Dear Glen Elder Area Residents,
It is time for the Glen Elder Community Club to begin their membership drive for 2011. Dues are as follows: Individual $10.00, Family $15.00 and Business $25.00. Monthly meetings are usually the third Monday of each month at 5:30 P.M. at the Glen Elder Housing Community Room, 313 W. Main Street. This meeting time could be changed if it would help attendance at the meetings. Please mark what time you could attend below.
In 2010, the Community Club sponsored the Easter Egg Hunt, Fun Day games- BBQ- Entertainment- Dance, Halloween Haunted House, and Christmas Lighting and Drawings. This will be the 11th year for giving the $250.00 Glen Elder Community Club Scholarships to two high school seniors with a Glen Elder address. We also gave financial support to local activities such as the “Helping Hands” and the school Blue Ribbon Award Party.
Alice Thompson has set up a facebook page for Glen Elder Community Club. Check us out there. The officers for 2011are as follows: President, Jessica Cunningham, Vice-President, Cal Swickard, Secretary, Sheila Paxson and Treasurer, Denise Jackson. Committee chairpersons have been set up to help with our main events.
To join the Glen Elder Community Club, and or to sign up to help with any of our sponsored projects, please download our membership form and join us TODAY! ....see you at our next meeting! (3rd Monday of each month at 5:30pm) ► Download Membership Form (PDF)
MARCH 21, 2011
The Glen Elder Community Club monthly meeting was held March 21, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. at Glen Haven meeting room. President Jessie Cunningham called the meeting to order. Also present were Glenda Shoemaker, Cindy Clausen, Denise Jackson, Linda Riley, Cal Swickard, Alice Thompson, Sandy McBlair, Dawn Tietjens, and Sheila Paxson.
Minutes were read from the February meeting. After corrections were made, Cal Swickard moved to accept the minutes and it was seconded. Treasurer’s report was given by Denise Jackson with a balance of $2,308.17 in checking. She has received $605 in 2011 memberships for the year so far with another $75 in memberships at the meeting.
Linda Riley presented a bill for $13.54 – supplies for meeting sign reminders to put around town and $1.76 for postage for scholarship letter sent to Lakeside, St. Johns; Beloit High, and Tipton schools. Seniors with a Glen Elder address are eligible for one of two $250 scholarships. Linda will contact those persons who served on the Scholarship Committee in the past to see if they would like to help again this year.
Discussion was held on the Easter Egg Hunt to be held April 23, 2011 at the Square Park. Drew Cunningham will be the Easter Bunny this year and club will pay him $20.00. It was decided the younger groups could use more eggs this year so local business will be asked to fill/donate 50 eggs instead of the two dozen as in the past. The older age group will move to the Zoo Park, the youngest set to the lots between Wayne’s & the Senior Center, and the rest in the Square Park. The Community Club has purchased 132 prefilled eggs, received a donation of 500 prefilled eggs, another 100 eggs from Jessie’s mother’s group in Lyons, Mom’s in Touch, and 25 eggs from the Senior Center. The goal is to have around 1900 eggs for the hunt. Additional eggs will be filled at the April meeting.
Fun Day – Changing the date was discussed as the weekend of July 16th is at the same weekend as the 1st Annual Wakonda Springs Indian Festival at Waconda Lake. It is tentatively left as the same weekend pending on what the band “Wanted” has booked for the weekends in July. Jessie was going to ask Jennifer Kresin to check on this. Discussion was held on when to start activities with Fun Run in the morning; Poker Run @ 9:00 am; free swimming from 1-4, games for children from 4-5:30; parade at 5:30 with the BBQ following. Entertainment would be during the meal with the dance at 8:30/9:00. Denise Jackson and Jessie Cunningham will talk to Sharon Sahlfeld about the Festival at the lake to see what the schedule for activities are for the day. Cal Swickard asked about doing a Community Church Service on Sunday morning with a possible potluck dinner following. Committee heads for the day – Lions Club – Fun Run and Entertainment; Poker Run – Denise Jackson; BBQ – Jessie Cunningham/ Megan Duskie; Games – Glenda Shoemaker; Parade – Sheila Paxson; Band – Jennifer Kresin. More discussion on the Fun Day will be held at the next meeting.
Linda Riley brought up the idea of having a “Recycling Trailer” in town. She is looking at grants to help with the cost of recycling and asked if the Community Club may be interested in sponsoring such a project. Denise Jackson had someone ask whether the Community Club would sponsor a City-Wide Cleanup. The club will look into what it takes to do such a project. Next meeting will be April 18, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. at the Glen Haven Community room
Respectfully submitted
Sheila Paxson, Secretary
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