Family -It's What its's all about!

During the summer we had the whole immediate family in town at the same time! Made for some great times and needless to say a ton of photos - whaich are either on www.jaegerville.com  or www.jaegerjournal.net. Steven's jaegerville site also contains some fun video of Jacob walking.

Aby entered fourth grade in September and has turned into a very caring young lady who also is a great help with her sister who recently fell and broke her leg. The leg is healing and the cast will be off soon and Delila will be good as new and as inquisitive as ever.

The two red heads at the Jaegerville Zoo , as it is affectionately named are both growing and now that Jacob is able to walk, we are certain they are both into everything! Eli is continuing to go to school at the Temple near the kids' home but its still a little early for Jacob.

David and Steven have recently done some business travel and in spite of the economy business is growing and they are continuing to develop some of their proprietary  programs.

Caryn and Dick are planning a trip out to California but probably not till the end of December or early January, when Caryn will be gaining an extra vacation week.

Dick's involvement with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network  continues to grow and he has been to Washington for Congressional meetings in Jun and will be going again in September. Additionally he has been to Lansing to visit with State legislatures to promote the Smoke Free Workplace and Healthy Michigan initiatives and will be returning to capitol again as the House and Senate versions are reconciled.

In addition to his ACS work Dick attended the International Jewish Genealogical Societies' Conference in Chicago in August along with Marc Manson and over 800 others from around the world. The conference lasted from Sunday through Thursday with seminars, a film festival special interest group meetings and a wide array of other meetings scheduled from 7:00 in the morning to 10:00 at night. Many of the people Dick had known only through e-mail attended and he had an opportunity to put a face with a name and get to know them on a more personal basis. The 2009 Conference is scheduled to be held in Phildelphia next August and Dick is already planning on attending and going on to Lakewood and New York afterward.

Caryn has been likewise busy her office went on flex time but she liked getting off early each day and beating the rush hour rather than getting Fridays off so maintains the same time schedule except now on Fridays its a rather short staff nd a lot more work falls to her. She is also involved in an American Cancer Society long term study that will be coming to the 2009 Relay For Life in West Bloomfield. Its a ten year study open to people under 60 who have not had  or been diagnosed with cancer and will include initial blood samples and an annual survey form for ten years. Caryn and a committee from the West Bloomfield Relay will be working on the program before and up to the Relay event where the test samples will be taken and initial survey forms completed. This is not the first long term survey ACS has undertaken and previous ones were instrumental in such findings as the second hand smoke conclusion.

The extended family continues to grow and we have at least three more new cousins added to the family group since our last update. Famly member now stretch from the US to England, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Israel, Germany, France, Greece, Spain, Venezuela, Argentina, Latvia, the Ukraine, and probably a few we are not even aware of.  The speical family web site contains a lot of documents and reports (as well as photos) from the family history and is constantly being upgraded. Information on how to connect to the site is sent directly to family members.

New & Noteworthy

Jaeger Family:    Four grandchildren get bigger and bigger.  Whole family together at summer visit to Detroit

Friends:   News and stories from friends around the world

ACS Relay :  2008 Relay a huge success as many newcomers expand scope of the event

AEPi-Eta Chi  -Notes and news from HX brothers

ACS CAN:     June Washington Meeting and September meetings in Lansing and Washington and the Fight Back Express