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DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR

May 14th                     Mexican Fiesta                                  6:00pm                                          Horton Community Center
June 9th                      GCA Board Meeting                        10:30am                                         Horton Community Center
June 10th                    Water Festival Meeting                    7:00pm                                           Horton Community Center
July 9th                       GCA Birthday BBQ                            6:00pm                                          Horton Community Center
July 31st                     Water Festival and Art Show          10:00am to 4:00pm                       Fair Harbor Marina

Irish Stew Event held on March 12th was a great success. All 88 members that attended enjoyed large portions of Beef Stew, Clam Chowder, Salad and homemade Irish Soda Bread. Desert was Chocolate Chip Mint Ice Cream & cookies. Irish Tune Sing-a-Long was led by the Dynamic Duo of Jan & Kent Hillesland following the dinner.

To all members that helped set-up the hall, serve dinner, and the Keen Road clean-up crew, THANK YOU. Your participation at these events is what helps make the club events fun and successful.

If members know of someone that needs a hot meal and cannot make the event, bring an extra container from home, for them. We love sharing leftovers.

Our CLEAN-UP crews are rallying to the occasion. The Stadium Stooges did a great job at the Heritage Themed Potluck Dinner on April 9th. The event was well attended and a big hit. The variety of international dishes was amazing and delicious. Next to appear at the May Fiesta is the Stretch Island Streakers. Way to go members!

May 14th Mexican Fiesta:

Chairpersons Linda Fish & Jan Hillesland.
6PM - Horton Community Center
Dinner Served 6:30pm.
Price, $5.00. $3.00 kids under 12 years.
Family of 4 or more, $15.00
Bring Beverage of choice.
        Menu: Beef Enchiladas, Chicken Enchiladas, Mexican Beans, Mexican Rice, Fiesta Salad,
        Chips and Salsa, Margarita Mix, Dessert, Coffee & Punch.
        Condimints: Salsa, Sour Cream, Cheese.

LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS to set-up hall & serve.
Call Meg Graddon - Event Chairperson: 360 275 6920. See you in May.

Don’t know what needs to be done? Just call and say "I’m a lousy cook, but I’ll do anything else." Or "I can’t stay in the sun too long, but if there is a shady spot at the Water and Art Festival I’d be glad to spend some time helping out." Or "My schedule doesn’t allow me to participate during the usual event times but if there is a task that has some flexibility in timing I can do that." Can you stop on your commute and do some of the shopping? Are you good on a computer? Can you cook ahead and freeze some foods? Do you like to meet new people; meet and greet? Take tickets and count money? Have some artistic skill? Able to lift tables and chairs? The folks in charge will be able to help you choose an actual task and you will make their day!

Thanks Karice & Tom for the great idea. Winners were announced and recognized for their donation of salt and pepper shakers. GCA still needs additional contributions. Those of you who were unable to donate at the last dinner have another chance to bring those unwanted white elephant S&P’s to the Mexican Fiesta.

GCA has a box labeled for all items that are either lost or found located in the storage room at the Horton Community Center. If you are looking for that pair of gloves or that rectangular casserole dish check the new location of the GCA Lost & Found when you attend the next event.

Let’s share leftovers from our dinners with hungry neighbors. If you want to take any leftovers from any dinner events to hungry neighbors bring your own containers. This will be a new "green routine" that keeps a community outreach project super simple. No committees, no chairperson, just building an already established GCA culture of community care.

We occasionally get questions about members not receiving a newsletter or email reminder for 2nd Friday events. Here’s how it works:

1. The Membership Chairs gather information from membership forms and manage the data base and publish the directory. They send email and USPS addresses to the Newsletter Editor. That person emails or sends the newsletter via USPS. If your information is correct in the directory then you know the glitch is with the Newsletter Editor. If it is not correct in the directory, then you would contact the Membership Chairs. (Editor: Judy Ross 360-427-4122, judybouquetross@aol.com or Membership: Sandy Carlson at 360-731-5335, theteacher@wavecable.com

2. Now if you want to receive reminders about events and are not, the system is the same unless you want a phone call. In that case you would contact Mernie Cain who is our Potluck and Phone Committee Chairperson (Mernie Cain at 360-275-7251)

3. For security purposes we do not share the contact information with anyone but the Membership and Newsletter folks. The only person you should be getting General/All Member GCA Emails or Newsletters from would be the Newsletter Editor. That person always identifies the message with GCA in the subject line. And lastly please check your junk mail box! That newsletter might be in there. :>)

4. One last note, if you are on a committee you would know who you would be receiving information from so be sure to allow your email system to accept messages from that person.

