<HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD>
<META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><FONT color=#010101>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New">Hello Everyone</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>Indeed so, Tartan Day is in just two weeks and it bears reminding you about the events that are planned. First be sure to tune in KARE 11 on March 30 to see five young dancers from MSCDA dance in the Backyard with Ken Barlow:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New">March 30 – Tartan Day Promotion on KARE 11 in the backyard with Ken <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Barlow at 5:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN>Our good friends at KARE 11 have invited us to be their guests in the backyard with Ken Barlow during the 5:00 p.m. segment of the news. We hope to bring several highland dancers and a piper to entertain while Babs share news of the Tartan Day events with the KARE 11 viewers. Mark your calendars. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New">***************</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New">Then the deadline for your reservations for the Tartan Day Ball is looming - Coming up on Saturday March 27. You don't want to miss this event, it will be wonderful. If you have made reservations but not sent us a check, please do that as soon as possible as we don't want to be collecting money at the Ball:</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New">April 3 - Tartan Day Ball, 3rd Annual Ball, 6:00 P.M. Edinburgh USA<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The 3rd Annual Tartan Day Ball will be held in the Sutherland Ballroom at Edinburgh USA, 8700 Edinbrook Crossing, Brooklyn Park MN 55443. Social Hour will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Turnberry Room with a cash bar and the piano music of David Lohman. Dinner will follow with a menu of Sauteed Breast of Chicken with Fresh Mushroom Marsala Wine sauce, Grilled Fillet of Salmon with Tomato Arugula Salsa. Both entrees will be served with tatties and neeps, green beans almondine, and a baby Sinach and Romanine salad with fresh berries, toasted almonds and raspberry vinaigrette. Our traditional dessert of Tartan Day cake will complete the menu. A lovely vegetarian entrée is available. Of course, there will be Haggis from Camerons in Florida with Jack Barker delivering the address accompanied by Gary Webb on the Pipes. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Following dinner, the 2nd Annual Lifetime Achievement Award will be given to a wonderful woman who has personified Highland Dance in Minnesota for nearly 40 years – Florence Hart. We are thrilled to give this award to Florence and urge you to be present for an evening filled with surprises. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>And then, for all of you ladies and gents sporting new kilts or kilt skirts or if you’ve had them for a while but they’ve just not been christened, our annual Kilt Christening Ceremony will be held for the class of 2004. This is a popular and delightful event guaranteed to warm your heart.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>No evening of Scottish Revelry would be complete without Scottish Ceilidh Dancing and our dear George McCracken will be there to lead us through our paces to the wonderful music provided by Thistledown. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>All that for only $40 per person. Make your checks payable to the MN Tartan Day Cooperative and send to Barbara F. Humphrey, 6324 Wentworth Ave So, Minneapolis MN 55423 no later than Saturday, March 27. Be sure to indicate your entrée selection. For questions email: babsfayth@aol.com<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or call 612-869-7163</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>******************************</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>And then, of course, Tartan Day. The new attraction this year is the Calling of the Clans. Bring your Tartan Banner Flags, don whatever wee bit of tartan you may have and join us at our State Capitol building in St. Paul for this wonderful celebration of our heritage.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New">April 6 - Tartan Day, 6th Annual Celebration, Parade at noon, Celebration on Capitol steps<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Aye, it’s back out onto the cold windy steps of the capitol again this year. We did promise to move inside this year, but when the price tags were examined, not having $7,000 to spare to pay Mall of America, we opted to return to where we were welcomed and for free. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Gather down there by the Vets’ building anytime between 11:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. and be prepared to step the Parade of Tartans off at 12:00 sharp. Our usual team of parade marshals, Shaun Hengel, Sharon Gustafson and as many of their kids as we can press into service will be directing the crowds (They will be wearing the blue sashes to help identify them) – volunteers welcomed – we need you. We’ll march straight up the Mall to the capitol steps where we will present a stirring and inspiring program. (Keep your Tartan Banner Flags with you until the calling of the clans, then you will bring them forward and place them in the flag holder behind the speakers stand.) We will re-present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Florence Hart; we will introduce a brand new “calling of the clans” ceremony, as well as the dancing, piping, singing, and cheering you have come to love. And, of course, the musket salute by Clann Tartan and the Highland Regiment to close the ceremonies. As always, there will be surprises. Questions??? Call me, email me – see above. <A href="http://www.tartandaymn.org">www.tartandaymn.org</A> </FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New">Ken Barlow's birthday is April 5 and he has been quoted as saying it is "usually" 50 degrees on that day. So we will keep our fingers crossed that holds for April 6th as well.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New">See you all there.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><o:p>All the Best</o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><o:p>Barbara Humphrey</o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Courier New"><o:p>Babs</o:p></FONT></FONT></P></FONT></BODY></HTML>