Spotlight Speakers
January 7-
Installation of
New Officers
January 14-
Anthony Butler, Sr.
January 21- Barry Griffin January 28- Susan Carter & John Crowder
Happy Birthday
Robert Burke, 1/5
Al Nejad, 1/5
Jack Williams, 1/8
Joy Barnett, 1/9
Jerry Shaffer, 1/10
Prizes & Raffles
Attendance Award,
Sponsored by
Coordinated Benefits and Synovus Bank
$80
No winner this Week
Woody Cooper Award
Sponsored by:
Jepp Walter,
$40.00
Name Drawn Last Week: Scott Hanigan
50/50
Steve DeSorbo
Walter Smith
Next Meeting
January 7, 2015
San Jose Country Club
7529 San Jose Blvd
Jacksonville, FL
Lunch Buffet 12:00 pm
$20 Members
$25 for Guest
Invite a Guest
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS
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1/7 Installation of New Officers
1/14 Paul Mason, PhD, Local Economic Indicators for 2015
1/21 Steve Grossman, Jax Airport Authority
1/28 Lake Ray, III, First Coast Manufacturing Association
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| PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE |
Annie Howe, President
Southside Business Men's Club
(904) 654-6095
Sometimes, your body sends you messages. Apparently, mine thought I needed more rest than I have been getting, so I have spent most of the New Year Holiday in bed with a bad cold. (Thanks to Tim, who gave it to me!) this gave me a lot of time to reflect on the past year, and to look forward to the new one.
It's has been an unbelievable honor to serve as your President in 2014. Together, we were able to accomplish so much. Our first Political Action Committee was formed. We held our first Charity Clay Shoot that funded a new scholarship opportunity for local students. We continued on our quest to an eventual goal of our YAP Scholarship fund becoming self-endowing. That's just a sample of the great work done by our members this year.
I feel confident that going forward, the leadership torch will be held up by the Presidents who succeed me. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to know that Tim will be at the helm this year. Please give him all of the support and assistance that you have given me.
I wish you all a Healthy and Prosperous 2015!
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SAVE THE DATE!!
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Please join us for lunch at the first meeting of the year. This is always an exciting meeting where we recognize our members who chaired our events, and those who 'went above and beyond' in 2014. We will also be discharging the 2014 leadership, and installing 2015's. This is always an entertaining and heartfelt meeting.
San Jose Country Club, ballroom
January 7th, 2015
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MEMBERSHIP
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Winner Announced!!!At Wednesday's meeting, the winner of the year-long membership contest was announced. Past-President/Chairman Jepp Walter is our winner!! He brought in the most new members to our Club in 2014 and won a plethora of gifts.
However, you too can be a winner, just like Jepp. For 2015, let's make it our goal that every member brings at least 5 guests to our meetings (but, you'll have to do a lot better than that to beat this year's champ).
Congratulations Jepp!!
Frank Wallmeyer,
Membership Chair and 4th V.P. (elect)
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SERGEANT AT ARMS
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There are 2015 spotlight speaker dates available! The book is at the sign-in table at each meeting.
This is free to all members in good standing and gives you the opportunity to talk about your business, family, interests, or anything else you would like to talk about for five minutes. You are also able to put out business cards, flyers, or informational materials on the tables to showcase your business.
Pick your date before they fill up!
We also ask for volunteers to help us start our meetings to get us thinking about what is really important and what is behind whatever success we have achieved - God and Country.
If you have a calling to lead us in prayer/invocation or the pledge of allegiance, please either call or sign up in the spotlight speaker book.
Keith Litterick
SBMC Sergeant At Arms
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2015 DUES & MEETING CHANGES
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2015 Dues and Meeting attendance changes
From time-to-time the Board of Governors reviews activity levels of all our functions and the needs of our organization. We do a great deal of work in the community as well as try to provide an environment which fosters networking and friendship for our members and their businesses. In order to fund these endeavors we hold many volunteer functions for which the club is paid as well as request sponsorships for various events outside our charitable giving. As the club continues to grow, the needs do as well and the board examined the smoothest way to ease the current burden in order to focus on the civic, social, and business aspects of our club. Therefore the following changes take effect January 1 and for any memberships due to renew on or after January 1.
- $20 increase in annual dues for both corporate and individual members
- $5 increase to weekly non-eat costs for members and non-members (Currently $5 and $10)
We are still the most reasonable membership in town with the greatest flexibility. The cost of attending and dining will remain at the current rates as long as our agreement with San Jose Country Club remains at the current rate. Additionally we're the only organization that allows members and guests to attend at a discounted rate in lieu of participating in meals at the luncheon. This will allow the club to continue to meet its obligations, minimize financial requests for non-charities functions, as well as reduce the number of requests for volunteers throughout the year to raise operating funds outside civic involvement.
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PHOTO GALLERY
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Did you know we have a photo gallery on our website? We do. There is a link at the top of the home page for "Gallery".
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