Welcome to The Uptown Update PageAugust 19, 2010
We had an excellent meeting today. We had as our guests Dusty, Augustine, a guest of Tom Hogan & a prospective member, Cindy Merodias, Bill's daughter & driver and Ed Ackerly and his son Kevin. Ed is actually one of our "FOO'S" (Friend of Optimist) members. Also, Colleen Maldanado, our newest member was able to make today's meeting. Ed is also in charge of advertising for Oktoberfest. Ed told us about the problem all schools are having financing their extra activities including sports. Ed's son is Quarterback for the Sahuaro "Cougars" football team at Sahuaro High School. Ed explained to us that the parents at Sahuaro have organized fund raising activities to help the team. Sahuaro's method is selling discount cards accepted by many Tucson businesses. I remember doing the same thing when our kids attended Sahuaro a few years back. We are helping youths by purchasing these books.
On Wednesday evening, August 19th we held our second Oktoberfest Meeting. Several of our members attended, including Colleen. Planning is going well for this year's event. For those of you who want to know the dates of this year's event, it starts at 5:00pm on Thursday September 30th and runs through Sunday, October 3rd at 5:00 pm. We need all the volunteers we can get this year. So, if you can help, wonderful. Let Tom Robeson know. We will be passing out signup sheets a little later, closer to the event.
We will have a meeting next Thursday, August 26th as usual. We will finalize any plans for the District Conventions.
The District Convention will start the Esplendor Resort at Rio Rico. Rio Rico is South of Tubac about 10 miles. It is a very nice Resort. We have held several District Conventions there. Registration opens at 5:00pm Friday night. There will be an open Dinner Friday night open to all who want to attend. There should be information available at registration on when and where the dinner will be. Classes start Saturday morning. There will be schedules available at registration. It will be fun and you can learn a lot at the various classes. I hope to see Uptown well represented. Our own Tom Hogan becomes Governor Designate and will take over the District as Governor on October 1st.
August 12, 2010
Today we held informal discussions on what we need to do to make sure we did all that was necessary to qualify as an Honor Club & and a Distinguished Club this year. We always want to be at least an Honor Club each year. We discussed on how we can help our District Governor and Uptown Cub member, Tom Hogan, return the Arizona District to a Distinguished District again. The Arizona District was a Distinguished District eight years in a row. It does not look like we will make Distinguished this year. We want to get back to Distinguished in Tom's year. This will also make Keith Nichols a distinguished President.
We also discussed Oktoberfest today and what we are going to do. Please do not forget the Oktoberfest Meeting on Wednesday August 18th at Finley Distributing Co. at 2104 S. Euclid Ave at 6:00 pm. Oktoberfest this year will run from Thursday September 30th to Sunday October 3, 2010.
August 5, 2010
Today Tom Hogan brought Emma as his guest. That was nice of you Tom, Emma's cuter than you. Harry Merodias was down today from his Ranch in New Mexico and brought Bill Merodias to today's meeting We had a good turnout as we have been doing all summer.
After our regular meeting we held our Monthly Board Meeting. We finished up the Board for the 2010-2011 Optimist year. Phil Schultz & Bill St. Louis were elected as 3 year Board Members. Ricardo Aguayo & Bill Merodias were elected as 2 year Board Members. Mickey Cavender & Will Stamper were elected 1 year Board Members. Leisa Filiatrault & Colleen Maldanado were e3lected as Alternate Board Members. That complete are slate of officers & Directors for the 2010-2011 year. If you are wondering who the Officers are, just look back at your last Uptown Update.
At Angie Merodias's request we moved the Board Meeting to the First Tuesday Evening of the month at 7:00 pm,. at Bill & Angie's home. Bill misses having us there each Month. It is a great place to meet and Bill provides the refreshments and Angie sometimes has treats for us. PLEASE come next Month on Tuesday, September.
Pete reminded everyone to wear your Optimist Pin or your subject to a fine of $0.25. Those of us who have the new blue Optimist shirts, please wear them to our meetings.
Yours truly won the card game today.
JULY 29, 2010
Today we had three Guests. Bill Merodias brought his daughter Karen. Keith Nichols had as his guest Al Crockette & his son Sean Crockette. Sean just graduated from St. Augustine High School where he was very active. I believe he participated in three sports and made good grades. Sean was honored at last Fall's Youth Appreciation Banquet. He was sponsored by the Rincon Club. Sean would like to attend the air Force Academy and is looking for letters of recommendation to our Senators for appointment to the Air Force Academy. Sean is an extremely nice young man and Keith will write him a letter of recommendation.
Phil Schultz returned from the National Soap Box Derby. He will give us a further report next week.
Leisa Filiatrault won today's game.
Don't forget to register for the District Convention at Rio Rico, August 27th, 28th & 29th. Remember, Tom Hogan will be installed as District Governor. Rumor is that Tom will have his own Hospitality Room on Friday Night. Come and support the Uptown Club.
We have a Board Meeting coming next Thursday, August 5th. Among things we have to consider is the election of Officers for the 2010-2011 Optimist Year.
Also, it has been the tradition of this Club to have an Installation Dinner for the new Officers. We usually try to get the Governor to do the Installation of Officers. As we have the Arizona District Governor as a member of this Club, that should not be a problem. This should be done preferably prior to October 1st.
JULY 27, 2010
Hello everyone. I know it has been quite awhile since I sent out an update. Some of you may have wondered if I really became a ghost. No not yet, I just have been busy and out of town trying to cool off
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