Arriving Home and Staying In Touch

We hope everyone arrived home safely, and on their travels, carried with them fond memories, new friendships and warm wishes from Delaware.

We do have the benefit of technology to keep us connected. This blog and the Flickr photo gallery (with 900+ photos in place and more tour photos to come) act in concert with the printed address directory to facilitate all of us to remain in touch.

To that end, it would be helpful to put name to face. This brain of the blogmaster is not quite sharp enough, or attended enough forums to know all the names that go with the many images the Flickr site offers!

Therefore, if you would like to add a caption or can identify the people in a particular photo, please let Michele Walfred know and she will add it to the photo as soon as possible. Since many photos share the same generic photo number, it would be helpful to let us know the day the photo was taken or subject: e.g., Friday workshop, Saturday dinner, a brief description of the photo, e.g., man in the brown sweater and girl with the red hair looking at the pumpkin, and we will likely be able to find it from there.  It would also be helpful to know the Postal Code of the subjects.

Full names will not be published. To protect your privacy, we will list: Lisa B. from DE and Debbie P. from PA, etc.  You should be able to figure out the full name from your printed address directory. We will be happy to send anyone an e-copy of that address directory in Excel.That will help you with creating labels and mail merges for the future.

In most cases, we did collect email addresses at registration. If you request an email address of a 2010 NERVF attendee, we will gladly share it upon getting their permission first.

If you don't mind releasing your email to other attendees, just email Michele with the subject, "OK to share my email" and those emails will be added to a separate address book that will be shared with other NERVF attendees.

For the members of the 2010 4-H NERVF Planning Committee, the end of our weekend is bittersweet. We've been working hard...and now we get to return home and rest - we are thankful our lives are returning back to normal- but we already are missing you-our extended 4-H family-and like you, are thinking ahead to when we can see you again - learn and celebrate at your side, and enjoy your warm 4-H smiles. Until then, we wish you many blessings...go forth doing what you do best -  Making the Best Better!