RE: Irises update

["Debra Strauss" <dkstraus@swbell.net>]

Yes!  Thanks!

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From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
On Behalf Of Janet Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 7:54 PM
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] Irises update

Debra,

Hope you received the box or was it boxes of donates items - ah -
senior moment - last year?  Books if I recall correctly.

Janet

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From: dkstraus@swbell.net
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] Irises update
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:39:26 -0500

>Hi Kelly and all, 
>
>I need to get a plea into the bulletin for donations to the silent
>auction.
>I am sorry to say, I have only noticed little boxes with this request
>in
>them in past issues.  I am not sure if there was more, and I just
>don't
>remember, but I have donated.  I am thinking about coming up with
>something
>new and different but right now my mind is fried.  It has been 51
>days over
>100 degrees here and we have only had .16 inches of rain this year. 
>It is
>horrible.  
>
>Anyway, I am open to suggestions and would like to know how big an
>area I
>can have. 
>
>Thanks, 
>Debbie
>AIS Silent Auction Chair 
>
>
>
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>[mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
>On Behalf Of Kelly D. Norris
>Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:56 AM
>To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
>Subject: [AISdiscuss] Irises update
>
>Hello all,
>
> 
>
>After a long June and July finishing my M.S. thesis and graduate
>school
>work, we've finally gotten the July issue off the presses and into
>the mail
>system as of this week.  My apologies for two very late issues in a
>row.  As
>I mentioned at the spring board meeting, one remedy for this is to up
>the
>editorial deadlines to the 1st of each month to give your creative
>team more
>time to pull together each issue.  I was hoping to start that routine
>here
>in August for the October issue, but that's become unreasonable given
>the
>late delivery of the July issue.  So, consider all duly notified of
>such
>change for the January issue.  Editorial deadlines will now fall on
>the
>first of the month, two months before cover date (a new table appears
>in the
>July issue).  For example, the January issue's editorial deadline is
>November 1.
>
> 
>
>That said, it's getting time for October submissions.  Please turn in
>your
>columns, news items, etc. as quickly as possible.  We've already
>begun
>editing on feature material in hopes of keeping October on track and
>ahead
>of schedule.  Your cooperation and earliest submissions are
>appreciated! J
>
> 
>
>Thanks for your kind words of support, suggestions, and critiques. 
>All keep
>our agenda of improving the magazine and enhancing AIS membership
>benefits
>moving forward!
>
>--kdn
>
> 
>
>Horticulturally,
>
> 
>
>Kelly D. Norris
>
>Farm Manager, Rainbow Iris Farm
>
>Editor, Irises: The Bulletin of the American Iris Society
>
>Bedford & Ames, IA 
>
>Zone 4b/5a
>
>Read my blog at:  <http://www.kellydnorris.com/>
>http://www.kellydnorris.com
>
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