SI Chico E-blast news & more
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June 16, 2020 | Volume 20 Issue 44
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Have You Paid Your Dues Yet?
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All regular members received a special E-blast on Tuesday, May 19th that their
DUES are due by June 15, 2020. Chico Life members received a personal email and Life members received their dues renewal in the mail (USPS). If you haven't paid your dues yet, click the link below that applies to you and submit your payment ASAP.
Thank you,
Gayle Aylward
Treasurer Elect
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Message from President
Carrie Pavis
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Hello Soroptimist Sisters,
SIC Thank-you
, all for an amazing year, even with this crazy pandemic we were still able to continue our work in our community and globally. I would also like to thank all of you who helped getting our Zoom meetings up and running especially, Kim Huber and Joyce Brown. To all of you who attended Zoom meetings and the new technology that goes with meeting online thank you. For all who helped make my President’s Project a success and for joining the Peg Taylor Poppy Walk, (even though it was canceled) with your support we were able to donate a significant amount of money to the Peg Taylor Center to help with their Camp Fire recovery project for needy Seniors. We were also able to donate 100 masks when they asked us to do so.
I want to thank my board, Billie, Sara, Nancy, Gayle, Joan, Stephanie, Carolyn (who stepped in when our parliamentarian left the club), Jeanne, Kimm, Bev, and Vanessa. I couldn’t have done this without all of you, as well as my Committee Co-Chairs, Joyce, Kim, Carol, Janet, Sandi, Linda, Sue, Mickie, Cyndi, Joan, Gayle, Bonnie, Lupe, Rosie and Renee, and to Billie and Sara for your liaison work for the committee’s you over saw. To Bev and Kimm, wow you gals really did an amazing job recruiting new members, even though our year was cut short, we inducted 9 new members.
I want to thank Roseann Bradley for opening her home for our 90th Birthday Cocktail party and also for the decorations that you and Gail Holbrook designed for my installation. I loved the thought, energy and talent it took to make my installation so special. Cyndi and Laura thanks for taking on Dress a Girl, we got a lot accomplished with only one sewing night.
You all made my job as President so easy; I have really enjoyed being president of such a great organization but most of all I’m humbled by how all of you rallied around me and let me know I could do this and last but not least to my dear friend Bonnie thank you for pushing me out of my comfortable nest and seeing potential in me, you mean so much to me and can’t wait to see what road we will be traveling down next.
I will cherish this time in SIC always.
President,
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Soroptimist Chico is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic
: SIC Final Business Meeting
Date:
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Time
: 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 670 322 6116
Dial by your location
+1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Meeting ID: 670 322 6116
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Click on the above picture to watch video
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Dear Soroptimist,
Although we can’t come together in person, we are excited to bring convention to you as an online experience. While this can’t take the place of the fun and fellowship gathering together brings, we hope you’ll enjoy a different kind of convention from the comfort of your home.
Watch convention co-chairs Sue Riney and Stephanie Smith share the daily activities you can look forward to during SIA's virtual convention!
A digital convention program will be emailed to all members in early July.
Regards,
SIA Headquarters
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Thank you from Cyndi Murdoch:
Hey hey... our members are so creative and generous. Here’s just a sample of the 65 dresses we made this year! A big Thank You to all who participated.
😍😍😍
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Summer Socializing with SI Chico
Hello Soropti-sisters!
We are going to shake up our usual practice of summertime drop-in lunches in light of COVID-19 and hope that we can still socialize through the months of July and August comfortably. As you may know, we usually alternate through the list of member owned restaurants each Wednesday at noon through the summer, allowing members who are inclined and available to meet up with others and enjoy lunch while supporting our member's businesses. With social distancing and varying levels of comfort with dine-in, we decided to change this plan for summer 2020.
