Fraternally,
Sue Fletcher, ER
fletcher@mkl.com

         Our April meeting was very well attended with 21 members present.
I want to thank Pat Green for presiding over out Installation of Officers on March 28th. Pat did a wonderful job and we appreciate her dedication to the Auxiliary.
         At our April meeting, Robin Little reported that we had a total of 43 crafters for the Craft Show with an additional crafter that she fit in the day of the show. THANK YOU to Robin for the wonderful job organizing this event and also for providing chili for the kitchen. And speaking of the Craft Show Kitchen, I want to thank Eleanor MacDonald, Margaret Jester, Nora Cole, and Sylvia Dermody - Roberts for all of your hard work. Also a Big Thank You to Caroline Harrington and Laura Sejerson for organizing and working at our Bake Sale.
         Gail Ostrander has offered to contact Auxiliary member to bake for offering to do this again for another year. If anyone can volunteer to bake for Thursday night Bingo please let me know and I will add your name to the list that we have started. (563-3008)
         Margaret Jester provided a report from Scholarship Committee. All applications have been received and are being reviewed by the committee.
         Elaine Gransbury reported that we still have Raffle Tickets to sell. Please contact Elaine if you can help us to sell more of these tickets. Our drawing is May 10, 2004.
         Our Alumni Breakfast plans are going well. Our menu will be similar to last year and the price will remain the same. This is scheduled for Saturday, July 17,2004 from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. all are welcome, this is open to everyone.
         One June 20th we will be looking for volunteers to work in the kitchen for the Father's Day Breakfast. I will be providing a sign up sheet at our next meeting. So if anyone would like to help us again this year please let me know.
         We are very proud of the Sidney High School Odyssey of the Mind Team who performed exceptionally well on Saturday, March 13th as 1st PLACE WINNERS. We wish them the best when they compete at the World Finals Competition on May 29th through June 2nd in Baltimore, Maryland.

BINGO KITCHEN:
I have been working on a Bingo Kitchen schedule and will be calling many of our Auxiliary members to see if you can work *ona or two* Thursdays a YEAR to help us. The Bingo Kitchen is very important to the Sidney Elks Lodge and I would like to see participation from every member that can possibly volunteer to help us! Please let me know if you could volunteer even on Thursday a year, this will really help all of us.

The following members are scheduled to work Bingo Kitchen for May:
MAY 6th                                Sylvia Dermody-Roberts and Brenda Philpott
MAY 13th                              ?
MAY 20th                              MaryLee Martin and Claudia Sowesby
MAY 27th                              Louise Craig and Brenda Philpott

Volunteer Pie Bakers for May 7th Friday night (Prime Rib) Kitchen
Nancy Francisco
Francine Feltman
Louise Craig

         OUR AUXILIARY MEMBERS ATTENDED THE BOOK GIVEAWAY on April 15th AT THE SIDNEY CENTER SCHOOL AND HAD A FUN TIME AGAIN THIS YEAR
         Our next meeting will be May 10th at 6:30PM. Hope to see more of you at our meeting.
(SPECIAL EXECUTIVE MEETING @ 6.00 p.m.)