october 2018 of norwalk/santa fe springs · soroptimist international of norwalk/santa fe springs...
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Synergy News
Soroptimist International of
Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs
Inside this issue
Pizza & Bingo…………..…...2
Project Updates…....……….2
Members Birthdays………..2
Business Expos Recap …...3
Members of the Quarter....4
SI Update……………….……..4
Founders Day…………….. ..5
Historical Video ………......5
District 1 Fall Meeting......6
Club Meetings…..…………..6
Sapphire Dreams…….……..7
Upcoming Dates. .…………..7
Club Name Change We are excited to announced we have received approval from the California Secretary of State and Soroptimist Internation-al of the America’s - our geographical expansion and club name change is official. As of August 24, 2018, our new club name is:
Soroptimist International of Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs
We have officially kick off ‘d our project Revise. The Revise project involves updating our website, social media, collateral and updating annual sponsors and institutions we do regular business with our name change. These changes will occur in stages over the next few months. Please note that during this period, we will be doing business as SI Norwalk until all enti-tles have been updated.
A large part of this conversion program will involve updating our members name tags, business cards and other collateral items. President Cynthia and VP of Public Awareness Natalie will be chairing “Project Revise” .
You will be hearing more about this in our upcoming club meetings, so stay tuned.
October 2018
2nd Quarter Birthdays
Kelly Leonard-Teglia 10/8
Henrietta Willis-Kendal 10/9
Carol Larson 11/12
Irene Kho 11/20
Susie Knouse 12/8
Afaf Al-Annan 12/17
Marilee Stefenhagen 12/18
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.” Ann Frank
Pizza & Bingo Fundraiser
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Committee Chair
Project Revise Cynthia Hayes/Natalie LeGaspi
Holiday Event– Fundraiser Marilee Stefenhagen
Historical Video Cynthia Hayes
Dream It, Be It Gina Ayala
Educational Awards Marilyn Smith
2018-2019 Board & Officers
Current Club Project Committees
Project Name Change 8/24/2018 Debbie Hayes
Business Expo’s 9/12/2018 Natalie LeGaspi
Completed Projects
So Cal Pizza 12253 Imperial Hwy, Norwalk, CA 90650
Tuesday, Oct 9, 2018 5:00 PM to 7:00PM
Our upcoming pizza and bingo fundraiser is fast approaching and we need your help members in selling tickets to support the services we provide to women in girls in our communi-ties. We are asking each member to sell 10 tickets ! Lets go !
Tickets are $10 and include 2 slices of cheese or pepperoni pizza & salad.
*Dine in Only. A drink purchase is required with use of the ticket.
2018 Soroptimist
Members of the Quarter
Si Norwalk/ Santa Fe Springs President honors the following members for thier service to the club over the last quarter. Please join me in saying thank you to following mem-bers, for their committee, dedication and passion, Natalie LeGaspi Marilee Stefenhagen Afaf Al-Annan
Never worry about numbers. Help one
person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
~Mother Teresa
Norwalk Business Expo Recap
Our booth at the “Norwalk Business Expo/National Night Out “was a great success. Our Soroptimist International of Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs cooling towels were a hit. We collected over $100 in unsolicited donations. A great op-portunity at an event, simply to strengthen our clubs relationship with the city leaders, local business and the residents of Norwalk. It also provided a great opportunity to give our current sponsor a “Thank You” gift. Natalie, did an amazing job in organizing the event. Thank you to Marilee, Afaf, Irene, Marilyn’s Husband Herb, Gina and Debbie who vol-unteered their time– You all made this events awesome!
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Santa Fe Springs Business Expo Recap
Our booth at the Santa Fe Springs Business Expo provided our club the opportunity to introduce our newly combined club to this service area. We socialized with many business, introducing them to our club and services. We also provided them with information on how they can be a become a spon-sor and we made some great business contacts for the club. We also pro-vided our Soroptimist International of Nor-walk/Santa Fe Springs cooling towels for a small donation. This event was a hit! Our goal was to increase our clubs public awareness to the local community businesses within Santa Fe Springs and we certainly accomplished that. Thank you Natalie and Marilyn for organizing this event. We all had a fun time ! Natalie, once again, you did an amazing job. Thank you to Marilee, Carol, Debbie, Marilyn, Afaf and Henrietta (& Laurel- who co-volunteered our booth, along with her employer’s booth) for volunteering their time. Your commitment to our mission is amazing to see in action.
