Happy Spring and Summer My Fellow Senators,
Can't believe this is my last newsletter article to you as your State Senate President. My, how these past two years have gone by so quickly. We've enjoyed some really good times and wonderful memories along the way.
Our last meeting was held at Wisconsin Badger Camp on May 1st. All of our new officers for 2010-2011 have been elected and are as follows.
Your new President will be Barb Hoefer,
Vice President--Janet Byrne,
Treasurer--Brian Trautman
Secretary/Newsletter Editor--Paul Burkard.
We still have a few spots open for directors, so if you'd like to help out with the Senate please feel free to contact Barb Hoefer. She now has an e-mail address and you can contact her at bhoefer55984@yahoo.com.
Paul Burkard and I will be working on a CPG for spring clean-up at Badger Camp for next year. We would really like to make this work out so all of us Senators can get together and have a fun and relaxing weekend at the camp and also help them do some sprucing up before they open the camp up for the year to the many disabled people that will be attending from all over the area and other states. The date is tentatively planned for Saturday, May 7th, 2011. I know it's a long way away, but we really want to make this a yearly event, so please mark it on your calendar. You'll see updates in the upcoming newsletters.
La Vonne and Vern Acker will be hosting their annual Ackerfest once again this August 21st. We've really enjoyed their hospitality, food, beverages, entertainment and getting reacquainted with our fellow Senators. Not even a cold, rainy weekend in August can put a damper on Ackerfest. Please mark this one on your calendar. You won't want to miss it :-)
The two really big events that we have coming up over the next three months are going to be the Regional fall board of directors meeting in Bloomington, MN on Sept. 24th to the 26th. We are looking for lots of representation from our WI Senators. Please try to attend this awesome event. Our committee has put on a wonderful calendar of events for the weekend including lots of hospitality, socializing, a dinner boat cruise, transportation to the Mall of America and some very nice goodie bags full of mementos from all seven states in our region.
Two weeks after that WI will be hosting the fall region VI meeting in Pewaukee. We are going to need all WI Senators to help out at this one and show our fellow Senators that WI is a very hospitable state as well. If there are any leftover goodie bags from Bloomington, we will be filling them up and passing them out as well. We are looking for products to put into them for Bloomington and Pewaukee, so if you have anything from your place of work or business that would be willing to donate items, please get a hold of me as I'm in charge of this.
Well, I do believe that about sums up the final newsletter that I have for all of my fellow WI Senators. I hope you have a happy, healthy and safe summer and I look forward to seeing a lot of you throughout the next three months.
Rhonda S. Stubbe JCI#63164
WI JCI State President 2008-2010
