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I am truly sorry to hear about Mick. He was quite a character. He will be missed. Our condolences to his family.
Don and Melinda Mittag
You are right. I just didn’t put the letters together. I do think you are also right about the third year. It is another youth group that is growing by leaps and bounds. ( that’s a good thing)
I was hoping to make it to the meeting Sat but it looks like a long day. Not sure I could drive 300 miles and sit though the meeting. I am still getting my stamina back and need a couple of naps during the day. But every day is better than the last. Maybe the next one.
Amy where were you when this web site and this forum in particular were being highly debated. All I kept on hearing is we needed to have a totally open site. There were most of the directors and one or two members in particular that demanded it be a open site it increase communication with the membership. Andy Hall was probably the biggest proponent of having a totally open site. And yet I can’t recall him starting one thread. I am not picking on Andy just pointing out how little use this site gets. When it was just a blog it got 10x’s the views as it does now. The directors just like years ago said that they would really step up and post all kinds of stuff on this site and the last. Well what happened? As it turned out the last BOD had me do the posting. So yes I should know a bite about how it worked. The minutes were posted and if I didn’t post it nothing else did. Just like now. And thank you for doing the minutes and posting them. In the past 10 years, and probably more I can’t think back that far, Brad and I have posted 90% of the information that was posted on a WTA website. When the job of posting a blog was pushed on me each and everyone of the Directors promised they would send me something each month to post. Want to know how many I got. Let’s just say over the years I could count them on my good hand.
Yes I know I had time to do it but that is not the point. I still had to make a effort. And that was not anywhere close to the only thing I was doing for the WTA.
I don’t know if or where they can be found but back at the beginning of the Homegrounds project there was a constant posting of pictures, news and a lot of thank you’s going out. Dan H when he first got on the board posted several thank you’s for volunteers doing things . Now not so much.
I have known John A since he was a kid (and in some ways he still is). He never did anything for the shooters of Wisconsin for any kind of pat on the back. But with that being said it wouldn’t have been too much trouble for the BOD to post something here. Even a group message. According to this web site there is only one Director that doesn’t have a email address and even he has a computer and can use one. To take 2 minutes out of you day is not asking to much for a person that has donated thousands of hours of their time.
I guess it all boils down to the same old same old. You hear the membership saying “we should” and when it comes down to it all of a sudden it changes to “you should”. I get it that the directors have lives too. Been there done that. But there are some important things that happen with the WTA and this was one of them that the BOD missed a opportunity to show some gratitude and possibly encourage someone to step up.
As Brad mentioned I am just out of the hospital and I am heavily drugged up with pain med’s so I hope I made some sense.
John now you can sit back and enjoy the shoot like me. It is great. But when is Julie and I going to get to do a little drinking in if you aren’t working.
Thanks John for everything you have done in the past 20 or more years. And thanks for being a good friend.
Don
I may have missed the general membership part. I’m trying to spend as much time at the house up north as I can before my surgery and that means doing most things on my phone. And that’s a pain. And Mike is right if it was a general membership meeting.
In the minutes when talking about the payments to the Nekoosa High school someone makes a motion and then another seconds it. Neither are a Director. How can that happen? Then a vote is taken and 20 people vote. How does that happen also? Last I checked only Directors can make motions and vote. <b></b><i></i><u></u>
And you forgot to thank two other people. Dick and Arlene Otto. The amount of time, effort, sweat, blood you two have donated to the WTA is unbelievable.
One more. Thistle Fritz. If it weren’t for the three of you the home grounds would not have even opened this year.
So what is the WTA going to do next year????? Who is going to step up?????
I guess I am going to fall into the Physically unable to perform group. Sorry.
The BOD didn’t sign on to run the Homegrounds. Like Arlene said the WTA needs some of the 2 thousand plus members to step up. If everyone gave only one day it would be easy to get everything done that needs to be done to run the Homegrounds, your club.
The problem, Mike, is that people don’t look at the ATA site and or this one. I didn’t even know there was a Wi page on the ATA site. You are the only person I have heard mention it. There are 50 times the people that see TS.com compared to the WTA and the ATA sites combined. Flyers should have been sent out also.
John. I tried to post it on TS.com on both the shooting and up coming events but because it is a PDF I can’t cut and past. You may know of a way to do that or with the original file you may be able to post it . That way a few more people may see it. Pretty please can you do it?
