President’s Message - January 2010

Happy New Year. This is a favorite time of mine simply because I love new beginnings. We had a great 2009 in the awards arena, made some mistakes and learned some things. We tried some new things and most of those we are likely to repeat because they worked. We also repeated some old things, borrowed some good ideas and pulled up our red, white, and blue socks to become greater activists than we were before last year started. And, of ourse, since we had old, new, borrowed, and blue and some great women in our membership some of you got married in 2009.

This new year promises to be even busier and more productive than the territory we just plowed. We hope to expand our image in Humboldt County with our community service work by maintaining past projects and expanding into some interesting other areas of local involvement. The new
arenas include some community beautification efforts and a visitation program for care homes.

Mary Scott has prepared a first draft on our scholarship plan; due to computer challenges we will be reporting on that next month. Our Bake Sale at the December meeting added nicely to our fledgling scholarship fund. Thanks for your help.

The arrival of the cookbooks was a big ending for a year that gave us considerable cause to celebrate, reasons to be proud of ourselves as better informed and more activist citizens,
satisfaction because a lot of hard work was behind our achievements, and because we had fun while we did the whole thing.

Let’s see if we can out-do ourselves in 2010 as we take on an election year and a loaded agenda.

Colleen Hedrick
◼ January 2010 Redwood Alert