In February of 1982 a local PBS gardening program featured a garden with a koi pond. Responses were fielded by the PBS station as those who didn’t see the broadcast heard about it from those that knew the various pond owners. A meeting was scheduled to get together the people interested and out of that came the first meeting.

Most attending that first meeting were having some success with koi ponds, as well as a large measure of failures. A common bond was forged immediately. Dues were established primarily to pay for postage and cards to announce the next meeting.

The second meeting was at the home of our first president: John Laurensen. John had kept koi as far back as 1975, while I had been keeping koi since 1978. John Lockerman.