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​Chinook News From Past Days

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 Feb 2021: CCA is Proud to Announce ​ that  Kathleen Riley's Article & Photography Entitled "The Scent of a “Fox” ​is in the February Issue of the AKC Gazette!!


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Check out the article by CCA members, KJ Krammes and Shelly Londer on the history of the Chinook Breed in the October/November issue 2021 of the Working Dog/Herding Dog Digest!!


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CCA supports our service members and their families, current and veteran! We'd like to give a special shout-out to Company A 1-169th Aviation Regiment, currently in Kosovo. During Vietnam, a Chinook named Charger was attached to the "Winged Warriors". Military dogs both assist and protect our service members while providing affection and moments of laughter.



Oct 6​: The ladies of CCA showing in style at Morris & Essex KC! M&E is one of the oldest shows in the U.S. and everyone dresses for the occasion in hats, pearls, dresses and suits! Congrats to Shelly Londer and Forever Greene Iglaak Perry RI FDC CAA BCAT CGC TKE taking BOB and Patti Richards' Forever Greene an Affair to Remember CGC TKN ACT2 RA with Best of Opposites, Club Mentor, Doreen Palmer for BOB with her Chesapeake Bay Retrieve, GCH Eastern Waters’ Wind on the Weskeag TKI, RN, BN, CD NA WD and all of them for lookin' good doing it!

                               CCA Wows Judges at Seminar!

A Big Thank You to outgoing Judges' Education Chair, Carie Taylor for organizing a successful judges ed seminar at the Kenosha Kennel Club's Annual Show in Grayslake IL!! Special thanks to Marion and Anton Koenigsmann and Tammy Anderson for bringing dogs to the Judge's Education seminar on June 12!! Our thanks also to Lauri Burnett for coming and taking pictures! The judges were thrilled to see 6 Chinooks! Marion also had her beautiful girl, Tikaani, entered in the show Saturday. thanks are doubled b/c it was an outdoor show and oppressively hot and humid for the entire week! Seeing other Chinook people and their pups is the best part of going to shows!!


Check out the United States Army Aviation Museum at Ft Rucker, AL! Besides wonderful exhibits on the role of aviation in the Army, there is a display on Charger, the Chinook who went to Vietnam! Look for it, where else? By the display on Chinook helicopters! CCA is proud to support our service members and for the part Charger played as mascot to the 228th Assault Support Helicopter Battalion.




​More Events from the Past!

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Forever Greene An Affair to Remember and Intervale Ferncroft with owner/handler Darcy Davenport at the 2019 Specialty
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Participants at the CT River Working Group Show
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Kima and Coho in Harness
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Coho and Penny let loose!

The AKC Gazette Features the Chinook!

 The November 2018 issue of the AKC Gazette has a feature article on the history of the Chinook. This informative piece was written by CCA Publicity Chair KJ Krammes and was previously published as a special edition to the CCA club newsletter: The Chinook Advocate.   The article shares several rare historical photos with special highlights of the Chinook’s rich history.
Click here for Link to the Gazette and this awesome Chinook article!

Performance News!

Achiever Dog Certificate: The American Kennel Club launched  its new Achiever Dog certificate program on December 1, 2017. The AKC Achiever Dog certificate program is designed to recognize those exhibitors and dogs who participate in multiple sports. A dog will receive an AKC Achiever Dog certificate when they have been awarded a placement or earned a qualifying score in three different sports. For more info: AKC Achiever Dog or email achieverdog@akc.org.

 
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