Checklist for tomorrow’s meeting

• Bring filled Project Homless Connect Forms and decide on best orientation date for yourself (or you can email this to Gina BY tomorrow) Download: Form//Job Descriptions
• Contact Chris regarding whether you will be able to attend Skate-a-Kid-to-Camp Mar 14th (12-3pm)
• Bring some ideas as to which group/organizations we want to donate dental kits to and how many we should purchase
• Read minutes, bring agenda, and something to write with

Jan 20 Meeting: Highlights

A couple of important topics were discussed at our January 20th meeting. Not everyone could make the meeting so I thought I would just summarize the important points below. Please read!! (I have uploaded the minutes to the Yahoo group as well).

Low Vision Project (Gina):
Originally, we were going to collaborate with the CNIB for a people-based project, but because their volunteer coordinator resigned in January, they are unable to accommodate us currently. So we are looking into other ideas like helping out at the homeless shelter. Everyone should have gotten a email from Gina (the chair of this project) regarding this. Let me know if you didn’t receive the email by replying to this post. (Or email calgarynhleos@gmail.com). Please kindly let Gina know whether or not you will partake in this project.

Skate -a-Kid-to-Camp (Chris):

Refer to pdf.

Sight Awareness Campaign (Shannon):

Due to the recession in the economy, we are considering a more feasible project.  Originally, the plan was to contact optometrists across the city to donate a portion of their profits on a set date to vision related causes, but with the current situation with the economy, we think this idea might not work as well.  While a good idea, I guess we will have to wait for a better opportunity. We are in search of a new project at the moment. Please refer to the minutes for the full details on this one.  If you have any ideas, please reply to the post and let us know!

Peace Posters (Raymond N.)

It’s that time of the year again where we start our planning for one of our biggest annual projects. At the meeting, a committee sign-up sheet was passed around. For those who weren’t at the meeting, but are interested on signing up for the committee to help with the planning, please email Raymond Nguyen or reply to the post and let us know! (I won’t post his email here to avoid his email from getting spammed by bots, but you can find his email in our club contact list on our yahoo group under files.)

Click here to learn more about the peace posters event!

Sight Night C. Meeting #2

On October 6th, we held a committee meeting from 8:00-8:45pm.  Thank

Boxes, boxes and more boxes

you to everyone who came onto MSN for the meeting.  Boxes have been set-up at Edge High School, Webber Academy, Hamptons Elementary, business offices, and the medical clinic on 16th Avenue.  Boxes in the other schools will be setup very soon.

The next step is to distribute Sight Night door-hangers to give people time to look for any old unwanted glasses they may have. We have 250 to distribute, but we can make more if needed.

Door-hanger distributing team (Oct 20-24th)

• Nolan
• Michelle
• Kim
• Raymond
• Ming
• Shannon
• Amy

Eyeglass Hunting Team (Oct 31st):

• Michelle and Kim
• Raymond and Ming
• Shannon, Nadia and Gina
• Amy and Eva
• Christina

We can always use more people on both teams. The more area we can cover the better.  So let me know if you can help out!

Sight Night Committee Meeting #1: Summary

Committee Meeting #1

The first Sight Night Committee meeting took place at 1:10 pm on Saturday, September 6th, 2008. The summary of the meeting are as follows:

Step 1: Draft a letter to the schools (Sarah, Amy and Shannon) Sept 8th DONE!

Step 2: Get each member to drop off the letter to schools they are near Sept 15th DONE!

Step 3: Acquire printed door hangers (Sarah) Sept 30th DONE!

Step 4: Create mini posters for schools (Michelle, Alan, Amy and Kim) Oct 1st DONE!

Step 5: Preparing Sight Night packages for schools (Raymond V., Gina, Amy) Oct 1st DONE

(Update: We gathered on Sept 20th and did an amazing job with the sight night boxes! See the pictures here.)

Step 6: Delivery of school packages (Group effort) Oct 5th DONE

Step 7: Newspaper article (Alan) Oct 10th CANCELLED

Step 8: Go to neighborhood and hang up door hangers (Group effort) Oct 24thDONE

Step 9: Trick-or-treat/glasses (Group effort) Oct 31st DONE

Step 10: Collect glasses (Group effort) Nov 3rd DONE

Step 11: Count glasses Nov 4th (At general meeting) DONE

Step 12: Newspaper article (Alan) Nov 6thDONE

Step 13: Send results to Sight Night Nov 8th DONE

**Wherever it says group effort, it means anyone is free to sign up, the more the better! (Reply to this post to sign up!!):)

Updates from first meeting

Thank you to everyone who came out to our first meeting. For those who missed the first meeting, don’t worry, you can read what we covered by reading the minutes, which you should have received in the email.

A Leo membership form and a club questionnaire was handed out. If you were not at the meeting, please print them out and hand them to Sarah Pradhan (secretary) or Amy (president) by next meeting (September 16th) after you have filled the forms. Or, you can choose to fill them out on the computer and send them to calgarynhleos@gmail.com.

Finally, if you plan to become a Leo member, please remember to join the club’s Yahoo group.  Again, the instructions and invite should have been emailed to you. Please email me at calgarynhleos@gmail.com if you have not received an invite.

-Amy