Business and Professional Women Selkirk's Calendar
2005 Current Events  Events/Ideas for the future   
September : T.B.A Take back the night march &vigil at City  Hall    Submit ideas for the months for  Planning session for 2006/07         
October 25th  Resolutions workshop                 

Karen – Freedom 55 speaker                 

Dress-up for Halloween & visit Hospital  or Care Home                                             

 
November 22nd

Honor a veteran – 2 women  speakers who have military background: 

Betty Peddy & an Aboriginal  Lady (we don't have her name yet)

 

 Clean without Chemicals speaker                                                                         
December  6:

Serve supper to Women’s Shelter  

Clients and their children                         

 Have a  Dec 6 Vigil for the women slain in

 Montreal – could block off bridge and hand our        pamphlets on violence                                                                

 Go Caroling at a Care Home                                    Decorate a tree for the tree festival                          

 
2006 Merry Christmas  & a Prosperous New Year  
January 21 or 28

Sponsor a workshop in Partnership with the Platform for Action Group  On Women in the Provincial Budget  (click here for poster)

February 28 International month – Potluck supper    With Ruth Christie speaking on her  Trip to Iceland    Have an honor our own country night for a change and have members list reasons why special
March 28 Speaker from the Red Cross to do talk  On work in New Orleans after Katrina Loraine Swain, Dave Place                                                                         

talk   Sponsor a Leadership Workshop 

 On a Sat.

Volunteer Month – Nursing home

Or other area of need

 
April 25 Annual Meeting: Election year –Dinner    On off election year could try Something different
May TBA Have Provincial AGM and that will  be    Our May meeting (date will be decided    At fall board meeting)   Hold the AGM in Gimli and sponsor A Leadership Workshop as a fund raiser                                                                                                             

A  few Members give 2-5 minute talks about themselves

Tea cup reader/Card reader

benefits of  being a member talk

Meaning of our Canadian Crest symbols.

                                                                 

June13 or20

Windup – could have cup  

 or card reader at this or go   

bowling and have pizza or??                                                  

Plant a float for the fair

Parade – could be the         

President in a car or van with

banner ??????????????

Topics not discussed but members need to think about are: Woman of the Year and/or should we nominate women for other recognition programs such as Governor General’s Caring Citizen, Lieutenant Governor awards, Women of Distinction, Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year, Volunteer awards and so on.    How can we add our voices and support to our Aboriginal Sisters.  They have a lot of issues and we do not have to reinvent the wheel only put our shoulders to it.

If you have any other ideas please note them at the bottom of your copy and they will be incorporated into this.  Also as ideas come to you throughout the year, please note them as they can be looked at in Sept/06 or in June/06 we could do a brief prep for fall at our Windup,

A big Thank you to all the members/participants at the Sept 27 meeting for the above ideas.  I believe we have an exciting year to look forward to.  WE were all told at the National AGM to go home and shake things up and looking at the schedule I think we all shook things up.  Doing things differently in some areas will make things interesting and we hope this will attract new members.

Take Care and see you in October.  BE READY TO WORK!!!

Respectfully submitted,

Elaine Elliott

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