APW August 2012 NEWSLETTER
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!ugust 2012 TypeRider !rizona Press Women Congratulate NFPW on 75th Anniversary Two ways to reduce eadline is Now! NFPW conference fees here are two opportunities for APW Tmembers to save on registration fees for the NFPW Conference held September 20 through 22 at the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale. For starters, APW members who are volunteering to work at the NFPW Conference must register, but they are not required to pay the registration fee. onference fees, see Page 4 !y Brenda Warneka ecome a part of history by $10 cost per name will go to the Get on the us !including your name in the conference program fund and 2012 NFPW 75th anniversary half will benefit the NFPW conference program, which will Education Fund. be given to all registrants at the All payments should be sent by conference in September and Aug. 1 to NFPW Lockbox Mail, will become part of the official P.O. !ox 34798, Alexandria, archives of NFPW and APW. VA 22334-0798. To use a APW members may honor the credit card, call Gloria Watkins NFPW 75th anniversary by at 800-780-2715 or fax the card A day tour takes you to the Desert submitting half-page, black- number to 703-237-9808. Indi- Botanical Gardens. Photo courtesy of and-white ads for the viduals must indicate how they Desert Botanical Gardens. wish their names to be listed. conference program. The cost is !y Glennis McNeal $75 for a 5-inch wide by 4-inch The half-page ads must be sent s hard as it is to believe, some deep ad. The money received as jpegs to NFPW headquarters Arizonans have never visited the for ads subsidizes the printing at [email protected] and to A Grand Canyon. Are you one of them? of the conference programs. conference program designer Have you ever visited Mission San Patricia Gail Hearne at Another option for a member is Xavier del ac, Tubac or Taliesin [email protected] by Aug. 1. to list their name, state and year West. Maybe you've seen these places, joined on a full-page Questions about the ads may be but you'd like to visit them again. congratulations ad with other directed to Pam Stevenson at members for $10. Half of the [email protected]. See Bus, Page 3 ypeRider - 1 NFPW headquarters at 800-780-2715. Reserve your Hotel Valley Ho room by calling 866-882-4484 and asking for NFPW’s $130 rate. Greetings from Glacier Park, Montana Other information about the conference appears elsewhere in this newsletter. The source for the answers he dream of my husband, Dick, to RV full-time has to all questions about the conference is conference almost become a reality this summer as we have T chairperson Pam Stevenson at [email protected]. travelled around the country on what our grandson, Matthew, named “the bushouse.” Thanks to modern Enjoy the rest of your summer! technology, however, I am available by email or phone if anyone needs me, and I can work remotely as we renda travel. On our way back to the western part of the country at the end of June, after attending a memorial service for my parents in Tennessee, we were close enough to Tubac to take Gwen Griffin up on her invitation to APW members for a personal tour at the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. I’ve written a short article for this newsletter about our visit with Gwen. I have to admit I became enamored with Tubac as a result of our trip there! I will be in Scottsdale on August 19 for an APW board Notice of August APW Board Meeting meeting at noon and the meeting of the 2012 NFPW he APW !oard of Directors will meet on Conference planning committee at 1 p.m., both at the Sunday, August 19 from noon to 1 p.m. at Arizona Art Alliance, 9011 E. Indian end, and I hope the Arizona Art Alliance, 9011 E. Indian to see you then. All members are invited to both these T end Road, Scottsdale. meetings. Those planning to attend should come a few We are still seeking sponsors for the NFPW conven- minutes early as pizza and drinks will be served so tion, which is less than two months away. Even a few attendees can lunch while meeting. The board hundred dollars will help pay for such things as tote bags meeting will start promptly at noon, and the regular for attendees. If you have ideas or are willing to assist in this effort, contact Carol Osman rown at meeting of the 2012 NFPW Conference Planning [email protected]. !arbara Lacy at [email protected] also Committee will follow at 1 p.m. needs donations for the silent auction, and Cheryl RSVP for the board meeting to !renda Warneka at Kohout at [email protected] is looking for [email protected]. A draft of