Escape from Camp Bnai Brith
I woke up bright and early and was ready to roll by 6:30 or so (well, maybe 6:45) for the dash down to Montreal airport to pick up my wife. As I drove to the gate, it occurred to me that staff did not show up until 7am. And, indeed, I sat in the car listening to CBC until about 7, when the office person arrived and I was able to scoot through the gate. It didn't really matter. I was a bit late to pick her up, but we made good time and were back to pick up a late breakfast. It was so nice to have Judy in camp with me. She got a few minutes on her laptop (the computer I am using to produce the newsletter) to work on her lecture for the following day, and then she went off to tsimbl class and I sat down to jam out the 2nd newsletter. With all the Hebrew and despite last night's work, I was still a bit later to the office, and the newsletter arrived only at the end of lunch. By now I was getting lots of requests for yesterday's newsletter as well, so I resolved that the Thursday newsletter would print 120 copies instead of our modest 100.
Here is the Wednesday newsletter, in PDF format.
At some point during the day, I ran into Jenny Levison. "The newsletter needs personal ads," she suggested. It seemed perfectly obvious. We could see ourselves facilitating the natural matchmaking that was happening around us. A fundraiser was born! So, as we handed out the newsletters at lunch, after Joanne Borts announced her "loyf tsunoyf" run on Friday morning (a fundraiser for the camp scholarship fund) I decided that I was not to be outdone. I declared that henceforth, personal ads would be available in the newsletter, for a $5 contribution to the KlezKanada Scholarship fund. I already have the first ads. I can't wait to see how many I get by deadline (breakfast tomorrow).