CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS

	To the left: TOPS WA0065 Aberdeen Leader, Ellen Salzer (at the left) and her chapter members as they celebrate the loss of 253 pounds by the chapter in 2010 by collecting and donating 253 pounds of food to their local food bank this past September. The effort was coordinated by member Amy Moyer. The photo was taken by her son, Nathan. WAY TO GO!!	Santa Rosa, CA chapter at SRD
TOPS #NV0136 holding balloons and believe sign. The balloons have post card invitations to join our chapter meeting or visit any local TOPS chapter, attached to them.	Lesley Gipson one of our very wonderful KOPS letting off her set of balloons.	Our weight recorder and Area Captain Michelle Yauger letting go of a bunch of the balloons;	Big bunch of balloons in the air.

WA276, Silverdale - HALLOWEEN FUN
Saying the Pledge	Karen Jacobs Elton	Chelsie Jacobs Elton	Ballots for voting
Saying the pledge	Ginnie Zinter, Leader	Very Spooky!! Weight Recorders	Chelsie and Ginnie

Left to Right: Rosana Hefley, Lin Scanland our leader and chapter Angel, Pam Reising, Rhonda Madison,
Leona Drtina, Beverly Satter, Janet Peterson, Rhonda Divina, Donna Waters, Lorraine Crandall, Julie Day.

Gary Bumgarten
Holding a sign saying BELIEVE

Marie Buamgartner, Tops member giving a program on the book "Eat This...Not That" Reatha says, She is letting us see things that are good for us to eat.

Congratulations Century Club Award Recipient
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Member Sandra McCathern
TOPS CA 1583, Redding
Lost 100 pounds!!!

ZUMBA LESSONS at WA 292, Snohomish...who says meetings have to be boring?? Zumba Instructor, Lisa Weimann shows the chapter participants just what to do. Participants: Kenna Lee Bennett, Shirley Tuengel (a member visiting from Arizona) Stephanie Ekloff, Rachel Evler, Pam Moll, Carmel Feaser, Dona Graham, Patty Fawcett, and Roxanne Hardood

WA276, Silverdale Enjoys their food function at Island Lake, Bremerton

Hello TOPS Pals, Here are some pix of the Picnic we had at Island Lake on Aug. 29, 2011. It was GREAT. -- Karen Jacobs Elton

Island Lake Park Sign...and our Tops sign so you can find us!

Miss Chelsie Jacobs-Elton (co-leader and secretary) at your service; our BBQ girl for the day! Good job Chels!

LtoR: Darlene Kimball, Janet Palmer, Ginnie Zinter (leader), Marilyn Landreth,
Karen Jacobs-Elton, Chelsie Jacobs-Elton (secretary and coleader),
Barbi Luppino (weight recorder), Mike Luppino.

Darlene Kimball chats with Marilyn Landreth and our newest member, Janet Palmer!

Ginnie Zinter (leader) with Karyn Zinter and lots of VEGGIES!!!

LtoR: Ginnie Zinter, Karyn Zinter, Marilyn Landreth, Darlene Kimball, Janet Palmer, Barbi Luppino, Mike Luppino, Karen Jacobs-Elton.

UT 315
Members feeling proud of their NO GAIN MEETING

When we went to SRD 2011 in June, Nancy Marasco, our Regional Director, spoke about our Road To Success. She stated that we should recognize members each week for their successes. She said it's sometimes harder for a member to lose weight than it is for a 7-foot tall basketball player to slam dunk a ball into the basket and that we manage to all cheer for the basketball player, why don’t we cheer as loud for our members when they have worked so hard to have a successful week? When we got back to the chapter and roll call was given we all gave a big cheer and clapped loudly for each member as they reported a loss. Every week we continued cheering for weight losses and our members really started to sit up and take notice. We began recording better losses. On June 23, 2011 we had 13 members report in with a total loss of 17.25 pounds and NO GAINS. Even our 5 KOPS reported a loss. We have never had a complete no gainer. IT WAS GREAT. We were all very excited over our accomplishment.
Area Captain-Karol Phipps
Floral

One day I showed up at WA459, Bremerton wearing my biking clothes which included a PINK jacket. Someone came up to me and said, "How'd you know to wear pink today?" It was coincidence!! The chapter was celebrating Janelle Stewart's beating cancer!		BELOW: Tops WA292, Snohomish The ladies do a rousing session of ZUMBA!
Tops WA459, Bremerton surprised weight recorder Janelle Stewart with a PINK party	Janelle was honored for beating cancer! Everyone showed up wearing pink	HOW COOL IS THIS??? Love it!!

