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A possible solution to the two previous threads. What if the directors names remain secret and the by laws are never published nor released?
However, on a more serious note. Why haven't more koi hobbyist made the ten dollar donation and received in return - full membership in the Cayman Island Koi Club and membership pin?
At the end of the day, all joking aside, this money we are raising is going 100% towards finding a cure, helping in research and adding to the education of KHV; a known killer of koi for which there is NO known cure?
It is embarassing that these are actual hobbyists who post upon this board, as well as, breeders, dealers, etc...and, they have NOT shook lose with a ten dollar bill which some day may produce the answer to this dread disease which now threatens their very own koi collection.
When I was a kid when we all gave our dimes in order to find a cure for polio...Everyone in our school knew someone in an iron lung inflicted with polio and as a group 'we' knew our dimes were going to help find a cure, as well as, would serve to stop the spread of Polio and educating those who like ourselves were fearful of someday finding ourselves in an iron lung...as was my child hood friend who laid for nearly two years immobile in her bedroom across the road from my own home!
KHV represents nearly the same tragedy to everyone who owns koi. Thus, whilst those who post on this board/forum profess to care about koi and about what to feed them, what type of filter to buy, who won what show, they are still sitting on their wallets instead of NOW sending their ten dollar contribution to Dale Torok in Lexington...
Personally, they don't really give a damn about koi. Obviously, the couldn't.
They care only about seeing their name on one these boards and forums and BS'ing about something far less important than showing the world how much they cared by sending their ten dollars $10.00) for the 'club' pin with One dollar each for shipping and handling - to our hard working collegue Dale Tork and then displaying their CAYMAN ISLAND KOI PIN as proud evidence of their 'caring' about this hobby, about their own fish and really caring about their fellow koi hobbyists fish.
Our fund raising is not requesting a five hundred dollar contribution, nor a thousand dollar contribution...it is only a ten ($10.00) United States dollar contribution - and, the opportunity offers a chance for us all to find the cure to the worst disease to ever hit our hobby -
With the ten dollars they get in return a Cayman Island Club pin..which cost them nothing. And, full membership in the worlds largest koi club...And, they are making a donation to what is most is relevant to their own fish.
I'd be embarassed to say that I care about my koi and I would be embarassed to ever again post my name on a forum or board, or attend a koi club meeting, or a koi show or tell anyone I had koi...IF I hadn't sent the ten bucks to Dale Torok in Lexington, Kentucky - in order that he could send that hobbyist a CAYMAN ISLAND KOI CLUB pin to place proudly upon their lapel...as evidence of their 'rightful place in our koi hobby'!
Well, that's my rant of the day to the truly phoney koi keepers who profess to care about this hobby and their koi collections!
May they all be embarassed and ashamed of themselves!
Hug's and Happy Holiday's
Lee Aronfeld
Grand cayman |