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Kalamazoo Area Newcomers Club July/August 2015 Celebrating 74 years of service Kalamazoo, Michigan

“It’s summertime, and the living is easy” Yes, it is summertime and we all hope “the living is easy.” As we all enjoy this beautiful summer weather (well, in between rain storms), we all wish you fun in the sun (with sunscreen, of course) whether you are gardening, lying on the beach, swimming, or just reading a book in the shade. This is a double issue for July and August as things aren’t quite so busy. But your new Board met during June and new plans are being made for the upcoming year. It sounds like it will be a really good one! In the meantime many of the Special Interest Groups meet throughout the summer, so check out the information inside.

KANC Membership Form for 2015-2016

 

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Please complete this form and return it with a check made payable to KANC to Linda

Here’s the membership form

for the upcoming year. Why

not save yourself some time in

September and send it in now?

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July & August Birthdays!

July:

Dorothy Burns 7/5 Sandee Ahrens 7/6 Linda Simonton 7/7 Kaye Slater 7/18 Susan Hutt 7/19 Yvonne Selkirk 7/19 Jane Steimle 7/21 Robbie Drake 7/25 Jeanne Fenton 7/28 Grace Weaver 7/28

August:

Barbara Kelley 8/5 Loretta Atkinson 8/6 Madi Meisner 8/20 Joyce Boubelik 8/22 Karen Collier 8/22 Jean Elzinga 8/24 Lynn Morris 8/24 Shirley Jillson 8/26 Susan Lushin 8/26 Lori Miller 8/27

Our summer birthday ladies will be celebrating their birthdays together on July 29th. Grace Weaver is organizing the luncheon and will send out invitations with the time and location. Happy Birthday to you all!

Special Interest Group News from Marge

Some special interest groups are continuing through the summer, but we are gearing up for a great fall with the addition of two new groups: (1) Art/Home Décor Group, and (2) Quilting Group. We will be dropping the Diners Group and Happy Hour unless we get someone to come forward and chair these groups.

Also, we will have several one-time "Potpourri" events, including an antique trip in August. Look for an email with details in August. Happy summer everyone, Marge Davies

New Members

Please welcome our newest members:

• Kristi Cruwys • Kathy Walz • Moon Sook Lee

This brings our membership up to 134!!!

Don’t miss our very special

Antiques Road Trip Potpourri in

August. Details are on the next

page.

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Special Interest Groups

July On Monday, July 13th we will meet at the Parchment Sav-a-Lot parking lot at 10am (north side) to bike the River Valley Trail. August For our August 10th outing, please meet at the Milham Rd. parking lot between S. Westnedge and Lover's Lane at 10:00 a.m. We will bike the Celery Flats Trail. As always, we need to hear from you via phone or e-mail so we know to wait. Remember your helmets and water.

July For July 22nd, Nancy Draayer has scheduled a field trip to Lakecliff Gardens in St. Joseph. These beautiful gardens are located on a cliff overlooking Lake Michigan combining art with unusual plants. We will meet at 9:45 at the Oakland/I-94 Park N Ride and leave at 10am. Keep in mind that there may be nowhere to park unfortunately, so this is a meeting spot. Carpooling is encouraged so we can make further arrangements after I receive your RSVPs. We will have lunch in St. Joe and tour the gardens at 1:00. I will email directions and other info closer to the date. RSVP to Nancy's email schroom2@aol.com. August On Wednesday, August 26 the group will gather at Lois Loeffler's home at 11:30 am for a potluck/planning meeting. Please RSVP to Lois at 372-0038 or loisloeffler@gmail.com. Garden Group's dues of $5.00 will be collected at this time to provide honorariums for the year's speakers.

No Out to Lunch Bunch during the summer. See you in September!

Out to Lunch Bunch Grace Weaver – 324-5776 Sharon Weaver – 327-4606

Hiking/Biking/Skiing Carol Beckius – 372-6950 Nancy Kelley – 375-0762

Garden Group Lois Loeffler – 372-0038

Diners Club/Happy Hour

Barbara Perkovic is organizing a field trip to the Allegan Antiques Fair on August 30th. The fair, with its 200 dealers, occurs on the last Sunday of the warm weather months. We will be meeting at the park and ride in Paw Paw just south of the I-94 interchange at 9 am. If you are interested in going please contact Barb at 375-9061 or email her at perkovicster@gmail.com. The charge for admission is $4.

