We have some new marketing ideas to bring forth and could use a really nice photo to promote our local BPW chapter. Our goal is to get this done at the August social. We will do this right away, so even if you can’t come for the whole night, please plan to stop by and be a part of the group photo. Looking forward to a great year and seeing everyone at the Au- gust social. Your BPW President ~ Stacy Petersen I hope each and every one of you has enjoyed your summer so far. It’s hard to believe that it will be back to school right around the corner. Although I love sum- mer, I personally can’t wait to get back into the routines and struc- ture that school offers for my kids and our lives. Just to get you all caught up with what we’ve been doing at the State level, in June we had our State of MN Board of Directors meeting in St. Cloud. Our Willmar BPW Chapter has 3 women serving on the Minnesota State BPW Board of Direc- tors, they are: Julie Asmus, Michelle Marotzke and yours tru- ly. The three of us will do our very best to rep- resent Willmar and bring back updates from the State to our local chapter. The date for the State BPW Con- ference has been scheduled for April 16th and we need your input on the following: 1. What do you want to see at the state event? 2. What topics/ training would you like to see offered? 3. Do you have a pre- ferred location for the state Conference to be held? We value your input and would love an email, call, text or mes- sage with your ideas. Another huge re- quest that I have is for us to get a really nice group photo of our BPW members. Presidents Message—From Stacy Petersen August 2015 Business Professional Women Special points of interest: • Executive Board Meeting, Aug 11, 12:00 PM at The Goodness Coffee House • Member Picnic Aug 18th, 5:30 PM at Linda Mickelson home, 13700 Skyline Dr, Spicer, MN 56288 • Premier Jewelry Party Hosted by Lana Palmer at Pic- nic, Aug 18th. Inside this issue: Board Minutes 2 Member Meeting 3 Meeting and Fund Raising 4 Mentor 5
Transcript
We have some new
marketing ideas to
bring forth and could
use a really nice photo
to promote our local
BPW chapter. Our
goal is to get this
done at the August
social. We will do this
right away, so even if
you can’t come for the
whole night, please
plan to stop by and be
a part of the group
photo.
Looking forward to a
great year and seeing
everyone at the Au-
gust social.
Your BPW President ~
Stacy Petersen
I hope each and every
one of you has enjoyed
your summer so far.
It’s hard to believe that
it will be back to school
right around the corner.
Although I love sum-
mer, I personally can’t
wait to get back into
the routines and struc-
ture that school offers
for my kids and our
lives. Just to get you
all caught up with what
we’ve been doing at the
State level, in June we
had our State of MN
Board of Directors
meeting in St.
Cloud. Our Willmar
BPW Chapter has 3
women serving on
the Minnesota State
BPW Board of Direc-
tors, they are: Julie
Asmus, Michelle
Marotzke and yours tru-
ly. The three of us will
do our very best to rep-
resent Willmar and
bring back updates
from the State to our
local chapter.
The date for the
State BPW Con-
ference has been
scheduled for
April 16th and we
need your input on
the following:
1. What do you want
to see at the state
event?
2. What topics/
training would you
like to see offered?
3. Do you have a pre-
ferred location for the
state Conference to
be held?
We value your input
and would love an
email, call, text or mes-
sage with your ideas.
Another huge re-
quest that I have
is for us to get a
really nice group
photo of our
BPW members.
Presidents Message—From Stacy Petersen
August 2015
Business Profess ional Women
Special points of
interest:
• Executive Board Meeting, Aug 11, 12:00 PM at The Goodness Coffee
House
• Member Picnic Aug 18th, 5:30 PM at Linda Mickelson home, 13700 Skyline Dr, Spicer, MN
56288
• Premier Jewelry Party Hosted by Lana Palmer at Pic-
nic, Aug 18th.
Inside this issue:
Board Minutes 2
Member Meeting 3
Meeting and Fund Raising 4
Mentor 5
BPW Board Mee�ng
June 9, 2015 Meeting was called to order at 5:20 by Chair-person Stacy Peterson. Members Present: Stacy Petersen, Deb Paterson, Julie Asmus, Jeni Ritz, Vicki Melbye Business Items: Recap of GFNO The event was a huge success. It was held at 9196 Lake Ave on June 5th from 5-8 PM. Julie will give a final numbers at the meeting next week. Installation of Officers: Installation will be held next week at the mem-ber meeting. Julie will be contacting some members to help with the installation.
