NEWS FROM THE PRESIDENT

As we come to a close of the 2003 season, House Tours are filling up fast, so new to the club, House Tours are given by various people in the club, inviting everyone to come to their home to see their display and decorations. It is a fantastic way to experience the creativity of our members, get new ideas for your own use, and celebrate the holidays with everyone. These people are gracious enough to invite you into their homes, and I’m sure you will be able to attend most, if not all of them. A generous “Thank You” from the club for those people who open their homes to the rest.For those who were unable to attend the gathering, or those wanting additional gathering items, there are still some event pieces and SRG pins that will be available at the meeting. The event piece is $16.00 and the pin is $4.00. Below is a picture of the event piece.

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Yearly duties to be done in the next few months include the slate of officers to be announced and voted upon in the January meeting, and an audit committee to be formed and an audit conducted, along with a new budget. The audit committee will be headed up by Vickey Gendron, with Nancy Fernon and Chet Rosenbaum. Reports will be given in the January meeting.

THIS MONTH’S PROGRAM

This month’s meeting will be at the Deerfield Beach Railroad Museum located at 1300 W. Hillsboro Beach Blvd., Deerfield Beach, FL 33442 (just west of I95) . The Railroad Club will be hosting our meeting and two of their members will be doing demonstrations for us. One demonstration will be on weathering and the other on model building. The Railroad Museum itself is very interesting and has some great train layouts. Hope to see you there.

PRIZES-PRIZES-PRIZES-PRIZES

Door prizes

-two Village Sign & Bench

-2002 Greenbook

-Unsigned Event piece

-Noel Ornament

-Dickens Mailbox

-Brite Lite Xmas Tree

-NCC Silver Umbrella Pin

-Geranium Window Box

-The Clinic Video

Raffle prizes-

-Village Chronicle Subscription

-4 Candles Brite Lite

-Signed Event Piece

-Village Square Snowman

-Mystery House

Treasurer’s Report 10/7/03

Beginning Balance $3510.95

Deposits

Membership $60.00

Advertising $60.00

Pin Sales $8.00

Raffle $332.00

Shirt Sales $17.00

total deposits $477.00

Expenses

Bell South $18.35

Copies $60.44

Refreshments $42.87

Stamps $37.00

total expenses $158.66

Ending Balance $3829.29

OCTOBER MEETING

The meeting opened with introductions of the Board Members and a welcome to the new members. The report from the Treasurer was read and approved.

Announcements were made about the continued food drive, items for sale from the SRG and the availability of club pins. The nominating committee, headed by Chris Barrett from the Board, with Dottie Winzell and Alyce Jensen from the general membership, will meet and present a slate of officers at the November meeting. Officers to be elected will be President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. A sign up sheet was available for Open House Tours. After the business meeting, refreshments were served, including a special cake to celebrate the 12th Anniversary of the Village Landlords. In keeping with the celebration, a Chinese Grab Bag was held.

Door prize winners:

SRG Pin- Jay Travernia

Halloween Fence- Marlene Bretl

Geranium Window Box- Irma Rosier

Halloween Luminary- Dottie Winzell

Christmas in the City Sign- Barbara Strangeway

Hear Ye, Hear Ye- Irma Rosier

Brite Lite Angel- Joan Whitberg

The Holly and Ivy-Marlene Bretl

Harley-D’Son Fat Boy and Softail-Dorothy Solomon

Three Signed SRG Village Benches- Chet Rosenbaum, Boots Lippert, Rebecca

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SRG Event Piece w/pin-Joan Whitberg

Raffle prize winners:

Nuts about Broomball- Nydia Martinez

Another Man’s Treasure Acc- Rebecca Grohall

Blue Under the NCC Umbrella-Bernie Striegel

Village Chronicle Subscription-George Fells

Two Signed SRG Event Pieces w/SRG pin- Pat Piccin, Josephine Armeno Avon Grandma’s Bakery-Vickey Gendron Jacks Umbrella Shop-George Fells The Grand Creamery- George Fells Cathedral of St Paul Copper Top- Sandra Sanchez

HALLOWEEN OPEN HOUSE

A special “Thanks” goes out to Bonnie Eichholtz for having her Halloween Open House. What a fantastic display, including an old fashioned hearse, scary rooms and a spider that came after you. Thanks, Bonnie

Golden Gate Gathering

Dottie Winzell and Bob Obenland attended the Golden Gate Gathering across the bay from San Francisco by Oakland. The Swap & Sell had a fabulous view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Several hundred people attended with the theme of the gathering being Halloween. The banquet had some very elaborate costumes one of which was Frank Biafore as Camilla DeVille. Dottie and Bob taught people how to make trees in one of the make and takes. One session had over thirty people so they had their hands full. The gathering had numerous activities outside San Francisco, one of which was visiting Richard & Franks house “It Must be Magic”. Another trip was a wine tour with Judith Price.