{"id":33506,"date":"2025-09-20T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33506"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:45:24","slug":"september-20-2025-club-meeting-post-2-of-2-500pm-thank-you-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33506","title":{"rendered":"SEPTEMBER 20, 2025 CLUB MEETING; Post 2 of 2, 5:00PM \u2013 Thank You, Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/September2025MeetingPost2FlashCard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/September2025MeetingPost2FlashCard-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/September2025MeetingPost2FlashCard-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/September2025MeetingPost2FlashCard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/September2025MeetingPost2FlashCard-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/September2025MeetingPost2FlashCard.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">5) THANK YOU<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>We thank Joe Aspler, Danny Sichel, Mark Burakoff, and Cathy Palmer-Lister for today\u2019s meeting, with a special thank-you bestowed upon our guest speaker, Riley Rosener! Thank you, as well, to all of our contributing participants, along with everyone who helped to plan and run today\u2019s get-together. We also thank, of course, all of you who joined us, both physically in the meeting hall and here on ZOOM; don\u2019t forget to comment on today\u2019s get-together (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\">www.MonSFFA.ca<\/a>).<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>6) NEXT MONTH\u2019S EVENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mark Saturday, October 25 in your calendars, folks! That is the 2025 date of MonSFFA\u2019s annual Super Sci-Fi Book Sale!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MonSFFABookSale-Promo2025-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MonSFFABookSale-Promo2025-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MonSFFABookSale-Promo2025-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MonSFFABookSale-Promo2025-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MonSFFABookSale-Promo2025-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MonSFFABookSale-Promo2025-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We advise all club members, as well as the greater community of sci-fi fans, to start saving coins and folding money for this bargain-bonanza of a chance to stock up on all your fall and winter SF\/F reading!<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale4-1024x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale4-1024x307.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale4-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale4-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale4.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paperbacks, hardcovers, trades, plus many comics and magazines\u2014we\u2019ll have hundreds upon hundreds of titles, from Asimov to Zelazny, at the lowest prices in all of known space! \u201cBulk Book Bargains,\u201d too\u2014the more you buy, the more you save!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale5-1024x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale5-1024x307.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale5-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale5-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale5.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The book sale will take place in \u201cSalle St-Mathieu\u201d at the downtown Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Boul. Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque O. (corner St-Mathieu)!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale2-1024x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale2-1024x307.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale2-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale2-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Help us stage this event by volunteering! And spread the word, bring a couple friends to the sale!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale3-1024x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale3-1024x307.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale3-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale3-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerBookSale3.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>7) SIGN-OFF<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Thank you all for taking part today. We appreciate the enthusiastic involvement of our members, and we hope to see you all again next month at the book sale! Until then, enjoy these dwindling days of summer (for winter is coming!), and keep well.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerForestSunsetFall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerForestSunsetFall-1024x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerForestSunsetFall-1024x307.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerForestSunsetFall-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerForestSunsetFall-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BannerForestSunsetFall.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5) THANK YOU We thank Joe Aspler, Danny Sichel, Mark Burakoff, and Cathy Palmer-Lister for today\u2019s meeting, with a special thank-you bestowed upon our guest speaker, Riley Rosener! Thank you, as well, to all of our contributing participants, along with everyone who helped to plan and run today\u2019s get-together. We also thank, of course, all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33506\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEPTEMBER 20, 2025 CLUB MEETING; Post 2 of 2, 5:00PM \u2013 Thank You, Wrap-Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33507,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506\/revisions\/33507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}