BC Fraternal Order of Eagles Provincial Newsletter

Fraternal Order of Eagles
BC
Fraternal Order of Eagles
BC Provincial Newsletter
Provincial
Newsletter
April, 2010
Edition
2010 Provincial Convention
June 2nd to 6th
Aerie 3032 - Cranbrook, BC
CONVENTION SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
Note: All sessions are to be as follows: Men @ the Aerie Hall / Ladies @ the Days Inn
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Thursday, June 3, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
• Golf (details to come). • Joint opening-Aerie Hall • 8:00 AM-Memorial @
•
the Aerie Hall
• Dinner & Social at the • Lunch-Aerie Hall
Aerie Hall.
• 1:00 PM-Afternoon ses- • 9:00 AM-Morning ses- •
sions
sions
• Dinner & Dance @ the • Noon-Lunch @ the Aerie •
Hall
Aerie Hall
• 1:00 PM-Afternoon sessions
• Evening-Banquet @ the
Aerie Hall
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
9:00 AM– Morning ses- • Breakfast @ the Aerie
sions
Hall
Noon-Lunch@ the Aerie
Hall
Afternoon-Installation @
the Aerie Hall
Welcome
to all Eagle
Aerie &
Auxiliary
members
to the 2010
BC Convention in Cranbrook June 2nd thru to June 6th.
Come for a good time in the
Kootenays!
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
For recent convention related updates log on
to the Provincial Website at:
http://www.bcfoe.com
For your convenience a
map of the area centered
around Cranbrook Aerie 3032
may be found on the last page
of this newsletter.
Thanks from Cranbrook #3032
President & Convention Chairman,
Additional Contacts:
PPMP Lisa Kennelly
250 489-3077
Steve Chisholm
[email protected]
250 420-7887
Nancy Van Oosten
250-421-0064
WHAT’S IN THIS NEWSLETTER….
** 2010 Convention - Cranbrook, BC
Page 1.
** Marty’s Farewell
** Torch Run - Gallery of Carvings
** Vancouver Island Disaster Relief Trailer
Page 2.
** Message From President Elect Kit Chamberland
** 2010 Bi-Provincial Bonspiel
** News From Kamloops
Page 3.
** Pete’s Got The Beef
** Membership Updates
** Email Snafu/Help
Page 4.
** Communication!!
** Message From the Provincial Secretary
Page 5
** Spinal Cord Charity
** Campbell River.-.Lucky Members!
Page 6
** Provincial Trustee Message
** North Van Mothers Day Dinner
Page 7
** Children’s Art Contest
Page 8
** 2010 Convention Registration Form
Page 9
** Cranbrook Aerie 3032 Area Map
Page 10
From the Editor - I hope that I did
not omit any of the news items that
were sent to me. If I did, I apologize!
The response to my request for
newsworthy & special interest items
was super - I received 30 plus submissions.
If you have any questions or comments please contact me via email
at [email protected]
Thanks.-.It’s been a slice! My tee
time is at 12:15!
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showed my wife Lisa and myself during our visit to your Aerie in the last year. The memories will last forever.
As the Provincial Convention moves closer and closer in Cranbrook I urge all of my Committee Chairs to have their
reports ready for Thursday so that we can get as many done as possible.
Just a note on the Pacific Northwest Regional Conference: it will be hosted by Auburn, Washington this year in October from the 15th to 17th.
Hello my Brothers
At this time i would
like to thank all of
you for the great
hospitality that you
Just a note to all Aerie Secretaries: please get all of your Charity numbers into the Provincial Charity Coordinator
Brother David Thomson as soon as you are able to - you can get his Email address from the Provincial Web page at
www.bcfoe.com.
Hope to see you at the convention in Cranbrook.
Fraternally Yours
Marty Kennelly
B C Provincial President
OLYMPIC TORCH RUN : A GALLERY of CARVINGS
AERIE 2690 - HOPE, BC
The pictures are of a recent gallery of
carvings done for the Olympic Torch
run.
