What is the word in your areas about the local associations combining?
Our area is in a real wait in see mode. I think both want to combine, but not under the guidlines that National is trying to force feed. We get along very well now and there are constitutional issues to get ironed out, but all things that can be fixed. What we can't live with is things like time limits for board members and no life-members. All things that we understand are part of the novel that was sent out for combining the local boards. I think if the time limits were retroactive we would have like 4 board members left. Our life members are still a big part of our associations and without them it would be very difficult or impossible to even hold a local tournament or the state which we do every five years.