Officers for 2015-2016: President-Stacy Peterson VP Membership-Teri Beyer VP Programs-Betty Gubrud and Patty
Dols Treasurer-Yvette Kryzaniak Secretary-Kathy Dillion Fundraising-Chris Carlson and Deb Pat
terson Mentoring-Julie Asmus
Stacy will recognize new members. Treasurer’s Report: Budget was reviewed and filed. It will be presented to the members at the May meeting to be approved. Current bal-ance in checkbook and savings is $10,600.93 Membership Report: Three new members joined at the GFNO event: Kelly O’Farrell Nancy Welch Coleen Hern
Programs: June installation of officers and new member recognition. Will be held at the Oakes. July—no meeting, budget review by Stacy and Julie and Yvette. It was suggested a notice be sent to members to remind them there is no meeting in July and what date and place of August picnic. August—picnic with a possible Green Lake Cruise. MENTORING: Group will be going to The Barn on Sunday. They will see “Fiddle on the Roof” Finance/Fundraising : Jewelry fundraiser will be held at the August meeting. NEWSLETTER: Articles to Betty by Aug 1st Next Executive meeting: To Be Arranged
Submitted by Vicki Melbye
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Meet ings
BPW Member Mee�ng
June 16, 2015
Meeting was called to order by Chairperson Stacy Peterson. New Member Recognition: New members in attendance were recog-nized and thanked for joining and given a flower. 2014/15 had ten new members. Business Items: Recap of GFNO Julie reported the event was a huge suc-cess. Thanked everyone for their hard work and will provide final numbers at the next meeting . Installation of Officers: Linda Mickelson conducted the installation of officers and presented each board member in attendance with a flower. Officers for 2015-2016: President-Stacy Peterson VP Membership-Teri Beyer VP Programs-Betty Gubrud and Patty Dols Treasurer-Yvette Kryzaniak Secretary-Kathy Dillion Fundraising-Chris Carlson and Deb Patter-son Mentoring-Julie Asmus Chair/Committee reports Treasurer’s Report: Budget was reviewed. Current balance in checkbook and savings is $10,600.93 Membership Report: Three new members joined at the GFNO event. Kelly O’Farrell Nancy Welch Coleen Hern
Two of the three members were in attendance. Safe Avenues: No update. Mentoring: Group went to the Barn on Sunday. They saw “Fiddle on the Roof” Finance/Fundraising: Jewelry fundraiser will be held at the Aug meet-ing. Programs: July—no meeting held, summer break. A budget review will be done by Stacy, Julie, and Yvette. August—Betty is working on Green Lake Cruise and Middle Fork to see which can work. Linda Mickelson also opened up her home as a possi-ble location for the August event. Legislative Issues: No update. Raffle item donated by Jeni Ritz and Karen Schneider. Won by Joyce Standfuss!!
NEWSLETTER: Articles to Betty by Aug 1st Next Executive meeting: To Be Arranged
Submitted by Vicki Melbye
Page 4 Meet ings
August Member Picnic
Will be held at Linda Mickelson home on August 18th at 5:30 pm
13700 Skyline Drive, Spicer, MN 56288
Directions going North from Spicer (towards New London) on Hwy 23:
Turn right onto 132nd Ave NE/County Hwy 32 go.02 miles
Contact Beth Wepplo to sign Contact Beth Wepplo to sign up for this coming year raffle schedule.
August—Betty Gubrud
At the August meeting we'll have a Premier Jewelry Party hosted by Lana Palmer (BPW member). Money and Jewelry earned for having the party will go initially to the General Fund for items such as the Employ-ment Recognition Banquet, the Scholarship Fund, speaking fees or other items that are discussed and agreed upon during general meetings. Last year we earned $350 and 11 pieces of jewelry!! So this is a great opportunity to treat yourself and help increase the General Fund.
The Fall Fundraiser will be on Thurs-day, November 12th from 4:30 - 6:15 at LuLu Beans. The vendor so far is Heather Nett, Tastefully Simple and we hope to have a couple more. Anyone else who is interested in selling a product, please contact Chris Carlson. Last years' vendors were Tastefully Sim-ple, Thirty-one, Simply Said and Miss Betty. The proceeds from this fundraiser will also go to the General Fund.
Fund Rais ing
It would be great to be able to add more girls to the group. If you're interested in joining this very worthwhile group and having some fun with a Jr. High age girl, please contact Julie Asmus.
The mentoring group has had a fun and active summer. In June the group went to the Barn Theatre to see a wonder-ful presentation of "Fiddler on the Roof." After the play we went for a treat at Cherry Ber-ry. It was a "first" for most of the girls to see a play at the Barn and create an ice cream treat at Cherry Berry. In July we had a pool party at Julie's house. We had a gorgeous day splashing and cooling off in the pool.
