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Please take the time to read this week's E-Blast so you can stay up-to-date on happenings in your club and around the region.
Committee Meetings at a Glance
4th Wednesday of the Month:
Communications Committee
- Noon at Downtown Tri Counties
Events Committee
- Noon at various locations - see calendar
Giving Committee
- Noon at CHC, 25 Jan Ct., #130
Fundraising Committee
- Noon at Leon Bistro
- Sept. 13th & Sept. 27th
- Every Thursday in October
- November 1st
Last lunch of the summer
Aug. 29 - Burger Hut
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Fall District 1 Meeting
Saturday, September 15, 2018
The Fall District 1 Meeting will be
at the Hilton Garden Inn from 10am-3pm in South Redding. Below are the official invitation, agenda, registration, and sales display table registration.
See you all there,
Lisa Fitzgerald
District 1 Director
AND, don't forget our Friday Night Flamingle..more flashing flamingo pins to those flamingling. Rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn will have 2 queen beds; perfect for two or 4. Special Soroptimist rate of
$124 and you can make your reservation directly through them.
Our code is:
1SOROP /SMERF
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After Hours 
When: September 24, 2018 @ 6:30pm
Address: 2255 Fair Street
(In the Chrysler Training Room)
Join us at the WTC and find out all about what they do.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
SAVE THE DATE
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NEWBIES NIGHT OUT
When: Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Place: TBA
The Newbies Night Out will be in honor of all new members (and their sponsors) that have joined from 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019 Club years. All Soroptimist members are welcome to attend. This will be an evening of fun and friendship with the opportunity for new and old members to connect. More information to come!
Submitted by:
Billie Araiza, Vice President
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To everyone that signed up during the summer, THANK YOU!
All slots are filled for our last Friday in August.
Amy Hawes :
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| Ann Leon thanks for all you do!
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Meet our Sponsors that help pay for our weekly E-blast
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Member Center
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Message from President
Bonnie Chapman
Greetings Soroptimists!
Why is it so hard to run behind a car?
Because you get exhausted!
We had our first Board Meeting of 2018-19 this week and really got the ball rolling. I am looking forward to the club year getting started with all of our positive energy and plans from retreat!. I am working the final kinks out of the strategic plan you all helped create and will be presenting it to the membership soon.
Thank-you to those who have signed up to join our SI Chico team for The Walk to End Alzheimer's. We have a handful of participants so far and I'm hoping to see many more join in the coming weeks. Remember that you should join the team even if you only plan to volunteer and not do the actual walk. You can also join the team with no pressure to do lots of fundraising, every little bit helps. See the link in the eblast and details of joining our group.
If you would like to attend the District 1 meeting with us in Redding on September 15, you are ALL invited! Just let Jeanne or Miles know as they are taking sign-ups and checks ($37.00 is the cost which includes lunch).
See you at Burger Hut for our final summer lunch this week!
Soroptimist International of Chico
President, 2018-2019
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Our Corresponding Secretary isn't able to fulfill her duties, with that said, we are in need of a new Corresponding Secretary.
The Corresponding Secretary duties are:
- collect and distribute mail
- check e-mail and forward appropriately
- handle all official club correspondence properly that are not the responsibility of other officers or committee coordinators
- Keep a chronological log of all correspondence
Please contact Bonnie Chapman if you are interested in this position.
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Looking for Program Suggestions
Hello Soroptimists,
Please contact Roseann Bradley with any program suggestions you may have
for the upcoming 2018-2019 SIChico year.
Please keep in mind relevance of the topic to SIChico.
Roseann Bradley
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SI Chico New Website
The Communications Committee is proud to present our new
easier to navigate and fast for all of our members to find what they need to best improve their service to Women and Girls in their communities and around the world.
The website is designed to be clean, fun and helpful. Please send all comments and complaints to
and the Communications Committee will do their best to see how to improve your experience with the website.
On our password protected Members Only page is where you will find our Roster, Handbook, Master Motion form, Region & Federation Forms, and other useful links. The password is the year SI Chico was chartered.
The roster is in a PDF format and can be downloaded to your computer. It is alphabetized by first names. If you are looking for a particular member and don't want to scroll through 22 pages simply open it up in your Adobe Acrobat Reader, click Ctrl+F and a search box will pop up, then type the members name you are looking for.
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SI Chico!
Below is the link to our team page. You can join the team here by pressing the Join Team button. Jody said that you should go ahead and join the team whether you plan to walk or volunteer. You can also simply donate to our team if you like on the same page. I hope many of you feel moved to join me on October 13 and that will also join in on helping to raise funds for our SI Chico team.
Thanks everyone!
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Soroptimist International of Chico
Joanne Edwards received this thank you for our scholarship donation to summer camp 2018.
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Evite Email Picture Uploads
All of you that RSVP'd "yes" to our retreat on Evite received an email from them to share your pictures of the event by uploading them to their site. I know some of you have and that's OK, but please don't upload them there. They need to be uploaded to our Dropbox folder. If you don't know how to do this or don't have the access code to get into our Dropbox account email your pictures to me at
communications@soroptimistchico.org
and I'll be happy to place them in Dropbox for you.
Thank you,
Joyce Brown
Co-chair Communications Committee
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Blue Bag Donors!
Blue Bag is a past project of Soroptimist International of Chico. A few weeks ago Bev Rozendaal and Diane Fossum wearing their Soroptimist volunteer shirts helped to collect food for this project.
The Chico Food Project is a fun and simple way to share food with the hungry in our community.
Dear Blue Bag Friends,
We are looking for some new Blue Bag donors. If you would like to invite any family, friends, neighbors, or co-workers to join us, please send them to chicofoodproject.org
to sign up directly and a beautiful Blue Bag will be delivered to their home.
Grateful To All,
Wendy, Francine, Peggy and Michael
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Please email your articles or announcements by 5pm Sunday to:
Joyce Brown, Editor
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