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Hello, all:Our monthly BNAPS meetings (2007 - 2008) will be in classroom 17 at Mount Pleasant School, at 10541 - 60A Avenue, in the Mount Pleasant area just north-east of Southgate Mall. 106th St is the major North-South route here, and the school is really on 106 St. In addition to street parking, there is also the staff lot (which we are welcome to use) on the west and south side of the building, entering off 106th.
Through the main doors (north side of building) turn immediately left, then turn right at the end of the corridor. Room 17 is then immediately to your right upon turning right.
Meeting dates: Jan 23; Feb 20; Mar 19; Apr 23; May 21; and June 11, 2008.
All BNAPSers and guests are welcome.
David Piercey.
The first meeting at the new venue, on January 23rd, was well attended and the new venue was approved. There was some discussion of the recent web-site problems and some discussion of the forthcoming Edmonton Spring National Show. The usual show-and-tell was, as always, very interesting.
The BNAPS Edmonton group held its October meeting at Bob Lane's home on November 1st; the first of the 2007-2008 monthly meetings. The main order of business was to discuss options for where to meet for the balance of the year. Lack of liability insurance has closed the long-standing arrangement for the group to meet in an Edmonton schools facility. A number of possibilities were raised and will be explored vigorously, prior to the November meeting.
David Piercey, in his capacity as the Chief Judge at BNAPEX, presented Steve Friedenthal with a certificate and APS Research Medal for his gold medal exhibit shown at BNAPEX. Steve's awards were late in being given to him, as he was not at the show.
David also mentioned that Bob Lane was admitted to the Order of the Beaver, along with Pete Jacobi.
Although more than 30 BNAPSers live in this area, the usual turnout rarely exceeds nine. Work will be done to try to improve on that. One possibility is to hold meetings in conjunction with the Edmonton Stamp Club meetings.
Members then conducted the usual show-and-tell, always an interesting experience. Items included Jasper Park Lodge scenic covers, an unusual registration marking, a fake RPO strike, Barnardo postcard, a Herschel Island registered cover, and others.
December, 2006 Meeting
On December 13th, the BNAPS Edmonton Regional Group held its final meeting of 2006, at the Alberta School for the Deaf in Edmonton. The Season and the weather reduced the numbers to six but they had an interesting session of business and then show and tell.
On business, the group was told that the question raised about liability insurance for the group was now included in a broad review of BNAPS insurance policies and a response is expected early 2007.
A question was raised about the "secrecy" of ballots cast in the 2006 BNAPS election. A member thought it was unusual for his membership number to appear on the ballot. Another member described how another society handled this by having an envelop system, whereby one party checked to see that no membership number was duplicated and then opened the envelopes to turn the ballots over to a counter. It was agreed to forward this question.
Dennis May opened the show and tell with an update of his $5 CD on the history of air mail in Alberta. He also showed another project - a binder of signed air mail items.
Barend Wissink then passed around a variety of covers carrying interesting markings.
Bob Lane described four phases of mail transportation in the Reston-Pipestone area of Manitoba, with examples of each.
Finally, David Piercey showed a book of Newfoundland covers, prepared by Sammy Whaley. He also showed a few of his own covers that were either in the book or were connected to it.
The group will resume its monthly meetings in mid-January.
For more details about forthcoming meetings, please email: David Piercey.
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