The 2010 meetings are scheduled for every third month on the third Thursday of the month starting in February. All meetings will start at 7:00pm. The 2010 schedule is as follows:

Thanks to coordinators from the Beachcombers Garden Club and Grapeview Community Association for coordinating the Grapeview Loop Road Cleanup. Thank you, Paula Cimmery and Pam Berger.

MEMBERSHIP: Newsletter May 2010 - Please welcome our new members: Feb. 2010-April 2010

Daniel & Gwen Alverts
Bill Yocom & Denise Mc Morrow
Don & Sharon Wilson
Lee & Lucie Gidlof
Roger & Patty Hansen
Mike Pontrelli & Karen Lotz
Daniel & Barbara Goodell
Tom and Frannie Underhill
Dee Ann Kline
Brian Worthington-White & June Cooper

Selected board members will oversee the committees and tasks within their area of responsibility and will not act as a chairperson for the items listed. Please welcome Sherry van Dijk as coordinator of "Community Outreach", Louise Okonek coordinator for "Fundraising", Meg Graddon coordinator of "Member Services" and Judy Ross coordinator for "Publicity". We want to thank these ladies for stepping forward to the challenge and look forward to supporting them. As an example the functions listed for Community Outreach will have other chairpersons who will chair the function while the coordinator oversees and reports back to the GCA board.

After four years of service on the GCA board, Jody Grumme has decided she would like to spend her GCA time doing other things. Jody’s work to promote our various events has really increased participation over the years and we all owe her a BIG THANK YOU for a job well done!

Judy Ross has volunteered to coordinate "Publicity" and take over as editor for the GCA Newsletter beginning with the July/August issue. Please support Judy with your articles via email or telephone.

Ingredients:
1 head cabbage red, white, or some of both vinegar or lemon juice
3 carrots, shredded salt & pepper
olive oil

Directions:
Cut the cabbage in half and discard the outer tough leaves and the inner core. Cut each half into quarters and wash under cold water. Place each quarter on its side and slice very thin. Place cabbage and carrots in a bowl and dress it with salt, pepper, oil and vinegar or lemon juice to taste. Toss well with enough dressing to suit your taste and serve.

Month	Event	Person Responsible For Event	Lead Person for Set-Up	Clean-Up Crew
January	Jan 8th Pot luck	Mernie Cain	Mernie Cain	n/a
February	Crab Feed	Louise Okonek	Contact coordinator	Volunteer
March	March 12th Irish Stew	Meg Graddon & Crew	Meg Graddon	Keen Road Clean Up Crew
April	April 9th Pot Luck	Mernie Cain	Teresa Stone & Linda Fish	Stadium Stooges
May	May 14th Mexican Fiesta	Linda Fish & Jan Hillesland		Stretch Island Streakers
June	None	n/a	n/a	n/a
July	July 9th GCA Birthday BBQ July 31st Water & Art Festival	Nancy Montgomery Louise Okonek	??????? Jackie Longmire
August	None	n/a	n/a	n/a
September	September 10th Pot Luck	Mernie Cain	Mernie Cain
October	October 8th Oktoberfest	We need a leader, call Meg Graddon	???????	???????
November	November 12th Chili Cook-Off	We need a leader, call Meg Graddon	???????	???????
December	December 4th Snacks w/ Santa December 31st New Year’s Eve Party	Martha Robbins We need a leader, call Meg Graddon	??????? ???????	??????? ???????

As of April 30, 2010 2010 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS	395
HOUSEHOLDS SINGLE ASSOCIATE HONORARY	154 43 0 0
2010 PAID MEMBERSHIPS	197
2010 UNPAID MEMBERSHIPS	43
2010 TOTAL PAID/UNPAID MEMBERSHIPS	240

Community Outreach	Fundraising	Member Services	Publicity
Sherry van Dijk	Louise Okonek	Meg Graddon	Judy Ross

Snacks with Santa	Crab Feed	Membership Events	Common Message
Neighbors Becoming Friends Focus	Water and Art Festival	2nd Fridays	Directory & Membership Forms
Scholarship		*Themed Dinners	Newsletter
Oversee Distribution of Funds Process		*Potlucks & Phone	*Member Email Group
*Committee and Notification		New Year’s Eve Party	GCA Web Site
BGC Road Clean-Up		Shared interest Groups	NMCC Site
Grapeview Neighborhood Watch		Membership Records	NMCC event rep
Information Meetings		*Directory	Event Publicity
*County Commissioner		*Membership Form	Annual Feature
*Other?		*Data Base	Local Newspaper Contacts
Garage Sale			Grapeview Grapevine Link
Grapeview School Projects			Historian
Neighborly Care (?)			Works w/Past President
*Left Over Delivery
*Soup, Sandwich & Lunches Sr. Svcs
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