Area Captain Terry Harmsworth Presents AC Program SUPER FOODS. Tops OR833 loved having Terry come and visit us and share the Super Foods program! She is wonderful and we learned a lot. She is SUPER awesome!! says member Karren King
AC Terry Harmsworth	Presenting Super Foods Program	SUPER FOODS for healthy eating	Super Men

OH. The people you meet at SRD!!

This is Keith Benson. While serving as leader of CA0011, Long Beach he took Barb Cady's pink hair challenge" lead and challenged his members to lose 50 pounds. If anyone met this challenge, the chapter could dye his hair. Well, as it turned out, Jan Wilcox lost 52 pounds. The chapter got creative and dyed his hair...green, yellow, pink, purple, blue...Kudos to Keith!!
Congratulations to Jan. Job well done!!
I wonder if the current leader, Keith's wife Ruth, will challenge the chapter this year!!!

Area Captain, and leader of Tops WA0538, Opportunity, Joyce Anderson accepts, for the chapter, the American Flag presented by
Wayne Duckworth upon his return from duty. The flag came with a certificate to the chapter for their outstanding support of US deployed
forces fighting the Global War on Terrorism. This flag was flown on an American C-17 over the skies of Afghanistan on New Years Day 2011.

Wayne and his wife Diana joined the chapter in April of 2010. Since joining Wayne has lost 25.5 pounds and Diana has lost 48.5 pounds.

Wayne is a 23 year veteran with the 446th Airlift Wing and he along with 25 other Reservists from Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA
returned on Feb 4th after a four month mobilization as ground crew in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn from
Europe to Southwest Asia. He and his crew mates loaded Air Force C-17 Globemasters, like the ones based at McChord,
C-130 Hercules, and also filled the bellies of Russian jets.

Altogether, they sent 42,000 tons of cargo totaling $1.4Billion in vital life-saving equipment. Part of the cargo includes 1400 MRAP
(Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) Vehicles, which were sent directly to soldiers saving lives.

Women's Business Holiday Social

On Monday, November 28, 2010 at the Callaway Fitness Center in Puyallup, WA, TOPS Chapter WA1117, Spanaway exhibited a booth at the event.
What a better place to recruit and spread the word about TOPS than at a Fitness Center? Area Captain, and KOPS Pam Harper brought a display
explaining what TOPS is about. Also exhibited was the food exchange system. Pam displayed her before and after picture as a
testimony of what TOPS can do as long you have the motivation, willpower and motivation to Take Off Pounds Sensibly. (photo on left)

Picture (L-R) Leader, Tina Hess, Co-Leader, Alice Dowie
and Area Captain, Pam Harper

TOPS WA1278, Spokane Valley. Each week the members bring a specific item for their collection. After a few months, the members use their meeting time to pack the items into clear shoeboxes and then send them to the children of 3rd world countries. They have done this for couple of years and really enjoy giving.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN October 2010 Thanks to Pat Ellis, we have these lovely photos of her chapter's Halloween Costume Parade. She says, TOPS WA 0292 Snohomish celebrated Halloween today (October 25th) with some members dressing up. Prizes for costumes were given. Inez Hawn got first place, Dolores McMullen got second and Ellen Wilkie got third place. We had a blast.
Mother and Daughter Mary Burke and Inez Hawn	Dolores McMullen, Ellen Wilkie, Thelma Niemi, Area Captain Darlene Wascher	Ellen Wilkie, Inez Hawn, Mary Burke, Sandy Ferguson, Patty Fawcett	Ellen Wilkie, Inez Hawn, Mary Burke, Sandy Ferguson, Patty Fawcett, Darlene Wascher, Dolores McMullen, Thelma Niemi

