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OPTIMIST CLUB OF MILTON

Dinner Meeting ..... 3rd Thursday

(No Meeting July/August)

Board Meeting ...... 2nd Thursday

All meetings - Milton Sports Centre

Club Room (Room #4)

Twin ClubsSunrise Optimist Club of Lockport N.Y.

Optimist Club of Hopewell Virginia


Club Number .............................. 47-127

Central Ontario District ........... Zone 3

OPTIMIST CREED

Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb yourpiece of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every

person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is

something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make

your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the

best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of

others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and to press on

to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and

give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time for the improvement of

yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too

strong for fear and too happy to permit the

presence of trouble.

COMMITTEE CHAIRS 2009-10

Cruise Nights Karen, RonDarling Home Rick McGowan

Essay Contest Karen Manuel

Fellowship Mike Ricker

Fishing Derby Diana Bracken

Kids Xmas Party Diana Bracken

Membership Dan Snider

Newsletter Mike Ricker

Nevada & Yule Log Rick McGowan

Foundation Rep. Mike Ricker

Photographer Chris Newell

Soccer Skills Francois Fullum

Sponsorship Dan Snider

Strawberry Fair Francois, Ron

TV Bingo Linda Ricker

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2009-10Bill Manuel President

Dan Snider Past President

Mike Ricker Sec. - Treas.

Bill Melville President Elect

Francois Fullum Vice-President

Karen Manuel Vice-President

Rick McGowan 2 Year Director

Dan ONeill 2 Year Director

Diana Bracken 1 Year Director

Ron Hudd 1 Year Director

Tom McNaught Governor

Ian Carter Dist. Sec.-Treas.

Don McConnell Lt. Governor

Cliff Katz International V.P.

Editor: Mike Ricker November 2009

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WELCOME NEW MEMBER

Welcome to our newest inductedmember Opt. Ro Dhamija. He andhis family reside in Oakville but hechose to join our club after seeingour web site and having somediscussions with our Past. Pres. DanSnider. The surprise is that evenafter talking with Opt. Dan hedecided to join :)

Opt. Ro has jumped in with bothfeet already and is working on apossible fundraiser for next year atthe Burl. Air Park. Ro, incidentally is

a pilot for Air Canada. He alsostarted off by winning the ToonieDraw at our Oct. dinner meeting.

It looks like we will have a fewnew members added in the future.Dr. Murray McPhail will be inductedat our Jan. meeting and we have anumber of members who havepeople interested in the near future.

Remember, it isnt difficult tosponsor a new member, all you haveto do is JUST ASK someone!

YULE LOG DRAW

Remember to sell your Yule LogDraw tickets and bring your ticketstubs to the Club Xmas Party onThurs. Dec. 10 where the draw wiltake place. This is a big fundraiserfor your club and Terry says that althe books are out - hopefully theyare all sold.

SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM

After a successful beginning lastyear, your club is again instituting abusiness sponsorship program tohelp raise money for our youthefforts. Businesses are offeredsponsorship at Platinum ($500.+)Gold ($250.-$499.) and Silver($150.-$249.) levels. In return fortheir sponsorship we promote themas a sponsor at our events and onour web site. Each level hasdifferent benefits offered in return fortheir sponsorship level. Forms and

more information are now availablefrom Past. Pres. Dan or Pres. Bill.

OPTIMIST CLUB WINS BEST NON-COMMERICAL AWARD

In this years edition of the Milton Santa Claus Parade the Optimist Club oMiltons float depicting the Grinch won the best Non-Commercial entry. Thanks

to the hard worko f m a n ym e m b e r sespecially Opt.Steve Gardonyi,who donated his

shop andtruck as well as was able to get at r a i l e r donated, and his wife Angiewho was the artistic designer of theentry. The entry came together over acouple of weeks prior to the parade inOpt. Steves shop with the help of many members and included donations otime and/or materials from many of the club members.


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DARLING HOME PRESENTATION

At our Induction Night on Oct. 8 Pres. ElecBill Melville and Opt. Ruth Nicholson presented acheque to Darling Home for Kids for over $2,200. aswell as a couple of ride on powered motorcyclesthat had been donated for them through Opt. RuthThey had already received a big screen TV that Opt

Ruth had donated from the owners of Peter HodgeTransport who had heard about our work in raisingfunds for Darling Home for Kids.

