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Community Club Minutes
April 15, 2013
The Glen Elder Community Club met April 15, 2013 at Glen Elder Haven meeting room @ 5:30. Linda Riley, Vice President, called the meeting to order. Members present: Linda Riley, Denise Jackson, Cindy Clausen, Glenda Shoemaker, Janelle Beatz, and Sheila Paxson. Minutes from the March meeting were read, corrected and approved. Denise Jackson gave the Treasurer’s report. The checking account balance is $4,598.64 and report was accepted.
Old Business: Easter Egg Hunt – Discussion was held on the recent Easter Egg Hunt. Comments included that not all business received eggs to be filled. Chocolate candy in the eggs was a problem again along with loose candy. The American Legion and Auxiliary would like only 25 eggs each in the future. It was suggested we cut back on eggs and change the times to the same as area towns but was decided as long as we had eggs and donations, to keep it in the afternoon at 2:00. Everyone decided that the setup was good and everyone had plenty of eggs. Another suggestion was to put on the membership letter that Easter Egg filling and helping hide the eggs should be on the sheet. Drew Cunningham played the Easter Bunny again and did an excellent job.
Memberships are up from the prior year. Discussion was held on possibly calling the persons that letters were sent to that have not yet responded to see if they would like to join.
Scholarship winners were announced: Kendra Jermark and Katy Winkel. Announcement will be sent to the newspapers and sent to Greg German to display on the website. Discussion was held on how much to emphasis to place on when the applications are due and if all pieces are due at the deadline. Scholarship committee may discuss this in the future. June 1st will be the Citywide Garage Sale. Cindy Clausen will head the committee and asking for information by May 17th so maps and flyers can be made. Advertising will be in classified ads in newspapers, local channel on TV, KDNS Community calendar etc.
Discussion was held on the Glen Elder
Fun Day. Earlier in the year, discussion was held to hold the games
in the evening. Possible games include Dime Toss, Bean Bag Throw,
and one Ball Throw. Stuffed animals and glassware will be needed.
Denise Jackson offered to have Cunningham Telephone be the drop-off
for the stuffed animals/glassware. Hedge is needed for the pit for
the pork – if anyone has any contact Ted Eberle.
A Summer Swim will be scheduled after
the pool opens. Next meeting will be May 20, 2013
Minutes by Sheila Paxson, Secretary March 18, 2013
The Glen Elder Community Club met March 18, 2013 at Glen Elder Haven meeting room @ 5:30. Jessi Cunningham President, called the meeting to order. Jessi Cunningham, Bobbye Porter, Pastor Cody Fears, Madge Bennett, Deb Martin, Dorothy Bryant, Sheila Paxson, Dot Johnson, Mardella Alexander, Kay Thompson, Kailynn Iske, Mick McGuire and Denise Jackson filled the Easter Eggs before March Meeting . Minutes from the February meeting were read, and approved. Denise Jackson gave the Treasurer’s report. The checking account balance is $4,662.32 and was accepted.
Old Business: Easter Egg Hunt - Will need more volunteers to hide eggs the day of Easter Egg Hunt starting around 11:45. Groups will be 0-2 & 3-4 @ north of Wayne’s and other groups will be in park – marked off in three sections 5-6; 7-8; and 9-11. The Easter Bunny will have extra eggs for those kids who show up late or didn’t get any. The Easter Egg Hunt will begin at 2:00 with staggered starts. Jessi will ask City crew to have the train for rides. It was mentioned that at least one adult should be on rides with kids. Also need to have someone help line up kids so everyone gets turn for rides.
Discussion was held on the Membership drive. Kay Thompson was winner of the Membership Drive early membership contest. She won a $25 gift certificate to Lakeside Convenience.
Scholarship letters have gone out and as of the date of the meeting, no applications have been received. They are due by April 1st.
The Lions Club would like the Community Club to share costs if they get the Screening bus. Denise moved to pay half ($100) and they will look into available dates. The Lions Club no longer wishes to be in charge of the Fun Day Entertainment. Sandy McBlair has said she would like to MC the event for the Community Club.
American Legion has said they would sponsor Bingo on Fun Day and have ice tea, water for sale and Auxiliary would have pieces of pie for sale.
June 1st will be the Citywide Garage Sale and the MC Relay for Life begins that evening. Discussion was held on whether to change date of garage sale but decided the two would not conflict with each other.
Lakeside After-Prom sent a letter asking for a donation. It was moved to give them $50.
Glen Elder Library will be looking for a new Librarian starting July 1. Hours would be 16-17 per week.
Next meeting will be April 15, 2013
Minutes by Sheila Paxson, Secretary
January 21, 2013
The Glen Elder Community Club met January 21, 2013 at Glen Elder Haven meeting room @ 5:30. Jessi Cunningham President, called the meeting to order. Members present: Jessi Cunningham, Cindy Clausen, Denise Jackson, Bev Porter, Linda Riley and Sheila Paxson. Minutes from the November meeting were read, Linda moved to approve minutes & Beverly seconded. Motion carried. Denise Jackson gave the Treasurer’s report. The checking account balance is $3,479.71. Linda moved and Bev seconded to accept the treasure’s report.
New Business: Election of officers – Bev moved to accept the slate of officers as follows: President – Jessi Cunningham; Vice President –Linda Riley; Treasurer- Denise Jackson; Secretary-Sheila Paxson. Cindy seconded.
Set Dates for 2013 events: Easter Day Hunt – March 30; City-wide Garage Sale June 1; Fun Day July 20th; Christmas Lighting Nov 30 and Chili Cook-off with tentative date of Sept 28th
Discussion was held on the Membership letter. It was decided to offer a $25 gift certificate drawn from those memberships received by a certain date to a Glen Elder business. Denise and Megan Duskie will work on the Membership letter. Businesses will be asked how they would like their name to be on any advertising during the year. A mailing list will be made of those letters sent out and check the ones returned with membership monies.
Jessi will get several youth from the area to help get the Membership ready to mail in the next week or so.
Discussion was then held on ways to create more interest in the Community Club. Possible ways was to offer events during months other than the usual events. One suggestion was to possibly sponsor a night swim at the pool, movie night, bingo etc. This will be discussed again at the next meeting so any suggestions would be welcome.
Linda Riley said Scholarship letters will go out February 1st and due back by April 1st. Discussion was held on whether to put a sentence or two in about how scholarship information was rated as most applications list that. Next meeting will be February 18, 2013
Minutes by Sheila Paxson, Secretary
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