December 14, 2024 - WAMAS 25th Anniversary & Holiday Party (members only)

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WAMAS is hosting a 25th Anniversary & holiday party / potluck lunch for club members & their family!

 

WHO: WAMAS Club Members & Family

WHEN: December 14, 2024

Time:  12:00 - 3:00 pm

WHERE: Green Acres Center, 4401 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax, VA

FOOD:  Potluck lunch

WHY: You read that right, WAMAS was founded by Dr. Michael Gerdes in the late fall of 1999 & has been serving the greater DC area for 25 years.  From our roots at the first meeting in Glenn Rosenbluth's basement, WAMAS has grown to be one of the larger reefing clubs in the United States.  WAMAS previously hosted the 2005 & 2015 Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA).  In addition, the club is a registered 501(c) non-profit education society, and has supported many reef-related events and causes over the years such as the establishment of an endowment fund at NOVA Southeastern Univ. to support a marine biology scholarship; donations to: Coral Restoration Foundation; Great Barrier Reef Legacy & Forever Reef Project; Coral Morphologic Labs, as well as numerous smaller grant awards to support local teachers, students, and other scientific research. 

 

- Zoom call with WAMAS Founder Dr. Michael Gerdes

- Potluck lunch

- Special WAMAS 25th Anniversary items 

- Door Prizes

     - First 50 guests get a $10 Reef eScape livestock gift card (upgradable to $20 by signing up for their newsletter)

- 50/50 cash drawing (benefit WAMAS)

- FREE Frags 

- White Elephant - frag exchange gift table (bring a frag(s), get a frag(s)

        - bring frag(s) & get extra tickets for chance to win frag(s) from frag tables

 

Come celebrate with us at this event.

 

** INTERESTED in helping make this event a success - please send an email to officers@wamas.org or send a message to me or any of the officers and let us know you are interested in helping.  

 

Thanks to these sponsors for supplying coral frags or gift cards for the event:

 

 

 

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Members coming to this event, please reply to this topic here to help us better organize event & share the potluck dish you plan to bring.  Thanks

 

 

 

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Just 12 days until the party.  If you are thinking of attending please fill out the poll in the member section so we can better plan.  Thanks

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Thanks to these sponsors for supplying coral frags or gift cards for the event:

 - First 50 guests get a $10 Reef eScape livestock gift card (upgradable to $20 by signing up for their newsletter)

- Blue Ribbon Koi

- Coral Candy Aquaculture

- Reef eScape

- Top Shelf Aquatics

 

 

 

 

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Thanks to all the members and their family who came out to the Anniversary/Holiday party. Over 125 vendor provided coral frags, and another 100 or more member provided frags were gifted out to attendees. Everyone went home with several nice coral frags.

In addition the potluck food everyone brought was fantastic. Thank you to all who brought a dish to share.

Finally, thank you members, and a special thanks to the vendors, who helped make event awesome by providing coral frags:

Blue Ribbon Koi & Marine Coral Candy Aquaculture Reef eScape and Top Shelf Aquatics & WAMAS members

Few pics of attendees, food spread, vendor & member frags, & door prizes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thanks again to our great local vendor sponsors that helped make the party awesome!

 

Few more video posts from Facebook:

BRK: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BE7PpkVKo/ 

Coral Candy: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14JLb35bKo/

BRK: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DBTKpJWTu/