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In This Issue
New College activitiesAt the FWD Board of Director's meeting in Bakersfield in March two college related items were approved.
Critically Important DatesFrom Bill Cale, Far Western District Immediate Past President Yesterday, April 10, was a very critical date for Californians. I hope you all paid the balance on your property taxes. In four days, April 15, we all have a critical date to file income taxes. Fortunately, I paid my full property taxes in December and I sent in my income tax stuff electronically late last week. I hope you're all up to date, too. April 19, is another critical date this month for those of us in NorCal and I just realized I haven't done anything about it, yet, but I'm going to tomorrow. I'm going on line to the FWD web site and register for the convention in Stockton on May 17. You'll find what you need on the Convention links webpage. Individuals need to send in their registration by April 19, the date the price goes up. Choruses and quartets need to send in their CJ-20's by that date, according to FWD SOP. The Stockton event promises to be one of the best in NorCal in years:
Miller "Kep" Keplinger is handling registrations and I'd love to hear him beg for mercy because of a flood of last minute registrations on top of what he's already received. But what the heck, swamp him!
See you in Stockton next month, SCE and AZSNSU Division contestsWell, NorCal isn't the only place for some terrific barbershop contests. Did you see the lineup of quartets for the April 19 AZSNSU contest that includes two college quartets? That'll be a doozy of a contest. The SCE contest is coming along nicely too. The Orange Quartet chapter is working hard to make this a great time too. You can still sign up to attend these events by going to the Conventions Page to get the hot scoop.
Harmony College West - July 18-20Harmony College West 2008 will be held in Redlands mid-July this year. Once again we'll repeat the POD quartet coaching method that has received rave reviews by our quartets. Many of our coaches are gold medallists and you won't find a finer coaching staff anywhere. In order to provide this level of quality we do have to raise the fee for quartet coaching this year to $200 per member. Classes for individuals remains at $150 with lodging and $95 for commuters. Also, we have an early bird registration date of Monday, June 16. After that registrations go up $25 each and will be conditional upon class or coach availability. The HCW 2008 website is ready and you can now register online. We already have two quartets registered, so don't wait too long to signup. Our Saturday night show will include the 2006 Gold Medal quartet Realtime and the 2007 Silver Medal college quartet The Crush. If you can't attend HCW, but Saturday night is open, you can buy tickets at the door to hear these terrific quartets. We have four special Early Arrival classes. There is no registration for the early classes—just show up, get your badge, and attend the one-hour classes at 3pm and 4pm.
Our line-up of regular classes is just as terrific, but you do have to register for these classes. The details of these classes are way too extensive for this newsletter, so go to HCW 2008 Individual Classes to read the fine details. The classes we are offering this year are:
Just click on HCW 2008 to read all about Harmony College West 2008, then choose a link to register. Attention Chapter SecretariesMembers of your chapter without E-mail will not receive this information and we ask you to print this and share it with them.
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