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Hi everyone!

Well, first I need to thank everyone that came out to our Fall Auction on Sat Sept 28. It was a very busy day. Thank you to everyone that brought items to sell. Thank you to everyone who made purchases. Thank you to everyone who came out to help set up the hall, cleaned up the hall, ran those items, wrote chits, organized tables, helped in the kitchen and everything in between. We had 3 students help us all day collecting some well earned volunteer hours. Thank you to our Vendors-Bobby G’s Pro Aquarium, London, Fins and Scales Hatchery, Cat’s Caves and AquaFlora Canada. Thanks you Albert for getting all our paperwork ready. Big thank you to the Executives for all your help, Mike for finding and organizing donations from our many sponsors and Margaret – good luck sorting it all out now that it’s done. Thank you to our many sponsors – Big Al’s Hamilton, Finest Pets, Aquarium Direct, 520 Buce. Northfin, Aqueon , Bobby G’s and Ultra Fresh Fish Food. Many hands make light work.

Here are the dates of some other auctions coming up-

Sun Oct 6- London Auction – 1653 Richmond St, London

Sun Oct 27 – Oktoberfish- Auction and Show – Waterloo Rod & Gun Club, St Jacob’s

Sat Nov 9 – St Catherine’s Auction- 6557 Thorold Stone Rd, Niagara Falls

Thank you Eric Meade for your program on Cory’s in Sept. I heard it went really well. Our program on Thurs October 10 will be presented by our very own Mike Majer. He’s currently touring many of the clubs with his program “Aquatic Humor- You might be a Redneck!” We are going to make a night of it with Mike and humor him Redneck style. We will be serving Chili Dogs and soft drinks. Hope you can make it. Prizes, draws, mini auction as well as the Jar Show – plants/AOV.

We were hoping you would enjoy the challenge of a Fish Growing Contest this 24/25 season. We have found some young Common and Albino Plecos. We hope to sell these to you 3 for $5. In June you bring your largest Plecos back to see your Plecos is the largest. More details at our meeting.

Hope you see you all at the Redneck meeting!

Carla

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a great summer. The weathers a bit cooler which makes it bit easier for us to get out to our gardens and ponds. Yes, sometimes the weeds get in the way. And September also means Auctions!

We’d like to thank our guest Aquarium Hobby YouTuber Gordon from Aquarium Talk TV and our surprise special surprise guest YouTuber Joey Mullen. What a great night? Lots of great information from them both.

Our Presenter this month will be Eric Meade on Mooseicorn Corydoras. Eric has been in the hobby for many years and is a member of the H&DAS club. As a reminder to anyone attending our meeting, we have moved to the upstairs hall.

Our Fall Auction will be on Sat Sept 28 at the Waterdown Legion. We are once again are looking for volunteers to help our club have a successful Auction. There will also be sign up list at the general meeting. Many hands make light work and we really need the help. We really appreciate everyone’s help. We also have some vendors helping to complete your aquatic needs. Cat’s Caves, Fins and Scales Hatchery, AquaFlora Canada and Bobby G’s Pro Aquarium, London.

The Jar Show continues this year with September featuring Cory’s and AOV. The prizes will once again be gift cards, 1st place $15, 2nd place $10, 3rd place $5.

We would like to thank all our sponsors for all their support – Northfin, Big Al’s Hamilton, Aqueon, Seacham, AquaFlora, Finatics, Bobby G’s.

Please remember that if you have any articles about your aquarium, fish, plants, (you get the idea) please be sure to send them to Mike – info@hdas.ca.

We hope to see you at the first meeting of the season – Thurs Sept 12. Remember we’ve moved upstairs.

Carla

Hi everyone

A very big Thank you to our club member Jezz Audrey for his awesome presentation on Monster Fish, Exotic Fish and Native Fish. I think he did a great job with his first presentation.

We hope you are all as excited to come to our next meeting on Thurs June 13. Aquarium Hobby YouTuber Gordon from Aquarium Talk TV will be our presenter. I’m looking forward to seeing his presentation.

As you probably know, H&DAS is a supporter of Neighbour to Neighbour. We are asking our membership to help them out by bringing some dry goods to our meeting. We will be selling raffle tickets for our extra special prize table. Once again, the club will match all money raised to help support N2N. We will also be enjoying Pizza during the break.

We will be presenting the Jar Show Awards and BAP certificates.

This is the last month for the sellers to take home 100% of your sales in our mini club auction. Last month there were some very good nice items. I suspect this will another great auction.

The H&DAS Fall Auction is on Sat Sept 28 at the Waterdown Legion, 79 Hamilton St. Please set this date in your calendar. Again, we are looking for volunteers to help us out. Many hands make light work. We will be having a few vendors tables. For more info, please check our website.

We would like to thank all our sponsors for all their support – Northfin, Big Al’s Hamilton, Aqueon, Seacham, AquaFlora, Finatics, Bobby G’s.

Many thank you’s to Mike M for starting up the H&DAS Bulletin again. Hope you all enjoy.

Hope you all have an amazing summer.

Carla

Happy New Year!

The 2023 H&DAS Executive would like to thank everyone who attended our December Christmas Event. Thank you Noel N for hosting our game. Congratulations to the winners.

Our Neighbour to Neighbour Food Drive was a great success, raising 110 lbs of groceries and $1894.50 in donations! Thank you for all the donations at the raffle table. This event just keeps on getting bigger and better!

Frank Aguirre will be our 1st presenter of 2024. His presentation is on “Priapellas” or commonly known as Olmecan Blue Eyes. Did you know that Frank is the President of CAOAC- the Canadian Association of Aquarium Clubs?

Our Spring Show and Auction is on Saturday, March 23rd at the Waterdown Legion. Start getting your beautiful “Show” fish ready to win some cash. We are looking for volunteers to help us out. Please remember that many hands make light work.

Mike M picked up the New H&DAS T-shirts this week. If you haven’t yet paid for your shirt, you can pay at the meeting ($20).

Please remember to bring your fish for the Jar Show. Rainbow/Dwarf Cichlids/AOV.

Hope to see you Thursday!

Carla

Hi everyone!
Thank you Peter for your “Killie” program last month. It was really informative. Haydn Pounder will be presenting a program on “Guppies” at the meeting on Thurs Nov 9. Haydn is a very experienced Guppy expert, a IKGH Judge and will be the Head Judge at the World Guppy Show that’s being held here in Canada.

Our Fall Auction was a success with many hobbyists attending from the area and beyond. Thank you to those that come out and helped to support. It takes many volunteers to help run these events. We could sure use a few more hands so please consider helping us out. Also a big thank you to Big Al’s for their kind Donation and all the vendors that supported the auction.

Our December 14 meeting is about Giving Back to our community. We chose to help Neighbour to Neighbour years ago, as there are many families that need help during the holiday season. We ask that everyone please bring a few non-perishable food items or make a cash donation. We will also have a raffle table with items (items kindly donated by the membership). These items do not need to be fish related. All money raised will be matched by the club to help support our friends at N2N. Noel will be back with a Fish related Game. We will share Pizza and Wings during our break. Please sign up if you will be attending.

Remember to bring your Jar Show entries – Shrimps/Barbs/any other variety.

Carla