2007-02 From the Editor

This last week the Ring lost its Sergeant at Arms, Charlie Cox, one of our best loved members. All of us know him as one of the most friendly members of the ring. He was one of, if not the first, member to welcome when I first came to Ring 170 over five years ago. His sudden demise is a huge loss to the club. Many members were able to attend the Broken Wand ceremony last Friday. Beve Bergeron led this moving ceremony and a number of members spoke. A link to the video of the ceremony can be found lower down in the newsletter, or click here.

Apologies are also in order with respect to an last minute message that was sent out a couple of weeks ago. I was not aware that Yahoo Groups takes 3-6 hours to distribute messages to our mailing list. So a number of you received the message after the event in question. Now that we know about this delay, we have taken steps to reduce the effect of the delay as much as possible, and will take it into account when sending future messages.

Regards

Stefan