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Super Opinionated and Always Correct
The fall ILCA -NA Newsletter was published without bothering to secure District report articles from Manitoba, Western Ontario, Western New York State, The entire Gulf Coast from Pensacola to Brownsville, Western Florida, Western Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, or Hawaii.
Perhaps it doesn't matter much. Apparently nobody in those states or provinces bothered to submit an article to the ILCA-NA office in time for the fall Newsletter deadline.
Maybe the staff tried calling repeatedly and the district secretaries refused to write anything.
Maybe the District Secretaries refused to even grant an interview so the paid staff could at least fake something up for the newsletter.
Maybe the NA VP declined, when asked, to either get an article from the District Secretary or write something about his district himself.
As of September 15, 2008 only 372 members remained in those 9 NA Laser Class Districts.
As of Mid August, 2002 There were 795 members in those same districts.
District --2002-- 2008
4 ----------15------7
9-----------102----39
14----------41-----22
15----------222---79
16----------47----18
17----------70----15
19----------90----62
20----------150---99
23----------58----31
Maybe there is some relationship between membership and effort spent gathering information about the game and making certain that information is published in our newsletters.
Note: This published version is the NICE version . I just spent over an hour editing and re-editing in an attempt to be nice about this.
My opinion is we really need to do something about this and NEVER EVER publish another newsletter that simply writes off such a large portion of our region.
The statistics say over 50% of the ILCA-NA membership decline since 2002 has been in those un-reported upon districts. Districts.
In 2002 over 25% of our membership resided in those districts.
In September of this year under 16% lived in those districts the class no longer covers with its newsletter..
Does anybody have any ideas about what to do??
Perhaps it doesn't matter much. Apparently nobody in those states or provinces bothered to submit an article to the ILCA-NA office in time for the fall Newsletter deadline.
Maybe the staff tried calling repeatedly and the district secretaries refused to write anything.
Maybe the District Secretaries refused to even grant an interview so the paid staff could at least fake something up for the newsletter.
Maybe the NA VP declined, when asked, to either get an article from the District Secretary or write something about his district himself.
As of September 15, 2008 only 372 members remained in those 9 NA Laser Class Districts.
As of Mid August, 2002 There were 795 members in those same districts.
District --2002-- 2008
4 ----------15------7
9-----------102----39
14----------41-----22
15----------222---79
16----------47----18
17----------70----15
19----------90----62
20----------150---99
23----------58----31
Maybe there is some relationship between membership and effort spent gathering information about the game and making certain that information is published in our newsletters.
Note: This published version is the NICE version . I just spent over an hour editing and re-editing in an attempt to be nice about this.
My opinion is we really need to do something about this and NEVER EVER publish another newsletter that simply writes off such a large portion of our region.
The statistics say over 50% of the ILCA-NA membership decline since 2002 has been in those un-reported upon districts. Districts.
In 2002 over 25% of our membership resided in those districts.
In September of this year under 16% lived in those districts the class no longer covers with its newsletter..
Does anybody have any ideas about what to do??