We have made the news again! ABC, Channel 7, Los Angeles covered a rattlesnake handling training session that Roy Malleappah, Joe Banashek, Jarron Lucas, Moses Drake, and Joe Banashek Jr. presented to Riverside Animal Control. Here is the link to the video on ABC's web site: Rattlesnakes.

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Al Robbins Chapter (Bakersfield)

Scheduled Speakers
& Event News

Second Tuesday of the month
7:30pm
August 12th

Roy Malleappah and Jarron Lucas will share photos and video and speak about their trip to Sri Lanka. Not to be missed: cobras & other venomous snakes, monitors, other herps & amphibians, and the beautiful country of Sri Lanka!

Non-members welcome

Meeting Location:
East Bakersfield Veterans Building
2101 Ridge Road
Bakersfield
(map)

Members are allowed to bring, but not sell, animals. Everyone is welcome at our meetings membership is not required. Although the business portion of our meeting begins at 7:30 pm, many folks show up early to help the Master at Arms set up chairs. Coming early also allows time to show off critters they have brought with them, ask questions about problems they may be having with their critters and tell about "the beauty that got away." We try to complete business by 8:00 to allow our speaker as much time as possible before we have to vacate the building by 9:30.

Chapter officers meet on the first Tuesday of the month.We meet at various officers' homes and begin at 7:00 pm. Any member is welcome to attend. Call the president for meeting location.