A Team of Unstoppable Volunteers:
The preserving group has added a new feature to their array of goodies – we are planning to create bags of dried, organically grown herbs which will be good for adding to Christmas baskets. If anyone has  herbs in their garden and would like to contribute some please contact Barb Whyte at barbwhyte@shaw.ca We only have one dryer at the moment so if anyone can lend Barb one we’d be delighted!

If anyone has more rhubarb in their garden than they can use the preservers are champing at the bit to make rhubarb jam, rhubarb chutney, rhubarb jelly etc – to donate rhubarb please contact Lorna at lornareid@shaw.ca

Canning jars of all sizes are now available for Grannies wishing to make preserves of any kind for the Christmas Extravaganza – contact lornareid@shaw.ca

Lorna Reid

Submitted by,

Carol Lundine

Communications

Shaw cable has done a piece highlighting our Raiders of Lost Art event, June 6th at the Bayside.

It will air on the Shaw cable channel  between May 22 and 29th to publicize this event,

If you have any questions, please contact Colleen Lucas at colleenlucas.lucas@gmail.com

Please encourage your friends, family and neighbors to tune in.

Thanks,

Carol Lundine

Communications

Donations have started to pour in for Raiders of Lost Art, which will take place Saturday June 6 at the Quality Inn Bayside in Parksville. Meeting today, the committee tackled the next steps of organization and faced that most challenging of all questions: What price should be placed on a painting or a piece of pottery?

The Raiders now appeal for your help in this fundraiser for our Grandmothers Campaign.

1. Donation

Do you have art works to donate for the big sale? The sale includes not only paintings but pottery, stained glass, sculpture, photographs, and fibre arts. Do you have quality quilts or pottery vases, for instance, that you would like to pass on to a new owner to love?

Please bring donations to the Bayside between noon and 2pm on Friday, June 5. If you would like to drop things off before then, or have them picked up, please contact Colleen Lucas at 250 713 0167 or colleenlucas.lucas@gmail.com

2. Participation June 6

Are you free on June 6 to help out at the event? Especially needed are people to “woman” the cash desk, including some to learn to use the credit card machine. Shifts can be any length from 1 hour to 6 hours, between 10am and 4pm. Please let Colleen know (at the contact information above).

posted by Eileen Dombrowski for The Raiders

The updated version of the Oceanside Grandmothers to Grandmothers Directory, with photos and updated contact information, is now available from the Members Only section of the website.  It includes the five new members who joined in April.

Also available is the New Members list, a page of photos of people who have joined in 2015.  You may want to download this page to get to know more quickly our most recent members.

posted by Eileen Dombrowski

Do you have any works of art that you would like to donate to the upcoming event Raiders of Lost Art?  The organizers welcome artworks in the following categories, to be sold to raise funds for the Grandmothers Campaign:  paintings, fibre arts, photography, sculpture, stained glass, pottery.  If you have anything to donate to make a stunning art exhibition even more of a feast for the eyes — and even more of a success for our cause! — please contact Colleen Lucas 250 713 0167, candclucas@shaw.ca.

Raiders of Lost Art will open to the public on June 6, 10-4, at the Quality Resort Bayside in Parksville.  Please spread the word to all your friends!  If you have anywhere you can put up a poster, click on the following link to download a copy to print out: Raiders Of Lost Art Poster.  Let’s get the word out for this exciting fundraiser!

posted by Eileen Dombrowski

The minutes for the g2g meeting on April 21 (15 04 21: minutes) are now available in the Members Only section of the website, on the page entitled “Archives: Minutes of Meetings”.  Those of us who missed the meeting have reason to be glad to have such a full record of what’s going on, so that we continue to be included.  Personally, I’m always grateful to the minute-takers who give us the flexibility to leave town yet be able to pick up with group events as we return.

As you download the minutes, you may also want to download the March update to our group “Committees and Responsibilities”.  It is also in the Members Only section of the website, on the page entitled “Group Structure: Committees and Responsibilities”.  There are quite a few changes in structures, people, and contact information, so you will probably find it useful to update your records.

Best wishes,

Eileen Dombrowski

Only 10 days to our get-together (event May 9) and the NanGo catering group are washing out their pots and pans to start to make African Soup and Stew, please register before Tuesday 5^th if you want to make sure there will be enough for you for lunch!

Ida Mukaka will be arriving on Friday, and Betty Anne Hamilton is opening her house for the evening of the 8^th so we can get together with those who are arriving the day before. We especially hope that the group contacts will come, so we can have a chat about the ‘lunch discussion groups’ and who will volunteer to be a facilitator for each table. Remember the subjects: How to get the greatest impact from the Tribunal Film;  Websites and other Social media for GGroups; Ideas for celebrating the 10^th anniversary of the Campaign in the Islands Region; Insurance for Grandmothers events (I hope Campbell River will take the facilitation on, since they raised it).

Please register for the Gathering via the NanGo website: http://www.nangogrannies.org/contact.html  , or directly via email to Marlene Skett mskett@shaw.ca . If you are coming on the 8^th, please let Betty Anne know directly, betty-ann@shaw.ca .

Cost for the gathering is $12.50 and can be paid on arrival, place: Brechin Church, Nanaimo. Start 9.00 am doors open for Craft table set-up, program starts at 10.30 and finishes at 4.00 pm. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Warm regards, Elsie and Paxie.

Posters for upcoming events: As many of you know Yvette Freeman is retiring from her duties as poster coordinator. She has done many years of valuable service and we are very thankful and grateful to her. We need someone to step into this very important position.If you can fill this position, please contact me ASAP.(250-752-1553) We have a few big events coming up and posters are a vital part of making them a success. Thank you.

ALSO:EXTRAVAGANZA STITCHING BEES

Donna Ross Colleen Lucas Virginia Hama
250 248-3535 250 468-7465 250 821-4221
donnalross@shaw.ca candclucas@shaw.ca vhama@shaw.ca

If you were at the meeting yesterday and happened to inadvertently pick up a red mesh bag with knitting in it, please contact Gail Steinberg at 250-821-1952 or email, fromtheheart@shaw.ca.

Thank you,

Carol Lundine

Communications