WKC's tenth annual AKC Agility Trials hosted 1174 entries on September 19th and 20th. The weather was spectacular and sunny on Saturday and Sunday. We enjoyed our new location at the Lancaster Fair Grounds, as did our competitors. The judges, Helen Dorrance and Monica Stathers, gave us challenging and fun courses to run with our teammates. We had a high qualifying rate of 35% with each qualifier able to pick from a variety of toys at our trophy table to accompany the lovely ribbons. Thanks to Jean Gamble our ribbons chair and Julie Rembrandt Seeley our trophy chair.
Each day began with our National Anthem sung for us by Louise Hinckley. Her spectacular version of our country's song always leaves us with a warm feeling. Thank you Louise.
Our volunteers were scrambling to help due to our renowned workers raffle and a luncheon voucher for the Greyhound Grill! Our volunteer raffle caused quite a stir with workers unable to decide which prizes to put their coupons towards. Terry Sadler, WKC's shopper extraordinaire, once again proved we have the best raffle in the East! Nancy Aldrich and Fran Boyle had coffee and goodies available and kept the coolers filled with refreshing beverages throughout the weekend. Anne Testoni did a great job making sure our judges were catered to, they both raved about how well taken care of they were!
Our rings ran smoothly with our Chief Steward, Bruce Blumberg and his highly organized ring managers, Kris Jansen and Donna Kuiru, keeping the worker schedule filled. We had a big turnout of WKC members who helped ring steward this year. The chief course builders, Scott Hinckley and Grace LaRoque, did a terrific job getting the courses built fast and accurately, receiving kudos from the judges. The new grounds provided all the necessities for our trial and were kept up nicely throughout the weekend, thanks to Joanne Williamson in charge of grounds with the help of Middlesex County 4H group for clean-up. Special thanks to Lindsey Serafini who helped organize the RV parking and served on the Meet the Breeds Committee.
Throughout the trial and for the weeks after the trial, I have continued to receive compliments about every aspect of our trial. From food, to ribbons, from raffles to smiling members, from baskets for Jr & Sr handlers to smoothly run rings, from clean grounds to location, everyone has found something they liked.
We come to the close of another successful year of agility trials with a huge THANK YOU to all my committee members! Due to the combined efforts of this group, our trial remains very popular with the exhibitors and a great way to spend a weekend with our pals!
Christie McNamara
Trial Chairperson
 Overview of the new trial site.
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