Weekly Newsletter 8/24/2008
Greetings!
I always feel as if HHAFFA's year begins in September, so "Happy New Year"! After a few weeks of relatively little activity--we are ready to kick it in high gear! ARE YOU READY????
Let's take care of housekeeping items first:--We send weekly newsletters to over 200 email addresses, yet only a relatively few people participate in our activities. I wonder if some people are not receiving the emails and they are floating out in cyberspace, or if people just do not care to receive our newsletter anymore. So, to help us out, please reply to this newsletter if you would still like to receive our weekly updates! If you do not respond, after two weeks, you will automatically be removed from our mailing list. As an added incentive--we are going to put all names of people who reply in a hat and draw out names for prizes. I will announce winners at our Quarterly Meeting.
--What Quarterly Meeting, did you ask? Our Quarterly Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 23 at 6 pm in the HHAFFA office. We will also have a "Fill a Bag with Greeting Cards" for $5 fundraiser! Sunrise Greeting Cards (bought out by Hallmark) has donated hundreds (if not thousands) of greeting cards to HHAFFA. They include Birthday, Anniversary, Wedding, Thank You, New Baby, Encouragement, Sympathy, Blank, and many, many more!! We'll give you a plastic shopping bag, and you fill it as full as you can, for only $5! (Also--refreshments will be served!)
Add these activities to your calendar:
--HHAFFA will be participating in the Oolitic Parade to be held on Sept 13th. We will have our truck, and we would love for HHAFFA to be as well represented in the Oolitic Parade as we were in the 4th of July parade. Details will be in upcoming newsletters.
--Quarterly Meeting on September 23--Don't forget Red Roses for Red Cross. Please call 275-5162 or email Betsy at bhenley@hhredcross.org to order roses-$20 per dozen delivered (payment due by Aug 31 or Sept 11) Don't forget that the Hoosier Hills Chapter of Red Cross started HHAFFA!
--The American Federation of Government Employees has collected items to be sent to our troops, because one of their shop stewards is in the National Guard in Iraq. There will be a packing party at the National Guard, whenever the FRG decides to do it. We'll pass on the word as soon as we know.
--The Persimmon Festival is the last weekend in September. Larry Arnold has volunteered to drive a truck in the parade. Please do not hesitate to call Larry to volunteer to help--and EVERYONE show up to walk!! Thank you, Larry!!! Again, we'll pass on info as soon as we receive the details! and there is more . . .
--Please join us in the FLY THE FLAG campaign! On Thursday, September 11th, 2008, an American Flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment house, office, and store in the United States. Every individual should make it their duty to display an American flag on the seventh anniversary of one of our country's worst tragedies. We do this to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11, their families, friends and loved ones who continue to endure the pain, and those who today are fighting at home and abroad to preserve our cherished freedoms.
--Don't forget to keep Kyle, Veda and Ethan Daugherty in your thoughts and prayers. If you haven't done so yet, send a card:
Joyce Daugherty
PO Box 391
Bedford, IN 47421
Please send any cards meant for Veda and Kyle to Joyce's address. Veda's address can not be made public and he is moving in the next few days so he will not recieve any mail that is mailed to him at this time. Joyce will forward the cards to Veda and Kyle.
--Don't forget to send a card to Ashley Wilkinson:
Ashley Wilkinson
HHB, 5-82 FA (JIC)/(JISE-B)
APO AE 09391
--Please remember to let us know when military addresses change and when your own personal information changes! I hope to hear from you ALL soon!!!!!
God Bless Our Troops and their families back home!!!
Nancy Peabody
I always feel as if HHAFFA's year begins in September, so "Happy New Year"! After a few weeks of relatively little activity--we are ready to kick it in high gear! ARE YOU READY????
Let's take care of housekeeping items first:--We send weekly newsletters to over 200 email addresses, yet only a relatively few people participate in our activities. I wonder if some people are not receiving the emails and they are floating out in cyberspace, or if people just do not care to receive our newsletter anymore. So, to help us out, please reply to this newsletter if you would still like to receive our weekly updates! If you do not respond, after two weeks, you will automatically be removed from our mailing list. As an added incentive--we are going to put all names of people who reply in a hat and draw out names for prizes. I will announce winners at our Quarterly Meeting.
--What Quarterly Meeting, did you ask? Our Quarterly Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 23 at 6 pm in the HHAFFA office. We will also have a "Fill a Bag with Greeting Cards" for $5 fundraiser! Sunrise Greeting Cards (bought out by Hallmark) has donated hundreds (if not thousands) of greeting cards to HHAFFA. They include Birthday, Anniversary, Wedding, Thank You, New Baby, Encouragement, Sympathy, Blank, and many, many more!! We'll give you a plastic shopping bag, and you fill it as full as you can, for only $5! (Also--refreshments will be served!)
Add these activities to your calendar:
--HHAFFA will be participating in the Oolitic Parade to be held on Sept 13th. We will have our truck, and we would love for HHAFFA to be as well represented in the Oolitic Parade as we were in the 4th of July parade. Details will be in upcoming newsletters.
--Quarterly Meeting on September 23--Don't forget Red Roses for Red Cross. Please call 275-5162 or email Betsy at bhenley@hhredcross.org to order roses-$20 per dozen delivered (payment due by Aug 31 or Sept 11) Don't forget that the Hoosier Hills Chapter of Red Cross started HHAFFA!
--The American Federation of Government Employees has collected items to be sent to our troops, because one of their shop stewards is in the National Guard in Iraq. There will be a packing party at the National Guard, whenever the FRG decides to do it. We'll pass on the word as soon as we know.
--The Persimmon Festival is the last weekend in September. Larry Arnold has volunteered to drive a truck in the parade. Please do not hesitate to call Larry to volunteer to help--and EVERYONE show up to walk!! Thank you, Larry!!! Again, we'll pass on info as soon as we receive the details! and there is more . . .
--Please join us in the FLY THE FLAG campaign! On Thursday, September 11th, 2008, an American Flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment house, office, and store in the United States. Every individual should make it their duty to display an American flag on the seventh anniversary of one of our country's worst tragedies. We do this to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11, their families, friends and loved ones who continue to endure the pain, and those who today are fighting at home and abroad to preserve our cherished freedoms.
--Don't forget to keep Kyle, Veda and Ethan Daugherty in your thoughts and prayers. If you haven't done so yet, send a card:
Joyce Daugherty
PO Box 391
Bedford, IN 47421
Please send any cards meant for Veda and Kyle to Joyce's address. Veda's address can not be made public and he is moving in the next few days so he will not recieve any mail that is mailed to him at this time. Joyce will forward the cards to Veda and Kyle.
--Don't forget to send a card to Ashley Wilkinson:
Ashley Wilkinson
HHB, 5-82 FA (JIC)/(JISE-B)
APO AE 09391
--Please remember to let us know when military addresses change and when your own personal information changes! I hope to hear from you ALL soon!!!!!
God Bless Our Troops and their families back home!!!
Nancy Peabody
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