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January luncheon meeting

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Friends!
May y’all have welcomed 2020 with joy, laughter and in good health!!
A friendly reminder to please complete, mail your 2020 membership renewal form accompanied by a check payable to FFNM for your membership fee OR bring to the luncheon!
Our first meeting of the year is next Saturday already!! With your help we can make 2020 a great year with more involvement from our members.
Our President, Bill Bertenshaw, will discuss the various committees currently available and will encourage your input regarding what you believe will help the Club grow and be able to maintain its membership.
Please join us at our first meeting of the year. Your support, input and involvement are welcomed!!
Please make your reservations no later than Tuesday, January 7, 2020 , by calling or texting Berta Wagstaff at 505-710-4448 or emailing her at vets4vets@aol.com.

PLACE: Ramada Midtown (formerly Hotel Eleganté )

ADDRESS: 2020 Menaul Blvd. NE

DATE: Saturday, January 11, 2020

TIME: 11:30 am

COST: $15.00 per person (Checks, made out to FFNM, are preferred)

NOTE: The Club must pay the hotel for all reservations. If you make a reservation and do not attend, you will be billed $15.00 for each reservation.

See you soon!

Berta Wagstaff

Membership Development Chair

A year-end message from FFI’s 2019 board chair

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Dear Friends, 2019 – our 43rd year – has been a good one for Friendship Force. We are fortunate to have amongst our membership so many committed volunteer leaders who ensure that Journeys continue, keep our clubs operating, and fully understand the absolute importance of our existence in a world that often has difficulty getting its act together. To every single member everywhere, thank you for your participation in 2019. Thank you for traveling on Journeys, thank you for hosting, thank you for providing meals, thank you for spreading the word, thank you for contributing financial support, and thank you for simply being a member. Those of us whose history with Friendship Force goes back a long way may find it difficult to cope with the ways in which modern living has altered the structure of clubs. However, there is more than one way to handle this scenario and, believe me, the staff, CEO, and Board of Directors are dedicated to finding the best way forward. Like they say in the movies –

“No Friendship Force member has been, or will be harmed in the making of this future.”

It is wonderful to think back on everything that has happened over these almost 43 years – the hosts and ambassadors on Journeys that have formed innumerable friendships, the joy and excitement shared when learning about those different than ourselves, and the many lessons learned along the way! Ours is an organization for all people and all time. Its future is in our hands. Let’s each of us play our part. In friendship and peace,

From our new FFNM president

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  • Happy Holiday and Happy New Year
    Dear Friends
    My name is Bill Bertenshaw. I will be your president for the coming
    year. As this year comes to a close I have had a chance to reflect on the
    accomplishments of the past year board of directors and their
    administration along with all the members that work so hard to
    improve our club. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
    The New Year is drawing to a close and I am excited about the
    opportunities and challenges that we together will face. The
    development of a number of committees will help in
    coordinating our membership, our social programs, improvement
    to our web site and to both inbound and outbound journeys.
    Thank you again and have Happy Holidays for you and yours.
    See you in 2020.
    Bill Bertenshaw