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February 25, 2006, Issue 4

 Latest News:

Host Switching Complete: Site is Fully Up
We just underwent some heavy switching to a new host. :) After long work, everything is up and in working order, including our beautiful Image Gallery. Installed was a different, more efficient script and much more user friendly. Here are just a few features of our web site that has been restored and is in full working order:

  • Black Forest Message Boards - (in fact, they were never down!)
  • Top Sites - (received a neat upgrade and makeover, but will continue to change until I feel its layout is at its best...)
  • Ecards - (upgrade as well. Send a friend an ecard today!)
  • Black Forest Site Awards - Voting still continues; vote for your fav HP site!
  • Quibbler - Long awaiting your articles! :)
  • Fanart - Can you draw HP characters? You may want to showcase them in our fanart gallery.
  • Acting - As always, here to grant you the best advice for "the business".

House Points Oppertunity:

This is your oppertunity to earn some house points for your house on The Black Forest Boards! This is good for 20 house points!

Just hit reply to this email and enter the name of your house!

The secret word to enter in the email is...

Ear Wax

Thank you! This offer expires
Monday, March 6, 2006.


Current Open Projects:

  • Black Forest Site Awards
    - Nominations are over, now it's time to vote for your favorite site!
  • Bertie Bott's Beans Giveaway
    - Our Monthly Contest, enter to see if you can win some delicious and tricky beans!
  • Black Forest School
    - School is in session! Why not sign up on our boards and earn some points for your house?
  • Neat Features:

  • Gallery
    - Just reopened with plenty of gorgeous pictures! Check them out!
  • The Quibbler
    - Share your thoughts! Write up an editorial or a fictional newspiece that's sure to excite their readers! In fact, let us know what you thought about the HP movie!
  • Ecards
    - Send your friends cards to match any occasion!
  • Fanart
    - If you enjoy drawing HP images, then share them in our beautiful fanart gallery.
  • Acting
    - Did HP spark an interest in acting? You're not alone! Take some of our acting tips on how to succeed in the business.
  • There's tons more neat features. Just check our site!
  • Heifer.org : A Black Forest Project

    This year we have been collecting donations for Heifer.org, a wonderful non-for-profit organization that specializes in feeding the hungry. However, rather than feeding him once and be done with him, Heifer.org is different. They will give a family in a needy community an animal, (cow, geese, chickens, goats, llamas, etc.) to a family and teach them how to take care of the animal and in turn the animal may provide them with gifts such as milk, eggs, wool, meat, etc. The family can then sell the leftover products for a profit and become for perhaps the first time in their life, self sufficient.Once the animal produces offspring, they must pass it to another needy family in the community to spread the wealth. It becomes a web of hope, a web of new beginnings.

    This is why I ask you to please find it in your heart to donate. If not now, then perhaps later. If you can't give for one reason or another, then by all means, please share the link with someone else so that they can give. Every little bit helps!

    http://www.heifer.org/myregistry/blackforest


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