Hello, fellow ABATE members and anyone else lucky enough to have a copy of our newsletter.
I hope you find the following pages informative and useful.
To those that are already members, thanks for all the support you already give.
This will be my last Newsletter article as your State Coordinator.
I would like to end it on a good note:
First by saying thank you!
To all those who have helped ABATE and kept me straight, and those that have picked up the slack when work took priority over ABATE business.
( I have not listed them here) I have tried to tell them personally.
In the last two years, we have managed to get most of the work done, increase our numbers, put more in the bank and add chapters. 2 out of 4 Ain’t bad and it Ain’t great. We added a few chapters and we lost a few chapters. We lost about as many members as we gained. We did leave more green in the bank and reduce the old and new business from 14 Items in April 2006 to 2-3 items in Jan 2008.
I believe that for ABATE of WA to be more successful, the chapters must take greater role in State Business, the State must re-new Chapter Charters and commit to work with chapters. Also, all chapters and the State must have the same bank, so real accounting and shared info is possible. I believe that the entire structure has to change. When ABATE of WA was formed, type writers with ribbon was advanced technology, 10 years later ABATE had one computer for membership and a dot matrix printer. Technologies have change and we have not kept pace.
To Darla, and J Craig, good luck in your next adventure and thanks!
Anyway, good luck Mick G. thanks for stepping up to the plate and doing what you do.
I am stoked to announce the following- Chapters, before you order your next t-shirt, give state products a call, they have two new machines to do shirts, hats and mugs. Spring Opener tickets should be on-line and on the web, and shirts and tickets will be available at the Swap meet!!!
Be aware, Swap meet is just a few weeks away!
You can do it! But we can together do anything!! Again, farewell…. See ya soon!
Rich B.
ABATE of WA State Coordinator- Retired