OPEN HOUSE IN TIGARD, OREGON
Very nice display explaining Tops with brochures..etc. | TOPS OR 0238 Tigard held their Open House on Feb 22, 2011. They were blessed with two visitors at the open house. The members walked inside their meeting room before roll call to get their exercise in for the day.
Area Captain, Bonnie Jones presented the program "We're Here for you" that reminded the 10 smart choices for weight -loss which included drink water, plan healthy snacks-eat the right portions, never shop hungry-use a list, Move more keep your arms and hands moving while watching TV, Be flexible with food plan, be aware of trigger situations, always be ready to start over, celebrate small steps and choose your moods-laugh more.
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CALIFORNIA AREA CAPTAIN JAN HIGH
Health Fair at Grossmont Center where many stopped
by to see what Tops was all about. |
Eager Ladies Attend Open House | 
More informative displays | 
Chapter OR0238, Tigard |
E. WA Field Staff (before Brenda Birdwell joined them):
L-R: AC Julie Goree, AC Mary Falconer, AC Sharon Morris
Coord Barb Groves, AC Joyce Anderson, and Coord Jyl Purington |
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TOPS OR 1073 Hillsboro hosted a health fair January 19, 2011 for the Tuality Health Education Center. It was from 7am-1pm for the Hospital and staff members. It went very well. They did a great job of representing TOPS and had a lot of interest.
OR 1073, Hillsboro meets at the Hillsboro Senior Center and has about 60 members-with about 50-55 attending regularly. Right now it is not on the TOPS website as it has reached it maximum room capacity due to the fire marshall guidelines. It's a very active chapter. Great group. They believe in TOPS so much that they wanted to spread the word by hosting this Health Fair.
Isn't that great?
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Marlene Thompson, Rita Smith,
Area Captain-Bonnie Jones and Kathy Richards | 
TOPS Banners and Brochures | 
TOPS Display Booth |
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 | OPEN HOUSE WA 882 Winthrop
Diana McCown at a card table greeting and registering visitors as they came in.
She also handed out tickets for a drawing. We gave away a years local dues and the bouquet on the table.
The one of a group of ladies did a special song for our guests. It was a great success. | I finally found a safe place
says Kathy Langly, Tops Member
GREAT ARTICLE ON SUCCESSFUL
WEIGHT LOSS IN ARIZONA |
TOPS RELAY FOR LIFE CAMPOUT
Submitted by Kay Ludolph, Oregon Area Captain |
TOPS members “MELTED OFF” the pounds as they participated in the RELAY FOR LIFE
East Portland on August 14 & 15, 2010.
Set up started at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. Temperatures were predicted to be 97 degrees or higher. Members
put up 2 tents and 2 canopies to help shade us from the relentless sun. Then the wind gusts hit and we lost 2 tents
and 1 canopy. But we weren’t detoured. Another canopy was brought in to help for shade but we would be sleeping
under the stars. At 10:00 a.m. the festivities began as walkers took to the track to raise money to help find the cure
for cancer. For the next 24 hours each team would have at least one member walking on the track until 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning.
At the beginning due to the heat there wasn’t much happening at out TOPS Information table. But as the sun set and dusk
settled in people stopped by to learn about TOPS. We also had face painting and sold water beads with the proceeds going
to Relay for Life. It was GREAT having a camp out in the middle of the city. There were lots of activities going on through-
out with four live bands, musical chairs, special relay laps and midnight movies. I thought the best part was when the
luminaries (representing those affected by cancer) were lit up surrounding the track. It was reminiscent of our
KOPS Circle of Light.
Thanks to Kerri Veenstra, Cassandra Woods, Coreen Jespersen, Becky Olsen, Heather Miller,
Cindi Hurst, Pam Armstrong and Eileen Reno and their family members and friends which really made our team rock!
At the end we were all exhausted but felt good about being able to participate in such an important event. We are all looking forward to doing it again next
year and we’ve look to expand our team!! Anyone interested???
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Hanford Health and Safety Expo May 18-19, 2010 | 
Open House Guest Speaker
Diane Hart WA410 Kennewick | 
Open House Guest Speaker Jeri Manship WA410, Kennewick
WA State Division Winner-Total Loss: 103.5 pounds | 
Open House Display for WA 52, Pasco |
TOPS Booth set up at the Wenachee Womens Show-May 6, 2010
Mary says, Lots of people stopped by. We had a lot of fun talking with them. | 
Cindy and Area Captain, Mary Falconer at the booth | 
Betty and Area Captain, Mary Falconer |
Spokane Diabetic Health Fair
AC Mary Falconer, AC Joyce Anderson, Coordinator Barbara Groves and Pat Epler |  | 
Saturday, March 27, 2010 Diabetic Health Fair in Spokane.
(Left) Great visual displays showing how much sugar is in certain foods. (above) The lovely 1 pound fat blob, along with the 5 pound blob of fat is always impressive to the people visiting the booth. |
WA 342, Olympia along with Ambassador Gary
Wellington and Area Captain Tom Neitzel represent
Tops at Lacey Health Fair 2009 | 
KOPS Kaptain Thelma Niemi
displays sign for Open House | 
Kops Kaptain Thelma Niemi and Open House Display |
MAIN TABLE at Spokane's Huge OPEN HOUSE
WOW. What a display!!
Coordinator Barb Groves
Coordinator-Barbara Groves and Grace Bingle |
WA 423, Spokane
Tillie Stickles-Century Club Winner
showing her "before" dress
WA 809, Spokane
Wendy Adams, Martha Hess, and Sue Armstrong
WA 765, Spokane
Natalie Davis, Barbara Novak
and 33 year KOPS Judy Coffield
WA 399, Spokane |
WA 1416, Spokane
WA State King-Rod Milward, Denise Milward, Gayle Milward,
Rick Milward and Jackie Rothwell
WA1352, Suncrest
Greta Silva and Diane Brink
WA 405, Spokane
Nancy Bridgens, April Tillman, and Shirley Dicus |
| Tops WA 1501, Royal City holds Open House |
Table with display of Tops Website goodies
The Three "E"s: Eat, Exercise, Enough Sleep
Visitor has FUN with Thera-bands! |
Linda and Josie working out
Linda and Josie working with weights |
Cindy at her booth
Cindy displays healthful foods |
Cindy watches Thera-band demonstration
Josie's son may join Tops after Open House | |
OPEN HOUSE IN WENATCHEE, WA-Chapters from Wenatchee, WA got together at one big Open House to advertise Tops and their individual chapters in hopes of attracting members and just to get the world out about Tops. They all had TOPS things on display at their individual booths. Some of the chapters had their photo albums on display and also contests that they do in their chapter. They had Tops News Magazines and other information readily available for anyone interested in Tops.
Tops WA 1080, Wenatchee |
Tops WA 1227, Wenatchee |
Tops WA 1504, Wenatchee |
Area Captain, Mary Falconer | 
Carole Moeller and Lynn Martin at the
Skagit Gardens Health and Safety Fair | 
Coffee Sleeves!!
GREAT IDEA FOR PUBLICITY
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