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THE BARBARA SMITH LARYNGECTOMEE CLUB
Please note Member of the IAL
Meeting schedule for 2009: 3rd Sunday of odd numbered months, i.e. Mar, May, July, Sept, Nov
Meeting Date: Sunday March 15, 2009 at 2:00PM
Location: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 147 West Main Street, New Britain
Parking at rear of the church and please use the rear entrance. We have been given the Library Room that has a kitchen
The meeting room is on the ground level, which is handicapped, accessible. **Family and friends always welcome to attend.




Saint Mark’s Church at 147 West Main Street, New Britain





We do need help from volunteers for hospital visitations and to also help with the very important anti-smoking
School lectures as well as the school of nursing, post operative laryngectomee care, lectures. Please consider in providing a helping hand with these important activities provided by our group.

Attorney General of The state of Connecticut is going after
both of the casinos for allowing smoking that causes the second smoke syndrome. What is very interesting is the very fact Mr. Blumenthal, as reported in the Republican American editorial that Mr. Blumenthal he won’t sure too hard because he,too, has nicotine stained fingers.

Its like don’t do as I do.

We have new federal for the children health insurance called SCHIP which will excise tax to all the tobacco products. For example a pack of cigarettes has gone up .62 cents per pack.

A smoker’s widow received a jury award from The Phillip Morris Company for a sum of eight million dollars. There are 8,000 such cases on file in the State of FLA.

The State of Maine has past a new law making it illegal to smoke in a car with children. But, the fight goes in Ct. with young Justin still fighting to get Connecticut’s passed.

We had one laryngectomee at UCHC but we had 184 new larys nationwide. Hartford Hospital had one two months ago.

We have set up a new website which will be more accessible. http://BSLC
2.blogspot.com

BSLC Meeting Agenda:

1 The Treasurer’s financial report.

. Acceptance of the financial report.


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2 Nominations committee:

A. To present its recommendations.

B. Acceptance of the recommendations by the nominations committee and a vote by the membership shall take place at the following membership meeting.

4 Items to be added to the agenda may be added by any member.

5. Guest Speakers will be allowed to make their presentations prior to the business portion of our meeting.

Should any member of this club become aware of a new laryngectomee please contact any one of the club’s officers after obtaining the patient’s permission so we can supply the “headlines article” that will guide the patient and his or her family members on how to obtain necessary supplies.



I hope we will see you all at the November 16, 2008 meeting.



Frank Smith

President: Frank Smith VP. & Webmaster Thomas Mucha
40 Chestnut St., A308, New Britain, CT 06051 31 Mattabassett Street, East Berlin, CT 06023
860-224-0218 phone 860-828-3198 Phone
Email: S-NB@comcast.net Email tom@ctcomp.com

Secretary & treasurer Al Valeri
Email alinda7@comcast.net
Speech-language Pathologist – Andrew Lee
18 Black Brick Road, Plainville, CT 06062 231 Snow Owl Drive, Southington, CT 06489

860-747-8674 860-621-4591
Email: ajlees@cox.net

School Programs – Frank Smith, S_nb@comcast.net 860-224-0218, Al Valeri, Diane Ashe
Nurses Training – Louis Tromboni 860-628-8146, Frank Smith, s_nb@comcast,net Al Valeri alinda7@comcast.net
Hospital Visits
- Frank Smith 860-224-0218 phone email: S_NB@comcast.net Al Valeri 860-747-8674 email: alinda7@comcast.net Tom Mucha tom@ctcomp.com
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FYI : our location is accessible from routes 84 to 72. The 72 exit puts on Corbin Avenue just one block from West Main Street. Route nine south exit #26 is onto Chestnut Street turn left to Main Street and turn right to West Main and Turn left and St mark’s will be on your right hand side two blocks up. Routes 91 to route nine and follow the aforementioned direction. Route nine from route 84 take the downtown exit which is East Main Street, turn right to Main Street, left to West Main and Turn right.

The ACS in Meriden mails our notice to 129 people and we email or fax it to the ACS in Springfield and nine area hospitals and the IAL. If you no longer want our notice or know someone who would like to receive it please let Frank Smith know.

If you have an email address please send it to Frank at S-NB@COMCAST.NET

Other Connecticut Clubs:
Danbury New Voices Club, Contact: Mary Burke 203-744-3586.

The Lost Chord Club of New Haven, website www.speakagain.org
Contact: Bob Herbst 203-468-1576(evenings) bobh@i2world.com

Tri County New Voice Club, Norwich,
Contact: Carl Strand 860-536-6844(evenings) c.a.strand.jr@snet.net

Websites
Somerset County Miracle Voice Club http://pages.ivillage.com/njpatsy/
www.SpeechPathologist.org http://www.webwhispers.org

IAL: http://www.larynxlink.com CT Clubs list at http://larynxlink.com/Clubs/CT-Clubs.htm

For local sales and service of an electrolarynx or supplies contact:
Professional Speech Aid Service, 20 Hartford Road, Suite 30, Salem, CT 06420
(Roseann George) 860-859-2807 or 800-454-7778 FAX 860-8593102
Website: http://www.speechaid.com email: rzgeorge@sbcglobal.net

A reminder to you to be listed with SBC Enhanced 911 as speech-disabled. Information can be found in your local phonebook. There are relay system phones for people who cannot speak clearly over the phone. See the information pages of your local phone book look under TDD/TT for more information, call 711.


The Lauder book, “Self Help for the Laryngectomee” is available free to all new laryngectomees. All SLP’s should have postcards for this purpose. If you need a supply of postcards call the Laryngectomee Information Foundation (LIF) at 1-800-356-1266.


I hope you all get and read the IAL News which comes out three times a year, in Jan., May, and Sept. There are many interesting and helpful articles. To subscribe to (or remove name from) IAL News, email info to IALHQ@larynxlink.com or mail to IAL News, P. O. Box 691060 Stockton, CA 95269-1060 .

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