Newsletter - March 2013 for Middlesex County
Area Captains Newsletter March 2013 for Middlesex County
Diane Trayah (H)978-657-6103 (C)978-551-1278 e-mail: topsmiddlesex@gmail.com
Hi Everyone,
Spring is here ! (I think)
NOMINATIONS ARE HERE TOO!
ELECTIONS
I hope your elections went well. Let me know how you make out in your
chapter.
HEADQUARTER NEWS
I hope you all got your paperwork from Headquarters for the new officer
listing. Please make sure you fill it out and send it to Rosie Smith
right after elections. Everyone should have received job descriptions in
another email. Use them in anyway you think might help with elections.
NEW MEMBERS
Welcome:
253 Billerica Faith Knight
253 Billerica Sandra & Robert Phelan
478 Tewksbury Becky Briggs
HAPPY
ANNIVERSARY to MA 107 CHELMSFORD
established MARCH 14, 1966
Turning 47 years old this year.
WAKEFIELD CABLE
The Reading chapter coordinated by
Leader Lee Allen and John Murray along with the Wakefield chapter,
Rosemary Smith our State Coordinator and myself will be doing a video
about TOPS for Wakefield Cable. It was taped on February 27th and will
be edited and then viewed on Wakefield cable and the surrounding towns
for months. I will also have a copy so I can send to our local cable
stations so they broadcast it too. We will doing a recreation of a TOPS
meeting. Hopefully a few new members will join from seeing this.
PUBLICITY EVENTS
If you know of any health fairs or upcoming events that
TOPS would have a good shot at publicity, please let me know so I can
plan ahead. We have a health fair scheduled for April 11th for the Town
of Wilmington employees.
I plan on putting a spring news article in the local newspapers. Let me know if you have a certain newspaper that would benefit your chapter.
SRD
Hopefully everyone got the email about
SRD. Should you have any questions, please feel free to call or email me
about anything.
Deadline is: March 2nd.
Don’t forget the website for SRD
forms , charm logo & registration forms for each event.
www.matops.com
Please check this
website for updates regarding any and all events. Cost is: $99 per room.
Please call the Host hotel for reservations at: 508-347-7393. $50.00
per person for each TOPS registration which includes your Saturday
luncheon. Deadline is: March 2, 2013.
JAZZERCIZE
You should have
received my email about Jazzercise class in Chelmsford. You and your
friends are invited to this one time class on March 22nd. It’s at 6:30
at the Jazzercise facility at 83 Parkhurst Rd in Chelmsford.
It’s FREE.
Try to arrive 10 minutes early so you can get familiar with the setup.
Wear comfy clothing, sneakers, bring a water and a good attitude.
Jazzercise would like to offer us (TOPS members) discounts on their
exercise classes.
WORKSHOP
I would like to have a workshop on May
17 or 24th on a Friday night. It would be a pajama party focusing on the
benefits of sleep and maybe a lesson in line dancing. If you would
consider hosting, please let me know. I would like to have it from
7-9:30 or 10:00pm. Free large space is the best ~!
WALKS
I will be
planning walks this spring and summer. I hope to have them both in
Wakefield (around the 3 mile lake& Lowell along the Merrimack River )
but let’s wait for some better weather.
FARMER DAVE
I am having Farmer
Dave of Dracut come to our chapter on March 21 to speak about the
benefits of CSA. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a partnership
between a farm and a community of responsible consumers. If you or
someone would like to come and see what they have to say, please have
one or two members from your chapter join us that evening. I am sure he
would come to your chapter too but you will have to schedule something
with them privately. If you have anything you would like to add for
our newsletter, please send it to me either electronically or snail
mail.
How To Plant Your Garden
For the Garden of your daily living,
plant 3 rows of peas: Peace of Mind, Peace of heart, & Peace of soul.
Plant 4 rows of Squash: Squash gossip, Squash indifference, Squash
grumbling and Squash selfishness.
Plant 4 rows of Lettuce: Lettuce be
loyal, Lettuce be kind, Lettuce be patient and Lettuce really love one
another.
No Garden is complete without Turnips, Turnip for meetings,
Turnip for service, and Turnip to support one another.
To conclude the
garden, we must have thyme: Thyme for each other, Thyme for family, and
Thyme for friends.
Water freely with patience and cultivate with love.
There's much fruit in your garden because you reap what
you sow.
If you don’t have time to read my newsletter out loud to your chapter,
either forward them to your members or print it out and give it to them.
As always, you know where you can find me. Cell: 978-551-1278 Home:
978-657-6103. FACEBOOK or text. See you lighter and hopefully at SRD.
~Diane Trayah
