<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><center class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" class="" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 2364px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 969px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" id="bodyCell" class="" style="height: 2344px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; width: 949px; border-top-width: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""></tr><tr class=""><td valign="top" id="templateHeader" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; background-size: cover; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 9px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px;"><table align="left" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="mcnImageContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;"><img align="center" alt="" class="mcnImage" style="border: 0px; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 400px; padding-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important;" apple-inline="yes" id="8B897D5F-4316-414C-97F0-B55C8C82D1B2" src="cid:A63C95F0-E716-4F47-874A-97554EE9BEA7@Home"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td valign="top" id="templateBody" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; background-size: cover; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><h1 class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 26px; line-height: 32.5px; text-align: center;"><strong class="">MINI-CONFERENCE β Open to All WAS members and Free to the Public on Zoom </strong><br class=""><strong class="">December 5, 2020 <br class="">7:00 p.m.</strong> (Mountain Standard Time)<br class=""> <strong class="">6:00 p.m.</strong> (Pacific Time) </h1><h1 class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 26px; line-height: 32.5px;"> <span class="" style="font-size: 16px;"><strong class=""><a href="https://westernapiculturalsociety.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cc74996e4ddd46ccf8b2ca9e0&id=b36630959f&e=5c557ca489" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);">Registration: Sign-up to receive a Zoom link</a></strong><br class=""> </span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 16px;">On a Cold Day in December, Let's Talk about Heating Beehives!</span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> <br class=""><strong class="">7:00β7:45 p.m. (MST) Etienne Tardiff</strong>, WAS Yukon Territories Director<br class="">Title: <strong class=""><em class="">Do Bees Heat the Inside of the Hive? </em></strong>Presentation + Q&A<br class="">Description: Etienne keeps bees in the Yukon - he <em class="">knows</em> winter beekeeping. Hear his A to Z of getting ready to overwinter your bees - hint: it <strong class="">starts in Spring</strong>. Etienne will cover basic health, nutrition, environmental factors (weather & forage), hive management basics, and <strong class="">hive enclosure "physics."</strong><br class=""> <br class=""><strong class="">7:50β8:35 p.m. (MST) Scott Debnam</strong>, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Montana<br class="">Title: <strong class=""><em class="">Heater Bees and Cell x Cell Temperature Regulation in the Brood Nest.</em></strong><br class="">Description: Scott has over 20 years of research experience and is an instructor with the UM Online Master Beekeeping program and producer of UM's highly popular Natural Beekeeping course. Heβs found amazing new things about <strong class="">heater bees</strong> and has some fantastic <strong class="">inside-the-hive photos and videos</strong> to share with everyone.<br class=""> <br class=""><strong class="">8:40 p.m. (MST) WAS Members Annual Board of Directors and Business Meeting</strong><br class="">Due to COVID-19, the Face-to-Face Annual Meeting was Cancelled<br class=""><strong class="">Therefore, WAS is going green with:</strong></span></h1><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="">A short virtual conference, December 5, 2020</strong></span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="">Monthly informative beekeeping, educational, and fun presentations</strong></span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="">A new website</strong></span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="">Digital advertisers</strong></span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><strong class="">2021 Students' Conference</strong></span></li></ul><h1 class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 26px; line-height: 32.5px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> <br class=""><strong class="">8:50 p.m. (MST) Board of Director's, Members, Committee Reports, and Elections</strong><br class=""> <br class=""><strong class="">9:30 p.m. (MST) Adjourn </strong><br class=""> </span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 16px;"><strong class=""><a href="https://westernapiculturalsociety.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cc74996e4ddd46ccf8b2ca9e0&id=23062bcec0&e=5c557ca489" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);">Registration: Sign-up to receive a Zoom link</a></strong><br class=""> Looking forward to seeing you there!</span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td valign="top" id="templateFooter" class="" style="background-image: none; background-size: cover; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 9px; padding-bottom: 9px; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnFollowBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnFollowBlockOuter"><tr class=""></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>