Weight Recorders Audrey Skinner and Bonnie Snelling weigh-in Kops Frances Pounds with the “moose”	SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 Deb Kuney Visits a California Chapter TOPS CA 936, Clearlake Oaks Meets at the Moose Lodge in Clearlake Oaks, CA I had a great time visiting this chapter. I met a bunch of wonderful ladies who chatted or played cards before the meeting. They offered me fruit which members bring in to share with one another. The meeting consisted of the minutes being read, playing games such as bingo, awarding contest winners and roll call. Some of the members shared sentimental items from their past. It was very entertaining. Elaine Thomas read an inspirational story from the Tops News for the program. All in all, it was a very good meeting. I hope to attend a few more times while I'm in CA. -Deb	CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WAGNERS John, a 4 year KOPS (lost 31.75 lbs) and his wife Ruth, 3 year KOPS (lost 23.75 lbs) will celebrate 67 years of marriage on the 18th of September.
4 year KOPS Inez Knox (lost 44.75 lbs) and 16 year KOPS Frances Pounds (lost 124 lbs) recite the KOPS pledge	Treasurer Vanya Leighton, Elaine Thomas, Pat Berry and Inez Knox play a rousing game of cards called “Kings in the Corner” before the meeting.	Kings in the Corner These gals play for high stakes...pennies. Vanya won the game coming out 5 cents ahead.

Photo: Linda Zahnow, Dana Suttell, Barbara Pendelton

TOPS #WA1503, Port Orchard
Four active members, Aleta Belvin, Leader
August 26th, 2010 Port Orchard Park

Disc Golfing
submitted by KOPS Barbara Pendelton

Our chapter includes exercise as a part of our meeting every week. Linda and I did Disc Golfing when we took part in our Senior Games. It was a lot of fun and we brought it back to our chapter and taught everyone how to play.
It is easy to learn and fun.
You need at least one disc and all sporting good places carry them as well as Fred Meyers. You walk around a course and instead of a club and ball as in regular golf you toss your disc. The aim is to reach a basket and toss your disc into it. The course is uphill, downhill and through wooded areas so you get a lot of walking in as well as ending to pick up your disc for the next throw. Each hole has a par, but when we’re exercising we first have fun and don’t worry about the score, most of the time we are over par anyway.
It is fun to get outdoors and doing something different for exercise.

4 chapters from Central Northern Utah TOPS participated
in the Roy City Parade on August 7th!

It was fun being with TOPS friends, as it always is!! We marched along beside an adorable 1929 car with bright TOPS posters on both sides. We shouted TOPS songs as we marched along. The "AAOOGGAA" horn of the car added to the fun all along the way. We passed out hundreds of TOPS pamphlets, getting the TOPS word out there! Plus an added bonus is that we all certainly got our exercise PLUS that day!!
It was great fun!! Give it a try in your area!!

Submitted by: Area Captain Karol Phipps

Cathy Jordan, Karol Phipps, Heidi Jenkins, Kathy Mamanakis, Ann Bliss, Sue Frandsen , Judy Frigaard (in car)
Harry Wicker, Susan Wiggins and Michelle Wicker. Also participating, but not in the photo were: Gayle and Jim Karr.

At Spring workshop WA 642 Fed Way put out a challenge to all other chapters. The contest was simple. The chapter who lost the most percentage of weight in a 6 week period won. The losing chapter had to put on a lunch for the winners. WA 12, Kent took our challenge. We were close for a couple of weeks but then the Kent chapter had members go on vacations and WA 642 took the lead and did not look back. In the end, WA642 lost 51.2 pounds to WA 12, 6 pounds. You gotta give the Kent chapter credit, they have 7 KOPS so they don't have a lot to lose. The Kent chapter put on a really great and healthy potluck and we all got to meet each other and swap club stories. So now the question is... Does any one else want to challenge WA 642 Federal Way to a weight loss competition??
Story submitted by Janice (Both chapters are pictured here)

TOPS WA 0292, Snohomish recently completed an 8 week Octopus Challenge. Each member who wished to participate received an Octopus created by Area Captain Darlene Wascher. Then, each week, for 8 weeks, the challenge was to keep all 8 legs of the Octopus. If a member had a gain, or was absent, a leg had to be removed. At the end of the 8 weeks, each member was given tickets -- one ticket for each leg remaining -- to be placed in a drawing for nice prizes. Two names were drawn -- Margaret Martin and Thelma Niemi were the lucky winners. Pictured are the members who participated with their Octopus. (Octopi??)

Submitted by Linda Zahnow, TOPS#WA1503, Port Orchard Our 2 Kops participated in the West Sound Senior Games as one way to stay active and help maintain weight loss. Both completed the 5K and won gold medals in their divisions.
L-R: Linda Zahnow, Barb Pendleton.

