HO! HO! HO! Sleigh your way to the annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. Enjoy the beautiful voices of our local choirs while having your child’s photo taken with Santa Claus, making your favorite holiday arts and crafts project and enjoying cookies with hot cocoa. Help count down the lighting of the tree with Santa Claus at 6:05pm.

Free admission - Donation of $5 or $10 will give you a choice of a Hawaiian lunch plate or Hawaiian dessert. Please click here for more information!

NOVEMBER
- 2nd - Full moon

- 9th - Berlin Wall falls (1989)

- 10th - US Marine Corps established (1775)

- Wed 11th - KCC Potluck and election 6:30pm; Veterans Day

- 22nd - President Kennedy assasinated (1963)

- Tue 24th - KCC Board meeting 5:30pm (rescheduled from Wed 25th)

- Thu 26th - Thanksgiving Day

- Sun 29th - First Sunday of Advent

TRAVELERS

Bud and Annette are back from a four-day journey to Butte, Montana to visit a sick friend in the hospital.

THANKS FOR YOUR WORK

Thanks Ed Straw for cutting the lawn hopefully for the last time this season.

Thanks to Les Straw for stopping by and replacing the leaky kitchen sink water supply line.

Thanks to Bud and Annette for standing by for 3 hours while the furnace repair man serviced the non-working heater and replacing a weakened part on the other. Some house keeping and other small task were completed while they stood by.

The new Angel Care 2010 Calendar will be available at the potluck. Bobbie DeCoster (always Ms December) will have copies for purchase at $15.00. As many of you know, the volunteers for Angel Care Breast Cancer Foundation work one-on-one with newly diagnosed breast cancer survivors. Your support of this work is greatly appreciated.
-Bobbie DeCoster, 425-488-7537

Let's get a food, clothes and toys drive going in November and December! I am again planning a raffle in November. If you have anything we can raffle off please give us a call at 425-488-1500. We need your help! Let's all work to help people in need. We all have so much to share. Thank you
Pat Askelson

Also, Hopelink's new Kirkland/Northshore Center in the Totem Lake neighborhood is in particular need of volunteers for its new grocery store-style food bank. Hopelink relies on volunteers for jobs such as sorting food donations, helping adults learn to read, do basic math, study for GED exams, learn English, provide child care, home work tutoring to children, delivering food to homebound clients or answering phones and helping with office tasks. To volunteer call 425-869-6066.

If you are interested in serving on a committee, please let your president know. As you can tell by looking at the list we still need some volunteers who are interested in working for the club.

MEMBERSHIP & ACTIVITIES
- Hospitality: Chair, Marlene Rice
- Entertainment /Promotions: (position vacant)
- History: (position vacant)
- HopelLink: Chair, Pat Askelson
- Pancake Breakfast: Chair, Annette Eaton

ORGANIZATION
- Nominations: (position vacant)
- Manager Contact: Co-Chairs, Ed Straw & Marty Askelson
- Constitution & By-laws: Bobbie DeCoster, Annette Eaton, Don Ivanhoe, Bud Eaton
- Audit: Chair, John Hendrickson

On November 9, 2009, Berlin will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a "Festival of Freedom", during which over 1,000 foam domino tiles over 8 feet tall will be stacked along the former route of the wall in the city center and toppled.

In the United States, the German Embassy is coordinating a public diplomacy campaign with the motto "Freedom Without Walls" to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The campaign is focused on promoting awareness of the fall of the Berlin Wall among current college students, and students at over 20 universities will participate in "Freedom Without Walls" events in late 2009.

An international project called "Mauerreise" – Journey of the Wall takes place in various countries. Twenty symbolic wall bricks are being sent from Berlin starting in May 2009. Their destination: Korea, Cyprus, Yemen and other places where everyday life is characterised by division and border experience. In these places the bricks will become a blank canvas for artists, intellectuals and young people to tackle the "wall" phenomenon.

Little is left of the Wall at its original site, which was destroyed almost everywhere. Three long sections are still standing: an 80-meter (263 ft) piece of the first (westernmost) wall at the site of the former Gestapo headquarter half way between Checkpoint Charlie and Potsdamer Platz; a longer section of the second (easternmost) wall along the Spree River near the Oberbaumbrücke nicknamed East Side Gallery; and a third section with hints of the full installation, but partly reconstructed, in the north at Bernauer Straße, which was turned into a memorial in 1999. Some other isolated fragments and a few watchtowers also remain in various parts of the city. None still accurately represent the Wall's original appearance. They are badly damaged by souvenir seekers, as fragments of the Wall were taken and sold around the world. Appearing both with and without certificates of authenticity, these fragments are now a staple on the online auction service eBay as well as German souvenir shops. Today, the eastern side is covered in graffiti that did not exist while the Wall was guarded by the armed soldiers of East Germany. Previously, graffiti appeared only on the western side. Along the tourist areas of the city centre, the city government has marked the location of the former wall by a row of cobblestones in the street. In most places only the "first" wall is marked, except near Potsdamer Platz where the stretch of both walls is marked, giving visitors an impression of the dimension of the barrier system.
-Source: wikipedia.org