President’s Message
Welcome to February! The month of love, one more month closer to spring and hopefully closer to bringing us all together once again. Our membership is slowly increasing and your executive can’t wait to see you all in person again. Hopefully we will still recognize each other.
Please be sure to join us for this month’s Zoom meeting. It will be very informative and with lots to share on helping those in our community.
This week a business contact shared with me a little mantra that I have been trying to follow without even realizing it had a saying behind it. I’m sure you have all heard some version of it (feel free to share yours). As a result when I am able to surprise my families and do this, it warms my heart to imagine their bright smiles and hear the happiness in their voices.
“Under Promise, Over Deliver”
Thank you Charlene McKenzie for once again organizing this upcoming Zoom Meeting. We appreciate your help.
See you Wednesday February 10th 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 – Chris Peacock
Chris Peacock is the Executive Director at The Sharing Place Food Centre. He is the luckiest guy in Orillia, since he gets to lead an incredible team of 50+ volunteers and staff that are changing the local food system. They work every day to create a healthy community through access to nutritious food. He sits on the Orillia Food Commitee, Simcoe County Food Council, Ontario Health Team SDOH Working Group and a public member of Eat Well To Excel, which oversees Simcoe County's Student Nutrition Program. He has no formal training or degrees, but he puts in 100% to make food system magic happen.
What Chris is going to talk about
- What is Household Food Insecurity
- What support exists in our community
- The programs at The Sharing Place
- The future of The Sharing Place
- How to help
7:45 p.m.
NOTICE OF MOTION
I hereby move to amend our current Annual Membership fees as follows:
Due to the current pandemic, I hereby move that our Annual Membership dues be temporarily reduced from $100.00 to $72.00 until such time that the Membership Meetings can resume to our original in-person dinner meetings, at which time our President will announce that our dues shall revert back to $100.00.
Submitted by LEAH C. CAVANAUGH
Orillia Business Women’s Association
Discussion & vote will follow
7:55 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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