about orvla
The Ohio River Valley Llama Association is one of the oldest llama associations in the country. It was founded in 1980 to provide camaraderie and the sharing of information among llama owners in the Ohio River Valley area. ORVLA has been known for years as an organization where people have fun and enjoy the life of llamas.
TOPLINE, ORVLA's quarterly newsletter, keeps members current with informative articles, fun events and great photos.
Members and their llamas are active in parades, nursing home and school visits, church camps, and many other activities too numerous to mention. In addition, ORVLA is known for promoting llamas through llama shows. There are more llama shows in Ohio than in any other state.
Presidents Message
January 2012
Your Board of Directors and I hope that you enjoyed the holidays and you got to spend time with friends, family and loved ones. We'd like to welcome Darlene Sutton back to the Board and thank her for stepping up to serve again. Special thanks also to outgoing BOD member Lee Ann King for her service to the organization. We also ask members to think about serving on the BOD for next year where we'll have three positions open again in the fall election.
Our big Christmas meeting, dinner and white elephant fund raiser at Roberta's Catering in Coshocton was a big success, one of our largest turnouts in recent memory. It was a great chance to see old friends again and meet some new ones. I think the kids enjoyed spending their Llama Bucks on items just for them (something we plan to do again in 2012) and the adults were able to take home some great silent auction items donated by their fellow ORVLA members. However, I'm still not sure how I ended up with eight bottles of wine!
Your Board of Directors have met already and are planning activities for this year, starting with a summer meeting at Kris and Russ Miller's farm with an educational theme, this based on your survey input. If you have some ideas for a fall activity drop any member of the BOD a note with your thoughts. Due to a very crowded spring activity schedule the annual ORVLA show will be moving to the early fall with a new name but the same fun time. Be looking for details in an upcoming Topline.
This year it will again be critical that you continue your support of all facets of the llama industry... your registry, the ILR; the show associations; rescue efforts, your state and local associations and your local and national llama and alpaca shows. Speaking of support, if you haven't renewed your ORVLA membership for 2012 please do so right away, so you don't miss any of the fun this year.
“ORVLA, where the fun begins”... again in 2012.
Bill Safreed
Read past messages from the President here.
Board members for 2012
We welcome Darlene Sutton
Back row: Doug Targett, Bill Safreed, Nick Fischer, Fred Tarr
Front row: Darlene Sutton, Joy Bishop-Forshey, Janice Schilling, Kris Miller, Cindy Wilson
ORVLA goes hiking!
Getting ready to hike!
About these Pictures
These are pictures from the ORVLA hike on October 9, 2011 at Rob, Donna and Brian Spencer's beautiful farm near Beloit. The almost three mile hike through fields and woods.
ORVLA now accepts payments using paypal
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ORVLA Honors Founding Fathers
The Ohio River Valley Llama Association recently honored three couples as founders of the organization at their annual Christmas luncheon and general meeting. The meeting was held December 4th at the home of Russ and Kris Miller of Galloway, Ohio. The honoraries introduced were (left to right) Dennis and Janet Fender of Baltic, Hank and Connie Kauffman of Gambier and Al and Barbara Ramonde of Westerville. Each couple spoke on their beginnings in the llama industry and entertained those present with humorous stories of incidents that occurred during their 75+ total years of raising llamas. Each couple thanked the organization for the years of being an extended family, the friendships created and fun that they have experienced from being involved with llamas and the Ohio River Valley Llama Association. Each couple was given a gift of appreciation from the organization to thank them for their service and years of involvement with the organization.
