Updated March 14, 2006
Mhari Peshel has sent the 2005 National Open Championship financial report.  It is on a link on the NOC page on the right side.  The NOC page is at http://www.essft.com/2006noc/06noc_index.htm

Many placements, judges and field trial information has come in.  Thank you to all of you for sending information!

February 8,  2006

• Dolores Blake has sent in the placements for the Southern California FT.  They can be found on the placements page at http://www.essft.com/results.html
• Daryl Johnson sent the running order for the Northwest FT on Feb 11 and 12.  It can be found at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html
• Mark Haglin will be hosting a Midwest gunning seminar at Pine Shadows in Brainerd Minnesota.  Email Mark at mark@pineshadows.com for more information.
• Mike Shaw sent the premium and FT info for the upcoming Mid-Atlantic trial.  Steve Tozier sent in the premium info for the Illinois FT.  The info can be found on the dates page at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html

January 28, 2006

• Hawthorne Kennels is a new supporter of essft.com with their ad on the Kennels, Pros and Breeders page at http://www.essft.com/breeder.html  Thank you to Fred and Alex Bradley!
  
• Jason Givens has sent the midwest interclub fall dates.  They are included on the dates page at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html
• We have posted field trial information from Brent LeMaster for Ohio Valley, from Pete Davis for Rocky Mountain and from Renee Shannon for the Stockton trial.  These can be found on the dates page also at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html
• The running orders for SE Texas (from Philip and Betty Somers) and Southern California (from Dolores Blake).  They can also be found on the dates page at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html

Thank you all for sending your information to essft.com

January 23, 2006
The first placements of the year have come in today from Cathy Iversen for the Houston FT!  Click here to go to the placements page.  Field Trial information has come in for So California, SE Texas, Northwest, Arrowhead, Stillwater Valley, Central Wisconsin, Green Valley, Keystone and Mid-Penn.  Please send your premiums, letters and entry forms and we will post them.  The FT calendar is up-to-date for the spring.  Tim Edwards and Scott Hoover have also sent in the fall schedules for the East and Mid-east Interclubs.  Click here to go to the 2006 dates.

December 19
FYI: The voting is complete and the finally tally in and the results for individuals and dog for induction into the National Bird Dog "Field Trial Hall of Fame" class of 2006 ceremony to take place on Saturday February 11, 2006 starting after the "Micklewood Scud" statue ceremony which starts at 9:30 a.m. are as follows:
Mr. Luke Medlin (deceased) formally of Lagrangeville, NY., Mr. Lewis R. Craig (deceased) formally of Lebanon, Ohio and Mr. Marshall "JIM" Lightfoot of Chicago, Illinois. Dogs: Hales Smut bred in Wales and NFC/ AFC KB's SIR COACH
 
Submitted by
Jim Lightfoot

December 14
The first Gene Johnson memorial award was presented to Mark Stremlow at the East Central Iowa FT held December 9-11, 2005.  The award was presented by Dean Reinke from Nestle Purina to the person who gives back to the ESS sport.   It will be presented at the Nationals in the future.  Click here to go to the Gene Johnson award page.

November 23
The National Amateur Championship has concluded.  Placements are at http://www.essft.com/2005nac/placements.html

The 2006 date calendar is now linked to the 2005 calendar or can be found at http://www.essft.com/alldates06.html

Updated November 7
National Open Championship has concluded and placements are at http://www.essft.com/2005noc/2005_NOC_placements.html

Updated November 6
Nadine put the third series callbacks up last night.  The third series was finished at 2:50 (Mountain time) today and they started with 35 dogs in the fourth.  They finished at 5:25 (Mountain time) with dogs 75 and 76 with seven full dogs left to run in the fourth.  The running order/callback page is at http://www.essft.com/2005noc/2005_NOC_running_order.html

Updated November 5
Nadine posted the second series callback last night after the banquet, 84 dogs back
to the second series.  They are at http://www.essft.com/2005noc/2005_NOC_running_order.html
She has also taken great pictures of the first series and the scenery.  They can be found at
http://www.essft.com/2005noc/photos/05NOC_photos.html

Updated November 4
Pat Bramwell has sent the 2005 year to date Amateur High Point dogs.  It is at http://www.essft.com/2005nac/amateur_high_point2005.html

Updated Novermber 3 
The delegates was meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The information is at http://www.essft.com/2005noc/2005_NOC_running_order.html

Updated November 2
112 dogs in the National Amateur Championship in Altoona PA to begin November 15.  Pat Bramwell sent the running order and it can be found at http://www.essft.com/2005nac/running_order.html

Updated October 31
Mhari Peschel has sent the final running order for the National Open.  It is linked
to the National Open info page at  http://www.essft.com/2005noc/05noc_index.htm
Then click on Running Order (also available in Excel format). 

