Thank you to all who attended FEDcon24 in St. Louis, Missouri.\u00a0We appreciate your support and hope you left feeling confident and prepared for life\u2019s journeys.<\/span>\u00a0At FEDcon, you\u2019ll learn to make the most of your benefits and enjoy unparalleled excellence in advocacy training, preparing you to fight to protect those benefits.<\/p>\n Registration is open; go to https:\/\/fedcon.narfe.org\/<\/a>.\u00a0 The early-bird rate (through 5\/22\/2026) has ended; 5\/23\/2026 \u2013 8\/7\/2026 is $250.00; and after 8\/7\/2026 is $300.00. All non-members pay $300.00.<\/p>\n The WSF will reimburse the first five members in good standing (dues are paid up) $800.00 each toward registration and travel costs.\u00a0 Please contact WSF President Tony Merola (or call him) and copy WSF Treasurer Arlene Patton. Their contact information is available on the Washington Federation website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Save the Date for FEDcon26.\u00a0Learn more<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The\u00a0Region IX Symposium 2026<\/a><\/strong>, Oct 1-3, 2026, in Ellensburg, WA, on the Central Washington University campus, with accommodations at the Ellensburg Best Western Plus.\u00a0 Thirty hotel rooms are reserved so attendees may begin making reservations.\u00a0 For instruction on getting the group rate and for up-to-date information, visit the Region IX website at https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/meetings-events\/meetings\/symposium2026\/<\/a>.\u00a0 All Federations will have in-person meetings on Thursday afternoon as well.<\/p>\n The first 30 members in good standing (dues are paid up) to contact WSF President Tony Merola and WSF Treasurer Arlene Patton (see above instructions) can apply for a reimbursement of their $150.00 registration fee.\u00a0Save the date!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Watch for information on FEDConXX in [Location], Federation Annual Meetings, and the Region IX Training Conferences information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/571"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0131\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Region IX Symposium<\/h3>\n