Member of WA0292, Snohomish, Dolores McMullen, belongs to an Everett Chapter of Pocahontas. They collect pennies for charity, saving until they collect $100. It is then donated to their chosen charity. Recently, their chosen charity was the Snohomish Food Bank, in which Kops Kaptain, Thelma Niemi is active. This photo shows Dolores presenting the check to Thelma at her Tops meeting. Also pictured are Chris Miles and Margie Wentz.

TOPS #WA1503, Port Orchard
April 1, 2010, 1st YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Pictured: Dana Suttell and Aleta Belvin
Our chapter is only four members but we wanted to celebrate our new chapters 1st Anniversary. We divided the celebration into two parts so everyone would have a surprise. Our two KOPS made a special gift to give to the two TOPS members. The wreaths say Continued success in creating a new you.

WA 0049, Moses Lake having fun with a RAP song based on the Food Pyramid.

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Area Captain, Mary Falconer says there was much laughter while all learned about sensible food choices.

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Working on the rap song and performing the rap song

WA State King Rod Milward and wife, Denise. When they visited WA538, Opportunity on 4-15-10, Rodney spoke on the subject of losing weight, keeping it off and his experiences at SRD and IRD.
Denise is a Century Club winner.

KOPS Linda Zahnow

WA1503, Port Orchard

Author: Barb Pendleton, Wt.Rec.
Report submitted by: Linda Zahnow, Co-Leader
What was the occasion: Program Field Trip
When did it take place: 2/11/2010
Where was it held: Silverdale, WA
Who is pictured: KOPS Linda Zahnow

Our leader, Dana Suttell, gave a program on style and clothing. She talked about how we need to change our thinking about our choices in regard to color and style as our bodies change in the same way we are changing our eating habits. We need to think outside the box. The following week we made a field trip to a new Goodwill store where we tried on things we normally would not have thought of doing.

The picture shows Linda Zahnow in just one of the wonderful items we found. Linda was not sure about the purchase at first but I hope you agree as we all did that it was a good fit for her. Linda intends to wear it next year at SRD when she receives her 10 year KOPS award. We all learned much by following the program with the shopping trip.

This turned out to be a wonderful program idea.

WA 324, Colville
100dollarchallenge

The big winners of the $100 Challenge was KOPS LaVonna Conley and TOPS Terri Snyder. Both winners won $100 each. The prize money came from the treasury so there was no cost to join the contest for our members. For the rules of this GREAT contest click on link:
100 DOLLAR CONTEST RULES
(The rules are under the horse race contest.)

WA 1503, Port Orchard
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Submitted by Dana Suttell

We have a fun way to honor your officers with their annual charms. We used earring findings with multiple loops (they come in many shapes and sizes). We used a special pin in the top loop to attach it to our shirts. Our chapter uses a sailboat on our shirts so we attached the charm but any charm can be used there. We are a new chapter and placed a numeral bead with the officers charm. We plan to use a numeral for each year. There are many ways to use this idea. Attach KOPS charms and numerals. Award a charm for each 10-25 pounds, anything will work. It's a fun way to display our charms and awards.

WA 642, Federal Way
642 Federalway

Leader, Janice submitted this story and photo: On April 11,2010 our Tops group participated in a walk for MS. Two of our members (Nina and Stephanie) suffer with this disease and we wanted to be able to raise funds for this cause. (Note: this is legal because chapter funds were NOT used) We got some exercise and promoted our chapter while we were there. Front row: Elaine, Stephanie, Faye, Nina
Back row: Ramona, Janice, Sandy, Mia, Laura, Teri, Tiffany

CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS

WA276, Silverdale - HALLOWEEN FUN

ZUMBA LESSONS at WA 292, Snohomish...who says meetings have to be boring??

WA276, Silverdale Enjoys their food function at Island Lake, Bremerton

Hello TOPS Pals, Here are some pix of the Picnic we had at Island Lake on Aug. 29, 2011. It was GREAT. -- Karen Jacobs Elton

Women's Business Holiday Social

HAPPY HALLOWEEN October 2010

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 Deb Kuney Visits a California ChapterTOPS CA 936, Clearlake OaksMeets at the Moose Lodge in Clearlake Oaks, CA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Deb Kuney Visits a California Chapter

TOPS CA 936, Clearlake Oaks
Meets at the Moose Lodge in Clearlake Oaks, CA