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FROM OUR PRESIDENT
Fall into September
&
Back to School
Here we are with the school year about to begin and the end of
another calendar year fast approaching.
We at SASP have seen some major changes in 2022. We are no longer meeting at the Golden Corral.
Instead, we have moved into a new home
for our meetings at the Shadle Library. The newly remodeled facility now has three
meeting rooms, all of which are nice, quiet, and more suited to our needs as a
group. Library staff love us and have
reserved the largest meeting room to us for at least until December of 2023. They said they would help promote our meetings
as well. The catch? We had to move our meeting to the second
Thursday of the month. We have the
room from 1-5 p.m. We are going to try
to begin the meeting at 2:00 p.m. to allow plenty of time for our
speaker to present to us, entertain questions, and have a little one-on-one
time for visiting with the members and/or selling their books. That also gives us time for a short break, a
business meeting, and drawing for door prizes. We should be able to do all of that and still
clean up and be out of there by 5:00.
I had a computer glitch and have not been able to put up the
videos for the last couple of meetings. I
do still have the files, so I’m working on getting them up to YouTube. As soon as I do, I will send the link(s) to
Dave so he can send them to the group.
Finally, I will need to leave early (about 2:20 p.m.) during the
Sept. 8 meeting. I have asked Marilee to
take over for the remainder of the meeting, and she has agreed to do so.
Enjoy the meeting and our speaker, and I will see you again in
October.
Sue Eller, President
FROM YOUR EDITOR, WEB-MASTER, TREASURER
Thanks to everyone who contributed to
the refreshment fund at our last meeting.
We are now $11.00 to the good and it will help us reimburse whoever buys
cake or cookies for our meetings. If the
individual providing doesn’t wish to be paid back, we’ll set it aside for next
time.
I can only speak for myself, but I like the feeling
of permanency we now have for our meetings.
It’s great to have a time and a place set aside, month after month. We no longer have to
worry about changes from month to month.
Maybe the Spokesman-Review will even get caught up and list our event
correctly in the Sunday Literary Calendar.
Our e-mail account, which is associated with our web-site, is up for renewal late in September. It’s not a huge sum and one I think we would
normally expend the funds for with barely a thought. However, as the individual who operates and
manages the account, I’ve found it to be somewhat cumbersome and difficult to
work with compared to other e-mail systems I’ve dealt with. I am thinking to let it expire and starting a
new e-mail account for SASP on Comcast.
I can add up to two separate e-mail accounts along with what I have
now. It is free, or at least at no extra
cost to me or SASP, and it’s a system I am much more familiar and comfortable
with. I’ll probably make the switch in
the middle of September. As soon as we
have an e-address for the new account I’ll let everyone know.
When we were meeting on the first Thursday of the
month, the deadline for submission to SASP NEWS was the Thursday prior to our
meeting. One week before, or the last
Thursday of the preceding month. Let’s
keep it there and make the submission deadline two weeks prior to our scheduled
meetings. I’d still like to get the
newsletter out to all of you as early in the month as I can and that will
help. The extra week might also give me
time to produce a better one as well.
If you were dropped from the “Members” page on our web-site because you have not yet paid dues for 2022, we’d
love to put you back on the list and make your Member Web-Pages available again
on our web-site
Paying dues is
easy. You can pay at any SASP meeting,
or you can send a check or money order for $15.00 to:
Spokane
Authors and Self-Publishers
P. O. Box
18573
Spokane, WA
99228-0573
I check the mail
weekly, and if we receive any dues payments, I take those payments directly to
our financial institution for deposit. I
also try to notify anyone who pays that the dues payment has been received…
usually by way of e-mail.
If your personal
situation means paying dues will pose a financial hardship, please contact a
SASP Officer or Advisory Board Member.
We will see what we can do to accommodate you.
Dave McChesney
FROM OUR PRESIDENT
(Previous)
Hello, fellow scribes. I
hope all of you are staying cool. Let’s
hope the only thing heating up is the collective writing muse.
For our next meeting, we have a couple of changes. We will still meet in the Shadle Library, but
for this month only, we will be in a smaller room – the Classroom. Also for this month,
the room will open at 11:00 a.m., and the meeting will begin at approximately
11:30. Our guest speaker will be Brooke Matson, Executive Director of Spark
Central. We will also have a short talk after the break from Annie McKinlay,
host of the KYRS Thin Air Radio show Page Turner.
Beginning in September, we will begin to meet on the second
Thursday of the month in the largest meeting room at the Shadle Library. They have reserved this room for us on the
second Thursday every month through December of 2023. The room will open at 1:00 p.m. and we have
it reserved until 5:00 p.m. I am
grateful that we have such a nice facility in which to meet, and it seems
appropriate for us to be in a building full of books.
See as many of you as possible next week.
Sue Eller, President
FROM YOUR EDITOR, WEB-MASTER, TREASURER (Previous)
One of the big changes in meeting at
the library is that we no longer have to spend more than
ten dollars to buy a meal, whether we particularly want to eat or not. We do have refreshments, provided by one or
more of our members. To this point, SASP
has been reimbursing those who have provided the cake. Last month a member suggested passing the
hat, so to speak, and letting those who wanted contribute
a little to the cost of our gastronomic treats.
I’ll bring a “cake donation” jar and set it by the cake and you may
contribute what you will, what you want.
Any contributions will be used to offset reimbursement expenses from our
treasury.
There are still several people who were dropped
from the “Members” page on our web-site because they
have not yet paid dues for 2022. We’d
love to put you back on the list and make your Member Web-Pages available again
on our web-site
Paying dues is
easy. You can pay at any SASP meeting,
or you can send a check or money order for $15.00 to:
Spokane
Authors and Self-Publishers
P. O. Box
18573
Spokane, WA
99228-0573
I check the mail
weekly, and if we receive any dues payments, I take those payments directly to
our financial institution for deposit. I
also try to notify anyone who pays that the dues payment has been received…
usually by way of e-mail.
If your personal
situation means paying dues will pose a financial hardship, please contact a
SASP Officer or Advisory Board Member.
We will see what we can do to accommodate you.
Dave McChesney
Spokane
Authors & Self-Publishers
Page revised 09/24/2022
DAM
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