What Did You Miss – August 18, 2025Chair: Greg Butler Happy $: Roxanne: Husband Mike welcomed into the golfing crew & planted milkweed for the monarch butterflies, and have many monarch caterpillars on them this summer Kimberley: Two-year-old celebrated his birthday and his language is developing so quickly! Elva: International committee supported houses in Cambodia, has a book that records the houses that have been built in the area. A goal to complete 100 houses in ten years, just completed 100 houses! Ellen: Has been having a great summer with family, headed to adult choir camp with a performance on Saturday afternoon free for the public! Dorine: Son is home from Vancouver and hasn’t seen him for six years! At Acadia football game on Saturday, her grandson intercepted a ball, scored and won the game! Sue: Grandkids attended choir camp in Berwick last week – first overnight camp, first unaccompanied flight, and had a great concert! 
Club Business – Strategic Planning Greg went through some items in strategic planning including: - Taking additional time, effort and consultation to make significant changes.
- Implementing some items like: putting together a financial committee, a few changes to the weekly meeting process, etc.
- Greg will be chairing the strat plan implementation committee, which will work on an updated strat plan and then ongoing progress.
- Strat plan will be on the agenda at every board meeting!
Committee Reports Kimberley: Scholarship committee winding up and getting cheques out! Read thank you note that expressed his thanks from one interesting recipient. Kimberley will get in touch to let them know that we received their note. Karen: Special events – polio plus event, save the date email coming, September 29th meeting will be the first special events fun meeting. Greg: Tom Fredericks, passed away, former member of this club. He was the manager of Wandalyn and a radio DJ. Kimberley spoke with Helena about the fires in Spain and they are doing okay but impacted. Elva: letter of thanks for a donation from the Center Stage theatre for recent donation from both the Kentville and the Mud Creek clubs. 50/50: Greg won the draw! Congratulations! Club did the Four Way Test and Adjourned! |
