[Pa-furry] [NEWS] Western PA Furry Weekend Newsletter

[Foxes' Den]

March 2007

The Chairfurs met last weekend and the specific order of business was 
centered around finalizing the updates to the website including hotel 
information, reviewing progress on our advertisement for Morphicon and 
Anthrocon's con book as well as loose flyers, and approving our 50% 
Programming Grid. (Yeah, I said Programming Grid.)

Our website is still live, at www.wpafw.org, and you can access and join the 
WPAFW Forums and view our building picture archive hosted at 
www.timduru.org. We expect to make our May 1 "go live" date with time to 
spare. At that time pre-registration will also "go live" and offer an early 
bird basic registration rate of $15 until June 30 where basic registration 
will go up to $20 until September 23. Supporter Level registration is $35 
and is available until the end of pre-registration. Supporter Level 
attendees get front line privileges for dinner, a spiffy event badge, extra 
tickets for the raffle, a color print by the event's featured artist Brendan 
Roo and of course, our appreciation.

The group has made provisions for furry parents who may wish to bring their 
children along to the event. The meet is PG rated and Fireman's Park, the 
site for the Fur-b-que on Saturday is a wonderful place for children and 
adults to play and enjoy themselves.

The Furry Weekend will once again be using the Comfort Inn Pittsburgh North 
as our hotel and gathering spaces. Rooms are $74.99 a night, plus taxes, 
flat rate. The Comfort Inn also offers a free Continental Breakfast and is 
also within walking distance of fast food, reasonably priced restaurants and 
a grocery store. Spacious Pittsburgh Mill's Mall is a quick, 5 minute drive 
up State Rt. 28 North where you'll find a WalMart, Michaels, a full mall and 
other satellite stores and restaurants.

We have three days of Programming scheduled starting Friday night at 7pm and 
going until Sunday evening at 7PM. Highlights are Furry Weekend Theater, 
Saturday Morning Cartoons (New), LazerTag, The Fur-b-que, The Charity 
Raffle, The Furry Weekend Midnight Menagerie (New), A field trip to the 
Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium, games, socialization, fursuiting and more!
We even have six slots for Species SIG's (Special Interest Group) and furry 
themed Panels. We'll be polling our prospective attendees in an attempt to 
fill these slots based on their interest level. More on that will be posted 
to this and other forums & mailing lists.

We are very excited by all the support we've been hearing for this event. 
Last year we saw 75 attendees. We're hoping to get very close to three 
digits in 2007. So please keep us in mind and mark your calendars for the 
Western Pennsylvania Furry Weekend, Columbus Day Weekend, October 5, 6 & 7, 
2007!

Swift Fox
Director; WPAFW07
www.wpafw.org

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