Gaye Michael has provided us with a new 10 menu rotation and three substitutes.  Below is new schedule!

• Baked herb Chick with a vegetable - rice primontese
• Pork Chops with au gratin potatoes and a vegetable
• Beef Stew wtih noodles
• Pasta with vegetable
• Grilled Chicken Breast with a vegetable and new potatoes
• Pork Loin with mashed potatoes & gravy, vegetable
• Mini meatloaves with mashed potatoes, vegetable
• Soup with assorted sandwiches, cheese tray (warmer months)
• BBQ Prok with Potato Chips & Soup
• Turkey with mashed potatoes & gravy and vegetable
• All dinners served with a salad bow, dessert, coffeee & tea
• Alternatives meals offerend every week:
  • Grilled Chicken sandwich with potato chips
  • Michael's special salad
  • Hamburger with potato chips

Terry opened the meeting with the pledge of alligence followed in prayer by Ron. 

• Franzi will have to have physical therapy for her knee and is in need of transportation to appointments.  If anyone is available to help please contact Bill.
• Mark your calendar for the Progressive Dinner on May 13th. Sullivan's will host cocktails, Kim's appetizers, Lammers main dish, and Whitten's dessert.  Final RSVP will be on April 19th.
• April 30, Troxler Clean-up @ 8am.
• Mark Korte is looking for a co-chairman for the upcoming Golf Tournament.  The date of the event is 6/17/11 at Highland Country Club.  The co chair will help to organize tee signs, teams, and prizes prior to the event.  The committee does the work to get those things, but he needs someone to tally things and keep it organized prior to the event.  This person would still be able to golf that day because their work would all be prior to the event.  If you are interested, please let him know.  He will have his first committee meeting on 4/28/11 at 7:00 am at 9th Street.  It should only last 30-45 minutes.
• The team attending the Internation Convention still has one spare bedroom in the house that they rented in New Orleans if anyone was considering joining us for the International Convention.  If they are interested, talk to Maura about the cost details.
• District Assembly was over the weekend on April 16th in Jacksonville and they had a great time.
• Chamber BAH is on April 21st at the Highland Communications Services.

Kevin stated that they had another furniture pick up this afternoon for HACSM.  He stated that if anyone would like to be put on this list to let him know.

Troxler Clean-up day is on April 30th at 8am. 

The Library work day will be in April - TBD.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Holli Martin

Guests:

Birthdays:  

Anniversaries:

 MakeUps: NONE  

Please let the following know that they were missed this week!  Jan Brinker, David Daiber, Len Daiber, Larry Deiters, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Jeff Guillot, Robert Hellige, Wil Holzinger, Lisa Hunsche, Brian Knobloch, Terry Leitschuh, Glenn Meffert, David Peters, Mark Reaka, Traci Riechmann, Randy Schorfheide, Ron Schneider, Eric Schmidt, Art Schuetz, Peggy Sebastian, Gordon Smith, Michael Sutton, Buzz Widmer

(Not current attendance record)

With 4 cards left and $1809 on the line the Ace of Spades was finally picked and the booty split between Terry, Maura, Mark F, Brent G, Jennifer, Franzi, and James!

Fines for anyone who procrasinated on filing their taxes.

Happy Bucks

• Jennifer shared that this week was the one year anniversary of her dad's death and to honor him she is doing the Indy half marathon and if anyone wishes to they can make a donation to Steward's of Hope as a way to sponsor her and honor Jim.

PROGRAM: Susan Collman, Nurse Practioner 

"Spring Cleaning your Life"

Susan worked for 40 years as a nurse and also took on some adminstration duties.  She decided to get her mastors and become a nurse practioner.  She started working with the Alvarados in November of 2010 and loves it.

She stated that today we have things in our lives that need to be spring cleaned from time to time; especially the things that may cause us stress.  Susan stated that 45% of the population have stress that they are not dealing with.  Everyone has different stressors in their lives and needs to find out how the manage and reduce stress.  Some signs of stress may be high blood pressure, headaches, sweaty palms, digestion issues, and back or muscle pain.

Susan shared 4 A's to manage stress.

1. Avoid the stressor
1. Learn how to say no
2. Avoid people who stress you out
3. take control of your enviornment
4. Avoid hot button topics
5. Pare down your to-do list
2. Alter the situation
1. Epress your feelings instead of bottling them up
2. Be willing to compromise
3. Be more assertive
4. Manage your time better
3. Adapt the stressor
1. Reframe problems
2. Look at the big picture
3. Adjust your standards
4. Focus on the positive
4. Accept the tings you cannont change
1. Don't try to control the uncontrollable
2. Look for upside
3. Share your feelings
4. Learn to forgive

For more information on how to positively manage your stress please contact Susan Collman directly.