During the month of June and up until today the Join and Renew functions were not working on our website. Our link to our merchant account making it possible for us to accept credit cards was severed without warning due to an upgrade in software done by the merchant account vendor. The Join and Renew functions are now up and running again on our website. We apologize for any inconvenience that we may have caused in your attempts made to renew your memberships or to join AAS, we hope that you will give us another chance! Thank you for your support, and please do let us know if you have any further problems with the process.

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