THE BARBARA SMITH LARYNGECTOMEE CLUB
Please note Member of the IAL
Meeting schedule for 2007: 3rd Sunday of odd numbered months, i.e. Mar, May, July, Sept, Nov
Meeting Date: Sunday September 19, 2010 at 2:00PM
Location: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 147 West Main Street, New Britain
Parking at rear of the church and 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
support in getting on with their new life as a lary.
As you may all my recently reporting of the adversities to one's health from using the E-cigarettes now with a recent article in the Wall Street Journal has exposed the china products have been including nicotine laced vapors in order to addict the users. Unfortunately, this substitute method to smoking is as harmful to your health as regular smoking.
Another interesting issue is the fact that millions of dollars was spent in promoting the elimination of cigarette smoking by the actors in the movies we watch. The Silver screen movies are currently being shown on our television systems and you guessed it the actors, as you may recall, are smoking their heads off for our children to see. These movies are certainly classics and of course cannot be removed from being viewed from youngsters. Some attempts by the movie industry to cut out portions of the movie smoking scenes without ruining the story intent.
BSLC Meeting Agenda:
1 Treasurer’s financial report.
. A 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 by any member.
5. Guest Speakers will be allowed to make their presentations prior to the business portion of our meeting.
REMINDER----------Annual dues, on a voluntary basis, will be due the first of the year!
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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 on how to obtain necessary supplies.
Winter is here and our scheduled meeting may be cancelled due to bad weather. Should that occur we will meet the following Sunday. We will try to call and email everyone. However, we will place a cancellation notice on Channel 30 News as we have in the past.
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Hoping that you will all attend!
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 Lees
18 Black Brick Road, Plainville, CT 06062 61 Meander Lane, Southington, CT 06489
860-747-8674 860-621-4591
Email: ajlees@cox.net
School Programs – Frank Smith, S_nb@comcast.net Al Valeri, Clifford Lyon, 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/fax email: S_NB@comcast.net Al Valeri 860-747-8674 email: alinda7@comcast.net
- Arthur Stickney 860-651-3463 email: astickney@comcast.net
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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 101 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, Rosanne George
P O Box 379
Colchester, Ct. 06415
(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 .
