Sunday Novemeber 15, BSLC meeting

THE BARBARA SMITH LARYNGECTOMEE CLUB
Please note; Member of the American Cancer Society and the IAL
Meeting schedule for 2007: 3rd Sunday of odd numbered months, i.e. Mar, May, July, Sept, Nov
Meeting Date: Sunday November 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




SAINT MARK’S CHURCH

I must admit to being frustrated over the lack of the membership's wanting to review the group's by-laws in order to hold the election of officers as mandated.

I certainly hope that a nominations committee will be selected from the membership at the November meeting in order to make the review necessary and report back there recommendations at the January meeting. Anyone that wishes to serve as an officer of the group please contact the nominations committee.

77 new laryngectomees were announced to have joined our way of life with nine passing on with one here locally. We had one new Laryngectomee at The Hartford Hospital who resides in Somers, Ct. so I recommended his joining the Club in Springfield's Mercy Hospital meeting location in Massachusetts since his travel would only be approximately seven miles to that location.

Winter is back again and as laryngectomees we should be concerned with the problems that gas heating, cooking, and hot water services present for the need of a gas detector due to our lack being able to smell. Please do not count on your relatives because an occurrence could happen while you're home alone.

The new cigarette taxes hopefully will help reduce the need to remove the vocal cords for those who quit smoking, due the added cost, which will tend to reduce all the clubs memberships throughout Connecticut.

Health Days presentations at all our area schools and the anti-smoking presentations to the students we desperately need help in order provide all the requests.


Anyone willing to provide the time please contact me.



Respectfully submitted by:



Frank Smith


The BSLC Meeting Agenda:

1 The Treasurer’s financial report.

. Acceptance of the Treasurer’s current 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 May 17, 2009 meeting.



Frank Smith

President: Frank Smith VP. & Webmaster Thomas Mucha
40 Chestnut St., A308, New Britain, CT 06051 44 Hillside Ave., Plainville, Ct.
860-224-0218 phone 860-351-5287 Phone
Email: S_NB@comcast.net Email tom@ctcomp.com

Secretary & Treasurer Al Valeri
Email alinda67@comcast.net
Speech-language Pathologist – Andrew Lees
18 Black Birch 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 alinda67@comcast.net
Hospital Visits
- Frank Smith 860-224-0218 phone email: S_NB@comcast.net Al Valeri 860-747-8674 email: alinda67@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 .