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Date: Saturday August 3rd, starting at 4 PM
Location: Lower Woodland Park, Shelter 4 (click for directions)
RSVP: info@gsas.org
Please join us for the GSAS Annual Summer Family picnic! This is a great time to meet up with other people in the club, have some food and enjoy a beautiful day talking about fish, aquatic plants, or anything else.
We will be meeting in Lower Woodland Park, Shelter #4. GSAS will supply hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, and all the fixins. Yes, there will be cheese too! Water and various sodas will also be provided. Please bring a dish to share with everyone!
There will also be a plant swap generously managed by Roy, so please bring some aquatic plants with you to share with the group if you'd like to participate. No live animals though, the weather this time of year is usually not kind to them.
Please RSVP either on Airstone or to info@gsas.org by Saturday July 27, so I can make sure we have enough food and drink for everyone.
Carl Dinse, GSAS Picnic Chair
A belated thank you to everyone who came out in force to our record-breaking general auction this year, especially to all our volunteers who worked tirelessly the whole day. And a special thanks to the sponsor stores and national companies.
Our big auctions still remain the primary source of income from the club, and their success means we can pay our rent and Internet video storage bills, bring in top quality speakers, and have nice prizes in our contests throughout the year. Thanks again!
Saturday, May 11th, 1:00 PM (noon Social/Setup)
Dick Au: “Keeping Trophy Discus”
SPU, Otto Miller Hall Room 109
Also: Informal potluck Friday May 10th 5:30~9 PM in North Seattle
Dick Au is a very experienced, hands-on, aquarium hobbyist. Having spent decades in the hobby, he is a master breeder and has bred more than several hundred varieties of aquarium fish. He is a life member of the San Francisco Aquarium Society, an author, show judge and lecturer. His lectures are always entertaining and invariably generate “Aha!” moments as he shares the results of his detective work revealing secrets in keeping and breeding your favorite aquarium gems. He has given lectures at many aquarium societies and conventions across the globe, including the American Cichlid Association, Aquarama in Singapore, and most recently, Sacramento Aquarium Society's “Findig”.
Dick's fascination with Discus began as a child living close to several ornamental fish farms in Hong Kong, China. Every day, after school, he would spend hours at a nearby farm watching a pair of brown discus nursing fry under a huge Amazon sword plan. He was so mesmerized that he had never been without Discus, all through college, raising a family and a career in the computer software industry. During the past 60 years, he witnessed and participated in the evolution of the discus hobby from when discus was only available in brown color all the way to today when they are available in all the colors of the rainbow. Dick has written frequently for various publications. He authored two books on discus – The back-to-nature Guide to Discus, and Trophy Discus – the art of selecting, grooming, and showing Discus.
Following the meeting, our Monthly Auction (sellers, pre-register your stuff here).
Members, join us the evening before the talk for a backyard potluck gathering in North Seattle. This is an opportunity to just hang out with our speaker and other GSAS members informally! RSVP to Mark at margenex@comcast.net for directions and what to bring.
