Our First Special Guest Day

Special Guest Day is an event designed to introduce new people to Kiwanis Clubs and to help us build membership. They are centered around a very special invited speaker.

With more membership we make new friends, get new talent and new ideas. Which helps us better able to make a difference in our communities.

Tuesday we had an excellent committee meeting for our event. We tentatively planned this event to occur at our regular meeting time and place on August 4, 2009. (subject to Board approval)

The committee has decided to meet on a weekly basis, immediately after each of our regularly scheduled meetings

Although we have 5 committee chairmen involved, we will need the help of our whole club. Mostly just for two things. First to give us the name and contact info for prospective new members that we can invite. There' will be a special invitation. Please, at least one from each member. And secondly, to show up for our meeting on August 4.

Imagine, how successful our event would be if everyone invited two guests! Please put your thinking caps on.

Annual Meeting Election News

Congratulations to our newly elected Officers and Board of Directors.

Officers (10/1/09 to 9/30/10)
Immediate Past President - Jenni Moore
President - Rhonda Clure
President Elect - Marty Campbell
Vice President - Betty Stapleford
Treasurer - Albert Cornel
Secretary - Marge Corridori (to be elected by new Board)

Board of Directors
Paul Campbell - 10/1/09 to 9/30/11
Ken Walker - 10/1/09 to 9/30/11
Duane Hollinger - 10/1/08 to 9/30/10
Samantha Webb - 10/1/08 to 9/30/10
Wendy Prindle - 5/19/09 to 9/30/11

Anyone like to have a Birthday Party? We're going to be 3 in a few weeks! We could have a slide show. And I bet that I could be convinced to direct some club "sous chefs" to create another great meal!

Ready, Fire, Aim!

We thought and we now know that we had a great idea to start doing Free Networking Socials as part of our club's outreach.

• We knew folks needed a lower cost way to Network with others.
• We knew some folks couldn't attend our weekly meeting because of cost or time.
• We knew folks wanted to make a difference in their community but didn't know how.
• We knew it came down to communication.
• And we knew we had to make it fun.

Most folks think the old "Ready, Aim, Fire" is the perfect way to get a new project off the ground. But we felt we'd be aiming forever and needed to take action. We've now had 3 great events and need to do some communication "Aiming".

So far, we've been using our website www.cvkiwanis.org , Facebook (not everyone can access it), Yahoo Calendar at http://calendar.yahoo.com/friendsofcvkiwanis, yahoo emails and finally VerticalResponse. With that experience, we now we need to decide how we want to do this and look for the volunteers to run the system. Thoughts?