ABANA Affiliate Liaison Letter,
October 2004
There are 57 ABANA affiliates that are NOT represented on the Affiliates Meeting page on the web site, http://abana.org/affiliates/meetings/index.shtml Liaison Representatives, please send in pictures of your Affiliate's meetings to share with the rest of the world-wide community of blacksmiths. We also have a place to post your reports about successful things that your group has done. Programs, demos, field trips, picnics, IITH, fund raisers, group projects, anything that your group did that was fun and successful, please share it with all the other groups. This is your web site and you can provide better content than anyone else. LeeAnn is on a dial-up connection so please save your images with titles, descriptions and stories to a CD and mail it to the PO Box listed above. Also, please provide day time contact information in case she needs to clarify something within your submission. ABANA provides grants of up to $600 to affiliates to help pay for a demonstrator or a program of an educational manner for your group. You can download the application form here: http://abana.org/downloads/aff_grant.pdf ABANA also provides scholarship grants to individual members for furthering their education. Read the latest scholarship report from Colby Brinkman here: http://abana.org/resources/education/scholarshipreport.shtml A thought to safety, the weather is cooling off and blacksmiths are at their forges more. Take an extra minute to be sure that your space has good ventilation and is not cluttered with flammable items like rags or even dry leaves.
Dave Mudge, Affiliate Liaison
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