Rich Blake

After six years of fantastic service to the Skagit Valley and Whidbey NMRA Clinic, our newsletter editor Al Frasch is stepping down to assume greater responsibilities nationally for OPSIG.

Over the years he has provided us with a very illustrative newsletter and has done a great deal to promote the hobby.  Many new members that we have received from the local area over the last few years were due to folks either seeing our newsletter here on the 4D website or at the local hobby shop.  We also saw the newsletter grow to not only provide information about our clinics, but also as a medium to showcase much of our member’s progress on layouts and modeling as well as interesting prototype information.  Al’s efforts set a very high standard and we were all privileged to have someone so dedicated to the job for so many years.  Volunteer efforts like this are what keeps our clubs and clinics going.

We wish Al good luck in his continuing volunteer efforts with OPSIG and always look forward to operating with him on his excellent N scale layout, the “Pilchuck Division of the BNSF.”