We will alternate take-out lunches and meeting at local parks with backyard morning coffee gatherings. (
Summer schedule below)
See you all this summer
SI Objectives
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Backyard morning coffee:
Some of our members have offered their backyards for these (socially distanced) morning gatherings. Please plan to bring your own coffee (or other beverage) and a chair. Enter directly to each member's backyard. It will be great to hang out together. (9:00 a.m.)
July 1 – Coffee @ 9:00, Bonnie Chapman’s backyard
July 15 – Coffee @ 9:00, Carol Burr’s backyard
August 5 – Coffee @ 9:00, Jeanne Smith’s backyard
August 19 – Coffee @9:00 Carrie Pavis’s backyard
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Take-out lunches:
Our schedule will list the "suggested" take-out restaurant for each of these and then designate a shade covered picnic area in one of our parks for the lunchtime meet-up. Brown bagging is always an option. (noon)
July 8 – La Comida – Pick up lunch and eat at Wildwood Park
July 22 - Spiteri - Pick up lunch and eat at Wildwood Park
July 29 – SOL – Pick up lunch and eat at DeGarmo Park
August 12 – Cozy Diner – Pick up lunch and eat at Wildwood Park
August 26 – La Hacienda – Pick up lunch and eat at DeGarmo Park
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As you may have suspected, The 2020 Home and Garden Show will not be taking place as originally planned. Instead,
it has been rescheduled to the new dates of July 25 and July 26
. Our obligation and schedule will remain the same, however we will start over with a new sign-up genius. We realize it's difficult to know what our plans will be in July, but please go ahead and sign up and each of us can easily change our chosen shift if needed at a later date.
Thank-you everyone!
Bonnie Chapman & Lupe Medrano
Co-Chairs Fundraising Committee
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We are so happy you all loved your sign surprise recently!! The signs are a gift and absolutely yours to keep. Some of you may not want to store/keep it forever though, so we wanted to offer the option to return your sign for future use. If you would like us to store the sign, please drop it off on either Bonnie's (4166 Augusta Lane) or Billie's (24 Upper Lake Court) front porch anytime from now until the end of June. *
note, if dropping at Billie's do not confuse Lower Lake Court
. Thank-you!
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Billie's Installation:
Note:
Date & Time Change
Merlo Park, Stirling City 11am
Aug. 23 in conjunction with our summer picnic
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Summer Picnic:
August 23rd at Merlo Park, Stirling City
Click on the picture above to see a 4 minute video of this beautiful park.
Also Installation of Officers 11 AM
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This project will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Soroptimist. Our organization was started by a dedicated group of women who came together to network and help improve the lives of women and girls.
In honor of our founding sisters and to celebrate our SI Chico Club history, we would like to do a club legacy project that will benefit our local community for years to come. This project will be a joint project starting during President Billie’s club year and continuing through President Sara's club year.
Billie and Sara are compiling a list of suggestions for our SI Chico Club Legacy Project. They would like to encourage all club members to share their suggestions through this survey. If you have an idea how our club could make a lasting impact on our local community through our 100 Year Legacy Project please submit it.
With Gratitude,
Billie and Sara
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Let's all support SI Bidwell Rancho
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SI Bidwell Rancho Online Store
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Wondering how You could help our mission to provide women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment?
Thank you,
Babette Maiss
SI Bidwell Rancho President
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Epicurean Rendezvous Major Sponsors
THANK YOU
for making our fundraiser a big success!
As a major sponsor you receive one year of FREE advertising in our E-blast and on our website
Find out more about our major sponsors by clicking on their logo below or visit our website fundraiser page by
clicking here
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Contact: Joyce Brown, E-blast Editor
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I want to thank you for allowing me to be your editor again this year. It has been a year to remember while exploring new things. Hopefully next year we can go back to a more normal way of life. What we knew as normal will never be the same again.
I am happy to announce that I will be your E-blast Editor again next year, 5 years and going, but who's counting?
I hope you all enjoy the new format that I have developed this year.
Remember all articles need to be emailed by 5pm Sunday to:
Joyce Brown
Editor
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