northridge optimist club bulletin board

Meeting of January 5:

​• After a two week holiday break, our meetings resumed on January 5 to start the new calendar year. We have completed the first quarter of the 2015-2016 Optimist year, so congratulations and thanks to President Rick for leading the club to such a good start. We can look forward to an excellent year for the next three quarters. 
 
​• There was no speaker scheduled for the meeting, so club business was the order of the day, but there were updates on several club activities:
         Plans for this year's Pass/Shoot/Dribble basketball skills contest for kids.
         An additional request for a grant from the Polar Bear Fund for Morrisson Elementary.
         An Optimist Essay Contest update.

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Christmas Sharing Report:

The 2015 event was held on Saturday, December 12, 2015. The school provided a list of 18 families for us to serve this year (49 children are in this group). The budget for the 2015 event was set at $2900 with the help of a $1300 contribution from Cargill and other donations throughout the year. Volunteers met at the Kroger store at 1934 Needmore Road at 10:30 AM on the 12th. Volunteers teamed up by two's, and each team shopped for a given family, and then delivered the groceries to that family.  It was a great turnout, with about twenty club member/family member volunteers, plus over thirty volunteers from Cargill. Afterwards most of the volunteers met for lunch & socializing at Marion's Piazza on North Dixie at Noon.  The club wishes to thank Cargill for the financial support of the program, and also to the Cargill employees and families who volunteered, plus all of the volunteers and supporters of the program. 
CLICK HERE for a slide show of photos from the 2015 event, or HERE for the main Christmas Sharing page.

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Community Links:

Some links of interest to the Northridge area are posted in the panel at the right (see the red buttons under "Other Northridge Links"). They are for The Northidge Alumni Bear Facts website, the Northridge Schools website, and the Northridge Schools facebook page. One good way to show support of the community is to patronize the alumni businesses that are listed on the alumni website: http://www.northridgealumni.org/id11.html.

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Current Club Schedule:
Meetings on Tuesdays at Noon,held at Brixx Ice Co., 500 E. 1st St., Dayton, Ohio 45402, unless otherwise indicated.
Please check club website bulletin board weekly for updates.

• Jan.  12: Open
• Jan. 19: Open
• Jan. 26:  Speaker - Wayne Essex, of Essex and Associates
• Feb. 2: Speaker - Tiffany Collier, Director of Operations, Good Neighbor House
• Feb. 9: Open
• Feb. 16: Open
• Feb. 23: Open
• March 1: Speaker - Jeff Hoagland, President of the Dayton Coalition