Season's Greetings!

The main order of business at this time is Charter Renewal. We are doing pretty good, but it is crunch time! Out of our 38 clubs, we have 29 that have renewed. You have my heart felt gratitude for taking care of this requirement on time! That leaves nine clubs in Region 5 who have yet to renew. Those clubs are as follows: Central Missouri Scale Modelers, South Central Modelers, Mad City Modelers, Twin City Aero Historians, St. Louis, SPASAM, Cars in Miniature, Des Moines Hawkeye. If you see your clubs name above, please get on the ball and check with your officers and get the job done. If re-charter is not complete by the end of the month, you are in danger of losing your charter, having scheduled contest dates wiped out, and losing your insurance for any upcoming events. Please guys let's get this finished.

Remember you can pay your re-charter fees on line now as well: Here is the link to the IPMS shopping cart page with instructions.

http://www.ipmsusa2.org/store/operations.html

In other news:

The 2012 Region 5 Convention has secured a venue. The Convention will be held at the Holiday Inn in Overland Park, KS. The date is Saturday, May 19 2012. Contest Theme is "In the Movies".
*Vendor Coordinator is Marty Nevshemal, email martynev04@yahoo.com
*If you or your club would like to sponsor a trophy please email me at keldq@aol.com
*All details will be available soon at the IPMS/West Central Missouri web site: http://www.ipmswcmo.org/

Bad news, the SurgiCon scheduled for April 14, 2012 (hosted by IPMS/Plastic Surgeons) has been canceled due to a venue conflict. They are working on securing a possible later date.

Speaking of upcoming contests, please register your event as early as possible. Remember you must first clear your event with me, then register on line with the DLC. My policy is and always has been first come, first served. There are many dates already booked for next year, and even one for 2013. With 38 clubs in our region, it can be a challenge to schedule these and keep everybody happy. To have the best chance at your desired date, book early!

Starting in January I will begin to hound you guys for nominations for Region 5 Chapter of the Year, as well as Newsletter and Web Site of the Year. Don't make me beg for nominations! Start thinking about it.

That's it for the moment. I'll probably update the re-charter status a couple more times this month. Hope you all have a great Holiday and a successful upcoming New Year!

Kelly Quirk
R5 RC
816-471-4580 day
816-415-9745 eve

PS:  I hope all you Chapter Contacts are sharing all this with your clubs!