BAINBRIDGE-OMETEPE SISTER ISLANDS ASSOCIATION
OCTOBER, 2009 E-NEWS"LETTER

CONTENTS:
ANNUAL MEETING - POTLUCK DINNER, NOV. 7TH
2010 "KIDS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE" CALENDAR
MAIL TO OMETEPE
2010 STUDENT DELEGATION
SUPPORT BOSIA THROUGH ONE CALL FOR ALL
HOW TO SIGN UP FOR THIS E-LETTER

ANNUAL MEETING - POTLUCK DINNER, NOV. 7TH
This year the Sister Islands Annual Meeting will be a little
different: more social, more fun, more food! Save Saturday,
November 7th for a potluck dinner at 6:30 at the Fil-Am Hall (High
School Rd). Please bring your own plates, cups and utensils. We
will provide coffee, tea and juice. If you want wine or beer,
please BYO. A-G salad/ H-J bread/ K-R - entrée/ S-Z dessert. 
After dinner we will have a short election of board members and a
slide show of images from the last year's sisterhood. But mostly,
we are looking forward to having plenty of time to re-connect with
friends old and new.

If you need a ride, contact Emily Mansfield, 842-4137, emansfield at earthlink.net


2010 "KIDS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE" CALENDAR
Boo Schneider's 3rd graders at Ordway are hard at work on the 17th
annual "Kids Can Make a Difference" Calendar. This year's
projected sales goal is $8,500. The class carefully considered the
many project proposals that had been sent to BOSIA and they
determined (using their best math and collaborating skills!) to
fund the following:

**Continue the 2 college scholarships for Roxanna & Walmar ($1,920),
**Drinking faucets and electricity to a school in La Palma ($431),
**Library in San Pedro ($992),
**Library in Las Pilas ($1438),
**$500 to the Musical Instrument Repair fund,
**20 scholarships for students to attend Extra Edad ($1,160),
**Traditional costumes for Tichana ($75),
**$700 for 70 preschool children to benefit from the Milk Project,
**5 latrines ($625)
**Baseballs and bats for the Balgue team ($159)
and ... $500 for library books in Samoa lost in the recent tsunami.

Watch for small sales-people at key locations in Winslow in
mid-December or order your calendar at the Annual Meeting Potluck
or through Boo Schneider, bschneider at bainbridge.wednet.edu

MAIL TO OMETEPE
Send your holiday greetings to your friends on Ometepe with one of the following:

December 10 Linda Tanner (lktanner47 at hotmail.com)
December 15 Kari Lagerloef (karilagerloef at gmail.com)
December 20th 
   Laetitia Lehman-Pearsall and Cara Thompson
   (sarasmithsell at gmail.com or Linda Snyder, idakaye at msn.com) 
 December 27
 	Kim & Ela Esterberg (kim at bosia.org )
    Siri Kushner & Hector Guillen (sirikushner at yahoo.com, 
    or Ed & Karen Kushner

With this many people going to our Sister Island - and with the
special "Mail Delegation" of Laetitia and Cara - no friend on
Ometepe should be letter-less this winter!

2010 STUDENT DELEGATION
2010 marks the 20th year of the Sister Islands' high school
delegations to Ometepe! Applications for the 2010 delegation,
along with deposits are due October 30th. Interviews will be Nov
18-20 with selected delegates being announced Nov 23rd. Trip dates
are June 22-July 4, 2010.
 
For more information, contact Linda Snyder, idakaye at msn.com

SUPPORT BOSIA THROUGH ONE CALL FOR ALL
Watch your mailbox for the red envelope that signals this year's
One Call for All campaign. You can donate to the Sister Islands
Association through OCFA. The advantage to donating this way,
besides convenience for you, is that the "undesignated funds" are
split among the member organizations in proportion to the relative
amount of donations each group received via the "designated
funds." The more people who give to BOSIA, the larger percentage
of the undesignated funds the organization gets. Funds we receive
through OCFA are earmarked to support people - to - people
exchanges: for example, scholarships for student delegates to
Ometepe or supporting delegates from Ometepe to visit Bainbridge.

Thank you for your continued support of the Sister Islands and of One Call for All.