Mission
: The acceptance of social nudism and nude recreation in this region
Ted Peck- Member Trustee – AANR - SW
14201 Parkhurst
San Antonio, TX 78232
(210) 240-4410
tdpeck@hotmail.com
AANR Convention, Sun Meadow, Idaho
August 11, 2019 LouLou and I arrived yesterday, several days early to get settled and help out. (I am Chair of the AANR Convention and Facilities Committee, a committee whose duties are, at best, vague.) Today, while helping stuffing goodie baggies, I grabbed a convention schedule. As an example of activities from which to choose I will share the schedule forWednesday, which is sponsored by Lake Associates Recreation Club: yoga; au natural office hours with Erich Schuttauf, the Executive Director; aquacise; walk in the park; disk golf; pickleball; shuffleboard tournament; cribbage tournament; bocce; reception sponsored by AANR-NW; ping pong; organized kids activities morning and afternoon; and a live concert in the evening. Early in that sentence I’d listed more organized activities than we got all of convention last year. You can still fly or even drive up here and join the fun. Sun Meadow has no more rooms available, but the nearby Casino probably does. Or, if that’s impractical, mark your calendar now to attend the 2020 AANR convention at Star Ranch August 10-16, 2020. Star is well known for also providing lots of great activities at regional activities, and now they’ll provide great activities on a North American stage. They are not yet doing official reservations, but call them and you can get on their reservation list. I’m on the list for a spot on RV row.
Final note on Sun Meadow, the high temperature today was 67, and since we’ve been here it’s either been cool or cool and rainy, while the high in San Antonio was 102.
August 12, 2019 The official meetings don’t start until Wednesday, but many of the Trustees have already arrived and at least one committee has been at work since Saturday. At 8:30 a.m. there is sun at Sun Meadow and the temperature is up to 58. When it gets up to 70, I plan to work on my tan line. Meanwhile, committee work continues.
August 13, 2019
The following is a part of the written report from AANR Executive Director, Erich Schuttauf. I share it with you as an example of “What does AANR do for us?”
AANR Advocacy: Helping Members and Clubs
A separate Executive Director’s section containing information about Government Affairs and legislative efforts at state and local levels is included within Tim Mullins’ GAT report. Monthly editions of The Bulletin now include a column prepared by me outlining the many ways that AANR and its regions are lending assistance in various legal/advocacy situations and cases. Without providing sensitive or privileged information, situations since the last report have included:
- Assisting clubs that have been denied financing by lenders, or merchant services on credit card accounts solely based upon the clubs’ nudist nature;
- Assisting clubs denied insurance on the basis of being nudist. AANR now helps facilitate communication with nudist-friendly insurance providers;
- Assisting a club refused sanctioning of an athletic event by the official credentialing authority on the basis that it admitted families to the event;
- Assisting a club with copyright issues over a nudist publication from years ago;
- Assisting the COKE (Corona, Oshkosh, Kissimmee, Eugene) network of nudist libraries with preparation of best practice sharing documents;
- Advocating for nudist parent and grandparent rights to child custody and visitation in family law cases from numerous states, from Oregon, Wisconsin, Florida, South Carolina, and more. In these cases we have received thank-you’s from the attorneys pressing their cases stating that a successful outcome would not have been possible without AANR guidance and materials;
- Advocating for AANR members cited for discreetly sunbathing nude within their own fenced backyards. In a trend seen from Florida to Nevada, Arizona, and Virginia even those behind fences have had law enforcement called upon them by vexed neighbors who see even private nudity as an opportunity to make life difficult. We have provided substantial help to the legal counsel who is handling an appeal (possibly precedent-setting) in one such case; Providing referral and resources to a member whose computer was confiscated after a local repair shop found nude images on the machine that were no different than what one would find in The Bulletin or N magazine. With prompt action by legal counsel with such information, no charges have been leveled but the machine has yet to be returned. Elsewhere, similar pictures in a family album;
- Assisting nudists in two separate states from two different sets of AANR parents with efforts to adopt when authorities or third parties objected to nudist parents. One case has already had a successful outcome. The other remains pending, but we are addressing the matter with lawmakers at the NCSL conference in August;
- Assisting with information on legal rights and options to AANR nudists terminated from employment or other adverse treatment on their job(s) due to nudism during off-work hours;
- Legal and case law analysis to an attorney representing the distributor of decades old nudist publications in a federal matter. A conservative judge who previously served on her state’s supreme court and had been a child advocate judge in her early career eventually sided with the nudist defense;
- Assisted an AANR member of 25 years and his spouse after the member was seen briefly by a driver making deliveries who complained and triggered an indecency charge. The member has been referred to highly qualified counsel successful in a different nudist case. Prospects are strong for having the charges dropped.
- Assisted an East Coast club with preparations for zoning hearings after conditional use was temporarily in jeopardy due to nudism; AANR assisted a Southern club with zoning matters less related to nudism;
- Assisted AANR members in responding to protective service agencies acting on complaints from others merely because they practice nudity within the home. These are different from family law/ divorce cases because the complaint made may be anonymous In all of these cases the matters were concluded and dropped within the week;
- Assisting with explaining why members enjoy nudism to family, church, and neighbors in situations that have legal overtones;
- Assisting an AANR member (who is without children) after her spousal support was paused by a judge who learned she was living within a nudist club and using such support to pay lot rent;
- Providing guidance to nudist clubs on guest comfort and security measures that have unique aspects in a nudist environment.
August 14, 2019
Tough day of meetings. Membership meeting was smooth, but not so much the Trustees Meeting. A lot of contention and the meeting will spill over to tomorrow. The contention wasn’t so much over the content of some motions, but about whether we were following our rules.
Anyway, there was good news for our region--3 awards. Connie Taylor, Wildwood, received the Rick Athearn Photography Award for a photo with the caption: “Collecting donation for the food pantry is a tradition.” Also Wildwood received an award for their participation in a New York Times article: “And the bride wore….nothing.” For that they will receive a framed copy of the Times article. And Bob Morton received the Alonzo Stevens, Jr., Memorial Government Affairs Award. I had nominated Bob over a year ago, and when he didn’t get it last year, I figured he was beat out by another nominee. I guess I was too late to nominate for 2018 and my nomination was really for this year. Anyway, congratulations to Wildwood as a group and Connie and Bob as individuals.
