SI Chico E-blast news & more |
Oct. 12, 2021 | Volume 22 Issue 9 |
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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 our club, around the Region and around the world.
What's New: President Sara's Message, Fall Bistro Bag, Retreat Registration, Welcome New Members, Christmas in November, After Hours, Door Greeters Needed
What's Happening this week: Program - Bidwell Mansion “Yours for Equal Justice", Retreat
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Message from President Sara Beacham |
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Greetings!
Hello Soroptimists! I want to wish our organization another Happy Birthday! Here’s to the next 100 years.
This week has some big things happening. Our club retreat is scheduled for Saturday, October 16. This year we are fortunate to have it local at the Chico Family Masonic Center from 9 am to 3 pm. This club retreat details can be found later in the eblast, but as a teaser, there will be fun, learning, and sisterhood. I will be sharing more information on the President’s Project and Dream It Be It. Hope to see you there!
I am really looking forward to a little dance party at Retreat, too. President-Elect Kathy has offered her house for a Retreat SUDS after we are done. She lives just down the street a few blocks. What a great way to spend the day!
**Just a reminder that our club follows Butte County Public Health guidelines around COVID-19 protections. This means that masks are required for unvaccinated individuals indoors and highly recommended for vaccinated individuals indoors.**
This week we have a great speaker from the Bidwell Mansion with a program about “Yours for Equal Justice”. I can’t wait to hear more on Wednesday.
That’s all for now. I am saving all my good stuff for Saturday!
See you Wednesday,
President Sara
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Sondra Murphy spent her formative years in Chico, often wandering through the Bidwell Mansion during its renovation era in the 1960s and 1970s. She has since lived all over California while raising four daughters and having a variety of occupations. Moving back to her hometown after 30 years, Murphy landed a park aide position at Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park. Primarily a tour guide, during the pandemic she began assisting Northern Buttes District’s museum curator with the many needs of the artifacts and collections. Finding her dream job so late in life, Murphy plans to haunt the mansion when she dies. |
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FALL BISTRO BAG FUNDRAISER
This fundraiser will provide funds for next year’s giving program. All members are asked to help make this successful.
At club meeting, Wednesday October 13th, we will have a supply of flyers and sponsorship packages promoting our fall bistro bag.
Please take flyers and ask businesses you regularly visit if you can post it there. If you know the owner, ask if they would consider sponsorship.
Thank you for your support.
Questions: text Maureen 530 520 3282 or Kimm 408 710 0432
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SI Chico Retreat at Chico Masonic Family Center
You're not going to want to miss this years' retreat. We are keeping it local and hope that you will be able to attend.
When: Saturday, October 16, 2021
Time: 9am to 3pm
Where: Chico Masonic Family Center
Location: 1110 W. East Ave., Chico, CA 95926
Cost to Attend: $40
We have a full day planned with lots of good information, great food, camaraderie, and above all FUN!
We hope you can join us.
If you have already RSVP'd, THANK YOU!
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Fall Bistro Bag Now on Sale
Pesto Fettuccine with Sous Vide Bistro Steak or Marinated Chicken – Meal Kit for 2
Enjoy a meal of fresh Fettuccine with house-made pesto, served with your choice of marinated Sous Vide Bistro steak or chicken – ready to be grilled or pan-seared to perfection by you.
This exquisite meal, designed exclusively for the Soroptimist Fall Bistro Bag by Bacio Culinary Director Angel Lang.
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New Members with their sponsors from left to right: Kimm Randle, Lois Buchter, Margaret VanLaanMartin (both sponsored Lois), Nikki Stadler with sponsor President Sara Beacham, Kathy Erickson sponsored Theresa Draper, and Amy Griffin with sponsor Bonnie Chapman |
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Meet Amy Griffin, Account Lecturer at CSUC. Amy loves downhill skiing and scuba diving. |
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Meet Lois Buchter, Legal Project Manager. Lois loves sculpture, writing, stained glass, tapestry work, painting, and drawing. |
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Meet Nikki Stadler, Real Estate. Nikki loves spending time with her kids and going to Santa Cruz. |
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Meet Theresa Draper, Insurance Agent/Account Executive. Theresa loves crafting, reading, repurposing porjects, antiquing, volunteering/community support. |
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CHRISTMAS IN NOVEMBER
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2021
PERFECT TIME TO SHOP FOR GIFTS
We are looking for wonderful donations from you, our members, to make this a successful event.
