Welcome to the New Year - 2005

Happy New Year! It has been an eventful 12 months for the ILR office, staff and Board of Directors. We hope that the last year has been fun, profitable and satisfying for all llama owners and ILR members. As we move into 2005, there are many challenges and possibilities before us. We hope you will stay informed with the events and changes in the llama community, and that you will share your ideas, stories and photographs with the ILR and the ILRe-port. We are always searching for the interesting uses and circumstances of llamas. We invite you to contact the Registry if you have an interesting event, product or use for llamas that we would all enjoy reading about.

On that note we hope you will enjoy our feature article in this issue on the collaboration of Wally Dee Henderson and Ingrid's Hand Wovens. This is a Texas story that may encourage you to shear and use that beautiful llama fleece.

While we have your attention, we would like to thank a few individuals who have been extremely valuable to the ILR and, therefore, to you over the past year. If you see these great people at an event, please say 'Thank You' for their efforts on the behalf of the llama community.

• Donna Moore - for her unselfish efforts in proof reading many kinds of documents that go out from the ILR office.
• Niki Kuklenski - for tracking down many historical photographs, helping debug the ILR web site and for hunting for errors in the database and online llama photographs.
• Members of the Llama Focus Groups - we thank you for keeping communication alive and healthy. These individuals are listed at www.lamaregistry.com/focusgroups.htm.

Happy New Year from the Staff at the ILR,

Kathy Bicknell
Carol Martin
Salena Adams
Susan Eickert
Joyce Schmautz
Alan Schmautz, MIS
Jan Wassink, Registrar