The carvings will go on permanent
display in front of the Eagles Hall in
Hope, BC after The Gallery closes.
It will then become part of the Tour of
Carvings throughout Hope which
starts at the city owned park and is on
all the tourist maps.
This is quite a feather in Hope’s Hat
as it will be putting the Fraternal Order of Eagles on the Tourist Map of
the world.
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Left - Herb Smith President, Front Right - Joe
Lamy Past President, Right Rear – Jim
Bassingthwaite and Left Rear Larry Kellum Trustee.
Submitted by Curtis Johnson
FOE Vancouver Island Disaster Relief Trailer
The Island Disaster Relief Trailer is locked, loaded and ready for the next dispatch. We had a call out to the Duncan floods in November, where we supplied a few items to assist the people affected by the high water.
The group also spent several hours this winter working on supply systems and packaging hygiene kits for future
distribution.
Financial support for the project continues to come in from Aeries, Auxiliaries, and other Community organizations . We are very grateful for the support we are receiving
from everyone.
We expect to be having officer elections for our association in
late April. Any Eagle or Auxiliary member in British Columbia
who wishes to become involved at the officer level is encouraged
to contact Shirley Hunt at (250) 245-1374 or Bill Yearley at
(250) 246- 4973 or contact any of the Island Aerie or Auxiliary
members.
Hopefully you will never have a bad situation in your community
where we are required to attend, but if you do need the trailer
and its supplies we are there for you.
Submitted by Bill Yearley
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I am working on visitations and Chairmen for Committees for my term. Secretaries please watch your mail
for letters as they will be sent out next week (editor’s note: Kit’s message was dated April 6th).
Things are going very well in the Okanagan. We have only two months left to get new members for Provincial President Marty so let’s get out there and “ROPE EM IN” boys.
Last weekend we were in Kamloops for our spring Executive Meeting. The meetings went very well and
Kamloops did a great job as they always do.
PRESIDENT ELECT
KIT CHAMBERLAND
Brothers,
I can’t believe that
the year is almost
over. Time sure flies
by!
The Pacific Northwest Curling Bonspiel was held on the same weekend in Vernon. There were 32 teams
from Alberta and BC taking part in the fun and festivities. Everyone that I talked to said it was a lot of fun Way to go guys and girls.
Be safe everyone and we look forward to seeing you in Cranbrook.
Fraternally, KIT CHAMBERLAND
2010 Eagles Bi-Provincial Bonspiel
Vernon Aerie 3557 March 25th to 28th
“A” EVENT WINNERS
Penticton’s Johnstone Rink
Rob Verrier, Sharon Verrier,
Diana Johnstone, Barrie Johnstone
“B” EVENT WINNERS
Campbell River’s Green Rink
Tom Green, Yvette Green,
Garry Ramm, Louise Ramm
“C” EVENT WINNERS
Vernon’s West Rink
George West, Deb Armstrong,
Lori Udell, Carol Martel
Opening Ceremony
Calgary’s Jeff
Stoughton throwing the
first rock
Hello from Kamloops. At last spring has sprung and our weather is bringing people out of their winter dens.
We just had the Provincial Executive meeting here on the last weekend of March. It was informative as well
BC Provincial
as a lot of fun.
Golf Tournament
We are now getting ready for our spring and summer spring activities, starting with Easter. April 4- Easter
When? May 15th
dinner , April 24- Spring Swing Golf and Dance. Hopefully everyone will come out and join in. Also, every
Tuesday, Katch the Krazy King Kard between 5 and 6 p.m. This is a lot of fun and profitable to the winner.
Tee Off Time? 1:00 PM
We still have our horse races on Wednesdays from 4-6 p.m. Thursdays Crib night starting at 7 p.m. Darts
Where? Pineridge Golf Course
start at 7:30, plus you can come down for our great wings from 2-8 p.m. . $.15 each.
