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Welcome 2008!

Welcome to the new season for the MKPC!!   We have an exciting new year planned and hope that all of you will enjoy all of our events.
Our first event was held on March 8th at our Presidents home.  A great time was had by all, and details will be added soon to our past events section.

I hope that you all received the first newsletter and have added our dates to your calendars.

Just a reminder.  If you did not receive my mass email message to the membership prior to the newsletter, please email me and provide me with your email address.

Thank you!
Pamela Francis, Secretary, Webmaster and AKCA Representative,  MKPC

 

NEXT EVENT

Detroit Zoo Tour
DATE HAS CHANGED!!!

Saturday
May 31, 2008

1:00 pm Sharp!

The MKPC SE will provide entrance fees and tour fees for club members and one other person.  Children are welcome to join, at an addition cost.

For more information on the Zoo visit www.detroitzoo.org

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NATIONAL KOI NEWS

Koi stolen from Newberg area farm
Crime - The Springbrook provides fish for "Extreme Makeover"
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
RICK BELLA The Oregonian Staff

Michael Stewart figured he'd found the perfect business two years ago, when he bought the Springbrook Koi Farm, about a mile south of Newberg. The brilliantly colored koi especially appealed to his daughter, Michelle, who was interested in feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of arranging objects to create a harmonious environment.

By all accounts, Springbrook did well -- so well, in fact, that it was chosen by ABC's Emmy Award-winning TV show, "Extreme Makeover Home Edition," to provide ornamental koi for the program.

But four break-ins since March 30 have left the Stewarts angry and frustrated. In all, thieves have stolen an estimated 50 to 60 high-quality breeder fish valued about $100,000.

The fish, as long as 26 inches, are prized for their colors and their prolific production. They can bring big money from collectors. Each time, the thief -- or thieves -- went over or through a 6-foot wire-mesh fence, then netted the fish out of the outdoor tanks. "We don't know who did it," Michael Stewart said. "But we have a short list of people we have questions about."

Stewart is pleading with koi collectors to help. "If anyone mysteriously offers you large 20- to 26-inch, very high-quality fish for sale in the next several weeks, please give us a call and give us a chance to identify them," Stewart said. As an incentive, the Stewarts are posting a $5,000 reward for information that leads to recovering the fish or a conviction in the case.

Yamhill County Sheriff's Detective Todd Whitlow said he has done a mass e-mailing to koi farms and collector clubs in Oregon, Washington and northern California in search of leads. "But so far, we don't have any suspects," Whitlow said. He urged anyone with information on the case to contact the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office.