OPTIMIST SHIRTS & JACKETS

Opt. Dan ONeill has been able to secure bothgolf shirts and jackets for any Optimist Clubmembers that are interested in purchasing some.The golf shirts are the same make and colour as thecurrent ones that we have but these do not have apocket. The windbreaker type jacket comes in thesame colour as well as navy blue. Prices would be

as follows:Shirts - $30.00 Jackets - $28.50

This price includes our Milton Optimist Clublogo. If you wanted your name on either the shirt or

jacket the extra cost would be $5.00 for each item.If you are interested we will have samples at the

Club Xmas Party but Opt. Dan has to place theorder shortly after the meeting to guarantee theseprices so we need your order by then. You do nothave to pay for the items until they arrive.

If you are interested in purchasing some clubshirts or a jacket contact Sec.-Treas. Mike Ricker.

Hi Everyone!First and Foremost I want to say how Proud I

am to be associated with such a wonderful group ofpeople. The Team Work that has taken placeduring the past month is more than fantastic.Congratulation to everyone! The time and effort that

everyone put forth to produce the Optimist Floatfor the Santa Claus Parade was over the top. Youreally showed the Milton Community that we areback on the map. Unfortunately I became ill andmissed out on most of the activities but what reallymade my day on Nov 22nd was the visit to my homewith the float and a large group of OptimistMembers. I will never forget it.

Pressing on to greater achievements of thefuture, we are in the process of setting up newcommittees to look after Community and FundRaising Events. Please become involved. At our

next dinner meeting we will be requesting thatevery member sign up to assist with a CommunityEvent.. We are again looking for more newmembers, please speak to a friend, neighbour,co-worker about jointing our TEAM.

I have big shoes to fill to follow Optimist DanSniders performance during the last year. By theTeam Work that you have already shown I knowthat we can do it.

It was just announced that we have beenawarded a $10,000.00 grant from The Town ofMilton Community Fund to assist with the purchase

of a Hot Dog Cart and for up grades to our existingChip Wagon. A Big Thank You to all of themembers that helped put the application together.Again it was TEAM WORK!

Over the next few months we will be looking athow we do our fund raising and if improvementscan be made . If anyone has any thoughts or ideason how we can improve our funds raising eventsplease contact me. I will also be in contact with GoTransit in the near future to renew our agreementfor another year for our Sunday Night Cruises.

Please make note of the following dates:

Dec 6

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Kids Christmas PartyDec 10th Christmas Dinner Meeting

President Bill Manuel

PRESIDENTS LETTER

OPTIMIST TV BINGO

Another season of Optimist TV Bingo is welunderway under the direction of Opt. Linda RickerThis year we have 4 bingo callers: Opt. Linda aswell as Opt. Jeff Knapman, Opt. Bruce Nicholsonand Opt. Mike Ricker. We supply two people eachTues. evening from 6:15 -7:30 p.m. to helpanswering phones or record numbers so give Opt.Linda a call (905-876-1331) if you are willing andshe will be more than happy to put you on a team.

MEETING NIGHT CHANGES

Just a quick reminder that our dinner and Boardmeetings in December are shifted due to the dinnermeeting being our Club Christmas Dinner Meetingand the fact that we also do our Yule Log Draw atthat meeting. The Dinner Meeting will be in theBanquet Room at the Sports Centre onThurs. Dec. 10. Hopefully some of our friends fromO.C. of Oakville will be in attendance.

Our monthly Board Meeting will be in ourregular room on Thurs. Dec. 17.

KIDS XMAS PARTY - THIS SUNDAY

Remember the Kids Xmas Party this Sunday,Dec. 6. If you can make it set-up starts at 11:00a.m. and the party is from Noon to 2:00 p.m. in theBanquet Room at the Sports Centre. Opt. Ruthsays all help is appreciated even if you can onlymake it for an hour or so.


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Board MeetingSports CentreMeeting Room 4

Future EventsWed. Jan. 27: 2nd Quarter Zone Meeting - Strabane 7:30 p.m.

Fri.-Sat. Feb. 19-20: 2nd Quarter District Meeting - Markham Holiday Inn

Fri.-Sat. May 14-15: 3rd Quarter District Meeting - Ramada Inn on the Bay - BellevilleSat. June 5: Trout Derby - Fish 4 Trout in Campbellville

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Club Xmas PartySports CentreBanquet RoomDinner - 7:30p.m.

JANUARY

MerryChristmas

TV BingoCogeco TV(Laurier & OntarioSt.)6:15p.m. - 7:30p.m.Audrey N.,Mike R. (C)

TV BingoCogeco TV(Laurier & OntarioSt.)6:15p.m. - 7:30p.m.Terry M., Dave R.

TV BingoCogeco TV(Laurier & Ontario)6:15p.m.-7:30p.m.Rick M., Linda R.

HappyNew Year

Kids Xmas PartySports CentreBanquet RoomNoon to 2:00 p.m.

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