TO: ILR Membership

FROM: ILR Board of Directors and Registrar

RE: Show Division updates, 2010 Annual Meeting info, FREE classifieds

Show Division Updates

·        ILR Show Division Championships will be designated on the ILR registration certificates!!

·        2011 ILR Show Division International Finals Show – the 2011 International show is a reality!

The superintendent for the ILR-SD 2011 International Finals event will be Norris Berg of Ellsworth, WI. Mark Smith will serve as the ILR Board Liaison to the International Show. 

 

The show will be held at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in DesMoines, IA. The date will be announced as soon as it can be confirmed but we are targeting early fall 2011.

The ILR Board contacted both the LFA board and the ALSA board to investigate the possibility of combining the three national shows - all three events will be held within a six week period and within 200 miles of each other. Combining the events would have created greater opportunities and lessened the costs to the llama show community. ALSA declined the proposal and the LFA postponed the decision until after the LFA sale in September, which was longer than the ILR Board felt comfortable in waiting to secure a facility for 2011. To view the proposals and the responses, click on the following links:  
 - Proposal and ALSA Response
 - Proposal and LFA Response

·        International Show Dedication - in the tradition of other livestock and agribusiness National Events, the ILR Board has decided that each year the International Finals show will be dedicated to someone who has had an impact on the llama industry. The ILR Board has selected the recipient of the 2011 dedication and it will be announced after the date has been finalized.

ILR 2010 Annual Meeting

The ILR Annual Meeting has been held at the ILR office in Kalispell, MT, at the LANA conference, the ALSA Grand Nationals and the LFA Futurity event. The ILR Board felt it was important to bring the Annual Meeting to the membership and incorporate it into one of the ILR Anniversary Shows. The 2010 annual meeting will be held at the NAILE (North American International Livestock Expo) on November 3, 2010, in Louisville, KY. Jan will be at the show to run the annual meeting and will be available all weekend at an ILR Booth to answer your registry related questions. Please join us in Louisville for the Annual Meeting. Thank you to the KLAA group for hosting the ILR Annual Meeting for 2010.

REMINDER: FREE Classified Ads

FREE classified ads on the ILR website to all for the remainder of 2010! Go to the classifieds to see the ads that are there and to find a link to the form to send us your own ads! https://secure.lamaregistry.com/classifieds/llamaoogle_classifieds.shtml.

The ILR Board:

President – Mary Jo Miller, VP – Bill Safreed, Treasurer – Kathi McKinney, Secretary – Kristy Brown, Member at Large – Mark Smith and Registrar – Jan Wassink.