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AAC Trial -- August 31
ENTRY LIST
There will be minor tweaks to the running order within classes just to make sure that no one is running back to back, so check the gate list at the time of your walkthroughs. We have a very full day, so first-dog time will be 9:00 SHARP, with the walkthrough starting about ten minutes ahead. Measuring will be available starting about half an hour before the first dog time. In consideration of my very patient neighbours, please do not arrive more than an hour before the start time, and do your very best to keep the noise down, especially first thing in the morning. As always, we'll really be counting on everyone to pitch in with everything from course building to timing and scribing -- all the tasks that make trials possible. Classes will be split so that everyone can help. I'd really, really appreciate it if everyone could sign up to help with at least two classes each day they're competing. You will have plenty of time to walk courses and get your dogs ready to run. For those who entered by e-mail, forms and payment can be left in the gold box on the registration table. For the last ten years, trials on Purple Hill have included a special ribbons-for-charity program, and this effort has remained in place with the advent of Spot On. For each ribbon not taken by competitors, a donation is made to a charity. Thousands of dollars over the years have gone to worthy causes as a result. If you keep and display your ribbons, by all means take them. If, however, they're likely to end up in a box somewhere or, worse, tossed away, consider leaving them here and Spot On will make sure their value is recognized in the form of a charitable donation. Because I'm always dismayed by the vast collection of plastic bottles left over at the end of every trial, I'm urging you to bring your own hydration, preferably in reusable containers. Instead of providing bottled water at this trial, I will be donating twice what I'd normally spend on bottles to charity. There will be plenty of fresh, tasty water available from my deep, drilled well -- this is the same great drinking water that people line up for at a water-filling station not far from here.
General Stuff
Please drive very slowly while on the property. Drive into the fenced area
and park toward the back of the field (i.e., the end toward the remains of
the old barn and
away from my neighbours' gray house). Please stay away from the old barn. Do not walk dogs down the driveway or anywhere other than in the designated areas (i.e., within the fenced area or in the large field east of the house -- to get from one area to the other, please cross in front of the house). Pick up after your dogs, and please don't allow them to pee on my gardens or on anything that has to be handled (canopies, garbage cans, etc.). It's just really icky. Please dispose of cigarette butts appropriately. Better yet, don't smoke -- especially around the rings.
Please respect the space needs of other
competitors and their dogs.
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