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Weekly Announcements
June 10th, 2011

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In this issue

Summer Golf Social

Protect Yourself from Title Fraud

New Newsletter Contact

Send out Cards

Experience Kenya

Next Meeting Details

Good Morning Greetings!

I am thrilled to announce that we had a great June election meeting and have filled most of the positions on the board for the 2011-2012 term. As you look through the names I think you will find a great mix of long term members, new faces as well as some returning members that will provide a wonderful team to guide Independent Achievers for the coming year.

Executive Results

Chair: Audrey Thorhauer

Vice-Chair: Tanya Kitchen

Secretary: Dena Arnold

Treasurer: TBD

Membership: Lori Fraser

Reservations: Suzanne Morgan

Webmaster: Jennifer Belanger

Newsletters: Jennie Lightle

There are several additional positions to help support the organization:

Social committee: Joanne Ward

Lunch Activities (Speaker/programs/spotlights): Judy Holt

Promotions/Publicity: Joelle Johnson

Member at Large: Mercedes Messenger

Our discussion this week left several items without specific names attached. We are hoping that items like 50/50 tickets and meeter/greeters will step forth at individual meetings and help out. So if you are at lunch with time to spare one one month please volunteer to help out for the day. Remember many hands make light work!

Let's Golf, but no experience required!

We have once again booked the Riverbend Golf Course for our annual social this summer.

We will be holding the Texas shotgun on the mini links on:

Tuesday August 23 at 5:30- so please save the date now in your daytimer.

We are hoping that by moving the date to the end of August, we will catch most people winding down summer holidays and gearing back up for regular days (most schools will go back the following week). We also think it will be a great fall kick off for the New IA Year.

For those of you new to our Summer Golf, please note that no golf experience is required, we are playing for fun. We can even help you find some clubs if you need some.

We would love your Prizes

One of the highlights of the golf evening is always the wonderful prizes that we have. In the past we have been able to ensure that all participants have a prize when they go home. So if you can help out by supplying a prize for the event, or helping get prizes for the event we would greatly appreciate it.

Prizes can be brought to the June Election meeting.

Please contact Joanne Ward if you can help out or with any questions you have regarding the golf tournament joanne@joanne-ward.com

or 403.885.2390.

How to Protect Yourself from Title Fraud

An Integrated Financial Education Event

Integrated Financial Services will be hosing a education event designed specifically for clients and personal contacts who are mortgage free.

Presentations will be done by the RCMP Fraudulent Unit, First Canadian Title and Manulife Bank

Wednesday June 15, 2011

7PM-9PM

If you think you might be interested in attending this event please contact Audrey Thorhauer at 403-342-0042 or audrey@integratedfinancial.ca for more details. This event is a limited seating event and you must preregister to attend.

New Newsletter Contact

New member Jennie Lightle has volunteered to start doing the weekly announcements and will be transitioning into that role over the summer. To ensure that your announcement is posted for the week we want to remind you to use the dedicated email address for all your submissions, that way regardless of who is working on it that week we will have the information.

To ensure that you continue to receive your newsletters please add

newsletters@independentachievers.com to your safe senders list. You will be advised if the deadline changes for submissions in the coming months.

Submission Reminders

In order to keep the preparation of this weekly announcement a reasonable time commitment for our volunteers we request the following:

Please submit your announcement by 7PM on Thursday evening (subject to change). This will allow for the announcements to be finished and emailed out for Friday mornings.
Please submit the text of your announcement in one font and with one color only. Submissions with multiple fonts and colors are being copied into the newsletter and all formatting is lost. If you have a key phrase or piece of information that you would like to bold those can be done manually.
If you prefer that your ad in exactly the colors and fonts you want please save them as a .pdf or a word file and they can be done with a headline and an 'open here' link.
The new format and service that we are using for announcements will allow us to insert your logo directly into the announcement. If you have a business logo that you wish to submit please send it as a .jpg file. These will be added on a best effort basis.

Please send all requests for submissions to the Announcements to- newsletters@independentachievers.com

Announcing a Sale!!! Send out Cards

Announcing a Sale!!

Save $199 with SendOutCards!

Introducing the new $9.80 Auto Ship program!

Test Drive the bells and whistles of

www.sendoutcards.com/josco

Come out and see us at Business Trade Show at Westerner

Sat. 10:00am to 5:00pm (free parking and admission)

Trade Show GRAND PRIZE DRAW

from our IA member (Carolyn Jones)

- Happy Earth Inc. Recycle Pick Up

1 Week of Ecotourism for 2 in the Dominican Republic!

DROP IN to our COFFEE & CARDS!

Thurs. June 16th

6:30pm - 8:00 pm

ABC Restaurant

Video Cards and Campaigns demo!

RVSP and you coffee is on me!

Jo-Ann Grimwood

403-886-5559

Kardesh Children's Home- Experience the Story

You are invited to a SLIDE SHOW PRESENTATION

Thank you to those who have supported the Kardesh Children's Home in some way by attending the Charity Concert in April, purchasing a Silent Auction item or offering a monetary donation. You are personally invited to come see what your donation has supported in Kenya. Experience life there through a picture story.

Join Judy Holt for a Slide Show Tour

In The Community-

Can you believe it, the Collicutt Centre has been open for 10 years? They are having a week long birthday party from June 13-18.You can find the PARTY details Here

Alzheimer's Society - Memory Walk June 18th Find out more...

Announcement Prepared By

www.audreythorhauer.com

Before you say yes to 'mortgage' insurance through your lender, know what you are really getting - or rather, what you aren't. See what Canada's Investigative Consumer Show, Marketplace, uncovered. Then call me at 403-342-0042 to discuss insurance options to protect you and your family. Click the link: http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/in_denial

Next Meeting

Our regular lunch meetings are on hold for the summer and will resume in September. Please see the informaiton above for the golf social in August, and we will see you in the fall.

Independent Achievers

The purpose of the network is to bring together women of all walks of life for personal and professional growth, to initiate contact between women and reduce isolation, to provide a comfortable environment for sharing common career and social concerns and to offer self-development opportunities. Women have come to our network to meet other successful women, to make business contacts and to make friends.

Our Motto TRY A MEMBER FIRST

Contact Information

Chair

Audrey Thorhauer       Phone: 403-342-0042    audrey@integratedfinancial.ca

Vice Chair
Darlene Grasdal          Phone: 403-350-0027    darlene@refreshingyourspace.com

Membership & Web Site Coordinator
Suzanne Morgan         Phone: 403-346-0789    smorgan@manwiththehat.ca

Reservations
Adrienne Corcoran       Phone: 403-358-5005   adriennemariephoto@gmail.com