Cost? Approx. $42.00 incl. cart And of course, rounding off the summer, our annual Fishing Derby at Roche Lake August 7& 8, where everyone is a winner. Lots of fun fishing, prizes, and B.S. around the campfire at night. We are hoping for another
Contact? Ron Gair at:
great turnout.
[email protected]
or 250 554 2856
As you can see, we are going to be busy and we hope to see a lot of you throughout the coming summer.
Please feel free to stop by the Aerie and enjoy.
One other thing to mention is that Kamloops is hosting our Provincial Golf Tournament on May 15. Green
fees and a cart will be about $42.00, and tee off will be at 1:00 p.m. at Pineridge Golf Course. Dinner to
follow at the Aerie. Please contact me at [email protected] as to how many will be attending so I can book
carts.
News From Kamloops
Pineridge
Golf Course
That about wraps it up. I hope everyone has a great summer
Submitted by Ron Gair
Vernon Open House Worthy President John Mayrhofer and Worthy Chaplin Vic Grill present check for $500.00 to Vernon Winter Carnival Float
Chuck Harper of The Upper Room Mission at our January 24th Open House. Eagle membership promotion along with several charity presentations were carried out at the Aerie &
Auxiliary Open House. A total of $11,400.00 was distributed to local charities.
Aerie & Auxiliary Vernon 3557 sponsored a float in the VERNON WINTER CARNIVAL PARADE to promote upgrades to Camp Hurlburt, a children's summer camp on Okanagan
Lake owned and operated by Trinity United Church.
Pete’s Got The Beef!
Abbotsford #2726
Pete Riddock presenting a
cheque for $3537.79 to
Stuart Smith of Abbotsford
Fire Rescue. Pete has been
doing the meat draws in
the Lounge on Friday
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Hello Brothers,
Let’s Round ‘Em Up and Rope ‘Em In for Brother Marty!
Two months left to go in the term, Brothers, and we still
have quotas to make and Rope Numbers to be
achieved, and two months is lots of time.
Here are the Aerie counts as of March 31st:
nights and the proceeds he has earned thus far are being donated to the Abbotsford Fire Rescue Burn Fund. GREAT JOB
PETE!!! Friday Night Meat Draws run from 4:30 to 6:00 PM.
Come on down and check it out.
By permission - Eagles Voice Newsletter
Aerie Membership - New & Re-enrolled Members
I hope you have all made it through the winter and are looking forward
to the sunny days ahead.
Well the term is almost over and we are still short some numbers in
the membership department and we need to fix that right away.
We had our Provincial executive meeting not long ago and I had mentioned to the Brothers in attendance that we need to rope some more
in for Marty. One of the things that I suggested is to phone the lapsed
members, not just from this term but the past couple of terms. These
people were good enough to be a member once so why not phone
them and see if they will re-enroll!!
We have done this in Abbotsford for the past few years and have had
great success in getting a large number back. They have really appreciated being contacted and it made them feel that they have not been
forgotten.
I hear so often “well I don’t know anyone else to sign up”, well yes you
do! Along with the Provincial Secretary I have been going over the
names of past members from all of the Aeries and you ALL have a
healthy list to choose from.
Let’s help Marty make quota and beyond – all members
up to May 31st count towards the total.
Thanks very much,
Will Heigh, Secretary
BC Prov. Membership Board
So please phone - it won’t take you long.
Not long ago I phoned 150 members to remind them that it was time to
pay their dues, so I’m sure you all can contact your lapsed list and get
some back.
Remember that a re-enroll counts for your quota and there are some
Aeries out there that have not signed up or re-enrolled anyone. We
were 110 members and re-enrolls short of the quota at the time of the
executive meeting , so please help out and get the
members back and if possible sign up some new ones.
Thank you for all your work so far this year. We are
looking forward to giving the grand prize to that hard
working Brother who is lucky enough to have their name
drawn from the bucket.
Submitted by BC Membership Chairman, Brian (Hoss) Kersey
Hello Brothers & Sis- documents have been passed around via email that are stored in .docx format. This is the latest
ters,
Word (Office) format.
