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November 2009
The Cascade Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
Club has gone paperless! Welcome to the
New Summit Newsletter! Every other month
we will send out this newsletter to all our
wonderful members. In order for this to be a
success, we will need participation from all
of you! Please be active in emailing photos
and good articles as you come across them!
We will send out the newsletter on the first
Friday of every month so have your articles
and photos to the editor the Wednesday
before.
Articles In This Issue
Help Wanted
The club is in need of VOLUNTEERS!
Member News
De-Skunker Recipe
Assistance organizing the club Holiday Party and
Club Membership
running the Ways and Means department is
President's Message
needed.
Help Wanted!
Please contact our Club President, Helen
Kramlich, if you are interested.
Club Links
Cascade Greater Swiss
Mountain Dog Club
CGSMD Club Yahoo Group
Board, Officers and Appointed
Positions Roster
Please submit all suggestions, articles of interest and photos to Julie Gray at
blueeyedgrl2000@hotmail.com
If Your Dog Gets Skunked:
Have fun hiking this fall! Hopefully you won’t
need this de-skunker recipe!
• 1 Qt 3% hydrogen peroxide
Upcoming Events
Events
Some of the dates/times are
tentative and will be updated as the
event approaches. Watch the Yahoo
discussion forum and website for
final information.
December:
• 1/4 cup baking soda
• 1 T. liquid dish soap
Wet your dog (remember to NOT bring the dog in the
house first!). Mix all ingredients in a large plastic bowl.
Thoroughly coat your dog with the mix. Let the solution
5th and 6th: Greater Clark County
KC Show at the Clark County
Fairgrounds
12th: Club Holiday Party
11-3pm, location TBD
sit on your dog for at least 5 min, be very careful to
January:
keep the goo out of his/her eyes. Rinse completely.
Repeat as necessary.
This one WORKS. The soap breaks down the oils in
the skunk stink, and the baking soda & peroxide
neutralize the odor.
16-18th: Puyallup Dog Show and
General Club meeting
22-25th: Rose City Classic,
Portland, OR
President’s Message
Hello Swissy Friends,
I hope you all enjoyed a great summer this year. It was sure warm enough. As much as I like the warm
days I think my dogs are all ready to say goodbye to the hot summer and hello to nice, cool, comfortable
fall and winter.
The club has been involved in many activities this summer starting with the BBQ in June. The weather
was perfect for us this year for the BBQ. We had a nice turnout of members with a lot of good food and
beautiful swissies.
We also had a first ever ice cream social and draft clinic in August. Tim Perciful was in charge of the
draft clinic. There were different carts & wagons and harnesses for all the dogs to try. Tim had all of the
dogs and their owners working together learning the art of drafting.
Our club took part in the 2nd annual MRWDC show and breed booths in August. Jim & Julie Franklin
were in charge of the booth again this year and did another wonderful job. Thanks to both Jim & Julie
and to the volunteers that helped man the booth.
Our Specialty has come and gone and as always was a great success. Special “Thanks” go to Bonnie
Huett for offering to chair this year’s specialty. She did a marvelous job. Thank you also goes out to all
of her helpers that were involved in putting this show on .Everyone did a great job. We will be looking
for a chair person for next year’s 2010 specialty so please don’t be shy, let us know if you want to be a
part of next year’s show.
With winter comes the holidays and our fun Christmas party. We need to get one of you nice folks to
volunteer to help us put the Christmas party together. I know one of you members out there want to get
more involved with the club & this is the perfect place to start. It takes very minimal time to organize
this party so please won’t you offer to lend a hand.
I am sorry to always be begging for volunteers but we really do need all of you to help. In a big or small
way we appreciate anything you are willing to do. Without more members stepping up to help with these
fun activities we may need to cut back on some of them.
I want to thank Julie & Jeremy Gray for offering to be the editors of the E-Summit. I’m very excited to
see the new newsletter. Help these great people out by submitting stories, info, pictures or whatever to
blueeyedgrl2000@hotmail.com.
I hope you all enjoy the upcoming holidays this year.
Helen
Member News
CONGRATULATIONS TO
PAINTED TROUT LIGHT OF MY LIFE
"ZIVA"
FOR HER BOW 4 POINT MAJOR AT THE CGSMDC SPECIALTY
AND HER BACK TO BACK BEST PUPPY WINS AT THE CGSMDC AND WESTERN
REGIONAL SPECIALTIES. THIS YOUNG GIRL MADE HER MOM VERY PROUD!
Owned, Handled and loved by Michele Slate
Bred by Bonnie Huett and Lisa Simonsen
Michele Slate/RamsGate Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs, Sherwood OR
www.ramsgateswissys.com
wolfpack1313@msn.com
CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW CHAMPION
PAINTED TROUT GRAND JURY
FOR FINISHING HER CHAMPIONSHIP IN GRAND STYLE AT THE WESTERN REGIONAL
SPECIALTY BY TAKING BOW FOR A 4 POINT MAJOR! WAY TO GO, SWEET GIRL!!!
