Hello All!
Response to the 1997 Joint Fido Crafting Echos Christmas Ornament Exchange
has been rather "light" to date.  Because of the light turnout, I've
decided that "anything goes".  That means as long as your ornament is HAND
MADE by YOU, it will qualify as GENERAL CRAFTING.
We don't have enough sign ups in any one division to divide everything up
by division this year.  So I took the names of the ladies who have signed
up, and threw them into the hat one time for each group they signed up
for.  Then I started drawing out names one by one.
I hope you've been working hard on the donation ornaments for the Mary Bridge
Children's Hospital Festival of Trees.   As long as we have them in time to
decorate, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you helped a very, very ill
child! <  We must have that tree ready to decorate no later than November
25th.  That means your ornaments MUST be to me, so I can get them to LTC
Margaret Richardson, by that date.
We will continue to take sign-ups for the remainder of the sign-up period
OCTOBER 5, 1997 and I will form new groups as we go if necessary.  If you
haven't signed up you need to let me know!!!  Late sign-ups "may" be
allowed, but will all go to the new groups formed.
Originally we had enough ladies to form SEVEN groups of THREE people.  Those
are really SMALL groups, but it will make things so we can all manage our
obligations.  There have been three ladies join since the Cut Off Date, and I
am looking for volunteers to "round out" the new groups.
If you've really been in the spirit of things and feel you want to send an
ornament to each lady signed up that is UP to YOU, but you are under no
obligation to do so. <  Many of you have expressed the desire to make in
excess of 20 ornaments.  I salute each and every one of you, but with the
"down sizing" of FIDO, so has our COE been down sized this year.
OK, Ladies here are the groups to date:
GROUP #1
Christie Walkup
Kim Warder
Bette West
GROUP #2
Christie Walkup
Debbi Cottrell
Gladys Bowersox
Group #3
Christie Walkup
Wanda Guin
Tami Cool
Group #4
Christie Walkup
Annica Lindgren
Anne McReary
Group #5
Christie Walkup
Roseanne Brown
Annica Lindgren
Group #6
Christie Walkup
Mairghread Murray
Wanda Guin
Group #7
Bette West
Tami Cool
Anne McReary
New Additional Groups:
Group #8
Carolyn Kerby
Charman Adams
(need volunteer)
Group #9
Carolyn Kerby
Glenda Cupit
(need volunteer)
Group #10
Carolyn Kerby
(need volunteer)
(need volunteer)
If you wish to join, please get the sign-up form to me as quickly as
possible.  If you have been "left out" by accident, PLEASE contact me as
quickly as possible.
Ladies, let the crafting begin!!! <
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Take care!
Anne McReary
mcreary@oz.net
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