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    Dick and Jean Lyle are charter members of the Bay De Noc Kennel Club. Jean has been the Secretary of the club since it was formed in June of 1992.
     Dick started competing in the mid 1960's with his shelties and went on to be the head obedience instuctor for the Companion Dog Club in Taylor Michigan before moving to Escanaba. Presently Dick does not compete but helps with the raising and training of their three German Shepherds. He enjoys helping to teach the pet obedience class and assists with puppy classes.
     Jean started competing in the late 60's with her Shelties and German Shepherds. She has taken previous dogs to UKC agility championships, UKC conformation championships and obedience UD's in both AKC and UKC. She currently competes in conformation, agility, obedience, weightpull, rally obedience, and tracking.
     Dick and Jean's present dogs are 8 year old RO1, FO, UCD, UACH, UWP CH Barae's Diamond in the Ruff VCD1, CD, RE NAP, NJP TD "Phoenix", 5 year old URO1 UACHX, CH Guardians Wimbledon V Geran RN, OA OAJ 'Cheyenne" and their newest German Shepherd "Dallas" who has no titles yet except "dog most likely to be getting into trouble"
    When not training or competing with her own dogs Jean helps teach Obedicnce, Rally, Agility, Clicker, Tracking and Puppy Classes.

Andrea Jackson joined the Bay De NocKennel Club in January of 1995 and has been President of the club since May 1997. She has earned titles in both AKC and UKC with her German Shorthaired Ponters, including titles in conformation, obedience, agility, weightpull, rally, obedience, tracking and hunting. Andrea's current dogs are UAGII CH Clown Around Sierra JH RN TD "Sierra", UACH UWP CH Portage Creeks Ya See My Point OA NAJ RN "Lancer", and UACH UWP CH Portage Creeks Ruger on Point OA NAJ RN "Ruger". Andrea actively competes in UKC and AKC agility, conformation, rally and weightpull with Lancer and Ruger and will be competing in hunt tests and tracking in the future.. Her dog Sierra is retired from agility and conformation but she hopes to pursue another rally title and a tracking excellent title . Andrea teaches pet obedience, agility, rally, tracking, clicker and puppy classes

Pat Bernat joined the Kennel Club in 1992, shortly after it was formed. She has been the Treasurer of the club since 1993. She first joined the club to get help training her "wild child" Weimaraner "Bo" UAGI UCD Duke's Blue Devil CD. She enjoyed dog traing so Bo was soon followed by her English setter UACH UCD Sparklin Asti CD "Asti" and then golden retriever "Emmy" UACHX UCD Riverend Divine Miss EM CD RE "Emmy", both adopted from the local animal shelter. Pat currently has two more rescue goldens 4 year old UAGII Riverend Bounce in my Step RE NA NAJ "Bounce" and UAGII Riverend Finn McCool NA NAJ "Finn" Both dogs are training in agility, obedience, rally, tracking weightpull and freestyle. Pat teaches pet obedience, rally, agility, clicker and puppy classes.

Linda Lavolette joined the Kennel Club in 1999 after taking the obedience class and finding out how smart and great her dog Roxy was. She has participated in obedience and rally but really enjoys the partnership of agility. Her border collie mix UGRACH UCD Roxy DSA retired from agility in 2009 at the age of 11. Linda is currently working with her hound mix UACHX Sparky NAP, NJP who has 4 UGRACH legs in UKC and is also competing in AKC now that they allow mixed breeds. Linda also has a new rescue border collie, UAGI Carnival of Chaos HIC "Carnie", who is learning agility and how to not be a crazy puppy. Linda is the Vice President and teaches agility classes.

Chris Nelson has been a member of the Kennel Club since 2003. She has 3 dogs. Her oldest is a bloodhound mix from the local shelter., Savannah CGC, who has found her niche in freestyle (dog dancing). Chris' 3 year old Australian Shepherd is UACH Isabella OA OAJ "Izzy". Chris and Izzy also do freestyle. Chris' youngest is UAGI Zippo an Australian Shepherd who knows an amazing number of tricks for such a young dog. Chris helps teach obedience and agility classes and is a member of the Board of Directors.

Cathy Peltin has been a kennel club member for since June of 1995 and is the very proud owner of 3 Australian shepherds, 13 1/2 year old UAGII Tillie , 10 1/2 year old UAGII Frances and UAGII Looe her new male puppy. Cathy started teaching pet obedience classes 8 years ago. Although her main interest is in agility she teaches all of her own dogs all the major competition obedience skills, and also teaches them tracking and rally Time constraints prevent her from traveling to compete as much as she would like to, so all her titles are earned in the Escanaba area. Cathy is an obedience and agility instructor.