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• The money is only removed and deposited about once a month. It may be a long time before your renewal is actually acted upon if you drop it in the "safe" at the range. Also, unless it is in a sealed envelope, there is a chance your payment may become mixed with the loose cash in the box, and perhaps any record of why your name is on a slip of paper will be lost as well. An application form solves that problem.
  
  
• With just your name and update payment, there is no permanent record for the files that confirms or updates your e-mail, your phone, your address for mailings, makes sure your name is spelled correctly and your spouse or other family members get cards if they want them. It is a little more trouble to actually put that info on the application form and send it in, but it really helps keep the records up to date, makes it so much easier on the person doing the membership record keeping, and speeds things up for you. Otherwise, someone else will have to create an application for you as best they can, incomplete though it may be.

• Your membership record has an old e-mail address: we need an update from you.
• Your e-mail account or software is rejecting the newsletter as spam.
• The e-mail address on your membership application wasn't legible or was wrong.
• You didn't give us an e-mail address that you check very often.
• Your membership has expired (only current members get newsletters).
• Your address has changed from what was on file, with no e-mail listed.
• The mailing address we have is incorrect or absent from the records.

• Dale Johnson and Wayne Douma spent many hours painting the inside of the range. If it appears a lot cleaner and brighter now, you can thank them for all their hard work! Light replacements including some fixtures is next.
  
  
• Jim Rice, past President and life member. To our knowledge, the holder of the longest membership in the club. A list of the works he has done would stretch back beyond the experience of most people in the club today. We could mention spending hours of his time working with the range clean up, high power rifle program, fullbore rifle program, junior program, putting in hours every week handling club-related issues as President, fielding questions, running meetings, serving as de factor parlimentarian to help keep the meetings on track and avoid pointless digressions so the meeting can end at a reasonable time, and so much more that goes on behind the scenes. Countless hours have been spent physically sorting out mailing lists, addressing, stamping, and stuffing envelopes for important membership mailings, all the while running a full time business. Taking money from his own pocket to buy targets, pay for dirt removal, loaning the use of his tractor for grounds work, and so much more that few of us ever know about, is just a hint of the work Jim has done on behalf of all of us.
  
  
• Larry Lefever, who has for years helped organize and set up tables, signs, and cleanup for the twice-a-year gun shows that help finance the club operations. Larry also serves as a representative to the RVSSA, and works with the High Power Rifle program. When there is work to be done on the ranges, as in the years past, Larry is there to do more than his share. Larry handles such things as dump fees and floor sweep compound out of his own pocket and waits for reimbursement, as do many of the volunteers mentioned here. And he makes sure the signs get put up at the end of the street for gun shows, helps with setup and takedown of the tables, and much more.
  
  
• Gerard Payne, a Bullseye Pistol shooter who keeps the pop machine filled, takes care of the restrooms by making sure the soap, toilet paper, and other supplies are put to use, goes shopping for them when we run low, cleans up when things get a little less than desirable, and pitches in with other volunteer work around the club. When you are enjoying a low-cost can of pop this summer, remember Gerard put in the time to make sure it was there when you wanted it. He replaced the expensive dedicated-fill soap dispensers with lower cost generic liquid-fill units, gets more soda and ice tea when the machine runs low, and helps with range cleanup and backstop repairs. Gerard is one of the people who replaced lights and ballasts in the range area in preparation for the upcoming gun show.
  
  
• John Hughes, our current President, also works with practical pistol disciplines and RVSSA, and pitches in for cleanup jobs, works on the setup for gun shows, and arranges to get all sorts of free benefits for the club such as the membership application box on the front door, just as a small example. Hardly any behind-the-scenes setup or cleanup gets done without John being involved.
  
  
• Wayne Douma, who has for years been involved in the High Power and Fullbore programs, helps in so many other ways such as assisting in getting mailings ready, representing the club when we are faced with challenges, and is instrumental in the continued existence and maintenance of the 1000 yard rifle range, which is a valuable asset for rifle shooters all over the state of Oregon, and a unique historic public trust from the early days of the old Camp White.
  
  
• Roger Mannix, current Gun Show director, managed the table sales and general operation of the last gun show, and will be handling the next one as well. Roger donated valuable prizes for the raffle as well. He made sure all the funds were collected as far in advance as was reasonable, handled the mailings and phone calls, and stood security watch overnight.
  
  
• Dale Johnson has put in weeks of detailed technical work creating disposal plans, dealing with the arcane governmental aspects of waste disposal and storage, and helping with the various stages of clean up, testing, and filings. That any one person should have done so much is amazing, even more so that he would join and immediately jump in with such selfless enthusiasm, to insure that this 50 year old facility would continue to be available to shooters in the future. In the long run, the cleanup will be of benefit to the club and to future shooters. Dale has offered to be facility manager for the club, and to help organize and maintain signs, labeling, and maintenance.
  
  
• Leigh Johnson and Ed Healey, and one or two other suspects, do repairs and cleanups to help keep the range in good condition. They are frequently found lurking about the club on Fridays, taking out trash and performing other duties we seem to take for granted...until the jobs are not done, at which point all the previous work is painfully brought to our attention! If the trash cans seem to magically be empty every so often, it's people pitching in to do it with no fanfare.
  
  
• David McFadden, for his hard work and out of pocket expense in producing and editing the Straight Shots newsletter.
  
  
• Last but certainly not least, thanks again to all the members who volunteered to help with the gun show! Without people to take entry fees, check weapons, sell raffle tickets, and provide 24-hour armed security, the show could not go on!

1. Safety
2. Equipment
3. Rules
4. The prone position
5. Sights and Sighting
6. Live firing with smallbore rifles in the indoor range
7. Wind reading and application of windage corrections
8. Handloading for accuracy

The past club newsletters with minutes are available on-line for your reference. Some of these files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You can get a free Acrobat Reader from Adobe Software. Some of the files are also in MicroSoft Word (doc) format, and more recent ones are in both formats. You can download and print them if you wish.

Most of the minutes are in HTML format. They don't have graphics included, in most cases, since the text was extracted from other types of files such as DOC and E-mail. Some minutes or newsletters are in WORD "DOC" format. The format depends on who is secretary at the time, and what program they use to record minutes. But in most cases there is an HTML version.