Today was the first meeting this year of SOJAA the local AOBA affiliate. This is my second year in office as president and the new board was meeting for the first time.
It was a pretty busy session as we agreed how to approach the local Type Conference which will help dettermine a national breed standard. We also started the ball rolling on our annual alpaca show AlpacaMania which takes place over the Columbus wekend.

Following the board meeting we had a social meeting of the whole membership and almost 50 members arrived to have lunch. The whole event was great success and the new members really had a good time.

There was lots of talk about the long wet winter and who was running out of hay and state of play on BVDV in alpacas. A few of us may be going to the Snowmass Auction next month and we debated the merits of various alpacas that are in the catalogue and decided what we would buy if we each had a million dollars to spend on alpacas......

By Adrian Stewart