Officers and Board

	Casey Minner — President (president@ncbcc.net) Casey has owned bearded collies for more than 20 years, co-breeding with her mom under Moonstone Beardies, and participates in a wide variety of performance and conformation venues with her dogs. Casey currently has 5 beardies at home, including Diesel (11), Einstein (11), Spike (7), Scarlett (4), and Vivvi (puppy). Her dogs are titled in conformation, agility, herding, rally, obedience, and nosework. She also trains Diesel and Spike in tracking each winter. Most weekends and evenings are devoted to the dogs, but in her non-dog time, Casey is a product manager for a bank in Virginia.
	Lynne Corn – Vice President (vp@ncbcc.net) Lynne got her first beardie in 1991. She currently has 2 beardies: Glenna, and her daughter Oboe. She has competed in herding, rally, obedience, and agility, with multiple titles in each sport. Her beardies have had conformation championships and a grand championship. She’s also joining Glenna in beginning to learn about nosework. She breeds under the kennel name Hairloom, and focuses especially on health and strong socialization of the puppies.
	Tony Vallone — Treasurer (treasurer@ncbcc.net)
	Sandy Pabst — Secretary (secretary@ncbcc.net)
	Laura Colombo — Past President (pastpres@ncbcc.net) Laura has owned beardies for 20 years, 6 of which have been in northern Virginia as a teacher of elementary school kids. She competes in conformation events throughout the U.S. and Canada. While in no way ready to compete, she has recently begun an adventure in agility with Gilly. She co-breeds under the affix Burlesque. She has worked in a number of national specialties with the BCCA and has been Show Chair for the NCBCC specialty in Timonium, MD.
	Linda Porter – Director (board1@ncbcc.net) Linda has owned Bearded Collies for 37 years and currently has 7 Beardies. She competes in Conformation, Agility, Herding, and Rally Obedience with multiple titles in each sport. She has been a breeder since 1999 under Tweeddale. Many of her breedings are Conformation, Agility, Herding Champions and many others have performance titles. A member of National Capital Bearded Collie Club since 1997 and member of the Bearded Collie Club of America.

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Betsy Cooke, Director

Robin Lord, Director

Merilynn Bergstresser, Director

Website: KarenN

Rescue: Contact Casey if you’d like to be a Rescue Coordinator for MD or VA

Membership:   Tony Vallone