September is the start of my favorite time of the year—Fall and Winter. While it’s not cool yet, I know it’s coming : ) September is also International Women’s Friendship month—the perfect time to celebrate Vista Friends & Newcomers, some of the nicest friends I’ve had the pleasure to meet. We have so much fun to look forward to this month with a luncheon, movies, and crafts, plus lots of fun games! Finally, I am happy to report that the research and selection of a Membership Meeting location has been successfully completed. We will be meeting at the Broken Yolk Cafe in Oceanside on the 2nd Thursday of the month until further notice. Hurray and many thanks to Gail Michaels, Elizabeth DeBoer, and Maria Lawler for their hard work.
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Hooray for August! I’m so happy to put July behind us and am eagerly looking forward to starting another year of fun activities. We have some new Board Members and Committee Chairs that we hope will bring fresh ideas and energy, and compliment the wonderful experience and thoughtfulness of our existing members. Carolyn Jewell will be helping Sandy Stevens plan and organize luncheons and Happy Hours. Janet DeSantis is our new VP of Programs, and will be working with Mary Dahlberg to bring interesting and informative programs to our Membership meetings. Linda Mueller and Elizabeth DeBoer are intensely busy putting together our new Directory, which will be published very soon. Judith Ernst is continuing to record the decisions and plans of the Board and creating the collective memory as our Recording Secretary. Jill Bronk and Chris Zoch have already transferred the Treasurer’s role and the power of the checkbook to Jill. Many of you have already “met” our new Corresponding Secretary, Nancy Tubbs, who has been busy keeping in touch with Birthday cards and other greetings. Finally, my special thanks go to Judy Beaumont for helping to guide me and the Board as our Past President and Parliamentarian.
I will share more information about our Committee Chairs in the next Newsletter, but two timely bits of news that I know will interest you are: Trudy Snell is planning our much anticipated first tea outing for August 26th. And, we’re heading back to the movie theaters! Bonnie Armstrong will be planning movie outings to local theaters.
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Happy Summer! Happy 4th of July! Happy New Year!? July is the start of the business year for Vista Friends & Newcomers. Membership dues for the year are $30 and are due by July 1st. We have a new Board of Directors and we have several new members to welcome: Jan Duff, Barbara Graves, and Cordula Specht. This month we will vote on the place where our monthly meetings will be held, so please join us at the Broken Yolk on Thursday, July 14th at 9:30 for the monthly membership meeting and breakfast. See you all soon—Shirley
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Happy June! We have so much to look forward to this month: the Board installation on June 9th, which will be officiated by Judy Patterson; High Tea and a live performance of Pride @ Prejudice (based on a novel by Jane Austen) at the Grand Tea Room in Escondido on June 19th; and, for the crafty, making greeting cards using a die cutter with Carolyn Jewell; plus all the usual fun that happens every month.
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March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers … and lots of Vista Friends activities!
Our Membership meeting/breakfast will be held Thursday, May 12 at the Broken Yolk Cafe, 2434 Vista Way, at 9:30am. At the May meeting we will elect the Board of Directors for 2022-23; the Budget Committee will present the Board-approved budget for 22/23; and the Meeting Location Committee will update us on next steps and the voting process. Saving the best for last, we will have a Program given by a special guest speaker—see the announcement from Jan Zacharias for details.
See you soon! Shirley
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Welcome April! We have so much to look forward to this month, including warmer, longer days, spending time in the garden, and Easter. Our Membership meeting/breakfast will be held Thursday, April 14 at the Broken Yolk Cafe, 2434 Vista Way, at 9:30 am. This promises to be a lively meeting as our Meeting Location Committee will report on their research and recommendations for our standing Membership meeting place. The Nominations Committee will announce the slate for the proposed Board members for 2022/23, which we will vote on in May. And last, but certainly not least, we will have a brief and interesting program from Jan Zacharias on dolls. See you soon! Shirley
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Happy Spring! Even though it seems we’ve had a taste of Summer already, the official first day of Spring this year is March 20. I’ve been doing some Spring cleaning at home, and found some old magazines with feel-good tips for every month. I thought I’d share a few from March:
- For good sleep, the best time for women to exercise is early in the day. According to a study conducted in Seattle, women to exercised at a moderate intensity for at least 30 minutes in the morning has less difficulty falling asleep than those who exercised later or not at all.
- For a quick pick-me-up when you’re feeling sluggish, massage your ears for one minute. There are 200 accupressure points in the ears that correspond to various parts of the body and that stimulation may energize you.
- Eating a serving of 8 strawberries provides more than 140% of the daily required vitamin C.
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February promises to be a busy and exciting month for us! Vista Friends & Newcomers will celebrate the anniversary of our founding with a gift exchange at our general membership meeting. We will meet at a new restaurant this month—the Broken Yolk on Vista Way in Oceanside. They offer a large private room where we will be free to share news and gifts. We will also celebrate Valentine’s Day. I’m looking forward to seeing you all soon.
— Shirley Higgins
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Happy New Year! The Vista Friends & Newcomers Board and Committee Chairs have been busy planning lots of exciting adventures for 2022. A picnic and grand view at Double Peak Park, fine dining at Peon in Carlsbad, a fun fund-raising auction, and a winery tour and tasting at Brookings—and that’s just a start! The Board has changed its monthly meeting day to the first Thursday of each month so we can be more nimble in our planning. Elizabeth DeBoer will be working with Linda Mueller to create a directory that includes photos to help us identify and get to know each other at a glance. This will be very helpful as we continue to grow with new members joining monthly! Our first general membership meeting/breakfast of the year will be Thursday, January 13th at 9:30 at our beloved Pegah’s. I hope you can make it and we can all celebrate the start of a new, exciting year together.President’s Message
I LOVE the holidays. I like decorating, shopping, baking, visiting, and partying. I go all-out to celebrate. My proudest non-work accomplishment at work was producing a CD of holiday music that was performed by my colleagues. One piece was composed by a friend in the Music Library and performed by a local orchestra—my friend let me add it to our CD. It took me months to talk people into singing or playing musical instruments, to obtain permission from rights owners to perform the songs selected, to schedule practices, and to get each piece recorded. A group of four instrumentalists formed a klezmer band because I wanted to include a Hanukkah song. I persuaded the University Librarian to read “The Night Before Christmas.” He has a very nice speaking voice and I needed him to fund me $500 to produce the CDs. My Administrative Assistant created original artwork to print on the CD and I found a guy down in San Diego that would produce 350 CDs for $500. Everything was done on non-work time and nobody except the CD guy was paid for their work. It was a labor of love produced by about 30 people who allowed me to cajole them into helping with my project. At the Library Holiday Party that year each staff person received a copy of the CD. I still have the CD and play it every Christmas.
I hope your holidays are filled with family, friends, and lots of love. Shirley