2010 Installation of Officers & Board

At our March meeting at Cattlemen's in Petaluma, the 2010-11 Officers & Board were installed.
Handling the installation duties was Mary Zimmerman. Mary has served for several years as a board member and active NBDW worker. She has retired from the board and was kind enough to conduct installation for us.
New Officers are:
President Audrey Wheeler, 1st Vice President Judy Buttke, Second Vice President Monique Moretti, Recording Secretary Susan Bianchi, Treasurer Sue McIsaac, Corresponding Secretary Cindy Bordessa; Board Members are Annette Grossi, Kim Jones, Lorrie Kidder, Arlene McClure, Cathy Nommsen and NEW Board member Christine Neles.
Also serving in other jobs are: Marie Baranzini as Sunshine and Ellen Durrer as Notification Secretary. Cathy Nommsen will be working on the Scrap Book and Annette Grossi & Megan Herman on the Newsletter.
Again, thank you Mary for your service to our board; and to all those on the board & support jobs. Many hands make light work and we have many of those hands willing to offer their help.

Sonoma County Ag Days

1st Alt. Dairy Princess Mandy Brazil & Audrey Wheeler pass out milk at the

Sonoma County Ag Days evening reception.

Dairy Women served 650 half pints of chocolate & 2% milk.

Susan & George Bianchi donated about one third of the cost of the milk served at the reception.

Also served during the 2 days of student visits were 85 gallons of 2% milk...

that's a lot of cups ladies! Thank you for all the great help.

About 15 gallons of milk that was leftover was donated to The Kitchen in Petaluma.

2nd Alt. Dairy Princess Lianne Nunes & 1st Alt. Dairy Princess Mandy Brazil

join Annette Grossi, Danika & Leslie Corp & Cindy Bordessa at the milk booth.

Susan Bianchi, Audrey Wheeler and

1st Alt. Dairy Princess Mandy Brazil offer students a cold cup of milk.

2010 Dairy Princess Contest

Thank you to Judy Buttke and her committee, and everyone else who helped make this year's contest a success! This year we had six contestants - Jacqueline Balletto, Andrea Dolcini, Regina Camozzi, Emilie Strand, Jenna VanDeRyt and Stephanie Rowley.

The Bernice Hadermann scholarship went to Riggs Lokka and

Regina Camozzi received the Florence Gilardoni scholarship.

The Isolena Maestretti Miss Vitality award went to Emilie Strand.

Emilie Strand was crowned 2010-2011 District 3 Dairy Princess, along with 1st Alternate Regina Camozzi and 2nd Alternate Stephanie Rowley. Congratulations, ladies! Be sure to watch for them in the Butter & Egg Days Parade on April 24th!

Thank you to Hawkes Photography for taking photos again this year! You can view photos of the contest online by visiting...

http://www.hawkesphotography.net/

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Brenda Hawkes-Ficco at hawkesphoto@yahoo.com

or by phone 707-823-6537

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Marin County Farm Day

Linda and Joyce handed out teacher packets and collected surveys.
Louise asks the kids what they had for breakfast and if they can identify which food groups their food came from.
Karen and Annette

Karen discusses different milk products with the kids.

There was a line to play our Trivia Game!

Ellen and Annette

Students enjoyed the hands on activities, including planting their own pumpkins, petting the animals and learning about agriculture in Marin County.

Linda Moretti, Ellen Durrer, Louise Joaquim, Karen Taylor and Joyce Leveroni

Great job, ladies! Thank you for your time!

Fun Nite Feb. 26, 2010

Some of the Fun Nite Decorating Crew...great job ladies.

We apologize to those not in photos; everyone was a big help!

Red, White & Blue tables look great.

Joyce Leveroni, Susan Bianchi, Arlene McClure, Audrey Wheeler
with Audrey's beautiful red, white & blue floral arrangement.

Genny & Clarence Mazzetta at their table.

Dairymen Dave Leveroni & George Bianchi enjoy the evening.

President Susan serves her salad for a crowd.

KITCHEN CREW

Thank you to ham carver Charlie Baranzini & his assistant Mike Bordessa.

Cindy Bordessa did an outstanding job cooking the hams.

Christine Neles & Susan Bianchi put in much effort helping Cindy in the kitchen.

Cathy & Sue ready to sign in guests & sell them raffle tickets.

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Tickets may be purchased at Dairymen's Feed & Supply Co-op,

John's Dairy Supply & Jay Palms.

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2010 Ag Days

Annual Ag Days are here again. Come help us share the dairy industry with our students!

Marin County Ag Day is Thursday, March 18th.
http://mcoeweb.marin.k12.ca.us/es/farmday/farmday.htm

Sonoma County Ag Days are Wednesday & Thursday, March 24th & 25th.
http://www.sonomacountyfarmbureau.com/pdfs/Ag%20Days%20&%20Ag%20Boot%20Camp%20Flyer%20-%20for%20Print%202010.pdf

Click on the links above for additional information about these great events. Please contact us if you are interested in helping out! We'd love to see some new faces!

2010 Dairy Princess Contest & Ball

Tickets are now available! Please contact us at nbdairywomenmail@yahoo.com to get yours!