• Guild leadership would have more continuity: the incoming president would have been on the board and familiar with its working for a year before taking on the president's role.
• The guild would always know who will be president next.
• The president would have a right hand person to step in and take over duties if they are ill/unable to attend a meeting.
• 12 months is a shorter term and it might be easier to ask someone to be president for a year than it is to ask for two years.

• A new vice president would have to be recruited every year.

Thank you and Congratulations to our Service Knitters!

We are helping to warm many, many foster families this winter with our donation of over 150 items to Boxes of Love and With Love. These organizations serve foster families throughout the Portland area by providing needed clothing and comfort items, often at a moment's notice. Your knitting brought big smiles to the faces of the team members from our partner organizations who accepted the donations.

Congratulations to the knitters/crocheters who won prizes in the random drawings for the yearlong blanket challenge and to the winners of our most prolific service knitter award and the lucky random draw winner for the year. Who are they? Come to the December meeting to find out!

Who will we knit/crochet for next year? You'll have to wait and see. Our next partner will be announced at January's meeting. But you don't have to wait to start knitting — we just learned that they really want lots of hats and fingerless mitts!

Speaking of next year, we are looking for one or more folks to join the Service Knitting Committee. The workload is light; the joy of working with our partner organizations is great. Please email outreach@puddletownknittersguild.com if you are interested in learning more.