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Next Meeting

June 2008 

In lieu of our normally scheduled meeting, we will enjoy our 5th Annual Pond Tour.  Members are encouraged to assist the pond tour committee as much as possible to make this a great day. 

May 2008

Our May Meeting will be on Sunday, May 4th. The agenda will include the upcoming Pond Tour as well as the Grow-Out Contest.  Fish will be distributed to members who are participating in the grow-out.  We will also be conducting water testing for any new members. 

April 2008

Our April Meeting will be on Saturday the 12th. Grant Fujita will be traveling from California to spend the day with our club. Grant will be talking about Japan and the Koi Breeders there the first part of the day. We will brake for lunch then Grant will give us a talk on Judging. Grant is the Author of Koi by Grant Fujita. He has also made many, many other contributions to the koi world in his life. We feel very lucky to have a person of Grants caliber come  to speak to our club. 

"Koi" by Grant Fujita

March 2008

Our March meeting will be at the home of Ti Hanley. The topics will be; Koi of the Year, Koi Person of the year. Ti also has had his pond re done so we look forward to seeing it.                                                                           

February 2008

Our February meeting will be at Chuck and Beth's.

The main topic will be our pond tour. We also will be talking about the up coming visit of Grant Fujita in April

January 2008

Our January meeting will feature Matt McCann a Koi breeder from Nisei Koi Farms. Matt is a very well receipted breeder and should have a lot of great things to talk about. Jim and Mary Leard have agreed to host the meeting.

November Meeting 2007

There will be NO meeting in November!!!!! Most of the club officers will be at the Charlotte Show as well as the Mud Pull at Ray Ables the following week so we will have the month off.  

October Meeting 2007

   We will be meeting at the home of Mark Carr and Chris Deer.                           

September Meeting 2007

We will be meeting at the home of Steve and Debra Matthes. Debra is planning a make it your self ice cream sundae, should be fun? I had planed to continue with the talk on Koi Verity. I had hoped to get into the subject a little deeper than the last meeting. Try to remember what we talked about last month, there will be a quiz!

                

 

 August Meeting 2007

We will be meeting at the home of Margaret Seres. Her Pond is a formal 11,000 Gallon concrete pond with a formal water garden on the side.

                       

 July Meeting 2007

We will be meeting at the home of Dom and Doris Zito on James Island. This will give us all a chance to see the changes Dom has made to his pond over the last year.

                        

June Meeting 2007

This meeting will be at the home of Robert and Linda Lewis. This will be the day after the Pond Tour and will give us a chance to talk about how the pond tour went.

May Meeting 2007

The meeting will be at the home of Van and Wynema Atkins. Van has three ponds in the yard to look at.

Sorry for the meeting I missed

May

April

March

February Meeting 2007

The February meeting will be a short one at Lotus Land Koi Farm. We all will be meeting at the Wal Mart in S'ville at 7:30 AM and leaving at 8:00 on Feb. 11th. This will be a great time Brady is a wonderful host. Check out the Link on our Links page.

                                        

                            

January Meeting 2007

The January meeting had to be moved to Chuck and Beth Lisenby's due to Ti's illness.  Ti will be back with us soon and we will get a look at that new pond.

                              

At this meeting we will again be talking about the bugs that bug our fish. We will also discuss different methods of treatment, what works, what doesn't, what is cheep and what isn't. This should make for a good meeting.

December Meeting 2006

This is our Christmas meeting we will be meeting at Bee City on HWY 61, Cottageville. We will have the Atwells from the Atlanta Koi club coming to give us a talk on Koi Variety. We also have a lot of club business to take care of. We will be meeting on Dec. 3rd. 

November Meeting 2006

This month the meeting is at the home of Steve and Debra Mathes. The meeting will be on the 19th.

October Meeting 2006

This month the meeting will be at Chris and Marks.

              

 This meeting we have a lot to take care of and it will be the start of our grow out contest. We will have 20 koi from the same spawn that we will be trying to see who dose the best job of growing out.

September Meeting 2006

The meeting will be at the home of Grant and Penny Patton

               

This is going to be a great meeting Grant and Penny are planning a slide show and talk about their trips to Japan

 

August Meeting 2006

The meeting will be at the home of John and Margaret Seres          

               

 This will be a very good meeting. John and Margaret have a 11,000 Gal Koi Pond and a nice Water Garden on their back patio. I don't think that at this point we have a topic but we will have something soon. One of the things we will be talking about is were to have our meetings.

 

July Meeting 2007

The meeting will be at the home of Karen and James Collins. The topic will be Water Quality. In the last several weeks the KHAs in the club have had several calls about sick fish and water quality has been the problem. This being the case this is a good time to go over what we are looking for and why.

SORRY, I don't have a picture of the Collins Pond

 

June Meeting 2006

                

The June meeting will be at the home of Robert and Linda Lewis on the 11th of June. This will be the day after the Pond Tour. This will give us a chance to talk about the tour while it is still fresh in our minds as well as get all the pond tour stuff together.

 

 

May Meeting 2006

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The pond of Sue and Ralph Owens

 

Our May meeting will be on Sunday May 7 and it will be the annual trip north to Sumter to visit Sue and Ralph Owens.  This meeting will be a bit special as we have invited our near neighbors from the Midland Koi and Water garden Society to join us.

April

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Vicky Vaughan from the University of Georgia our April Speaker

 

April's meeting will at 2:00 PM on Sunday April 9, 2006 at the home of Van and Wynema Atkins.  Once again we are grateful that Vicky Vaughan from the University of Georgia has agreed to come and speaker at one of our meetings.  Vicky has been a great supporter of our club and always gives a great talk on Koi health and other related subjects. 
 

 

Pond Tour 2006

 

The Charleston Showa Koi Club Pond Tour 2006 will be on Saturday June 10, 2006.  See link below for details.

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