Hello everybody!
It was nice to see so many of you at Locust Grove, our last official walk of the season. Thank
you to Cynthia Fisher our walk leader there-as well as to all of you who have helped lead walks
this past season - Jill Weiss, Barbara Plume, Kelly Sinclair, Gerry and Carol MacDonald. Thank
you David Work for your leadership and lending your expertise at several walks. Thanks to
Elmer LeSeur for your help at Locust Grove.
While there is still more time to enjoy outside (and I hope you are), the club is focusing on our
indoor activities the rest of the year. We are now planning our annual dinner and events for the
fall and winter months.In order to meet your needs, we will be seeking feedback about your
interests, and the best time for meetings, as we plan upcoming lectures and other activities.
I have a few announcements as follows.....
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SAVE THE DATE: Sunday, October 27th, 4-7pm for our annual pot luck dinner
and
meeting. We will gather at the Friends Meeting House in Poughkeepsie. FEAST
AND FUN NOT TO BE MISSED. Jill Weiss will be in charge of mycophagy and we
are in for some treats.
Stay tuned. Details about the dinner will
follow...
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I want to share a card that Bill Bakaitis has sent to the club expressing his gratitude
for our
thoughts and the donation sent in memory of his late wife, Leslie Land. I will bring
the card to the dinner so that you can read Bill's words.
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Openings: The club needs volunteers for the position of walks coordinator and
membership chairperson. Please think about
offering your time for these positions for the coming year. Barbara Plume, our Vice
President, has offered to assist anybody who volunteers as walks coordinator.
Jill Weiss has held this position for several years. We are grateful to her for all that she
has done...and glad to
hear that she plans to continue to lead some walks for us next
year.
Carol MacDonald has been our Membership
Chairperson for several years. Carol has generously stayed on
this year while we look for a replacement. Thank you, Carol.
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Look for our newly redesigned website in the near future. The club thanks Paolo
Vidali who is
finishing (the much needed) re-design our website. We will now be able
to bring you up to date information about our club activities, announcements and topics
of interest. Paolo gave the club a very generous discount and we thank him.
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Thanks to Ira Weiss who kept our site going as over the past few years and answered
questions from readers, Jill Weiss who also assisted with responses, and Stefan Lisowski
who has given us direction and assistance as we looked to re-design our website.
We are in the process of looking for a new webmaster.
I look forward to seeing everybody at our (not to be missed!) dinner and many wonderful
lectures, movies and workshops to come...stay tuned.....