Trying to keep you informed.
Here is more information you may be interested in.
The Ohio Apitherapy Day (using bee products for your health) will take place on February 18, 2012. The speakers are very educated on the subject.This program is very interesting and educational. I went to it last year and sure learned a lot. It is an all day event. It can be done (drive to, class, and drive home) in one day if you don't mind a very l-o-n-g day. (I did it last year.)

Cindy Dudock
President SVBA

Below is an excerpt from an e-mail I received regarding the pertinent information:

APITHERAPY DAY IN OHIO
DATE: Saturday February 18, 2012
TIME: 8:00 – 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
PLACE: Pittsfield Township Hall, State Road 303 at Ohio Route 58 between Oberlin and Wellington Ohio

The speakers will be Donald Downs, Jim Higgins, Kristine Jacobson, David Richmond and Jerry Catana. The program is free (donations are accepted). There will be a pot luck lunch, bring a dish to pass. This is the best one day program about apitherapy that I know of. There are over 110 years of experience between the speakers. Come and learn about the health benefits of apitherapy! For more information contact:
Jerry Catana 586-463-2325
Kristine Jacobson 616-454-9119
Donald Downs 440-647-2483

Merry Chirstmas Fellow Beekeepers
A good portion of you have ordered bees, but I am sending a reminder to the rest
of the club who haven't. January 2012 is 13 days away and our bee order will be
coming to a close. If there are any more beekeepers who are interested in ordering
please get with me as soon as possible. I would like to get our order set and secure
to make sure we get our bees.

I believe Dave Anthony will be at the club meeting on January 5th to collect the orders.

Terry Toland maybe making his appearance to speak to our club as he did with Saginaw Valley Beekeepers earlier this month after his election or MBA President.

Club dues are currently due, they will run for example from January 1, 2012 until December 31,2012 being renewable at the January meeting.

Help is needed to bring the Honey Festival together any one interested in helping contact Im Dodder or Terry Toland. We will be doing raffles monthly to help increase the club funds. If anyone has other ideals for fundraisers, please contact me and I will present it to the club for a vote.

We will be raffling off another complete hive at the ANR week in March, it would be nice to have a few extra people willing to sit by the table and help sell tickets too. As soon as I get any information on the ANR week I wqill pass it along to you. There will be a MBA meeting on January 14, 2012 at 10:00a.m. if any one is interested in attending. Your ideals and inputs will be heard at the meeting.

If anyone knows of a fellow beekeepers who does not do the internet please get their name address and phone number and I will send them out a flyer when our meetings will be. I am looking into sending a club newsletter as well, both online and by mail for those who do not use the internet.

I also want to take a moment and let you know you all have been a terriffic group of
beekeepers and friends. Each one brings a little something to our meetings which all are important. There always room for questions even if it has been asked before.This is what makes our group so unique. We compliment each other in our thought and what we share.

Tis the season to enjoy each other, family and friends and to share our beekeeping lessons and products with our loved ones. Look forward to what is in store for us in the coming new year. Please be safe in your holiday travels and look forward to seeing you next year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED HAPPY NEW YEAR!








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Barb Applebee, President
Mid-Michigan Beekeepers Club

Absentee Ballot Available for 2011 MBA Election the following is the website to visit for the ballot.

http://www.michiganbees.org/2011/11/absentee-ballot-available-for-2011-mba-election/

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As per Section 2 of Article X of the MBA constitution, absentee balloting for the 2011 MBA election are now available. Here are the details…

General Rules:
1. To vote, you must be a member “in good standing”. This means that you must have your 2011 dues paid or be a life member. If your dues were not paid for 2011, then you cannot vote. To check your membership status, click here.

2. Single memberships are entitled to one vote. Family memberships are entitled to two votes.

3. If you submit an absentee ballot, then you will not be eligible to vote at the 2011 Business Meeting (at the fall conference). This is to say you can only vote once.

4. The absentee ballot can be downloaded by clicking here.

5. The absentee ballot is interactive and may be completed on your computer. Or you can print the ballot and complete the ballot by hand.

Submission Procedures
The absentee ballot may be submitted by email or mailed to the Election Committee. All ballots must be received (not postmarked, but received) no later than Thursday, November 30 2011. No exceptions.

To submit your ballot by email…
1. REQUIRED: Enter your name in the “Print Member Name” field provided on the ballot stub.

