IRTA Representative Assembly

Dear AREA Members:

This is a reminder that the IRTA Representative Assembly will be Wednesday, June 17, at Primo South, Indianapolis. Please consider going as a delegate. We can take many. I will be driving and if we need more drivers, AREA will pay for the fuel. Being in attendance gives you a great idea of what IRTA is doing and accomplishing. Coffee, juice, rolls and doughnuts, etc. are available when we get there.

The meeting business is mostly completed by lunchtime and we leave for home soon after lunch. Our AREA incoming president, Barb Kanning, is not able to attend because of a commitment to another conference. I will be attending as AREA president. As last year, "ushers" are needed; we don't need to pay for meals for those who usher. In doing this last year, we found the job to be almost a "no job." IRTA now has 10 areas in the state; one usher stands at each area's section of seats to help members who can't locate their section. AREA members who live north will leave my house at 5:45 A.M. and we will pick up at Comfort Inn at Coventry at 6:00.

Please let me know ASAP (by Saturday night, May 2) if you can attend and if you are OK with being an usher. We will be able to make reservations later, but I need to inform the IRTA office now if we can help usher, how many, and names. Call me at 489-5413 or e-mail cbuttell@frontier.com It could be that enough people have already offered to usher.

Thanks! Carol

Big news from AREA member Mary Lou Morris. Her son, State Representative Bob Morris, informed her that we WILL have a 13th check; it is in the budget!