Important Dates
Founders day Oct 3, 2018 October General Meeting Oct 3, 2018 Pizza & Bingo Oct 9, 2018 District One Fall Meeting October 13, 2018 November General Meeting November 7, 2018 Sapphire Dreams December 1, 2018
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Soroptimist International Update
Connect With US
MARKING WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY – KENYA Soroptimist International (SI) and Women for Water Partnership (WFWP) members, together with the Ngara Girls High School, Nai-robi, mobilized school girls, women and other like-minded stake-holders to participate in a school environment clean-up and tree-planting event, to mark this year’s World Environment Day. Ngara girls high school is situated right in the center of the Jua-Kali (open-air) industrial area of Nairo-bi’s central business region. The schools proximity to motor garages, small-scale businesses, artisan trading sheds and an open-air market, attracts a great deal of plastic waste. World Environment Day was a good opportunity to sensitize the students and neighboring communities to the need for clean surroundings and the dangers of plastic waste on the environment. “If you can’t re-use it, then refuse it” was the slogan adopted by over 1200 Ngara school girls during the celebration. Ngara Girls High School mounted an excellent rangers, and girl
guides guard of honor, for inspection by the invited chief guest speaker. SI and WFWP UNEP Representatives, Asha Abdulrahman, Mary Muia and Sophia Kipkoech, partnered with the School Board of Management, UNEP, UNESCO, Center for Environment Jus-tice and Development, SI Union of Ken-ya members led by President Elect
Madam Juliet Wamiri, Kenya National Roll Ball team and the Kenya National Football team. The speakers during the event urged the school fraternity and communities to break up with single-use of plastics and for schools and homes to be free from plastic waste, whilst participants marked the day with tree-planting and cleaning up the school environment. The SI UNEP Representative, SI Africa Federation Chair Mary Muia gave a moti-vational speech, encouraging students to choose serious career paths and not conform to stereotypical roles for women, saying that girls have what it takes to be water engineers, environmental experts and to advance in other science and technology related careers. The tides began to turn this World Environment Day, with global host India committing to the ban of all single-use plastics by 2022. #WorldEnvironmentDay became the #1 trending topic worldwide.
Founders Day
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Soroptimist celebrates Founders Day on October 3, which acknowledges the day in 1921 when the first club in Alameda County, California, called to order its first business meeting. Clubs celebrate the found-ing of the organization with activities to promote the organization and its early mission to “foster the ideal of service” through programs that now focus on improving the lives of women and girls in local communities and throughout the world. I encourage all Soroptimist members to wear their Soroptimist badge on founders day. Wearing your badge during your normal activities is a great way to increase awareness of our programs and clubs. It’s also a great way to seek out potential new members or sponsors.
Historical Video– 65 years of Service
As of November 2018, Soroptimist International of Norwalk will have been providing services to the woman and girls of our local communities for 65 years. Our club is partnering with the city of Norwalk to create a video highlighting Soroptimist, our club, our services and our programs since our charter in 1953 thru today. Our club is blessed, with many historical documents that past members and leader documented, from list of members, to service projects and hundreds of pictures. Additionally, we are blessed to have two lifetime members, from 1953 still with us. The video, unfortunately, will most likely not be complete in time for our December Brunch, however, the city is working to provide us with a brief promo of the full video for that event. The final video will be unveiled at our Anniversary Award celebration in March 2019.
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District One –Fall Meeting
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I encourage all members to attend the “The Desert Coast Region’s Fall District One” meeting.
These meeting are a great place to learn about new changes, the organizations strategic plans, goals and long terms objectives.
It also a great place to meet new friends, connect with old friends
and learn best practices from other clubs.
Saturday, October 13, 2018 Joint Training Base, Los Alamitos
8:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Tickets $30
Note: We will be electing a new District 1 Director at this meeting.
Club Meetings
Club meetings are held on the first Wednesday every month at 12:15 PM to 1:00 PM. You can attend either: In person at the Soroptimist Village or Via the Conference Call. There are no meetings scheduled in July or December 2018.
August 1, 2018 February 6, 2019
September 5, 2018 March 6, 2019
October 3, 2018 April 3, 2019
November 7, 2018 May 1, 2019
January 2, 2019 June 5, 2019
2018-2019 Club Meetings
“It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.” ~Taylor Swift
October Club Meetings Wednesday, Oct 3, 2018 12:15PM Watch for email! Pizza & Bingo Fundraiser Tuesday, October 9, 2018 5:00PM to 7:00PM Sell Sell Sell Sell Tickets ! Contact Marilee for more info DCR District One Fall Meeting Saturday, Oct 13, 2018 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM See page 6
November Club Meeting Wednesday, Nov 7, 2018 12:15PM Watch for email! Sapphire Dreams Saturday, December 1, 2018 11:30AM to 2:30 PM Watch for email!
Sapphire Dreams Holiday Fundraiser
Upcoming Events Mark Your Calendar
It’s that time of the year to began planning our annual holiday fundraising event. This years event theme is Sapphire Dreams in honor of our 65th anniversary. This year we will be raffling off four 4ft pre-lit trees along with other items. If you want to partner with other club members on a Christmas tree, or if you have questions about this event, want to join a committee meeting, need a sponsor letter or have items to donation, please contact Marilee. Please note that items must be new and cannot be older then six months. Reused items are not allowed at this event.
Sapphire Dreams December 1, 2018
Doubletree Norwalk 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Tickets $45 After Nov 1st $50
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Soroptimist International of
Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs
P.O. Box 125 Norwalk, Ca 90651
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sinorwalksantafesprings.org
Contact Us SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL
OF NORWALK/SANTA FE SPRINGS
SOROPTIMIST VISION Women and girls have the resources and oppor-tunities to reach their full potential and live their dreams. SOROPTIMIST MISSION Soroptimist improves the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and eco-
nomic em-
Sell Applebee Flapjack Fundraiser tickets $10 Sell Pizza & Bingo Night Tickets $10 Wear your Soroptimist Name Badge all day on Wednesday,
Oct 3rd Attend the Club General Meeting Attend the DCR District 1 Fall Meeting on Oct 13th—RSVP to
Cynthia by Oct 1st. Partner with some club members to be on a Christmas tree
team—we still need three teams for this year. Attend the Club Board Meeting on Oct 27th Solicit donation and sponsors for our holiday event. Start selling Sapphire Dreams Dec 1st– Holiday Fundraiser
tickets