I just wanted to pass
a little knowledge
along to all of you
about documents.
Recently, a lot of
Many of you with new computers, received a trial version of MS Office or it may have come with
your new computer, which is great. Unfortunately now when you save a document in word, it defaults to the .docx format.
Many people in Eagledom, who do not have the latest office cannot read a .docx document without adding a special converter to their Office suite. Being technical, I have the converter, but
many of our Brothers & Sisters do not have this knowledge and cannot read your document.
So if you could, when sending a document out via email or to others, could you please use the
"Save As" option from the File Menu. Select Save as type: Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc).
That way you can insure that the majority of your Eagle Brothers & Sisters will be able to get
your message.
Submitted by Darren Critchley
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COMMUNICATION
No. of
Officer
Positions
Officers
Listed in
MMS
Phone
Numbers
in MMS
Emails
in MMS
ROSSLAND #10
VICTORIA #12
NANAIMO #15
SURREY #20
NELSON #22
SPARWOOD #1864
VANCOUVER #2075
PORT ALBERNI #2096
LADYSMITH #2101
DUNCAN #2546
NORTH-WEST #2638
HOPE #2690
ABBOTSFORD #2726
MAPLE RIDGE #2831
TRAIL #2838
CRESTON #3027
CRANBROOK #3032
CAMPBELL RIVER #3097
PRINCE GEORGE #3318
KAMLOOPS #3453
VERNON #3557
PARKSVILLE #3922
PENTICTON #4281
CHEMAINUS-CROFTON
#4400
14
12
14
11
14
3
11
12
12
13
14
12
14
12
12
11
12
14
12
12
11
14
14
14
12
14
10
14
3
11
12
12
12
10
12
14
12
10
3
11
14
12
10
11
13
14
9
8
6
10
13
1
10
12
12
10
9
9
14
12
9
3
9
14
11
10
11
12
10
0
1
2
1
0
0
0
1
6
1
2
0
13
8
4
2
1
9
1
0
8
8
1
12
12
12
3
TOTALS
292
272
236
72
Aerie Name & Number
Provincial Secretary Message
Hello again, Brothers. It’s just 62 days to go until
the Cranbrook Convention. Time has flown by this
year and we appreciate all your hard work on the
many worthy causes we all support. Just a reminder to the Aeries that any Aeries wishing to
host the 2013 Convention should get their bid
letters in to me by the first day of Convention.
In addition, please be sure to get any applications
for Mr & Mrs Eagle to Brother Wayne Cummings
at [email protected] as soon as possible, and
any submissions for consideration for the Eagles
Hall of Fame as soon as possible to PPP Geoff
Middlehurst at [email protected].
Charity reports from your Aeries are due in by
April 30th, so please get them in to Charities Coordinator David Thomson by phone at 250-4898416, by snail mail at 196 Lombard DR., Trail, BC,
V1R 4V6 or via email @ [email protected]
Any Aeries supporting new or continuing Brothers
for Provincial Office should get their Aerie authorized letters of support in by May 15th. Please remember Brothers that all Brothers must have
submitted a letter in order to be eligible to serve
on the Provincial Aerie (this Provincial By-law
revision came effective in November of 2009).
Also, please send in the names of your Aerie’s
deceased members by May 22nd to guarantee that
their names are not left out of our Convention’s
Memorial Service.
As for Archival material, we’re still looking for
Convention Booklets from the following years:
1945 through 1952, 1954 through 1957, 1959,
1960, 1962 through 1966, 1974, 1976 and 1982.
Originals will be scanned and returned if Aeries or
individuals would like them back.
All Provincial Aerie Convention minutes are now in
the archives, thanks to many Brothers and Aeries
within BC.
