To The Membership of the ODHFS,

I would like to thank several people for their assistance in the month of January.

On January 12th, 19 of you came to Tommy's house and assist with the inventory
counting and placing in the trailer. I had no idea how many to expect but was
greatly pleased to see the turnout we had. I had thought maybe 5 or 6 may show up.
Thank you for taking your time to come and help. We could not have done it without
each of you.

On January 19th, the Statewide Meeting was held. Again several helpers behind
the scenes took time to plan, organize, and volunteer to work that day to make it
happen. I thank you again for your support and look forward to the 2003 Convention
now. Thanks Tommy, Mike, Pat, Dad, Jack, David, for your help.

On to the New Year. Look for upcoming details about the 2003 Winter Conference
Planned in February. Your help with this is a must to make it work. Many of you
have jobs and cannot take off to assist on the weekday, but Saturday or maybe
in the evenings you can come and give us an hour or two. IT IS GREATLY NEEDED.

Thanks again to the membership in helping pull all of this off.

Bill Jones