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<h1>2010 Ontario Straw Bale Building Coalition</h1>
<h1>Annual General Meeting </h1>
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<p>This year’s AGM date has been set for <strong>Sunday, March 28</strong>.
We
are really hoping that you will be able to come out, renew your
membership, and have a voice in the direction of the OSBBC.
The AGM will be hosted this year at the new Camp Kawartha Environment
Centre just north of Peterborough, built by last year’s Sir Sandford
Fleming Sustainable Construction & Design students. It is a
beautiful building, featuring various wall systems, including panel
bale walls, hempcrete, and a bottle wall. The earthen floor with the
mosaic in the middle really adds a beautiful touch to the
interior. Location: 2505 Pioneer Road, Peterborough, Ontario.
Directions: <a href="http://www.campkawartha.ca/about/directions.htm"
target="_blank">http://www.campkawartha.ca/about/directions.htm</a> <strong></strong>
Latitude: 44.352528 Longitude: -78.287802</p>
<p>You need not be a member to attend, but if you do come to hear the
talks we ask that you join the OSBBC.</p>
<p><strong>Important note about food at the centre:</strong> <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Please bring your own lunch</span> (and
hopefully your own mug) to the AGM. Due to the fact that this is a
public building with school groups coming through, there is a <em><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">strict nut-free policy with food</span>.</em>
Please respect this important rule, and bring a nut-free lunch. Snacks,
juices, tea & coffee will be provided.</p>
<p><strong>Schedule - AGM Sunday March 28th, 2010, 8:30am-4:00 pm</strong></p>
<p><strong>8:30-9:00 </strong>Registration, Coffee, Tea, Muffins, Chat</p>
<p><strong>9:00-9:45 </strong>Builders’ Round Table</p>
<p><strong>9:45-10:30 </strong>Presentation by Stephen Collette:
Current sustainable, healthy products and systems</p>
<p><strong>10:40-11:10 </strong>Building from the owner/builder
perspective: Ian & Ainslie Thomson from Galetta share their
building experience, as do Linda Taylor and Mark Richardson, of Pakenham</p>
<p><strong>11:15-12:15</strong> Slide show (See note below regarding
submitting slides for the show)</p>
<p><strong>12:15 – 1:00 Bring your own lunch (<span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">nut-free</span>, remember!)</strong></p>
<p><strong>1:00 – 3:00- AGM</strong></p>
<p><strong>4:00 </strong>Close doors, bid adieu, and hope for many
more exciting builds for 2010!</p>
<p>Slide show</p>
<p>This year, we would like to celebrate the fabulous variety of straw
bale homes that have been built here in Ontario. One way to celebrate
this diversity is through a slide show, of photos of these wonderful
homes. Some of the simplest, and some of the most exotic structures,
have been built in our province. It would be incredible to have a
complete showing of most of the homes in Ontario.</p>
<p>Frank Tettemer is collecting photos of straw bale homes, to be
presented in this slide show. If you have one to half-dozen photos of a
home that you live in, or that you’ve built, or designed, or simply
helped work on, please consider sending them to Frank to be included in
the show. You may wish to say a brief comment on your slides, or you
may wish to remain anonymous, and simply sit and enjoy the photos that
will be presented. They will be compiled, and shown, to all our
members and guests attending, showing time between 10:30AM and lunch
time. Here’s a chance to see all those homes that you’ve heard so much
about.</p>
<p>Photos can be emailed to Frank, at this email
address: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:frank@livingsol.com">frank@livingsol.com</a>, or paper
copies & CD-Roms can be
mailed to Frank before March 15 (He will return paper prints to you at
the AGM).</p>
<p>Frank Tettemer, 480 Doyle Mountain Road, RR#4, Killaloe, ON K0J 2A0</p>
<p><strong>Other</strong> <strong>News</strong>:</p>
<p><strong><em>Coming soon</em></strong><strong>: </strong><strong><em>Online
membership
registration & renewals</em></strong></p>
<p>As a volunteer organization, one of the most time-consuming and
error-prone tasks is managing membership renewals and keeping contact
information up to date. Wild Apricot is a Toronto-based complete
membership management software service that allows members to join and
pay online with automatic renewal notices, access member-only
information and more. This will be in place prior to the AGM, but don’t
wait for it if you want to renew today! Mail-in memberships will always
be accepted.</p>
<p><strong><em>Website changes, gallery update</em></strong><em> </em>The
long-awaited
building registry/gallery is almost finished. A team of
our board members, under the direction of our webmaster, have been
working on reformatting our gallery pages so that owners can update
house profiles and provide location and directions for visitors on the
annual house tour, also ready for the AGM.</p>
<p>Keep your eyes peeled on our website at <a
href="http://www.osbbc.ca/2010/03/" target="_blank">www.osbbc.ca</a>
for the new updates as they become released. The website looks
fabulous, and we apologize for any disruptions while the work has been
ongoing.</p>
<p>We really hope to see you at this year’s AGM, where we will talk
about the direction of the OSBBC, have committee reports on work such
as apprenticeship programs in straw bale building. You can have a voice
in what happens, and even a vote if you have been a member for a year.</p>
<p>Please remember to bring along a mug if possible, and to keep your
lunch nut-free. If you would care to bring along an instrument, there
may be opportunities to create some straw bale jam.</p>
<p>Looking forward to seeing you very soon!</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>OSBBC Directors</p>
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