DATE: January 17, 2018 Western Regional Super Conference May 3 to 5, 2018 Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Elk Grove, California Dear Friendship Force Member: The FF Club of Sacramento is pleased and privileged to be coordinating a Super Regional Conference for the 37 clubs within the Western US and Canada. As you are a member of one of those clubs, we would like to encourage you to consider joining us for this unique experience. We hope our theme, Citizens of a Global Community, will motivate you and your club to move forward to serve within your local communities. Staff from FFI headquarters will be presenting workshops addressing the issues and future plans of FFI. Our workshops include: Insurance and Mobility Issues; Websites; Journey Coordinator Training; Multigenerational Journeys; Building and Maintaining Membership; Community Involvement – Conducted by our Keynote Speaker; Vetting, Pitfalls and Planning of Global Journeys; Photo Clusters, Using Google Docs and Thinking Outside the Box! We close the conference with a GALA Mexican style dinner, appropriately on Cinco de Mayo, May 5th. You will be overwhelmed with our dinner presentation by two FF members who sailed their boat from San Francisco to Australia over a two-year period. They stopped along the way to learn about the cultures, provide eyeglasses to island inhabitants, teach, and make friends in every port! The Presidents’ meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 1 PM, where we hope you can send your President or someone to represent your President. This is a wonderful time for bonding, finding out more about what other clubs are doing, perhaps openings for upcoming Journeys, and just having fun! Please join us! Marty McKnew & Pat Ghiglieri Western Region Field Representatives Sue Palmer Mountain States Field Representative Judy Smith Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest Field Representative Mavis Grant Western Canada Field Representative
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Report on January 13 luncheon
Friendship Force – Report on January 13 Luncheon Jan 14 at 2:41 PM In an effort to keep everyone updated on club activities, dates and upcoming events, we are sending this report with information discussed at yesterday’s luncheon. Minutes from New Mexico Friendship Force Lunch Meeting 1/13/18 Thank you to the 36 members who attended today’s luncheon at the Elegante. We welcomed 4 guests and 3 new members and we missed those unable to join us. Following are the key points of the meeting: Welcome and pledges by Mark Vaughan – our 2018 President Round of appreciations for so much active participation in 2017 We will be alternating monthly luncheon meetings social gatherings. Berta Wagstaff spoke regarding ideas for social events. In February, we will hold a social event instead of our luncheon. On February 18, we will join in a celebration of Chinese New Year at a local restaurant. We have openings for 20 members. Please contact Berta @ 505-710-4448 if you are interested in attending. Incoming exchange May 3-10 – 18 members from Western North Carolina. A team of five members will be coordinating efforts to plan for this exchange and will be contacting you for your support as well. Cheryl Lehmberg will be the point of contact. Sign-up sheets and descriptions were available for our out-going exchange to Cedar Rapids in Central Iowa for June 13 – 19. Contact Cheryl Lehmberg @ 972-658-4241 for further information and she will send you a description of the visit. There will be an international incoming exchange for September 20-27 from the Metro Vancouver Friendship Force Club. And, finally, Ginger Grossetete introduced our speaker – Joseph Badal – a local author who shared some very interesting information regarding the world of publishing and introduced us to some of his books as well. There were many questions and he was very well received. Bob and Sue Bowersock