......Unfortunately, I have no notes from the preserve as I have not been there since our last workshop. I sort of wasn’t too good that day and it has been down hill since.

......Now that the weather is cooler, I do hope more of you will be out to observe. Even if you just sit and write down what you see the chimps do, that is fine. Some of us will be attending an enrichment workshop with the Florida Association Of Zoological Educators on Wednesday, the 18th at Lion Country. It will be great to sit down and get ideas for enrichment with a group like that. You will hear all about it next month.

......I have launched a new project that I hope you will all be a part of. With the feeling that we need more ways of communicating with each other, I started a Web page and Adam Jacobs is going to manage it for us for which I will be forever grateful. Now, I presumed that you had all received the prelim page that I sent out just to try it out, but found out today that one person got a business

web page from a bank, so I will have to get Adam to figure that one out. If you get something from me that is obviously not right, please just reply to the email to let me know.

......The way this will work is that we will post pictures and articles of interest and news that you might find fun, and we will put the newsletter on there once a month which should eliminate any possibility of observers not being able to open the newsletter. There will be a calendar of events we are involved with so you can always know when things are happening. Also, there will be a rotating photo album to see new pictures of the chimps. That is Adam’s and my part.

......Your part, and it is very important that you be willing to add to the page - you will be able to add notes about something wonderful that happened when you observed your chimps. This is not only important for the observers to read but for the keepers because they miss a lot that goes on even though they are there every day.

......You can start a new album of pictures you take and you don’t have to send anything to us, just post what you have on the page. I think it is going to be a wonderful way for us all to get to hear about ALL the chimps, not just our group, and make us all feel like we are a group, not just bodies sitting watching chimps with the real purpose of helping take care of these chimps.