4th Quarter Zone Meeting in Leduc

23 Optimists from the Optimist clubs in the Alberta Capital Region Zone attended the 4th quarter Zone meeting on Saturday, September 17th, at the Leduc Legion, hosted by the Leduc-Black Gold Optimist Club.

The Edmonton Beverly, Edmonton BrailTone, Edmonton Dinner, Leduc-Black Gold and both St. Albert Clubs reported on there summer activities and planned fall events.

Lt. Gov Trevor thanked everyone who helped him throughout the last year and presented Tim Horton coffee cards. The Presidents in turn congratulated him on a successful year.
This meeting featured outgoing Lieutenant Governor Trevor passing the Zone reigns on to incoming Lieutenant Governor Peggy Dick.

Opt Peggy identified that we need Membership Maintenance and handed out M&M’s candy to promote this.

Opt Peggy also introduced the concept of getting all the Zone clubs to participate in a Zone community service project and write a multi-club CPA.  She introduced the “Give Care to Kids” project which is seeking to replace worn-out toys and items in both of the kids playrooms at the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

A delicious lunch of soup and sandwiches followed and our traditional horse shoe toss followed.

Web Service Changes for Zone 5

Effective September 2, 2011, the internet domain acr-optimist.org has been disabled and the website www.acr-optimist.org has been taken off-line.

Retired Alberta Capital Region Optimists (Zone 5) website

After careful review of the website log files, it was evident that there have been no visitors to that website in about a year.  What does this mean:

2010-11 Scholarship Competition Topics Announced

The topics for the 2010-11 Optimist International Scholarship competitions have been announced:

Essay

"How My Education is the Key to a Successful Future"

Oratorical & CCDHH

"If I Were Leader of the Free World, the First Issue I Would Address Would be ... "

Clubs are free to run a club-level competition to select winners to move on to the applicable Zone, Regional and District level competitions. Clubs can award monetary awards of up to $500 per winner for each competition.

2010-11 Distrct Team Appointments Announced

Our Governor Tim Bell is pleased to announce the following appointments of Zone 5 members to the 2010-11 District Team:

• Zone 5 Lieutenant Governor - Opt Trevor Adair (Leduc Black-Gold)
• District Supplies - Opt Brian Wallace (Edmonton Dinner Club)
• District CCDHH Chair - Opt Wyn McAra (Edmonton Dinner)
• District JOOI Chair - Opt Lee Weiszhaar (St. Albert Club)
• District Web Services Chair - Opt Gord Welling (St. Albert Breakfast Club)

Our congratulations are extended to Trevor, Brian, Wyn, Lee and Gord and best wishes on your contributions to a very successful year.