Oops, my bad (Girls are keeping me honest)
As to HRC correspondence & all we know, here's what was sent out to all Cascade members.
November 21, 2011
Dear Cascade Board Members,
Thank you for your support in Cascade’s pursuit to become an HRC club here in the Pacific Northwest. We are sad to report that Mike Witt has decided to deny our request. We would like to share this information with everyone in our region so we can all be up to date with developments.
On November 9, 2011, Pam received the following email from Mike.
“Pamela
After much review and discussion between past EC, current EC, field reps and assistant field reps in Region 14, club officials in Region 14, phone conversations, emails and one-on-one conversations with most concerned, the decision has been made not to grant the development of the Cascade Retriever Club into the Hunting Retriever Club, Inc program at this time. Efforts should be placed on strengthening the existing clubs, members and judges already in place within Region 14 and surrounding regions. Claudene Cooper will be returning your club’s application and check in the near future. We hope that you will continue to support the HRC program.
Sincerely, Michael Witt
President, HRC, Inc.”
We thought given support of almost every HRC Club in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia our club would now be in the HRC family. It seems to us that this decision was made with very little understanding of HRC in the Northwest or how another club would benefit the entire region and not draw resources or entries from existing clubs. As far as we understand HRC has never before excluded a club with 60+ members that had this much widespread support from existing HRC Clubs in a region.
The Cascade Board has felt left out of any discussion regarding our acceptance. Not one of our Board members was ever contacted with questions or included in Executive Committee discussions on or “off the record”. There were several conversations with Margo, our current area rep, but nothing concrete one way or another came back to our Board. We are officially in the dark about anything that might need to be resolved or questions from the Executive Committee so we could be a club.
Your continued support for Cascade becoming a member of the HRC family is much appreciated. For those of you with legitimate provable concerns we would like to find out what those actually are so we can address them.
Cascade and its members will continue to hold practices and seek HRC affiliation. We will also support regional clubs and local clubs like we have done in the past. Thank you again for your support in our quest. Please respond to this e-mail address, if so inclined, and the privileged information will get to the Cascade Board. Happy hunting.
Cascade Hunting Retriever Club Board
