4th District Meeting

I attended another great district meeting today in Warsaw. The Benton County ladies did a great job hosting the event. Cathern Long presented a workshop on membership and offered some suggestions for clubs to sign up new members and to keep them. Of course auctions are always fun and this one provided some entertainment. Thanks Chris and Violet.

I do want to extend my sympathy to the family of Jenna Ficken, Benton County Club member. She passed away Thursday. She was a great lady and a great Republican serving in several capacities in her club, district and state through the years.

1st, 2nd & 3rd District Meeting

It was a great day for the district meetings in Kirkwood. The turnout was great. I enjoyed meeting new members and seeing those I knew. Ann Wagoner was their keynote speaker. Her presentation covered so much and was very informative. It was a joy to hear her. Arleen Jackson is the first MoFRW member to recruit 10 new members.

CeCo FRW Meeting

It was great to visit with the members of the CeCo Club tonight. It is a wonderful group of ladies. I always enjoy attending their club meetings and hearing their ideas. They shared their comments and suggestions tonight concerning some of our communications. How impressive when I mentioned writing a history of their club they instantly produced their first minutes from 1988. They have their Candidate Forum planned for July 12. I plan to attend as of now.

Applause to the 6th district for a great meeting today. The facilities were fantastic and the food superb. Doris Muck had arranged for a good speaker who talked about the Fair Tax. It was nice to meet some of our members which I had not met before. Two of our new clubs were represented today. The drive to Sumner was about 4 hours but it was very enjoyable. I can count 19 different towns I went through between Bolivar and Sumner.

The call to convention is about ready to mail. Thanks to Angela and Elaine for all their work on getting that out.

This is a busy MoFRW week with a program at CeCo in Stockton Monday, 1, 2 & 3 District meeting Wednesday and 4th District meeting on Saturday.

Happy Spring

Happy Spring. I hope everyone is enjoying the great weather we have here.

Spring District meetings have started. I was unable to attend the 7th and 8th District on March 27 but I understand they were great meetings. I actually took a week's vacation to Colorado with my daughter and her family to see my other daughter. We left in a snow storm and had a snow storm while there.

ABC Schools have been well attended and the speakers are doing a fantastic job. Filing for office has closed but reading the lists around the state looks like a large number of candidates for many of the positions.

It is great to have a full slate of MoFRW officers once again. Tane' Schwartzman is the new 2nd Vice-president and Elaine Duncan will be serving as corresponding secretary.

The call to convention will be mailed April 12.

I haven't received an updated membership number the past week but everyone please remember our goal - 2010 in 2010.

Happy Easter.