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Barbara Wiebelhaus, Vice President
- Petersburg, ND.
My husband, Alan and I have 3
children; Curt is 24, he is married and now has a 10
year old son, and is living in Stockton, CA. Nicole
is 23, she is married and has 2 children, and they
live in Colorado Springs, CO, the youngest one is AJ,
is 18 and attends Dakota Prairie High School here in
Petersburg, ND and works for Cenex in Michigan, ND,
he has pre-signed up to join the Army and departs on
July 19, 2007.
As a busy family there are things we
really enjoy doing together. My family and I have
were very involved is assisting an elderly neighbor
who ran an animal rescue from her farm. We helped
her build kennels in her barn and fixed her fencing
too. We mowed her lawns and were very happy to
donate a large freezer for her rescue when hers no
longer worked. We have also helped out in Colorado
Springs, CO, with Habitat for Humanity. Since then
we spend our summers cutting, bailing and hauling
hay for our 4 horses.
I grew up near Minneapolis, MN. I
have served in the US Air Force for 20 years and
retired in 2004. During those 20 years I have lived
in Utah, Germany, Washington State, Honduras,
Washington DC, Colorado and North Dakota and spent
time deployed to Saudi Arabia and Oman. We have
decided to make North Dakota our home. While
assigned in each of these places I have managed the
administrative offices, along with training
personnel who have worked for me and High School
summer hires each summer. I have managed the
exhibits programs to promote the Guard and Reserve
in all branches of military service and have given
briefings to our state representatives of Employer
Support of the Guard and Reserve on how the programs
are doing and what we needed to do to improve them.
I have established new offices while deployed to
overseas locations at Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia and Oman, a country north of Yemen, setting
up new offices, the file plans, setting up new
computers with all necessary software and hardware
and establishing connection with the network, as
well as training all personnel on network security.
It was also my responsibility to make sure all
security patches and upgrades were made to each
system. I have spent 4 ½ years of my career in the
US Postal Service while stationed in W. Germany.
Military life meant changing work locations every 3
to 4 years which has given me experience in working
with many different types of people and environments
and changes. My recent retirement has afforded me
the opportunity to get more involved with in the AKK
community. I am now working towards my bachelor’s
degree in Computer Information Systems and have
almost completed one year with a 4.0 GPA.
I bought my first Alaskan Klee Kai in
spring of 1997 from Eileen Gregory. We have been
members of AKKAOA for 10 years in March 2007 and
breeding AKK for over 8 years as well. We had a
lot of fun attending the UKC Premiers in June 2004
with my son, brother and my niece, then in 2006 with
my husband and son. We have also attended a few
more shows in Mpls, MN. Every show teaches us a few
more helpful techniques for showing our AKK.
Certainly, the best part of the showing is the fun
meeting face to face the many folks I have known
only by
e-mail and phone for many years and
getting to know all the newer owners, and visiting
the friends we have come to know. My husband and I
plan to continue our strict breeding program for the
betterment of the breed along with educating new AKK
owners and fanciers of this breed. We are enjoying
showing our AKK and they also seem to be enjoying
their new path that leads to more treats. The
Alaskan Klee Kai breed has stolen our hearts and we
love them dearly and plan to be involved with this
breed for a very long time.
Barbara Wiebelhaus
Vice President, AKKAOA
Wiebelhusky’s Alaskan Klee Kai
Petersburg, North Dakota
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