Owned, Handled and Loved by Michele Slate
Bred by Bonnie Huett and Lisa Simonsen
Co-owned by Toni Killpatrick
Michele Slate/RamsGate Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs, Sherwood, OR
www.ramsgateswissys.com
wolfpack1313@msn.com
Please Welcome New Members:
Blake and Allison Allen of Hillsboro, OR
Sera Fradgley
Fradgley of Acme, Alberta
Current Club Members:
Elizabeth and Perry Atterberry
Jennifer Cadiente
Norm and DaLena Christensen
Kathy Deyo
Jeff and Sara Draeger
Taresa and Tim Driggers
Robert and Debra Erickson
Jim and Julie Franklin
Jeremy and Julie Gray
Bonnie Huett
Janelle and Michael Kaiser
Toni Killpatrick
Stuart and Helen Kramlich
Eric Lichtenthaler and Dixie
Stevens
Ryan Powell and Alexandra Lutz
John and Hayley Mathis
Andy Potter
Tammy Remund
Regina Reese
Seattle, WA
Oregon City, OR
Colton, OR
Orofino, ID
Appleton, WA
Bothell, WA
Newberg, OR
Lake Tapps, WA
Hillsboro, OR
Carson, WA
Lafayette, IN
Mariposa, CA
Tacoma, WA
Corbett, OR
Reno, NV
Tacoma, WA
Oregon City, OR
Centralia, WA
Cle Elum, WA
sakana@zipcon.net
jroland417@netzero.net
snowymtn588@cs.com
kdeyo@clearwater.net
saradraeger@hotmail.com
uncommon@gorge.net
taresac@gmail.com
mountaintopkennels@onlinemac.com
oreolu@aol.com
jgraytkd@netzero.net
troutcreek@hughes.net
janelle@senecaswissys.com
skeeter@sierratel.com
stuartk@johnlscott.com
helenkramlich@gmail.com
dixiestevens@cascadeaccess.com
alex@dri.edu
mathis.jr@gmail.com
ajpotter@bctonline.com
wjatremund@earthlink.net
regina@swiftwaterswissies.com
Dawn and Steven Rosenblum
David Silveira
Seattle, WA
dawn.e.rosenblum@gmail.com
davidsssf@casco.net
Scottsdale, AZ
Lisa and Glen Simonsen
Shelton, WA
Michele Slate
Sherwood, OR
Phillip and Gabrielle Shea
Stevens
Snoqualmie, WA
Kathy and Taiji Tamura
Shoreline, WA
Jennifer Wapenski
gsmd@paintedswissys.com
wolfpack1313@msn.com
stevens_gabby@hotmail.com
kathy_tamura@comcast.net
jwapenski@gmail.com
Snohomish, WA
Aaron and Lori Tang
loritang22@gmail.com
Graham, WA
Rebecca Martin
Banks, OR
David and Bonnie Shauvin
Colton, OR
Robin and Lucy Murdoch
Snoqualmie, WA
Greg and Judy Cash
northwoodsswissy@yahoo.com
david.shauvin@us.army.mil
lucy_murdoch@hotmail.com
judcash1@hughes.net
Dorena, OR
Mike Olsson
Bellevue, WA
mike@whiteolsson.com
Anna and Dominique Demouchet
Beaverton, OR
jet315@yahoo.com
Jeff and Pam Dennison
Sherwood, OR
jpmadennison@verizon.net
Allison and Blake Allen
Sera Fradgley
allikat81@gmail.com
Hillsboro, OR
Acme, Alberta
gsmd@albertaroots.com
Stay in touch with your club neighbors!!
If you haven’t paid your dues yet, please remember to do so!
A WELL-DESERVED THANK YOU
I'd like to take this opportunity to say a well-deserved thank you to Bonnie Huett and her crack Show
Committee team, for all the time and effort it took to pull off 2 Specialties in one day, plus a Supported
Entry the following day. It was a daunting job, and barring a few very minor, momentary set-backs
(which we can all look back on and laugh about - NOW), went off without a hitch.
I don't think anyone, who hasn't done anything like this, can possible know how many hours, days and
months it takes to bring something like this together, and I think we owe everyone involved, including
the officers and board members of the Cascade Club, a debt of thanks for giving us their time.
So thank you all, on behalf of the Cascade Club, for all you do.
Bonnie Huett - Show Chair
Lisa Simonsen, Regina Reese: Trophies
Andy Potter: Fundraising
Helen Kramlich: Ribbons
Kathy Deyo: Judge Selection
Rebecca Martin: Raffle/Auction
Michele Slate: Banquet
Congratulations to all on a job very well-done!!
Respectfully submitted,
Michele Slate (who had the easiest job of all)
“Family” Photos:
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Club. Articles within this publication reflect the opinions of the authors and should not be interpreted as
the opinion of either the newsletter editor or of the CGSMDC. The editor reserves the right to edit all
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