Lastly, Convention Coordinator Steve Chisholm at
[email protected] is hoping to have all the preregistration money and names in by May 15th at
the latest, so please do him this favour and decide
on your Delegates and list the Past Presidents
who will be attending. The registration form for
Convention is available on the Provincial website’s
Convention 2010 page which also should have
been mailed out to all the Aeries – A copy of the
registration is in the back of this newsletter.
Also, hopefully, those Aeries who want an ad in
the Convention Booklet have already sent the
request in to Brother Steve.
Based on the MMS System
data:
Only 93% of the Aerie Officers in BC are listed in MMS,
when 100% are supposed to
be, according to the Grand
Aerie Compliance Officer.
Only 81% of the Aerie Officers in BC are
reachable directly by telephone, when 99.2% of
the population has at least one phone.
Less than 25% of the Aerie Officers in BC are
reachable directly by email, when 89% of the
population has at least one email address
If there is a communications problem across
BC, these facts may explain part of it.
So please, Aerie Secretaries, canvass all your
Aerie's officers for at least one phone number
and one email address, and be sure they get
entered into the MMS System. Officers, please
be sure to provide phone numbers and email
addresses, if they exist, to your Secretaries if
they exist. We can all do better to keep each
other in the loop.
Submitted by Will Heigh
In closing, following is a Schedule Reminder for
the Aerie Secretaries in BC:
The Provincial Executive looks forward to seeing
you in Cranbrook on June 3rd, 4th and 5th.
Past Grand Worthy Presidents Ken Cross, Bill
Loffer and Pacific Northwest Regional President
Jack Rhein will be in attendance so until soon, be
well, and drive safely.
Will Heigh, Secretary, BC Provincial Aerie, 30133430 Bourquin Place, Abbotsford, BC, V2S 6V8
(604) 852-9183 [email protected]
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Spinal Cord “Quality of Life” Concerns
From the Desk of Randall Didiuk
– New Westminster Aerie #20
ATTENTION:
All B.C. Eagle Brothers
Recently our Worthy Provincial President, Brother Martin Kennelly requested that I act as B.C. Spinal Cord
Chair for the remainder of the 2009/2010 Eagle Term …
That being said, I would like to request that all Aeries look at their Spinal Cord Charity Activities & Funds.
We would like to encourage that ALL B.C. Aeries “contribute” & “top-up” their Spinal Cord Funds for
“presentation” at the upcoming June 2010 Provincial Eagle Convention …
Spinal Cord Charity has had a long history with the F.O.E. and our B.C. Aeries over the years … We would
wish to keep this tradition strong …
There are very many ways to contribute to Spinal Cord QOL (Quality of Life) Projects and also for the Search
for the Cure – Nerve Tissue Regeneration …
The Rick Hansen Wheels in Motion June 13th Event Day is only one area of Aerie Spinal Cord Support.
Please check out the following:
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•
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•
•
•
•
•
•
GF Armstrong Rehabilitation – Vancouver Coastal Health
B.C. Rehabilitation Foundation
Canadian Paraplegic Association – CPA
Cardio-Vascular Endurance for Paraplegics
Disabled Sports – Swimming – Skiing – Bowling – Hockey
Canadian Paraplegic Basketball Association
Seacoast Swimming Association
Disability Equipment
Municipal Accessibility Committees
I request that your Charity Committee Members review their 2009/2010 Spinal Cord Support and report prior
to the June B.C., F.O.E Convention in June and your Aerie $$$ Dollar Support … Please send your report to
our Provincial Charities Coordinator – Brother David Thomson: 250-489-8416 [email protected] …
I do Thank You for your Consideration & Action on this matter …
Regards,
Brother Randall Didiuk – Spinal Cord Chair
New Westminster Aerie #20 – Secretary
604-377-7765
[email protected]
Campbell River - Aerie #3097
On Saturday evening, January 16th ,
May Hrechuk came up with a perfect 29 crib hand. Congratulations
May! Note: The chance of getting
a perfect 29 cribbage hand is 1
in 216580
By permission - Jack Ordway
On April 1st Russ Rogers won $250.00
as the winner of the final table beating
out Andrea Mailox, Marie Maine, Pam
Bentley & Janet Penner. Also qualified
was Hank Schulte, who was unable to
make it to the game.