Friends, Food and Fun Carol Beckius – 372-6950 Marilyn Jauch – 372-7751

July At this time plans are not finalized for July 11th. Once a decision has been made, emails will be sent to members of our group. August August 8th will be at Steve & Linda Kubinski's. They live at 7799 Derby Court. Contact them for directions. Arrival time is 6:30. Please call them by August 1st to commit to a recipe or to indicate your inability to attend.

No Diners Club or Happy Hour over the summer!

Very Special Antiques Potpourri Event Barb Perkovic – 375-9061

We need someone to take over Happy Hour

and/or Diners Club next year! As Marge

said earlier, if no one steps forward, they’ll

die off and we all enjoy them too much for

that! They’re easy ones to do and we don’t

need to have them every month. So think

about it!

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July There will be no Bunco in July. Everybody have a happy Fourth! August We will be playing Bunco at the home of Susan Lushin on August 5th, at 9:30am. Please let her know if you are coming by Sunday, August 2nd.You can either call her at 544-1866 or e-mail her susanlushin@gmail.com. Bunco is an easy dice game so please join us. We always have a few laughs and you may even win some money!

Morning Bunco Marilyn Jauch – 372-7751

Marathon Bridge Jeanne Shewchuk – 216-3961 Dawn Rice – 679-4404

Consumer File Box Carol Ebel - 327-8402

Afternoon Bridge Jan Boutelle – 372-0678

Sit & Stitch Charlotte Hosking – 372-2430

July On Thursday, July 23rd at 11:30am, we’ll meet for lunch followed by stitching at the University Roadhouse patio on Stadium Drive. Please let Charlotte know if you plan to attend – 372-2430 or cj.hosking@gmail.com.

August On Friday, August 14th we’ll go to the Michigan Fiber Festival in Allegan. We’ll meet at the Oakland Drive Park N Ride. Be ready to leave at 10am. Please let Charlotte know if you plan to attend – 372-2430 – cj.hosking@gmail.com.

Jul/Aug: Marathon Bridge is taking a break for the summer, but will resume play in September. We meet at 11:30am on the 3rd Monday of the month at Fieldstone Grill. We first enjoy a relaxed lunch with friends, and then start play at approximately 12:30pm. You and your partner will play all of the participating teams throughout the year, culminating in an awards luncheon at the end of the season. If you are not available for a match, a substitute of your choice will play with your partner on the assigned day.

July The afternoon bridge group will play at the home of Mary Lou Hollis on Monday July 13th. On Friday, July 24th we will play at the home of Dorothy Burns. August On Monday, August 10th Sylvia Blum will host us at a restaurant yet to be determined. On Friday, August 28th we will play at the home of Jan Boutelle. If you have any questions regarding this group please contact Jan Boutelle at boutelle2@gmail.com or 372-0678.

KANC members have provided us with the names and phone numbers of various excellent service providers they have used. Make your search easy—give me a call!

Special Interest Groups

July Couples Bridge will be meeting at 7pm on July 25th. Jeanne and Bob Shewchuk will be hosting. August In August we will meet at the home of Shirley and Dan Carey at 7pm on August 22nd. As usual, let Linda know if you are unable to play on these dates.

