It has been a few weeks now since I returned home from beautiful South Africa. It has taken me a few weeks to catch up of a few things....
Sleep was the first thing that took a while to catch up on. I was a bit turned around after the long flights home. Although I really should not complain after IAWP First Vice President Margaret Shorter emailed me and said it took her 3 continents and 36 hours of flying time to return home to Vancouver.
Emails and phone messages tend to pile up as well and that was a week to sort through. Still, when IAWP President Jane Townsley posted her update advising she was still in South Africa, I realized my email in bin would pale in comparison to hers.
House work ....well let's just say that I still have not caught up on that.
All the travel and catching up was worth every bit of effort. The trip to South Africa was amazing and the two days of board meetings were very productive. Please watch for your next issue of Women Police to catch up on all of the news.
I would love to catch with all of you so please remember to send me your news, promotion announcements, retirements, photos or anything else that is going on in Region 12. I will continue to catch up on all of that news in the next two weeks.
New IAWP Blogs!
Region 10 Coordinator Robyn Matthews and Region 5 Coordinator Libby Lytle are now blogging. Both have got a great set up so please take some time to navigate over to there blogs and catch up on news in those regions.
We should be seeing a blog in the near future from Region 15 Coordinator Amena Begum.
These blogs are in addition to Region 3 Coordinator Laura Beck, who began to blog about the same time as me, Region 9 Coordinator Janet Wilson and IAWP Chaplain Tamia Dow who have both been blogging for over a year now.
48th Annual IAWP Training Conference in Minneapolis!
Julie Brunzel was in South Africa to provide us with an update on this year's conference. It is shaping up to be a spectacular event. Please log on to the website for all the new details:
http://www.iawp2010.org/
Congratulations to an IAWP friend from Down Under!
Region 14 Co-Coordinator Karen Salisbury is retiring this June. Region 12 wishes a long, healthy and happy retirement!
