President’s Message
Happy New Year Ladies!!
Welcome to a new year which hopefully will eventually bring us all together once again.
Many changes are happening locally and globally but as women you are strong, inventive and able to adapt and overcome the challenges of today in order to best care for your families, friends and businesses.
My heartfelt congratulations to Carloyn-Marie Goodwin as the recipient of our 2020 Woman of the Year award and to Julianne Pires as our 2020 Young Woman of the Year award recipient. Also, congratulations to Dale McKay, Jenna Green, Allana George, Trish Holloway, Emily Hawton and Alyssa Mandarino for being our 2020 nominees in these categories. I feel honoured to have all of you representing the wonderful women and young women we are blessed to have in our community.
Again, I would like to thank our fabulous 2020 Gala Committee who worked so diligently to put this exciting celebratory virtual event together. Much gratitude to Sheila Hayden, Shelle Hossack, Susan Zaroski, Leah Cavanaugh and Ronda Hales. To our generous sponsors, I can’t thank you enough for continually being there for us.
Thank you Charlene McKenzie for once again organizing this upcoming Zoom Meeting. We appreciate your help.
See you Wednesday January 13th at 730pm. Please join us even if it’s just by audio. We miss you!!!!
Much love and respect to all. Stay well and safe.
With Warmest of Regards, Sharon L. Van Noort, OBWA President
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4167211056?pwd=WkNrRDZkb2ZRRWdkbmFZbncvQW5WUT09
Meeting ID: 416 721 1056
Passcode: 1056
(You may come into the zoom with audio only)
7:30 p.m. – President’s Welcome
7:35 p.m. – Guest Speaker Dr. Linda Rodenburg
Dr. Linda Rodenburg is the Director of Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning at Lakehead University. She moved to Orillia almost 15 years ago to start the Orillia campus, teaching almost all of the 101 students in the charter class. She has since built her life in this community, meeting her husband and welcoming Evie, now 7, and Scott, now 5, into the family. She is passionate about lifelong learning and this community we live in, and is most excited about enabling people to continue to connect and learn during these challenging times.
7:50 p.m. 30 Second intro & our busines updates (please respect each other by keping to the time limit)
We currently have the following positions open on our Executive:
Membership Co-ordinator: keeping our membership lists up to date & notifying members when their membership has lapsed
&
Events Co-ordinator: keeping track of meal Reservations
Please consider putting your name forward to be part of the amazing OBWA executive.
We want to sincerely thank all our OBWA Members and guests who who have made our networking zoom and dinner meetings a great success!
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