***This is a message from a member of Friends of Students for 60,000*** Hello to All Friends, A few things came up and Dick and I thought it best to move our next meeting back one week, from the first Thursday of March to the second Thursday of March. So our next general meeting of Friends of Students for 60000, Inc. will be at 7:30 p.m. on Thurs. March 11! Please note the change. Sorry if this change causes any huge problem for any of you. There are many things happening, and of course some not happening. We are awaiting the water study from the people in Telica, the municipality near Nuevo Amanecer. Once we have that information , we'll know how to proceed. We also may get some good technical advice from a not for profit called Water for People (See www.waterforpeople.org). They have an office in Managua and do projects in Nica and six other poor countries. Mike is going to Nica next week with a group from his old college, Stone Hill COllege in MA. Students had a good trip in early Feb. and is going back in late March with another group. Shari's group from JMU is going in early March and we've been facilitating with banking and other assistance. Kathleen Cusumano and I have been keeping up with our books and are ready for our 2009 tax filing. We need to discuss how to raise funds. Except for some donations and the $6000 housing grant, we didn't bring in much money in 2009. Our housing initiative has completed all 8 of the houses in Chacraseca. There'll be a report at the meeting. So far I've not received any checks in the mail for Haiti relief following Fran Killelea's emails. Maybe everyone gave to another org? Also we would like to have whatever info/update can be provided about our web site. How to bolster membership, through facebook or other means, and attendance at meetings. Update on the FSL/HIHI community garden in Hunt. Sta. I'm sending out a letter to 225 MLB players for the Field of Dreams Project, could use some help. These and other topics. Also if you have topics you'd like to see on the agenda, let me know, or bring them up at the meeting. Hope you can all come. Sorry about the date change. Be well. PW NEXT MEETING IS SECOND THURSDAY IN MARCH, MARCH 11 !!!!!!! *** You can unsubscribe from this list by sending an email to fsf60k-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. An archive of messages is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/fsf60k. FAQ'are available at //www.freelists.org/help/faq.html***