Updated October 30
Mhari Peschel has sent the preliminary National Open running order.  It can be found at http://www.essft.com/2005noc/05noc_index.htm then click on Running Order. 


Updated October 12
From Mhari Peschel concerning the 2005 National Open, "Don Bramwell has had to step down from his judging assignment due to health reasons.   John Hall will be replacing Don as a judge for the 2005 National Open."

UpdatedOctober 10
If you would like to make a donation for the silent auction or the raffle for or National Amateur you will find more information at http://www.essft.com/2005nac/05nac_index.html under Advertising Info.  Thanks for contributing!

The placements with sires and dams has been updated for the Pittsburgh trial (catalog from Ed Hershey) for the mid east interclub at http://www.essft.com/placements/fall_mideast2005ftplacements.html.   The midwest has been updated to include the St Croix Valley trial at http://www.essft.com/placements/fall_midwest2005ftplacements.html

The placements for Poudre Valley (from Linda Tholen), St Croix (from me), Long Island Open and Puppy (from Cindy Goode Wilson), Eastern Nebraska (from Phyliss Beyer), Great Lakes (from Dave Ryman) and Northwest (from Daryl Johnson) are at http://www.essft.com/results.html

The running orders for Platte River (from Craig Foss), Sportsmens (from Jim Lightfoot), Northwest (from Daryl Johnson) and Long Island (from Cindy Goode Wilson) are posted at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html

Thefield trial information for Western Washington (from Karen Lee) is now at http://www.essft.com/2005premium/fall_wwashington_premium.html

Updated October 3

Bill Pierson has sent in information concerning advertising for the upcoming National Open and National Amateur.  Go to http://www.essft.com/2005noc/05noc_index.htm  The deadline is October 15th!!!

Premiums have been posted for SE Texas and Houston (from Betty Somers for these back-to-back field trials), Illinois (from Steve Tozier) and Ohio Valley website (from Brent LeMaster) has their trial information.  You can find this info at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html

We have received and posted running orders for Eastern Nebraska (from Phyllis and Steve Beyer), St Croix Valley (from Deb Livingston) and Great Lakes (from Dave Ryman).

Updated September 22
Premiums have been posted for Mid-Penn (from Billie K and Tim Edwards), PRESS club or Platte River (from Craig Foss and Katie Kowalski), Long Island field trial and water test (from Kevin Dolan) and Central States (from Marie Langhans).  They are at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html    We have more to post as soon as we can.  Thanks for your patience and the info.

Running orders are posted for Northeast Wisconsin (from Dave Smith), Poudre Valley (from Linda Tholen), Rocky Mountain (from Mhari Peschel) and Minnesota Heartland (from Randy Manore).  They are at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html

Placements came in Sunday for Central Connecticut (from Tim Edwards), Tilden Valley (from Nadine Kohn) and Tuesday Western New York (from Jenna Payne and Roxane Poray).  They are at http://www.essft.com/results.html

As marked catalogs come in we are updating the Placements with Sires and Dams pages at http://www.essft.com/placements/spring2005index.html

Updated September 16
Mhari Peschel and Cheryl Sligar have sent in information on the National Open. Check out the great 2005 logo soon to be available on NOC merchandise.  It is at http://www.essft.com/2005noc/05noc_index.htm

Running orders have arrived for Western New York (from Jenna Payne and Richard  Maturski), Patriot (from Linda Stinson), Southern Tier (from Cindy Goode-Wilson) and Northeastern Wisconsin.  All of them link to the dates page http://www.essft.com/alldates.html

Premiums have been posted for Eastern Nebraska (from Phyliss and Steve Beyer), Northwest (from Karen Lee) and Valley Forge (from Tim and Billie K Edwards).  All on the dates page at http://www.essft.com/alldates.html

Placements from N Minnesota (from Mary Manore), Maine (from Chris Knapp) and NE Ohio (from Jenna Payne) came in Sunday night and Monday.  They are at http://www.essft.com/results.html  Congratulations to all the ribbon winners and their owners and handlers!