Couples Bridge Linda Zeter – 381-7971

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Special Interest Groups

Book Nook meets the third Monday of each month at Kazoo Books located at 2413 Parkview, Kalamazoo, just west of Oakland Dr. Turn on Book Alley off Barnard Ave. for plenty of parking behind the store. Come join us for great discussions. New members are always welcome! The books for the summer are: July 20, 2015, The Smartest Kids in the World; and How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley Discussion leader Jane Steimle In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems never encountered before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy. In a global quest to find answers for our own children, author and Time Magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three Americans embedded in these countries for one year. Kim, fifteen, raises $10,000 so she can move from Oklahoma to Finland. Eric, eighteen, exchanges a high-achieving Minnesota suburb for booming city in South Korea; and Tom, seventeen, leaves an historic Pennsylvania village for Poland. Through these young informants, Ripley meets battle-scarred reformers, sleep-deprived zombie students, and a teacher who earns $4 million a year. Their stories, along with groundbreaking research into learning in other cultures, reveal a pattern of startling transformation: none of these countries had many “smart” kids a few decades ago. Things had changed. Teaching had become more rigorous; parents had focused on things that mattered; and children had bought into the promise of education. August 17, 2015, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Discussion leader: Jane Vandrè Fikry is a bookseller with a small shop in a sleepy island resort town off the coast of Massachusetts. He’s a bit cantankerous, but with good reason: his wife, the “people person” of the relationship, has recently died and his prized possession, a rare copy of Tamerlane, has gone missing. Despite those losses, there’s one strange addition, a baby girl left on his doorstep with an explicit request for Fikry to take her in. Zevin’s novel offers the reality of both death and rebirth, held together by the spirit of the bookstore. It’s a romantic comedy, a spiritual journey, and if you include the chapter openings, a collection of short story criticisms as well. In short, it’s a celebration of books and the people who read them, write them, and sell them. September 21, 2015, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Discussion leader: To be determined

Book Nook Jane Steimle – 324-9051

President: Bambi Hamming –

375-9871

Vice-Presidents: Bev Slayter – 216-3426

Secretary:

Shirley Wise – 375-0848

Treasurer: Sharon Weaver – 327-4606

Historian/Publicity:

Mindy Hamilton – 817-705-5572

Hospitality:

Jane Vandrè – 614-738-4620

Luncheons:

Elaine Varricchio – 303-6130

Lori Miller – 978-6536

Membership/Directory: Linda Kubinski – 324-3068

Newsletter:

Charlotte Hosking 372-2430

Programs:

Madi Meisner – 929-6963 Shirley Carey – 483-8082

Reservations:

Jane Steimle – 324-9051

Special Interests: Marge Davies – 353-3523

KANC Board Members

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July 2015 ! !KANC Calendar of Events Sunday' Monday' Tuesday' Wednesday' Thursday' Friday' Saturday'

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5! 6! 7! 8! 9! 10! 11!!

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Friends, Food & Fun

6:30pm location TBD

12! 13! 14! 15! 16! 17! 18!! Bike

10am at Parchment Afternoon Bridge 1pm at Mary Lou

Hollis’

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19! 20! 21! 22! 23! 24! 25!

Book Nook 10am at Kazoo

Books !

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Garden Club 9:45am Trip to

Lakecliff Gardens

Sit & Stitch 11:30am at University Roadhouse!

Afternoon Bridge

1pm at Dorothy Burns’

Couples Bridge 7pm at Jeanne & Bob Shewchuk’s

26! 27! 28! 29! 30! 31! !! ! Birthday

Luncheon Time and

Location TBD

! See Special Interest pages

for further details

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August 2015 ! !KANC Calendar of Events

Sunday' Monday' Tuesday' Wednesday' Thursday' Friday' Saturday'

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2! 3! 4! 5! 6! 7! 8!!

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Bunco 9:30am at

Susan Lushin’s

Friends, Food & Fun

6:30pm at Linda & Steve

Kubinski’s

9! 10! 11! 12! 13! 14! 15!! Bike

10am at Celery Flats

Afternoon Bridge

1pm at Sylvia Blum’s

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! Sit & Stitch Allegan Fiber

Festival 10am at Oakland

Park N Ride

16! 17! 18! 19! 20! 21! 22!

Book Nook 10am at Kazoo

Books !

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Couples Bridge 7pm at Shirley & Dan Carey’s

23! 24! 25! 26! 27! 28! 29!! ! Garden Club

11:30am Potluck at Lois

Loeffler’s

Afternoon Bridge

1pm at Jan Boutelle’s!

30!!

Antiques Fair 9am at Paw Paw

Park N Ride

31! ! See Special Interest pages for further details

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