Annual Lake Meeting continued...

 This year it was decided that a new award was in order. And this year it went to Jean Kilbane. Over the years, Jean has always been at every Annual Dinner Meeting helping to register guests and take reservations over the phone, and even call a few  people to make sure they didn't forget. Her's is the friendly face that greets you when you come in and reminds you if you haven't gotten your dues in yet, one of those jobs that not all of us like to do. But she does it with a smile on her face and a glad to see you attitude.  If you've been at the dinner or in the neighborhood, Jean has always been around to say hi and make you feel welcome. She takes great interest and concern over lake issues and has offered her help in any way she can. I know she's helped me out of a jam a few times by stuffing envelopes and licking stamps,  for Lake Association mailings when I had no time to get to it. Simple things, but so important to help make everything happen for the Association when it needs to. We were proud to present her with the first President's Award and hope that there will be individuals to follow in her footsteps to help make the Lake Thompson Association succeed in all it's goals. We applaud her service. Accepting the award for Jean, were friend and neighbor Mary Oelrich and Board Member Joan McEnroe. I found a photo of Jean and Mike Rolling at one of the Lake events.

 Your Lake Thompson Board L to R ,  President Frosty Smith, Treasurer Mike Rolling, Paul Schreiber, Joan McEnroe, Secretary Kari Zambon, Newest Board member Judy Fritz and Kathy Furda. Absent from the photo is very long time Board Member and former County Board of Adjustment Member Bob Rossi.

 This is the sign that you'll see every time one of our youth officers is at the boat landing inspecting boats. Please remember they have been trained to do a thorough inspection so please be be patient and kind. We are so lucky to have these boys taking over this task, without them we'd have to find a way to cover the inspections with volunteers which never really worked. So if you see them give them a pat on the back and remind them that you're grateful for they're time and expertise.

Our new Lake Thompson Logo  on our banner that Paul said you could proudly display for a limited time. Also handed out to each dues paying family was a flag with our logo that you can display on your pier, boat, or flag pole. If you were not able to be at the meeting and would like to get your flag, please contact Frosty. If you would like an extra flag they can be purchased for $20, a portion of which will go to our AIS fund, to help pay for our youth officers.
Questions at the meeting , included how can we get better communication for all our members, about what's going on? Besides attending the Annual Dinner meetings where all business is discussed, I would encourage everyone to VOLUNTEER to help your Lake Board accomplish it's goals. They have served for many many years, mostly because no one else is willing to come forward and give a bit of their time to help keep the Lake a better place for our future generations. We NEED help, leadership, people with computer skills, people to help do mailings and many other things. If you can give some of your time it would be a great benefit to all. Call your Board members and see what you can do to help. We hear way to often, about how things SHOULD be done.... but not near enough of what can I help you do to make things more successful. Please consider taking on a small job, if you can't commit to being a Board member.....it's all good! And as you can see in the last photo, we even have some fun!