We do need some special items, experiences or services to be part of our Live auction (minimum value $100.00).
Please consider putting together a group of things in a basket, cute box, or perhaps use a base item such as a platter or large bowl and then add additional small things that are part of a similar theme, all wrapped in cellophane, with a festive bow.
If you can offer a gift of an experience or service, that would be most welcome.
TIMELINE
BY NOV 10: Please bring your item to club or request that we pick it up from your location.
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Business After Hours
Hosted by Kim N. Huber, CFP with Embrace Wealth Management
Join us on Tuesday, October 26, 5:00-6:30 pm at Kim's new office at Stoble Coffee & Workplace (418 Broadway Street, Chico). The evening will include a tour of the Stoble facilities, followed by a brief presentation on Kim's passion for helping women build wealth and sustainable investing.
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If you would like to host an “after hours” event to showcase your business please contact:
Shari Maxson Hopper at:
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October SI Chico Fur Baby (and Member) of the Month!
We are pleased to introduce the club to Foxy Lady and Lucy, Joyce’s fur babies. Foxy Lady, aka, Miss Fox is a Pomeranian and is approximately a year and a half. Foxy Lady was lost on the streets of Chico and came to live with Joyce as a foster on Thanksgiving Day last year. Foxy Lady wasn’t wearing a collar and hadn’t been chipped. After no luck in finding Foxy’s humans, Joyce knew she couldn’t live without her, so on Christmas Day, Joyce decided to be her fur-ever mom. Joyce named her Foxy Lady because she looks like a little Fox. Foxy’s new sister is Lucy. Lucy is a 4-year-old Pom/Chi that needed to be re-homed. We did a meet and greet July 21, and it was love at first sight for both fur babies. They are now inseparable. It was hard for Lucy’s past parent to re-home her, but after seeing her with Foxy, he knew he had found the right home for her. Foxy Lady and Lucy have brought so much love and happiness back into Joyce’s life after losing Rudy last year who was her fur baby for 12 years.
Besides being a dog lover, SI Chico Communications Committee Co-chair Joyce keeps busy with her business, Joyce Brown Marketing Online Consultant. She maintains SI Chico’s website, is Editor of our weekly Eblast, Editor of our quarterly newsletter the Snail, Roster Coordinator, creates all our Evites, Sign ups, Surveys and other activities as needed. She is active in the Chico Elks Lodge #423 and is a Past Exalted Ruler (PER) of Murrells Inlet Elks Lodge #2797 in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Joyce has one daughter, 3 granddaughters, 2 great-granddaughters, and 1 great-grandson that all live in Merced.
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Wednesday Door Greeters Needed |
The SI Objectives Committee is looking for greeters for our Wednesday lunches. All you need for this job is to greet everyone with a smile as they arrive.
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SI Chico! Get ready to recruit
Next GTKU will be on October 29
time and location TBA
2021 is going to be a banner year for our club to boost our club in every way. Women in our community are more ready than ever to reengage and plug-in to volunteering and socializing.
SHARE THE LOVE Membership Drive!
Contest? Prizes? Lots of fun new members? Yes, Yes and Yes! Introducing the Share the Love membership drive running September-December 2021. There will be a monthly drawing for a lucky winner and also a grand prize in December for the person who sponsors/brings in the most potential new members. There are plenty of opportunities to earn entries to win, getting your name in the monthly hat –
Bring a friend to a meeting or event; 1 entry
Sponsor a new member; 5 entries
Post sharable information about joining our club on your social media (coming soon); 1 entry
Work at a member recruitment table in community at an event (info coming soon); 5 entries
*Each member is responsible for telling Bonnie about their earned entries. These tickets will also be available at each club meeting.
Prizes will include all things that will show our current members the LOVE and pampering we all enjoy. Thank you all in advance for helping to grow our beloved club, making it better than ever. Contact Bonnie 228-1724 or email bkchap2@yahoo.com with any questions or other recruitment ideas. |
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