the minutes from the volunteers to work on the Hospitality Committee. last board meeting, May 19, 2012 were emailed to Don’t forget you can save $50 by registering for the board members previously. Those who did not conference by the Aug. 27 early-bird deadline. Forms receive copies or who have changes or corrections are on the NFPW website under “conference” or call should contact Gail Hearne at [email protected]. ypeRider - 2 Book sales at convention Silent auction items needed PW members are invited to bring Atheir books and sell them in the 2012 NFPW Annual Communications Con- ference authors’ area September 20 through 22. Tables will be set up for members to sell and sign their books at specific times during the convention. All proceeds from sales belong to the authors, but they must sign up in advance to be assured space. Contact Jan Cleere at [email protected] to reserve a spot. Silent Auction Visit the Grand Canyon on the Northern Arizona pre-tour. APW is still in need of items for the silent auction to be held at the NFPW Bus from Page 1 Conference. If you have items to donate, These incredible tourist sites and others are all part of the tours contact !arbara Lacy at [email protected] offered by Arizona Press Women as part of the 2012 NFPW to make a donation. Conference at the Valley Ho Resort in Scottsdale. Three-day tours bookend the conference: The Northern Arizona tour (land of the Hopi and Navajo, Zane Grey country, Route Rim Country event 66, the Grand Canyon and Sedona) September 16 through 18, and Southern Arizona tour (Mission San Xavier and the Tubac artists' community) September 23 through 25. Day tours invite you to visit scenic and significant wonders near the Valley Ho Resort. On Wednesday, September 19, take in the Desert otanical Gardens, Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park, and the Heard Museum. APW conference director Pam Stevenson will refresh your memory of these places – or introduce them for the first time – on a six-hour excursion L-R: Bar!ara Bayless Lacy, Carol Osman that includes a continental breakfast. Brown and Carol Jean LaValley Thursday, September 20, offers a morning visit to Frank Lloyd hree Rim Country authors who con- Wright’s Taliesin West, shedding new light on his monumental Ttributed to Arizona Press Women's achievements, now solar-powered as part of ongoing restoration anthology, Skirting Traditions, arbara projects. The tour includes lunch and the inside story of ayless Lacy, Carol Osman rown and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, an APW member who was also the Carol Jean LaValley, will present at architect’s wife. Tour participants get the scoop from !renda Pine Public Library from 10 a.m. to Warneka, who shares piquant details not included in a footnoted noon on Saturday, July 28. chapter she wrote for the APW anthology Skirting Traditions. The event presents an opportunity to sit More day tour details and registration forms are available at down with the authors to discuss the www.arizonapresswomen.com. Pre- and post-tour information book, writing and ask questions. Copies and registration forms are there as well. The deadlines to sign up will be available for purchase. for the pre- and post-tours is August 1. The deadline for day tour The library is located at 6124 N. registration is August 15. You can pay by credit card at the NFPW Randall Place in Pine. Info: 928-476- website, www.nfpw.org, or print out the registration form and 3678, www.pinepubliclibrary.com. mail a check. ypeRider - 3 Conference fees from Page 1 Sun., Sept. 16-18: Northern AZ Pre-Tour. Visit the Volunteers are required to pay only for the meals they land of the Hopi and Navajo, Zane Grey country, Route will be eating during the time they are working, which 66, the Grand Canyon and Sedona. Deadline: Aug. 1. means when they work the registration desk or silent auction and have lunch that day, they only pay for the Wed., Sept. 19: AZ’s Native Flora, Fauna and Peoples lunch. Tour, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. "We need people to greet and help set up the welcome Thu., Sept. 20: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West event at the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Tour 8:30-12:30 p.m.; POPPs, board-director and high Papago Park on Thursday evening. That event starts at 5 school contest director meetings in the morning; power p.m. and people will take a bus from the Hotel in networking from 1-2 p.m.; general membership meeting Scottsdale," says Rim Country District Director Carol at 2 p.m.; Milestone Membership Recognition Awards; Osman rown.