Update – National Helper Seminar & Trial Schedule

This notice is being sent to all club contacts and admins as listed on GSSCC360. This is important so please read.

We have 2 things to communicate that are important.

  1. We are looking for a club to host the National Helper seminar the weekend of June 1-2 or June  29-30 2024. Please email  ontarioschutzhund@gmail.com if your club is interested in hosting email or contact myself before  February 29, 2024. (must be an accredited club)
  2. The Ontario region board met yesterday and agreed that we need to find a solution (even if temporary) to address the shortage of weekends to host trials. Our region now has 14 GSSCC accredited clubs and there isn’t enough weekends to book trials if all clubs booked a trial. The decision was made that for 2024 we will waive the every other weekend requirement to allow all clubs to be able to book a trial. This will be reviewed year to year going forward.  This applied to new trial requests ONLY for clubs who have NOT booked a trial yet. If your club already booked 1 or more trials already new requests will not be approved.

Exceptions: ***There will be no trials approved 2 weekends prior to the Ontario regionals(May 24-25-26, 2024) or on the same weekend as CWDF Championship (June 14-16 2024).***

Please email Ontarioschutzhund@gmail.com or me directly at katty@waldwegk9.com if you have any concerns.

Katty Santerre

On behalf of the Ontario region BOD

GSSCC National Helper Seminar 2023

National Helper Seminar with Teaching Helpers Anthony Hartelaub, Marvin Eng & Pando Stepanis

1 JUL AT 08:30 – 2 JUL AT 15:30

The annual GSSCC Ontario Region National Helper Seminar is an opportunity for all IGP enthusiasts to gather for 2 days of IGP trial Helper training, with theory, practice, certification, and National Championship tryout.
Come and get knowledge about trial helper work, from fundamentals to more advanced techniques.
Powerpoint presentation and training on day 1, and training + certification (from Club to National Level) on day 2.

Planned schedule for the weekend:

Saturday (Day 1):
– 8:30am : meet & greet (coffee)
– 9am : PowerPoint presentation + discussion
– 11:30am : On the field, warm up, and training
– 12:30pm: Lunch
– 1pm: AGM
– 2pm: Training on the field
– 5:30pm: end of day

Sunday (Day 2):
– 9am : meet & greet (coffee)
– 9:30am : Training on the field
– 12:30pm: Lunch
– 1:30pm: Certifications
– 2:30pm: National Tryout
– 3:30pm: end of day

Contact:

Address:

332925 Plank Line, Mt Elgin, ON N0J 1N0, Canada

Contact: Shandra Dinsmore

Email: shandra.dyson@live.ca

Ontario Region AGM

To all Ontario region GSSCC members,

The Ontario regional board has confirmed that the Ontario region AGM will take place on Saturday July 1 2023. Active GSSCC members only! 

Time: 1:00pm (note – this is the updated time)

Location: TOP Working Dog Club,

332925 Plank Line, Mount Elgin, ON N0J 1N0

The agenda will be emailed no later than Friday June 16, 2023. 

Motions can be made only prior to the meeting.

Please email all mentions to ontarioschutzhund@gmail.com 

See you all at the AGM,

Ontario regional board

Regionals – Registration Date Extended

Ontario Regional IGP Championship and Seiger Show

Registration closes at Noon, Wed, May 31

You still have until Wednesday at noon to get your show or trial registration in.

  • Yes – we are offering bH-VTs.
  • Helpers – contact Marvin if you are thinking of trying out.
  • Tracking is on ploughed dirt. Try it, you’ll like it. Many folks say dirt is easier.
  • Trophy sponsorship available: $50 for a show trophy, $150 for the whole class or perfomance trophy
  • Early morning practice times on the Thursday are still available. Email Marvin to book your slot.
  • Yes – you can drop in to practice before the trial starts – text Dwyn at 416-822-3945. We are here Tues, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays.

Tentative Schedule

More details on our website

https://www.synergyworkingdogclub.com/ontario-regionals-2023

Tracking Field

Looking forward to seeing you all

secretary@synergyworkingdogclub.com

50/50 WUSV Fundraiser for Team Canada

These teams are traveling to the WUSV in Denmark September 2022

  • Jurgen Fisher,
  • Eric LeBlanc,
  • Dominic Scarberry,
  • Kordula Juhnke and
  • Alexei Tourkine 

Tickets for this draw will be available in person on Saturday 27 at the TOP Open Training Day, and also to anyone that can’t be there but would like to help support the team. Online donations accepted. You can etransfer Shandra.dyson@live.ca or pay cash at the event.

The Draw will be held on September 5. Shandra will go live and draw the winning ticket.

Funds will be delivered to the winner via e-transfer.

  • 3 Tickets for $5
  • 7 Tickets for $10
  • Arm length for $20
  • 100 Tickets for $50

Go Team Canada!

The Nationals – Quebec – Aug 17-21

Make your plans for the Canadian German Shepherd Dog Championships and Sieger Show – “The Nationals” for short.

Information, Hotel Registration, and trial and show registration is available on the website. http://2022.gsscc.ca/

Because of the restrictions imposed by Covid and the general difficulty of hosting of trials that this created, dog/handler teams may compete for and advance to the next level at this event; i.e. an existing IGP1 can compete for and advance to IGP2. This is an exception for this year.

We look forward to seeing you there.

New Board of Directors – Ontario Region

Hello Ontario members,

As seen in the latest GSSCC Ontario region email that was sent out on April 21, here is your new Ontario region board;

Jennifer Jones Region Chair person (acclamation)

Katty Santerre Region secretary/treasurer (standing)

Lee Hanrahan Region Trial director(appointed)

Julia Stemp Region show director. (appointed)

AGM Date and location will be announced as soon as date has been fully confirmed.

Any questions please reach out. Email can be sent to

Ontarioschutzhund@gmail.com

Thank you,

Katty Santerre

Ontario Region Secretary/Treasurer