Elections will be held for the offices of Vice‐President and Treasurer at this meeting. Please let the members of our nominating committee, Kristi Warren and JoAnn Bertetto, know if you would be interested in serving in either of these positions.

This will be an exciting election year. We will be discussing what we can do to make an impact on our national, state, and local elections.

Pizza will be ordered for those who are interested.

It is hard to believe that it is August already! We hope you enjoyed our break from meetings during June and July, but it is time to start working hard again. The August meeting will be Tuesday, August 23, the day before the Bureau County Fair. We will meet at the fairgrounds so that we will be able to set up the Republican booth. Due to time conflicts, the time has been moved up to 4:00 pm. We realize that this might be difficult for some to make, but please come when you can to help us out.

Bureau County Fair

The Bureau County Fair will be held August 24 – August 28. We will need workers for the booth on each of those days. Please let Sue Pratt, 815-894-2130 or prattfam87@frontier.com, know the days and hours you are able to help. There will also be a sign-up sheet at the meeting on August 23.

Save the Statue Project

Please bring empty coffee cans to the August meeting. We plan to use these to put in stores to raise funds for our community project of helping to make necessary improvements to save the statue in Soldiers and Sailors Park. We will also need members to be willing to approach businesses in allowing us to place a can in their business for donations.

Raffle

Our fall fundraising raffle this year is for something we believe everyone would be thrilled to win: half a hog. The start of tickets sales will coincide with the fair – August 24, with the drawing on November 5. Tickets will sell for $10.00 each.  We hope that everyone will get involved in selling these tickets to help make this fundraiser our best one yet!

T-Shirts

Our Bureau County Republican Women t-shirt order is finally going in! The t-shirt will be a red polo shirt with a BCRW logo on the left shoulder area. The cost is $12.00 per shirt for sizes small to X-large. The cost goes up $2.00 per size for each size after that (2XL for $14.00, 3XL for $16.00, etc.). We believe this cost should cover the tax.

Please let us know if you would like to order a shirt (or two!) and what size by Sunday, August 14. We would like to try to get them in time to wear for the Bureau County Fair. Contact Sue Pratt with your order at 815-894-2130 or prattfam87@frontier.com.

“No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.” –George Washington, letter to James Madison, 1786

It is hard to believe that it is August already! We hope you enjoyed our break from meetings during June and July, but it is time to start working hard again. The August meeting will be Tuesday, August 23, the day before the Bureau County Fair. We will meet at the fairgrounds so that we will be able to set up the Republican booth. Due to time conflicts, the time has been moved up to 4:00 pm. We realize that this might be difficult for some to make, but please come when you can to help us out.

Thank you!

“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

Thomas Paine,
Rights of Man, 1791

Please plan on attending, as we have much to discuss with summer plans, events, and a fast approaching 2012 election!

We hope to see you at the meeting!

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” –John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819