Sampson Community Club
On this page is our quarterly newsletter, the "Squeaky Squirrel." For your convenience as well as information, it has been reprinted, in part, here.
The Squeaky Squirrel
A
newsletter about and for our Mountain Community by Miss Dee, published author
(a.k.a. Dee Lee)
March
15, 2008
Special
Issue - Annual Membership Drive
Hi Neighbor,
We have another year of great events planned for 2008. Whether you are a part of the foundation of Sampson Community Club, or a new neighbor, please join the Sampson Community Club. We hope you attend some of our events. Each of our events brings with it a lot of fun, good food, enjoyable time spent with of our family and neighbors, long visits with precious companions, and the start of new friendships.
If you have attended some of our events in the past, thank you and please come again! If you would like to join the Sampson Community Club, we have included our membership form. Our membership year runs from December through November. Please take a moment or two to fill out the membership form and return it along with your $20.00 membership dues in the envelope provided.
The Sampson Community Club, a non-profit organization, was founded in 1955. Its purpose is four fold: to bring the canyon community together in friendship, betterment of our mountain area, preservation of our history, and maintaining the Sampson and Lamb School properties. And membership benefits in the Sampson Community Club are as follows: active membership in your own community, community support and involvement, social gatherings to enjoy food, exchange ideas and information, the opportunity to get to know one another, voting privileges, the use of the Club's facilities for a minimal suggested donation, and subscription to our quarterly newsletter, the "Squeaky Squirrel."
If you have questions, concerns, or ideas, please call one of the Club's Board members: Virginia Temmer, President (303) 697-7272, Kevin Temmer, Vice President (303) 697-7272, Bob Vick, Treasurer (303) 697-0954, and Chris Foster, Secretary (303) 470-1190.
We hope we will see you this year!
Sincerely, The Sampson Community Club Board
Hogwarts School Winter Session 
Congratulations to the students of the Hufflepuff House!!! They were awarded the House Cup because they earned the most points for good behavior, helpfulness, excellent recall of past Herbology and Hodge Podgeology lessons, and class participation.
The February 23, 2008 Hogwarts Winter Session event was a great success. Once again, the students were enthusiastic, well behaved, and quite knowledgeable in the Harry Potter Trivia Contest. The contest was held during Hogsmeade, which was conducted by Professor Sniggleworth.
During this session, students learned how to make several very interesting potions, the Potions classes were taught by Professor Snuckle. They also worked with the Rune Stones, a helpful and supportive component of Divinations, the Divinations classes were taught by Professor Snodgrass. Because both classes were larger than normal, Professor Wanderoso (Wand Making) and Professor Wysard (Herbology) assisted Professors Snodgrass and Snuckle.
For the finale, all the students had a hands-on
lesson in making their own magic wand, the Wand Making class was taught by
Professor Wanderoso. At the end of class, Professor Wanderoso, with
the assistance of all of the other Professors, cast a "positive use only"
spell on all of the students' wands and then pronounced that each student
was "now one with your wand."
After the evening feast of chicken, potatoes,
corn, and rolls, the House Cup was awarded to the Hufflepuff House. And
because the students of the Hufflepuff House won, they were the first students
allowed to indulge in dessert: the chocolate fountain. A new addition
to dessert, included in the Fall Session, was pumpkin ice cream. It
was such a hit that it was served again at the Winter Session.
To view all of the wonderful pictures of the
Hogwarts events, photographed by Robert Manzanares, Staff Photographer for
the Daily Prophet newspaper, please visit the club's website. The Winter
Session photos are on the Current Year's Photo Album page and the Summer and
Fall Session photos are on the Photo Album Archives page, www.sampsonclub.org.
And yes, there will be a Hogwarts Spring Session. The Hogwarts
Spring Session will be held on May 31, 2008, 2:30 - 8:00 pm. 
Garage
Sale Mania 
May 9th and 10th 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Clean the closets and the garage and bring your stuff down to the Garage Sale Mania!!! Rent a table for $15.00 for both days! Sellers may set-up on Thursday, May 8th, the day before Garage Sale Mania, if they would like, and sellers, if you want to sell stuff but can't be there to man your table, leave a donation jar out for the buyers!
Garage Sale Mania will be advertised on both YourHub.com and Craig's List. If you want to rent a table or two or three, please contact Dee Lee by April 20th at (303) 697-2558.
Electronic
Mail Board
Members
Would
you like to receive the President,
Virginia Temmer (303) 697-7272
Squeaky
Squirrel electronically? Vice
President, Kevin Temmer (303) 697-7272
Please
contact Mitch Tanenbaum Treasurer,
Bob Vick (303) 697-0954
at
mitch@mtanenbaum.us Secretary,
Chris Foster (303) 470-1190
to…the
Albrechts, the Lees, and the Temmers for firewood donations.
Chris Foster, for carrying out your duties as Secretary of the Sampson Community Club.
The Hogwarts Winter Session crew: Eleanor, Heidi, & Kimberly Albrecht, Dee & Mike Lee, Gordon Maness, Robert Manzanares, Barbara Schroeder, Shelley White, and Kevin, Michelle, & Virginia Temmer.
Dee Lee, for writing both the Squeaky Squirrel & script for the Sampson Community Club's website.
Mike Lee, for maintaining the Club's website
Robert Manzanares, for stoking the fires and photographing the Hogwarts Winter Session event.
The Squeaky Squirrel Prep crew: Dee & Mike Lee, Virginia Temmer, and Pat Vick, for preparing the newsletter for mailing.
Mitch Tanenbaum, for printing the Squeaky Squirrel and e-mail blasting the Club's announcements and the E-Squeaky Squirrel.
Kevin Temmer, for carrying out your duties as Vice President of the Sampson Community Club.
Virginia Temmer, for carrying out your duties as President of the Sampson Community Club and putting together the Hogwarts Winter Session event.
Bob Vick, for carrying out your duties as Treasurer of the Sampson Community Club.
The
Squeaky Squirrel, a quarterly newsletter, is published on the 15th
of March, June, September and December. Deadlines for ads and submissions
are the 27th of February, May, August, and November. If you have a story,
an idea or a suggestion, please contact Miss Dee at (303) 697-2558,
e-mail her at missdee001@earthlink.net or drop a note in the Sampson Community
Club's mailbox: 16150 Sampson Road, Littleton, CO 80127. Please include
your evening phone number.
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Need a place to rent for a special occasion? The Sampson Schoolhouse is available. Call Virginia Temmer (303) 697-7272.