About Us

NORTHWEST COORDINATING COMMITTEE

The purpose of the NWCC is to assist the member clubs of the Pacific Northwest in promoting paint horses. NWCC member clubs must be an APHA approved club and be represented at NWCC meetings by 2 delegates and 2 alternates. The NWCC delegates and alternates are elected annually to represent each club and serve as officers, committee members and workers for NWCC meetings and programs.

FUTURITIES

The NWCC futurities have been offered since 1978 and include halter and riding classes with winners receiving prize money and a custom designed belt buckle Each NWCC member club annually provides $200, which is dedicated to purchasing the custom buckles and funding the futurities. Futurity sponsors are also solicited.

DIRECTORY

The NWCC directory is produced yearly as an opportunity for NWCC to publish year end award winners, coming year show dates, club members names & addresses and NWCC club names with contact persons. The NWCC directory is also an opportunity for paint horse enthusiasts to advertise club show dates, stallions, trainers, trailer and tack stores, etc. Copies are mailed to NWCC members and advertisers with the remainder distributed throughout the Pacific Northwest area and at the World show and APHA Convention & Workshop.

YEAR END AWARDS

NWCC has developed a very extensive year-end awards system. To participate in the year end award system a person must join a NWCC member club prior to the first show they want to have points to count. Each NWCC approved show secretary is responsible to send results to point keeper for tabulation of year end awards points. Year end awards rules are published in this Directory.

*Please make note that if you are a high point or reserve high point winner and wish to have a painting of your horse as your award, you will need to contact the nwcc awards coordinator to request this award as it is no longer a nwcc standard award.

All APHA approved classes that are offered at NWCC approved shows receive a year-end hi-point or reserve hi-point award if a minimum of 25 NWCC points are earned in that class.

Funding for the NWCC year-end awards system is provided by a $1 per judge per class fee which is collected by the show and forwarded to the NWCC Treasurer. The money is distributed as follows: 10% to Points keeper; 25% to APHA national directors, who attend either/both Workshop and Convention, to help defray expenses; 65% to awards. Only directors that attend workshop &/or Convention and submit a written report with 30 days of the event to be posted on the NWCC website and sent to the newsletter editors in the state or provence they represent are eligible for NWCC funds.  Directors must also submit copies of expenses for reimbursement.

SHOW DATES & JUDGES

To provide equal opportunity for each club to host a show and equal access for contestants to attend as many shows as possible, only one NWCC show per date will be approved. A judge may only be hired to judge one NWCC show per year. In the rare event that a judge is hired for multiple shows, that judge will only be counted one time for year end awards, Exception, in case of emergency a judge may be counted more then once.

The NWCC show and judge coordinator maintains a current list of show dates and judges. Show managers should contact the coordinator for available show dates and previously hired judges before making commitments. The show dates and judges are published in the NWCC directory, club newsletters and various other publications. Individual clubs are responsible for distributing show premiums although NWCC attempts to maintain a current mailing list of current NWCC members. Individual clubs are responsible for distributing show NOTIFICATIONS  etc.

* PHOTOS FOR THE 2010 DIRECTORY *

Again for 2009, this cover will feature a collage of all five high point division winners but with photos. Guidelines for high point and reserve (inside pages) winners submitting photos for use in the Directory are as follows:

  1. Photo is to be a three-quarter front shot.
  2. The print provided to the Directory Editor and/or Publisher must be color glossy in vertical format, taken by a professional equine photographer. Preferred 5’ x 7’ size photo mailed or high quality computer format acceptable to Publisher.
  3. Photos must be purchased by the high point winners and furnished to the Directory Editor NO LATER then December 5th of the show year.
  4. The NWCC Directory Editor has the final authority to approve or reject any photo submitted for the Directory cover.

NWCC would like to again thank all of the advertisers that have supported the Directory this year and in the past. We would also like to thank Z Designs for the wonderful Directory they have produced for us for the past several years and are pleased to have them producing our Directory through 2007 and hopefully beyond!

 

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