April 9, 2002 Meeting

• D56 2002 Retirement & Village Catalogs
• Member List/Gatherings/Village Pride Pamphlet
• Chicago 2004 Event Flyer
• Train Collectors Convention Flyer

NCC Announcements (Jerry):
Jack's Umbrella Shop - Still no shipping date.  The opportunity to add to an order or place a new order has been extended to April 15th and will not affect the shipping dates for those already ordered.

The NCC has created a special 10th Anniversary Pin for 2002.

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary, two presents are being offered as follows:

1) The first present is a ticket for every club member who belongs to an NCC affiliated club. The ticket will entitle each member for a chance to win one of five extra trips to be given away for our December Holiday Tour. The drawings to decide the winners will be held at the Minnesota Gathering 2002 held in September. The Holiday Tour will be held the weekend of December 12 - 15, 2002 and includes an all expense paid trip to Minnesota for each winner and his/her guest. This will give ten more people an opportunity to share this wonderful weekend with Department 56.

2) The second anniversary "present" has a ten theme, too. It is being called 10 for 10. Since the NCC is divided into ten regions in the US and Canada they took the names of all eligible NCC clubs in each region, put them in a bowl and pulled one club from each region to receive a visit by one of our Collector Relations/ Consumer Services personnel. We will take care of the program for the meeting. 

Sept 11th Fund Dept. 56 Lapel Pin
Pins arrived and were sold at the meeting for $2.00 

Demo "How To Display Realistic Water"
Michelle Heatherly - Demonstration of the Envirotex product and creating a waterfall scene.

DUCKY 56ers NEWS:

• Krispy Kreme is selling a truck that goes great with the D56 Village for $9.95
• Ducky 56ers logo shirt orders were available at the meeting.  New orders were also accepted.
• Permanent name tags will be ordered and available in time for any of those going to the Little Houses on the Prairie Event.

JUST DUCKY NEWS:

• Green Books are available at Just Ducky.  This is an excellant resource for purchasing via secondary markets.
• Pre-ordered products are available.

Coming Up...
May Meeting: Guest Speaker, Dan Miller, photographer. Jerry Kaczorowski will discuss digital cameras.  Kirk Wyllie will help with picture composition.
June, July, August: No Meetings
August 20th, 2002 5:00 pm Picnic at Carol's house. More details to follow.