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Happy New Year! Yes another year! If your resolutions were to try and attend more bee meetings and learn as much as you can about your bees and why they do what they do…It's a good time to start!

We have a great agenda lined up for this up coming year and we need your input this month on when and where we should put the programs! We have around 5 speakers we are trying to line up for this year, plus our annual pancake supper and picnic. Some of the topics that have been suggested are; Small Hive Beetles, Diseases; and treatment options. Over wintering tech-niques for this area and comb honey techniques to name a few. Please bring any other topic ideas that you may want to hear about.

We have access to various power point programs from OSBA also! These will be used for meeting topics too.

Keep checking out our website, because it is getting a face lift- section by section! We have a counter on the page that lets us know how many hits we are getting and there are quite a few!! We need pictures, recipes or anything you might want to get rid of you can post it on our website! John, our president, has started revising it already! We will have the newsletters on it and other valuable news to share.

The Tri-County Bee Assoc. Will be having their 30^th Spring Beekeeping Workshop on Feb. 29^th and March 1, 2008. For more information, we will have it at the meeting or call one of the officers.

is the website you can look up for more info also. These meetings have great classes and you always pick up new ideas and find out about products let alone see vendors with all their goods! Well worth the trip to Wooster.

Our February meeting will be on antique Beekeeping equipment and some obsolete items that no longer are used. Most of these items have come from a "Firelands Apiaries Bee Assoc." which no longer exist. This Apiary is also having an Auction in Fremont at the fair grounds on Feb. 9^th.

This is a reminder! If you have anything you want posted to sell or buy in this news letter please contact Sue at 419-483-7496 no later than 2 weeks before our meetings.

1-1/3	cups granulated sugar
1	jar (8 oz.) marshmallow cream
2/3	cup evaporated milk
1/4	cup honey
1/4	cup butter or margarine
1/4	teaspoon salt
2	cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2	cup milk chocolate chips
1-1/2	teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2	cup toasted nuts, chopped
1/2	cup white chocolate chips

Spray an 8x8-inch pan with nonstick cooking spray; set aside. In medium saucepan, combine sugar, marshmallow cream, milk, honey, butter and salt. Bring to a boil; stir occasionally. Boil for 5 minutes; stir constantly. Remove from heat and stir in semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips until melted. Stir in nuts and vanilla; pour into pan. Sprinkle with white chocolate chips over top and allow to melt. Using small spatula swirl white chocolate. Cool. Cut into 1-inch pieces.

1	cup honey
6	Tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
2	cups all-purpose flour
1	cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2	teaspoon baking soda
	Rainbow candy sprinkles
	Chocolate candy kisses

In medium bowl, cream honey and butter until light and fluffy. Beat in flour, cocoa powder and baking soda. Pour rainbow sprinkles into separate bowl. With hands, shape dough into 1-inch balls. Drop balls into rainbow sprinkles and roll gently to coat. Place balls on well-greased baking sheet and gently press one chocolate kiss into center of each cookie. Bake at 350°F. for 10 minutes. Do not overbake. Remove cookies from sheet and cool on wire rack