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Special thanks goes out to all who volunteered! The large group we had this year really made it a great time! We had a gorgeous day in the sun and a lot of traffic at our booth! Also Special thanks to Brian for letting us use his tent!!! Those of us manning the booth would have been lobsters by now without it!!! View a few pics of the day: http://www.nspn.org/forum/index.php?autoco...um&album=60

Congratulations Pepere!!!!! Welcome to the world Madeleine Anne!

OK... after the long weekend the following is where I was able to put up flyers: Melrose, MA Marathon Sports Melrose YMCA Wakefield, MA Metro Fitness Woburn, MA Skimarket Sports Authority West Marine (yep - it was me, Al) Burlington, MA LLBean (Rob Hazard and I worked a booth for their in-store event this weekend, and left flyers behind as well) Peabody/Danvers, MA Eastern Mountain Sports (they wanted to contact you, Al, about maybe helping in some way!) Skimarket Trader Joes (said they would put it in their staff room) (The Danvers West Marine was closed by the time I got there) (Dicks Sporting goods wouldn't put anything up with out being approved by their corporate office) Didn't make it to Liberty Tree's Sports Authority or the Lydon Pool... Exeter, NH Me and Ollie's Exeter (and Rye on Rte 33?) Olympia Sports On the Vine (community bulletin board) Stop & Shop (community bulletin board) Elements Diet & Fitness (they offered to be a possible venue for other future workshops) Whew!!!! I hope you start getting some RSVPs now, Al! Seems like I've had the best response for posting things at coffee shops and fitness centers. Folks at outfitters seem to have more regulations than they used too... ...Although EMS always seems to be pretty willing to post things... Just food for thought if you are trying to decide where to hang flyers in your respective necks of the woods... ...And of course I will be handing out a stack at REI Demo Day this coming Saturday... Thanks everyone for your continued efforts!!! P.S. Can you tell it's been a long day and I'm punchy now?! Signing off and goin' to bed!!!

Ever at a put in - or anywhere for that matter - with your kayak on top of your car and someone asks you where you kayak and how you find folks to kayak with? Perfect opportunity to hand them a flyer for our beginners workshop!!! Please print out a few of these (attached in above post) and leave them in your car just in case! ...or if you happen to be at one of our future events later in the season where we happen to have the club bin o' merchandise out (affectionately known as the "coffin")... grab a handful of brochures for just such an occasion... it's the best way we can keep reaching the community about all the great info and opportunities we have to offer! Thanks!