2012 Officers

Dave Lugar: President :
Hi, my name is David Lugar and I will be club President for 2012. Welcome to the Oregon Koi and Watergarden Society.My wife Robin and I have been involved with Oregon Koi and Watergarden Society for seven years. It all started with wanting to build a water feature in our back yard.  I built a small contained water garden and found it was not quite enough. After joining the Oregon Koi and Watergarden Society seven years ago, my wife and I dug our pond. We now have twenty koi in a 4000 gallon pond.  This club has given us many great opportunities to learn all about the koi hobby.  We enjoy our koi, and hope to share all we know.  

See you around the pond, 

                   David Lugar

Matt: Vice President and Program Director:

My name is Matt Flury, and I am the 2012 Vice President and program director for the OK&WS.   Our pond is 23 x 12 x 6 ft totaling 12,000 gallons.  I really enjoy the technical aspects of filtration and water quality. If there is something you can never have enough of it is filtration. I guess that's a good thing since my wife is really into buying koi. I have learned a lot about the do's and don'ts of ponding and enjoy helping others avoid all the headaches I've endured.  We've made a lot of friends through the club and are amazed with all the information each one has to offer. We like traveling to Washington and California, stopping at all the vendors along the way. We enjoy traveling to koi shows and are hoping to make it to Japan one day. We enjoy watching our fish grow and develop. It's interesting to see the changes they go through, good and bad. I would have to say my favorite variety of koi is the Showa (red, black, and white). My goal is to introduce the hobby to others and provide them with the knowledge required in good koi husbandry.

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Bret Koontz: Treasurer:  

Bret and Linda both worked in the computer software industry before moving to Glide. Now, Bret is a part-time rancher and Linda keeps busy with homeschooling.We have two kids.  Our daughter, Zena, is 13 and very  involved with dog 4-H, various animals and activities.  Zach, age 12, enjoys being on a chess team and in robotics 4-H. Linda enjoys being home with the kids and trying to grow a vegetable garden after working for many years. Bret also enjoys hunting, coin collecting and various building projects such as koi ponds. Bret has had fish tanks since he was young and has always wanted a koi pond. His sister and our neighbor also have koi ponds. It is appx. 6000 gallons and has a Nexus filter. We have the backyard koi pond in and will have it hooked up and running this spring.  What do you see in the future?Finishing the koi pond and getting real fish in the pond. Linda had no idea it took so many months to build a proper pond..

Robin Lugar  - Secretary:  

I'm looking forward to the New Year and serving as secretary for the Oregon Koi & Watergarden Society.  I have been a member of the club since 2005. I have also served as the club's treasurer.  I will support my husband Dave, the club's president, and continue moving the club forward in a positive direction. Since building our pond over 6 years ago, it's been a constant learning adventure. Joining the club and attending meetings, has been a great resource to ask questions and learn new things. It is always a pleasure to meet other people with a similar interest.  I had the opportunity to also serve for several years as a representative for the PNKCA. That experience led to building new friendships with so many wonderful people from other clubs in the Pacific Northwest. I really enjoy going to the conventions and koi shows.  Here's to 2012 and a year to have some fun, meet new people and learn something new!

Until next time.... Robin Lugar

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Norman Call Newsletter Editor:
Norman Call was first exposed to a fish pond in the early 50's as a
small boy.  It was my job to clean the cement pond every spring, said
Norman, Of course, at that time I did not know the difference between a
comet and a koi....and I didn't care. Our cement pond had no drain which
was typical in those days and cleaning the pond was always a dirty and
stinky job.  When we moved I was greatful and never wanted to see
another pond.
In the early 70's Norman met Kazeo Takeda and was introduced to
Nishikigoi.  My care free life has never been the same since . He
entered his first Koi show in 1976. Now he belongs to 5 Koi clubs, and
subscribes to every Koi magazine. Norman created TC Enterprises in the
Mid- Eighties.  I created calendars and collect anything that has to do
with koi.  I designed logos, brochures etc., for Koi club shows and
special events because at that time you could not find anything with koi
on it. Norman wrote koi human interest articles
for Koi USA and consulted over the phone for years. In 1995 Norman moved
permanently to Oregon and was cofounder the Oregon Koi & Watergarden
Society in 1998.
During his 36 years Norman has won every koi show award available and
travels the country benching and judging koi shows for the AKCA. He has
been designing Koi show pins and koi club logos for fifteen years and
currently has the largest koi pin collection in the world with just
under 900 koi pins. That does not include hundreds of tie pins, tie
bars, key rings etc.

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