February Salad Lunch will be Friday, February 13 at noon at Gael Murakami's
art studio at 1222 Well St. (on the corner of Well and Good Streets in the
railroad industrial area. Two story building next door to
the Well Street Art Company. ) The studio is on the 2nd floor. You may
enter by either outside door and come up the stairs and the studio is at the
end of the hallway.
Please call Gael at 479-0804 to RSVP and for directions by Feb 10.
>From Floss: A big thank you to Nancy Klammer for hosting a wonderful
January Salad Luncheon. The snowflake winter theme and delicious salads made
for a great afternoon. We didn't want to leave!!
I want to extend a little thank you to Barbara Braley for coordinating a fun
International Diners at Gambardella's Pasta Bella in January. It was a
lively group and the food was excellent...thanks, Barbara!
"What's the difference between Creole and Cajun?"
Join Floss Caskey and P.J. McCracken on Saturday, February 28 and find the
answer! Dinner will be served at 6:30. Please call 457-4424 for directions
and your recipe. The imaginative menu promises to be filled with simple but
very authentic ingredients.
Fine dining and soft jazz? Are we in N'awlins, yet?
The International Diners for March will be held on Sat., March 13 and will
feature Irish cuisine.
More details will be coming in the March newsletter.
The February book for the All Books Considered Book Group is Seabiscuit -
a
great horse story. We meet Monday, February 9 at 5:30 - 7 pm in the
conference room of the Noel Wien Public Library.
Status of Bazaar 2004 (from Jane Bechtel, Janet Taylor, and Uma Bhatt)
Since it feels like we have just finished up with the Bazaar of 2003, it is
difficult to begin thinking about the Bazaar for 2004, but we must. We have
run the Bazaar as a committee in 2002 and 2003 and that has worked out
really quite well, with no single person shouldering all the
responsibilities. This is more manageable, than the mode of operation of
some of the previous years, when one person did everything. But we are at a
critical point right now, when the Bazaar committee members of the past few
years are unable to continue serving this year. So we need to have a new
group of people step up to take charge.
Barbara Day has served as Treasurer for the past year and has agreed to
serve on the Bazaar committee again. The job of the treasurer is quite
intense and she has done a wonderful job so we are lucky that she will
continue. She also has the difficult task ahead of switching the banking of
the UWA to the University Banner System, which is being required by the
University. This will not be an easy task and will change the way bazaar
checks are handled, so she will be even busier this year. She can not do
this alone so we need people to fill the following positions. The 2003
person is shown in brackets where applicable.
1) Person who deals with vendors: (Jane Bechtel ) This works best if the
mail and phone calls are dealt with on a daily basis.
2) Database Person: (Barb Travis & Uma Bhatt) This person keeps the data
base (Xcel spreadsheet) up to date with vendor information
3) Publicity Person: (Heather Robertson) This person makes sure
advertisements are placed in the newspaper at the right time for the various
stages of the Bazaar. Heather has volunteered to do this again in 2004.
4) University Liaison: (Uma Bhatt) This person keeps in touch with the Wood
Center staff through the entire process. She also books the shuttle and the
security for the weekend of the sale.
5) Banner/other publicity: (Barbara Braley) The banner is updated and hung
over the Cushman St. Bridge, which requires getting downtown the correct
morning to ensure we get 2 weeks or at least 1 in that prominent position.
6) Organizer of Porters, Coatroom and Music. (Janet Taylor) High school
students trying to raise money serve as Porters and Coatroom attendants,
which is a huge service to the vendors and customers. They also make good
money during those two days.
7) Treasurer -(Barbara Day) Handle checks and sort out the money issues
during Bazaar. Barbara Day has volunteered to do this in 2004.
8) Coordinator: (Irene Peyton and Uma Bhatt) Person who makes sure that we
are on track for the tasks that need to be done by a given time. This has
been combined with University Liaison
In addition, there are several meetings where additional people are needed
to do big tasks such as mailing out application forms, assigning tables,
etc. An additional 5-6 people are needed for these tasks. We have not had
any trouble getting help for these days or on the days of the sale. Nancy
Klammer organized the door prizes. Others helped in a variety of ways, which
you can see on the time line web link below.
There are files describing the jobs and we have put the key information on
a
web page to make it easier for us. It is found at:
http://www.uaf.edu/%7Euwa/bazaar_2003/timeline.html for the 2003 bazaar. So
take a look and see if you would like to experience the comradery that comes
out of such a concentrated effort.
The Holiday Bazaar raises over $8000 per year and funds 100% of UWA's
scholarship program. Without it, our scholarship program cannot continue as
it is. This would be a serious loss for the many women students who rely on
the generosity of UWA to continue their education.
We do not want the bazaar to die out, but if no one is willing/able to take
responsibility we think that may be inevitable. If this were to happen, it
would be a loss for our organization as well as Fairbanks and Alaska. If you
would like to fill one of these positions, please send Uma e-mail
(bhatt@iarc.uaf.edu) and she will post the new committee to the web.
Please send us your new e-mail address if it has changed. Also, if you know
anyone who has changed her address and is no longer receiving the
newsletter, please let us know.