conduct a 2-day Masterkeying 1 class and Harry Sher, CML, CPS who will teach a 2-day Certified Professional Safe Tech Preparation class.  Seriously - this is going to be awesome!

The classes will be Friday and Saturday with a PRP sitting on Sunday morning.  Link to Learning Curve Brochure & Link to PRP Registration.  You must be a member of ALOA at the national level in order to participate in the PRP sitting, here's a Link to the ALOA Membership Application if you need it.

In conjunction with the the Learning Curve weekend, we will also have our annual Chapter Banquet on the evening of Saturday, February 22.  The banquet is organized by our amazing Hospitality Chair, Rosemarie, who has a real gift for throwing a party and it's always a blast - there's Barbeque dinner, great prizes (sometimes including Rosemaries out-of-this-world baked goods) and a high stakes poker match (understanding that by "high stakes" we mean a chance to win some really nice donated prizes from our manufacturer sponsors).

Alan Morgan with Speedy Keys (also our Chapter President) filled in for the education last night with a Transponder overview.  Alan is a walking encyclopedia of blanks, programmers, decoders, resources, imports, exports, that which is sold in Canada, which years the keys didn't work, all the weird things they did when Transponder technology was being introduced in the 90s and more blinking lights than you can shake a stick at.

If I could remember a fifth of that hour I'd be twice as smart as I ever was - thanks for another great presentation, Alan!

It was great to see everyone at the meeting last night - reminder that there is a PLT class October 23rd, details in the entry below from last month - and our next meeting will be November, 7 - and the particulars for that are under the meeting tab at the top of the page.

See you then!