Choir Performance

The Brail Tone Choir has a choir performance on Saturday, November 5 at St.
Paul's United Church. Address, 11526 - 76 Ave. The performance starts at 2
p.m. The choir will sing about 6 songs, and then, several of the choir
members will sing a solo, or sing and play a musical instrument. There is no cost and
everyone is welcome.

St Albert Optimist Club 30th Anniversary

The Optimist Club of St. Albert Chartered on November 21, 1981 will be celebrating their 30th Anniversary and all Optimists are invited to attend the party on Saturday November 26. This event will take place at the St. Albert Eagles Hall at 23 Rowland Cres, St. Albert. We understand that several District Executives will be in
attendance and all members are urged to attend. Contact President Wyn for complete details. Times and other details will be posted in the future.

If you wish to extend congratulations you may do so by adding your comments below.

2011-2012 President Wyn

President Wyn is no stranger to Optimism or our club. She first joined in 1959 and was an Opti-Mrs which was a separate club and became the money earning arm of the Beverly Optimist Club of Edmonton. This is President Wyn’s second term of Presidency of our club and she is excited to take this on again as our club has grown and changed from the previous term. Pres. Wyn’s pet project is the oratorical contest and this has grown to include our club’s and Zone 5's Essay and CCDHH contest. Opt Wyn currently is the AMS& NW District Chair for
the CCDHH contest. She has also served on the District as Protocol and Oratorical Chairman. She is an extremely active member and does or has done just about everything in our club. She celebrated her 90th Birthday this year and was awarded the Governor Generals Caring Canadian Award in 2008.

Highway clean-up

Our next clean-up event will be on Saturday
October 22 and all members are urged to help out.
We will meet at the Leduc Boston Pizza at 9:00
AM and shortly afterwards will head out to our
section of the QE II ditch North of the Kavanaugh
over pass. The clean-up usually takes about two
hours and then we will return to BP for a lunch.
This is a joint project with the Leduc Black Gold
Optimists. If you need additional information
please contact Opt John

Next Club Meeting on October 24th

President Wyn and her board have decided that since next Monday is Thanksgiving Day and an Edmonton Eskimos football parking event we will cancel our next meeting. Watch this site for details on our "Big Bang" October 24 meeting.

Zone Project

Lt. Gov Peggy has announced that we will be doing a zone project. Past Zone projects included a Space Theme Room at the Stollery Children’s Hospital. The hospital now has a wish list of items in high need and are as follows. Please note that new items are needed as for health reason the ill kids can not have anything recycled.

Toddlers
All plastic mobiles
Toys with lights, sound and movement (no fabric)
Rattles
Pre-school
Fisher Price Little People
Hot Wheels
Play dough
Colouring Books
Thomas the Train
Dora/ Diego
DVD’s general rated

School Age
Colouring books
Journals
Markers
Craft kits
DVD rated PG
Gameboy Advanced Rated E
Xbox 360 Rated E
PlayStation 3 Rated E

Teens
Journals
Markers
Craft kits
DVD rated PG
Gameboy Advanced Rated E
Xbox 360 Rated E
PlayStation 3 Rated E
Gift Cards
Movie passes

Contact Lt Gov. Peggy for complete details or use the comments option of this blog so that we can develop a FAQ list.

Zone Meeting Horseshoes

At the 4th quarter Zone board meeting on Saturday Sept. 17,2011 our traditional horseshoe toss followed. Congratulation to Opt Bob of the Leduc Black Gold and to Opt Clint of Edmonton Dinner for winning the tournament. Prizes and the trophy were awarded.

Past President Beryl’s Finale

Past President Beryl’s finale meeting was well attended by Dinner Optimists and by both Lt. Gov. Trevor and Incoming Lt Gov Peggy.

This was a program meeting and Barb Spencer from the Zebra Society was our guest speaker. Edmonton's Zebra Child Protection Centre is for any child who may experience abuse. It takes a community to raise a child and our donations are greatly appreciated. After the presentation Barb presented us the new Zebra Zipper pulls and President Beryl received a stuffed zebra plush toy.

Past President Beryl thanked each member attending personally by remarking on their
contribution to making the past year a huge success. The Presidents Award was given to Opt Dave Parnell for his telephoning of all the members before the meetings and for his committee involvement with the Brail Tones and 85th Anniversary. Secretary Lucile was awarded a Life Membership from our club. Each member was given a souvenir Dinner Optimist Club shopping bag. The blue cloth bag features our club logo on one side and Bringing out the Best in Kids logo on the other side. The 2010-2011 year and President Beryl are also featured. Lt Gov Trevor presented Beryl a Tim Horton’s gift card.

It was a great year and any Optimists who missed this meeting will be able to obtain a bag at a future meeting.

Casino a Success

The Brail Tone casino took place on Wednesday, September 28 and Thursday, September 29 at the Palace Casino in West Edmonton Mall. Many thanks are expended to everyone who helped out making this a tremendously successful fund raising event.

2011-12 District Website is now LIVE

The 2011-12 District Website hos now been published. Please refer to the Website Tour Booklet for information:
http://www.amsnwoptimist.org/docs/2011-12-District-Website-Tour.pdf


You may have to hold down the SHIFT key and reload your web page if you have visited the District website recently. This will force your web browser to load a fresh copy of the website page into your web browser.


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Optimist Gord
District Web Services Chair
AMW&NW District 13 - Optimist International

amsnwoptimist.blogspot.com

"Spiraling Upward" 2011-2012 theme

photo by Optimist Eric Lim


This year we are starting out our Club with a BIG BANG!