Message From Provincial Trustee Renee Paquette
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Hello Everyone,
This term has been great. I have had the honor of being our Lower
Mainland Visitation Chair and have really enjoyed visiting all the Lower
Mainland Clubs. On every occasion the hosting Aerie has done an excellent job. The food has been delicious; the friendship has been great
and the cocktails, always great. Our final Visitation will be held in Hope
on April 23rd and 24th. They always put on an excellent event so it
would great to see all of you there.
Our Officer Executive Meeting was held in Kamloops March 27th and
28th. I would like to congratulate Kamloops on a job well done in hosting the weekend. It was great to see Mr. Snufalufagus (AKA Mike
McFee) there, I have missed you.
In Abbotsford, my home Aerie, Bill and Janet Davies hosted a Fundraiser Dance on March 27th. All the proceeds of $5650.00 from the
dance is going to towards finding a cure of Multiple Sclerosis. Well
done both of you. There was a draw for $500.00 worth of booze and
guess who won - me!! If I can only keep Dani away from it Kersey, Will
and I should be able to have a couple all-nighters. Of course we will be
discussing Provincial stuff because it is amazing how smart we get after
a couple of drinks.
ward to seeing everyone there. I wish our incoming Provincial Worthy President Kit Chamberland the best of
luck and congratulations on a great job by our outgoing
Worthy President Marty Kennelly.
Fraternally
Renee Paquette
Provincial Trustee
If you guys haven’t already heard, the Super Bowl weekend in Abbotsford was something to remember. Not only did the torch run go by our
Club that day, we also had a visit by some every voluptuous Cheerleaders. A group of guys from the Club got together to raise money for
Lung Cancer by dressing up as Cheerleaders and getting pledges from
friends and family. We raised $5700.00! It was quite a half time show
that will not soon be forgotten. If you haven’t had a chance to see the
video, go to U-Tube and enter: “Eagles fund raiser for Lung Cancer” or
use the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6S7KO_hM48o&feature=youtu.be. It is a little graphic so keep young
children away from the computer screen. Try to figure out who’s who - I
am the good looking one.
The Provincial Convention is coming up in Cranbrook; I am looking for-
PARKSVILLE - AERIE #3922
Parksville Eagles 3922 Home Society
ANNIVERSARY DINNER
May 1st, 2010
COME AND ENJOY A GREAT DINNER & HELP
US CELEBRATE OUR ANNIVERSARY
DOOR OPEN AT 5:00 PM
DINNER AT 6:OO PM
CARNIVAL GAMES ARE TO FOLLOW
Please RSVP to : [email protected]
or sign up at the bar
Cranbrook, BC—Aerie 3032 Area Map
Symbol
Name
Address
Phone No.
Website
Eagles Hall Aerie 3032
715 Kootenay St. N.
250–426-5614
N/A
H1
Days Inn
600 Cranbrook St. N.
250-426-6683
www.cranbrookdaysinn.com
H2
Heritage Inn
803 Cranbrook St. N.
250-489-4301
www.heritageinn.net
H3
Best Western
1019 Cranbrook St. N.
250-417-4002
www.bestwestern.com
H4
Sandman Inn
405 Cranbrook St. N.
250-426-4236
www.sandmanhotels.com
M1
Lazy Bear Lodge
621 Cranbrook St. N.
250-426-6086
www.lazybear-lodge.ca
M2
Nomad Motel
910 Cranbrook St. N.
250-426-6266
www.nomadmotel.ca
M3
Kootenay Country Inn
1111 Cranbrook St. N.
250-426-2296
www.kootenaycountryinn.com
Mount Baker RV Park
1501-1st St. S.
250-489-0056
www.mountbakerrvpark.com
BC Liquor Store
100-425 Victoria Ave. N.
250-426-1293
N/A
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