The Emerald News

February, 2010

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Next General Membership Meeting

v       The Second Friday: February 12^th; doors open at 7:30 Sign-in required.

v       Reed Farm Condo’s clubhouse, Rt 22, Brewster, NY

 

A Message from the President, John Glynn 

As the days begin to grow longer and the sun stays in the sky later each day, we crawl out of hibernation and prepare for the activities of our Association for the coming year.  These activities begin on February 5th with the installation of the Parade Grand Marshall and end with our picnic in September.  We look forward to your participation in all of those activities.

 

Schedule of Events

      February 5th:  Installation of the Grand Marshall of the St. Patrick's Day Parade will take place at the Centennial Golf

      Club, Carmel, NY.   The cost is $30 pp and includes a magnificent buffet, beer, wine, tea, coffee and dessert.

 

St. Patrick's Day Parade

This year’s parade is scheduled for March 14th.  It will step off at 2pm from the Mahopac fire house on Route 6.  For more details,  contact chairman Pat Brophy at 845 - 621- 1173.

 

 Emerald St. Patrick’s Day Dance

This year’s St. Patrick’s Dance will be held on March 20th.  It will be at the Starr Ridge Conference Center in Brewster.  The music will be provided by the New York Show Band.  The cost is $55 per person and includes corned beef and cabbage, beer, wine, soda, tea, coffee and dessert.  Our honorees this year are Jack and Marian Hayes.  There will be more information forthcoming, but for now just mark your calendar.

 

 Journal

In conjunction with the dance we are running a journal  The success of the journal is critical to the success of the dance.  We urge each member to solicit or take at least one ad.  If you need more information, contact Jim Scully at 845- 612-1808.

 

 FEIS

Our Feis date is May16th. The committee will have its first meeting in mid February.  Stay tuned.

 

TRIPS

Emeralds and friends are offered a 9 Day River Cruise on the Danube w/Gate 1 leaving NY on Oct. 4, 2010.  The trip begins at JFK to the Munich airport, bus to Nuremberg to board the ship, next stop is Regensburg, Passau, Linx, Melk, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and returning to JFK, NY.  It includes round trip air fare, cruising on the Amadeus Elegant, a brand new ship built in 2009 w/tv in all cabins, all breakfasts, lunches and dinner with unlimited wine, evening entertainment, and shore excursions per the itinerary.  Cost pp for category C is $2,779; Cat B upgrade $450 and Cat A upgrade $540.  Link: www.gate1travel.com/cruises/ships/ms-amadeus-elegant.  For more information or to make a reservation, please contact Rose Kelly @ 845-279-2298 or email at “roseybabe1@verizon.net".

 

Dues

If you have not yet paid your dues for 2010, you can do so at the meeting or you can mail them to: Sheila McGuinness, 333 Center Drive, Mahopac NY 10541.

 

Emerald Scholarship

Six scholarships for $600 each will be awarded at our April meeting. If you have any questions on the details you can call chairman, John Callaghan, at 845 628 2479.

 

Member News

 We extend best wishes for a speedy recovery to Anne Hynes who is recovering from ankle surgery necessitated

       as a  result of a fall on the ice over the holidays.

 

Sympathies

 We extend our sympathies to Kathleen Farrell on the death of her sister, Lena Geraghty,  in Ireland.   

 

Parade Raffle

As you know the cost to run the annual parade is between 25 and 30 thousand dollars. As one of the sponsoring organizations, we are responsible for raising the funds for that undertaking.

The installation of the Grand Marshal will take place on February 5th at Centennial Golf Club. In conjunction with that event the parade committee is holding a raffle. We are enclosing three raffle tickets and ask that you make every effort to sell them. The tickets <sold or unsold> should be returned in the enclosed envelope by January 30^th.  Checks should be made payable to The Parade Committee. If you need additional tickets you can contact Jim Scully at 845-612-1808 or you can see him at the meeting.

 

INFORMATION NOTICE:  CLEANING SERVICE FOR WOMEN WITH CANCER

If you know any woman currently undergoing chemo, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that provides FREE housecleaning-1 time per month for 4 months while she is in treatment.  All she has to do is sign up and have her doctor fax a note confirming the treatment.

Cleaning for a Reason will have a participating maid service in her zip code area arrange for the service.

http;//www.cleaningforareason.org/

 DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT----

Sammy: You know all that talk about back seat driving? Well I’ve been driving all my life and can safely say that I;ve never heard a word from the back seat.

Jimmy is that right? What kind of car do you drive?

Sammy: A hearse.

 A man was applying for a job as a prison warden. The Governer said “there are some very tough lads in here . Do you think you can handle them?” No problem, the applicant said. If they don’t behave-- out they go.

 John:  Mary, I noticed you are seeing another fellow as well as me.  I would like you to know that I don’t like playing second fiddle to anyone.

Mary: Too bad. You can count yourself lucky to be in the orchestra at all.

 

 Man: Believe it or not I haven’t spoken to my wife for a whole week.

Friend: Why? Have you had a big row?

Man: Oh nothing like that, I just don’t like to interrupt her.

 

 Changed your internet provider or your email address???

Some email notices are not going through.  Please send an email to Sheila McGuinness at mcguinne@msn.com and to me.  That way we can add you to our lists without retyping or mistyping your email address. -Tim Hannan, tmh3627@hotmail.com

 

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