Meeting April 9 at 6:30pm in Bennington Free Library

Our April meeting on Thursday, April 09, from 6:30--9:00 p.m., in the Rotary Room of the Bennington Free Library (upstairs). The library is located at 101 Silver Street in Bennington, and on-street parking is available.

This month's meeting will feature speaker Jeff Battaglini, who will talk about conducting hive necropsies---that is, how to do a post-mortem diagnosis of what caused a winter dead-out.

In addition, the April meeting calls for officer elections. You may nominate yourself or others (who must accept the nomination) for any officer position. In particular, the current Club secretary is not going to be available to serve in this role for the coming year, so please consider running for that position! Only dues-paid club members can vote in the election.

The first half-hour of the meeting will be a potluck dinner: while it's not required that you bring anything, we encourage you to bring a dish to share with the group, as well as a cup, flatware and a plate/bowl for yourself, if possible, to cut down on waste (there is a kitchen sink where you can wash your dishes before bringing them home). At the conclusion of the meeting, there will be a raffle of donated items: should you wish to donate raffle items, please bring them (items need not be directly related to honeybees or beekeeping). Raffle tickets will be sold during the potluck dinner ($2 each or $10 for 6), and during the raffle, stubs will be drawn until all items have been claimed. Any dues-paying Club member who brings one or more items to donate to the raffle will be given one free raffle ticket.

While the potluck begins at 6:30, the Library building's doors will be locked at 7 pm. If you intend to arrive after 7, you will need to notify someone who is at the meeting to come downstairs and let you in.

A full agenda, including timely announcements and Club business, will be provided at the meeting on Thursday.