Alpena Visit

Our Alpena visit is coming up on September 26th.

Details:

• Dinner costs $12. Contact Princess Royal PQ Nancy for tickets and to pay.
• The social hour starts at 5 pm; the meeting is at 6 pm; and the dinner is at 7 pm.
• There will be drawings for door prizes like previous years.
• There will be a silent auction.
• We're staying at the Holiday Inn Express on Saturday night.  We usually meet for breakfast around 9:30 or 10 on Sunday.

I'm pretty certain that Nancy and Ellen F. will be bringing their truck/van and can help transport the hospital items back to Saginaw.

It's always lots of fun.  I hope to see as many of the membership as possible in Alpena!

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HandChime Unit

I have done some initial research on starting a Handchime unit as far as costs and equipment needed for a small unit.  I will bring that information to our next stated session. 

If anyone would like to hear what the music would sound like please go here, scroll to the bottom of the page, and choose any of the songs listed in the center section labeled MelodyChime® Instruments. 

I also ordered a fundraising CD which I hope to have by the October stated session.  I will donate this CD to the Temple, as it will be a great tool for us as a whole for any fundraising that we may need to do in the future.

This is a handchime:



PQ Kristy Meyer

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Hospital Giving List

I have The List! As most of you reading this know, Daughters of the Nile exists to support the Shriner's Hospitals for Children. This list is of the items needed by the various Shriner's Hospitals.

Please Note: Only new items will be accepted. The reason for this is because used items may have bacteria that could cause infections.

On-to the list!

Birth to 1 Year

• activity centers
• infant mirrors/musical toys
• rattles and squeeze toys
• nesting and stacking toys
• NO WATER FILLED toys please

1 to 3 years

• blocks, toy telephones, stacking rings
• jack-in-the-boxes
• push and pulls toys
• shape sorting boxes
• sorting and grouping toys

3 to 5 Years

• Duplo blocks
• musical toys
• board games: Memory, Picture Lotto, Chutes & Ladders, etc
• popular TV character toys: Clifford, Sesame Street, Blues Clues, Disney, etc

6 to 10 Years

• board games: Outburst, Jr. Pictionary, etc
  
• art/activity kits
• 30-100 piece puzzles
• fashion and career dolls (all nationalities)

11 to 18 Years

• board games: Sorry, Trouble, Monopoly, etc
  
• remote control cars
• models, crafts, and science kits, etc
  
• diaries, stationary
• teen word searches and sports books
• teen movies, music and magazines
• hand-held electronic games
• nerf balls
• personal CD players with headphones
• caps and t-shirts with sport logos (adult L-2XL)
• wristwatches
• Game Boy Advance and games
• paint by numbers sets
• disposable cameras
• scrapbooking material
• mini bottles of bubbles
• Polariod 600 film
• books or CDs in Spanish
• stickers
• blank journals
• "I Spy" books
• school supplies
• DVDs (G or PG)
• batteries

The hospitals have been very fortunate to have generous support of the various Shrine clubs and units and Daughters of the Nile Temples, so they do not need the following (as they have plenty right now):

• hospital gowns/dresses
• knitted slippers/bed socks
• infant bibs
• pre-op dolls
• large afghans
• Barbie dolls
• coloring books
• Matchbox cars
• wagons

If you do not have time to purchase items, please feel free to send money if you wish to donate. Our hospital giving chairpersons (Elizabeth and Amy) will be glad to purchase items to send to the hospital in your name.

Supreme Queen Visit

Ladies of the household, fall is just around the corner and I can not believe summer is almost gone. I want to thank every one of our officers, Past Queens and ladies of the household for making our Supreme Queen visit so successful. Supreme Queen Vesta Marshall is such a wonderful and gracious lady and we all want to wish her well in her travels, and a safe and successful year.

I want to welcome our new members Karen Wellman and Allie Wellman to Makere Temple.

I am sure everyone knows Karen is my daughter and Allie is my granddaughter. Thank you for making them feel so welcome. I know they look forward to attending the sessions and working for the good of the children as we all do.

Thanks to all that attended our summer picnic in July. We had 24 members along with some family members who enjoyed the good food and fellowship.

REMINDER:
Our annual visitation to our Alpena Nile Club will be the weekend of September 26th. We are staying at the Holiday Inn in Alpena. The annual meeting and banquet will be on Saturday, September 26th. Please make your dinner reservation with Princess Royal, Nancy Hoffman. The dinner is by advanced reservation only. You need to make your own reservations at the Holiday Inn (1000 US 23 North Alpena MI 4707, 989-356-2151 or 1-800-423-0908). Car pools can be arranged, so please plan early.

We have had some illness this summer, Princess Millie Foutch has been very ill and in St Marys Hospital; she will be moved to Frankenmuth Tender Care in Frankenmuth. PQ Mary Alice Parcell's Noble Don had be ill and also in St Marys but he is home now and doing much better. PQ Helen Robinson lost her sister Norma Richmond. Cards or Notes are always welcome, Millie loves getting cards. We wish all a speedy recovery and our condolences to PQ Helen and her family. To our members I have missed I am sorry and I hope you have a speedy recovery. We have also lost Princess Emma Corne, who was a life member. We wish to extend our condolences to her Noble Bill.

Nile Love

Queen Yvonne

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