January 15, 2009

TODAY'S PROGRAM
"Radio Auction Kickoff"
Presented by the
Radio Auction Committee

We had a tremendous turnout for our first meeting of the year - let's keep those attendance records up! The program was an interesting one as we learned about Nevada County's Got Talent, a program to support the visual arts in our local schools. Thanks to Cheryl Benso; John Coulter gave us a new insight into what members in the community are doing to help our schools and our young people.

The Radio Auction is coming up and this week will be our kickoff. The Auction Committee (Carolyn Inglis, David Kenitzer, Nancy Kemp, Gary Gustafson, Robin Milam, and Luke Cummings) have been hard at work with the planning, mailing and finalizing the details for another successful event. It is our big one and it takes the time and energy of each one of us to make it happen. Remember this is our major scholarship fund raiser for the year. It will take extra effort in these difficult times, but let's work towards topping our highest net profit yet. The youth in our county are counting on us!

Looks like it might be time to remind everyone of the penalties of having a cell phone ring during a meeting. Remember the first meeting in July when my new phone rang in my pocket? Well, my fine was $10. Later in that same meeting (during the program) someone else's phone rang and that was a $20 fine. I've learned to turn my phone to vibrate or off during the meeting; how about you? John Hazelwood definitely got the message last week!

The pilot project on phone cell collection is ending, so bring those phones to the meeting or to my shop no later than Monday. We will continue to collect them either for this project or the E-Waste Collection campaign we are conducting in Area 4 for Polio Plus. We can still collect monitors, TVs, laptops, flat screens and ink jet cartridges for no fee. Other items such as CPUs, telephones, printers, copiers, DVD players, fax machines, VCRs, stereos and video games require a $5 fee be paid. $2.50 of the fee is returned to the area.

It's a tightly kept secret, but the word will be out at the Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner on January 24th who the Vocational Committee and the Chamber have selected as the Business Person of Year. It's not too late to make reservations for the dinner through the Chamber office - be among the first to be in the know!