Erich Schuttauf, Executive Director
Wishing a Happy, Safe, and Successful Independence Day Holiday to All

This weekend marks the traditional celebration of Independence Day and a major event among most AANR clubs.  We extend to you our very best wishes for good weather and fun.

In observance of the holiday, our offices will be closed tomorrow so we are bringing you this week’s report a day early.  We will resume regular operations at regular times beginning Monday.

Reports of our family members, friends, and other men and women serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, elsewhere overseas, and in the armed forces here and in Canada, remind us that freedom, while priceless, is certainly not free.  We publicly thank those who have served, and also those in civilian government-from police officers to firefighters and paramedics-who help to preserve peace and freedom also.

Celebrations such as Independence Day also provide a convenient opportunity to remind the nudist community that preserving our liberty to enjoy nude recreation does not come without challenges.  There are several examples from last week and this week in which AANR has been called to assist members in need in the following areas:

Adverse Employment Consequences

AANR fielded a call from a member couple after the wife lost a steady business arrangement over nude recreation.  A client had called the wife’s supervisor to complain that she had seen a copy of The Bulletin-even though the complainant had been in the wife’s vehicle and had gone through her personal effects!  Because the complainant also made several materially false statements, we have placed the couple in contact with legal counsel specializing in defamation actions.  We also prepared a legal analysis that the members can take with them during the initial meeting with their attorney.

Nudist Grandparents

When their daughter and son-in-law divorced, an AANR member couple welcomed their daughter to stay with them for several months while she made permanent living arrangements and got back on her feet.  Our members live within a small nudist community.  As a means of re-opening custody and child support payment issues, the ex son-in-law filed an emergency motion on the basis that the children had been exposed to nudism.

For the past three weeks we have been working with these AANR members and their attorney, including telephone interviews and providing written material.

Long-Time Member’s Final Wishes Not Respected by Funeral Home

Today we received a call from the adult son of a long-time member in the upper Midwest.  He advised us that this member had passed away from cancer.  While we were very saddened with this news, we were also troubled by what the son relayed about the funeral home’s deliberate ignoring of his father’s last wishes to be interred peacefully resting au natural.without advising the family and on its own initiative.

While we recognize (as did the caller) that laws or cannons of the industry may dictate what may ultimately be done in such cases, we are also in the process of preparing a letter to the company to stress the sensitivity which must be shown to family members trying to do their very best to respect something that was important to a loved one.

Vacation Thwarted in a Most Unwelcome Way

Today, AANR Member/Club Liaison Terry Justice and I rushed electronic copies of materials to assist a family which was planning to visit an AANR club over the holiday weekend.  After one of their children mentioned the family’s plans-with, from what we understand, was positive enthusiasm-to a third party it has triggered a formal inquiry by a youth protective agency.

Carolyn Hawkins, Public Relations Coordinator
More Skinny-Dip Publicity

This is another article regarding Whispering Pines.

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090627/ARTICLES/906269953/1177?Title=The-Captain-It-s-time-to-strip-and-be-counted

Providence Journal

http://www.projo.com/travel/content/TRV-DEPARTURES_06-28-09_0JERGNL_v17.12eebc1.html

The links below were on about.com.

http://orlando.about.com/b/2009/07/01/dare-to-go-bare.htm

http://orlando.about.com/od/naturistresorts/qt/nuderec.htm

http://orlando.about.com/od/nudismfaq/f/nudism01.html

http://www.aboutmediakit.com/visitors/index.html

This is regarding Bonita Nudist Resort and is an example of how Capwiz
worked for them.

http://www.newschannel34.com/content/developingnews/story/Guinness-World-Record-Attempt-Skinny-dipping/0vU4iGT6Uk23f7s_C-ed8Q.cspx

Canadian paper mentions skinny-dip.

http://www.leaderpost.com/Health/Isles+actually+make+right+pick/1739719/story.html

Desert Sun

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090630/NEWS01/906300307/1006/news01/Nudists+eyeing+Guinness+record

Publicity About Nude Recreation Continues

The link below is from the Boston Globe.  We are recommending that mothers respond with their experience of raising their daughters as a nudist or daughters brought up by nudist-comfortable mothers. Let’s see how many positive responses we can get from our members.

http://www.boston.com/community/moms/articles/2009/06/28/can_a_clothing_optional_policy_teach_her_young_girls_to_be_comfortable_as_women/

Basic info regarding nude recreation.

http://www.examiner.com/x-5585-Offbeat-News-Examiner~y2009m6d30-Going-nude-the-new-green

Robert, one of our members, sent the link below.  It appeared in the July 2,
2009 issue of the online version of the Sun newspaper in the UK.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2511797/The-office-of-bare-trading.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=The+Office+of+Bare+Trading

Linda Berry, Director of Publications
Win a Vacation at Club Orient

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It only costs $5 to enter, and all the proceeds go the AANR legal defense
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Terry Justice, Club/Member Liaison

We have a new club joining us this week. Please help me welcome:

Clothesfree.com
PO Box 1096
Oakhurst, CA 93644

877.261.6184

E-mail: cfi@clothesfree.com
Website: www.clothesfree.com

This is a non-landed, proprietary club.

Have a wonderful Independence Day.