2. REQUIRED: Enter your email address in the “Member Signature” field provided on the ballot stub. This email address must match that under which you submit the ballot.

3. Then click the “Submit by E-mail” button on the bottom of the ballot stub. When you click on the form’s “Submit by E-mail” button, your local email client will start up in another window. The email will be pre-addressed (mrisk75@gmail.com) and your completed absentee ballot will be shown as an attachment. All you need to do is send the email. If this procedure does not happen, then your ballot was not sent. You may need to print the ballot to a PDF file and send it manually.

4. You should receive an acknowledgement within 24 hours, If this does not happen, please contact Mike Risk at 517-651-9842 (home) or 517-643-1880 (cell).

5. If you have issues, please read the extended instructions at the bottom of this article.

To submit your ballot by mail…
1. Print the ballot by clicking the “Print Ballot” button on the bottom of the ballot stub. Or you can use the print services of the browser window in which the absentee ballot is opened.

2. REQUIRED: Print your name in the “Print Member Name” field provided on the ballot stub.

3. REQUIRED: Sign your name in the “Member Signature” field provided on the ballot stub.

4. Mail ballot(s) to:
Mike Risk
MBA 2011 Election Committee
7575 Hollister Road
Laingsburg, MI 48848

5. If you wish to maintain anonymity, detach the ballot from this stub and put the ballot in a separate envelope. One ballot per envelope. Then enclose the ballot envelope(s) inside another envelope to mail. Put the ballot stub(s) in the outer envelope.

Additional information when submitting your ballot by email…
As you may have realized, this is the first time that MBA has implemented an absentee ballot procedure. An absentee ballot is required by the MBA constitution that was adopted in 2010. If there are still glitches in the procedures, please accept our apologies as we work these out. Constructive comments are welcome.

In preliminary testing, the main issues seem to be involved when submitting (returning) the absentee ballot by email. There are a lot of different factors that come into play, many of which concern how you have your local email procedures configured on your computer. These factors, of course, are out of our control. So this section is provided to describe what is suppose to happen. If it doesn’t for you, then we suggest some alternatives.

First, after you complete your ballot (as per instructions above) and click the “Submit by E-mail” button, a dialog box should appear asking if you use a “desktop email application” (such as Outlook or Eudora) or “Internet Email” (suc as Yahoo, Microsoft Hotmail or gmail). You are asked to select which option applies to you.

If you use “Internet Email”, then the dialog box instructs you to save your ballot (or print it to a PDF document) and submit it to the MBA election committee as an attachment. This you will have to do just as you would for any other email and attachment.

If you use “Desktop Email Application”, then when you click the OK button on the dialog box, your email client should start automatically, with the appropriate email address and your absentee ballot already attached. All you have to do is send the email.

What happens if you don’t see this dialog box or your email client does not start automatically? This situation would indicate that the automated procedure may not be working in your case. Therefore, you can either save your absentee ballot – or print it to a PDF file – and send the ballot via email just like you would any other attached document.

Or, you can print your absentee ballot, and mail it to the election committee.





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Mid-Michigan Beekeepers Club Meeting

Richfield Township Hall, located at
5381 N. State Rd., Davison, MI 48423
Meetings is the FIRST THURSDAY OCTOBER 6TH
of the month at 7 pm.
Doors open at 6:30p.m.
President: Jim Wither
Phone: 810-736-0128
Email: munnytauchs@yahoo.com or
midmichiganbeekeepers@gmail.com

Website: www.midmichiganbeekeepers.com
Open to the public so please come and check our club out and learn about natures of Honey Bees and how they work. The Mid-Michigan Beekeepers Club has a variety of beekeepers from first timers to experienced beekeepers of many years.

Our Club Picnic is at a new location this SATURDAY JULY 23

Where:
GENESEE COUNTY PARKS
5045 STANLEY ROAD
FLINT MI 48506
Phone: (810)736-7100
PAVILION 5
geneseecountyparks.org

Time: 1:00 P.M.
Set up 12:00p.m.

Date: July 23, 2011

Bring a dish to pass, some bring one dish and one dessert(Optional) and a White Elephant Auction gift in a brown bag. Gift can be something laying around or second hand or brand new. Doesn’t have to be expensive or very big.

Please RSVP me at midmichiganbeekeepers@gmail.comhow many will be coming so we know how much meet to buy.

We look forward to seeing you there.......

Jim Withers------Jim & Wilda Dodder------Barb Applebee