September/October 2006 E-News web site: www.goldengirls03.org   4NEXT EVENT October 17, 2006 -- Luncheon Mark your calendars now for October 17 at the Dillard House in Dillard, GA. This should be at the height of the colorful leaf season in the beautiful mountains of North Georgia.  Read more about this one and visit the Dillard House web site by clicking here for our Golden Girls Events page. 4September 19 Luncheon at Edith Nash's Home Many thanks to Edith Nash for hosting without a doubt the "best food" luncheon of the year!  Thanks to her great chef son-in-law Dave who grilled the best beef, chicken and shrimp kabobs.  Click here to read more and also read Edith's great poem - Remembering Margaret Gregory.  September 10 marked the 10th year anniversary of her passing.  It is hard to believe that Margaret has been gone that long.  We still miss her very much. 4November 21 Luncheon - Maison Bleu in Town Center in Watkinsville Roberta Middlebrooks and Martha McCullough have made arrangements for us to journey to the Maison Bleu restaurant in Watkinsville for our November luncheon.  This restaurant comes very highly recommended and will be a new adventure for us.  Read more about this one -- including what Martha has to say about it. 4Immigration Bills in Congress Click here if you are concerned about illegal immigration.  See what bills have been passed recently and what you can do as a concerned citizen.   4Remembering 9-11 ▪ President Bush's Speech 9-11-06 ▪ Remembering 9/11in 2006 click here   News from the Girls. . .   4Mabel Wallace Just got word from Nell Foster that Mabel and Dennis left Saturday morning for Scotland and will be gone for about two weeks. 4Jean Kammerer Jean told us at the September GG Luncheon that she will be leaving soon for a tour to Croatia and some of the other Czech countries.  Jean wins the GG prize, along with Elsie Laurens, for the most traveled member! 4Bettye Chambers Bettye announced at the September luncheon that she has recently been called by the Governor's office and asked to submit her application to serve on the GA Council of Aging.  Of course this still has to be approved by the GBI and the Council.  Hopefully, she will pass the GBI background check ;- ) If she makes it, start making your suggestion lists for what you would like done for Georgia seniors.  Her friend, Senator Renee Unterman, is a strong advocate for Seniors and has encouraged Bettye to serve on this Council.   4Allie Jones Hello all, I am back from a wonderful trip to the Outer Banks which I am beginning to love.  Hope you all are happy and well!!  Take care and love to you, Allie ;-)  :-)   This is awesome! We all should think like this. Today is no special day and I have no particular reason for writing to you.... I have no news to tell you.... nor any problems to discuss with you.... or gossip to tell you... It's only one of those happy moments... when I thought of you... and I would like to share these thoughts with you... MANY SMILES BEGIN BECAUSE OF ANOTHER SMILE... 4Kay Fulmer Kay just sent out the following computer news with a photo of a laptop fire that we have all heard about recently.   Kim Komando There’s a picture making the rounds via e-mail. It shows a Dell laptop that caught fire at Yahoo! headquarters. Is it a hoax? No, it happened this past week. You can see the extent of the damage in my log. I posted the pic there.   http://www.komando.com/toolbox.aspx?mode=print&id=2314 Fire in the hull! 9/21/2006 For the last several months, there have been numerous reports of laptops catching fire. The problem is that the battery overheats. Yikes! Now, there is an e-mail making the rounds. It mentions that a Dell laptop was just sitting closed on a desk. It caught fire at Yahoo! headquarters. The fire department was called. People had to vacate the building for some 45 minutes. It's a very scary picture. Is it true? Yes, it happened this past week. Imagine if this happened in your home or office and no one was around. Or worse, you were sleeping. So, check your laptop maker's site for recall notices. But frankly, that may not be good enough. Here's why: A few weeks ago, an IBM Thinkpad went up in flames at the Los Angeles International Airport.  A witness said, "The thing immediately flared up like a giant firework for about 15 seconds, then caught fire." Lenova, maker of the Thinkpad, is investigating the matter. Thinkpads are not on the recall list. I think we need to take some extra steps here. I told everyone here in the studio who is using a laptop to take the battery out of their laptops and use the power supply only. And be sure to tell your family and friends too! They may not even be aware of the problems with the laptop batteries. I recently received an email from Laura in Florida thanking me for mentioning it on my show. She was listening to the show on her way to take her iBook to the Apple store for a repair. She mentioned the Apple recall to the reps. They had not heard about it yet. An ounce of prevention so they say... Kim 4Elsie Laurens Elsie and Dick are off on another trip -- this time to Myrtle Beach.  Following is a note which we just received: Please No More Emails -- AGAIN We will be leaving early tomorrow morning (Sunday, Sept. 24th) for Myrtle Beach, and will be back home late next Sunday night, Oct. 1st.  Please hold off on sending any more Emails until after October 1st.                   Thanks,    Dick and Elsie They also recently attended the 100th Infantry Division (WW2) Association Reunion in Richmond, VA , and returned on Tuesday, 9/19.    4Nell Foster Hope these come through. This is my son Chris' grandchild - Sarah Lauren  Grace Gassett. - and I may add my great grand daughter. (Nell has another beautiful Great Grand daughter, Savannah.)     4Martha McCullough I will not be at Edith's tomorrow.  I was really looking forward to going.  We all always have so much fun. I went to Mississippi last week and was able to bring my Mother back with me.  I had hoped to bring her with me to Edith's but Mother does not feel well.  I'm trying to decide how serious her situation is and help her decide what to do about all her aches and pains.    Ya'll have fun tomorrow. Martha McCullough   4Kathryn Bradford   Since this is my birthday (September 19) , my son is coming up to take me to dinner and spend the day with me so I can't make Golden Girls.   Kathryn HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KATHRYN!     Happy Fall - 2006 View The October Party -- another great page!    Golden girls Web site: Check out the new cartoons at the top of the Cartoon Page. Most timely joke of the day. . . Subject::  Phone Service - Love this one   How ALL business phones SHOULD be answered! GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Press "1" for English. Press "2" to disconnect until you have learned to speak English  Since this is an election year, this one is very meaningful Click to enlarge PROMISES   Be sure to send us news about your trips, anniversaries, grand children, jokes, photos, etc. to go in our next GG E-News. Hope to see you on October 17 at the Dillard House in Dillard.

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