Reader Response Forum
12/02/2010 04:59
Non-government Organization Conference
Hi All:
This is an opportunity to learn more about community groups and support SATA. Hope to see you on:
- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, 3-5pm
- Hosted by: St. Albert Community League
- Held at SACL, 17 Perron Street, St. Albert
Non-government Organization Conference
- Learn about what 20 non-profit, self-sustaining, and community-oriented organizations in St. Albert have to offer.
- Keynote speaker: Carol Wodak, a longtime elder care activist and researcher and lead author of the Seniors Action Liaison Team eldercare reports
- Support the St. Albert Taxpayers--we'll have a table--by bringing friends, neighbours, family.
Lynda Flannery
President
St. Albert Taxpayers Association
``Your membership is your voice``
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SINC SAYS:
And regular contributor Deanne Doucett follows up with this informative submission regarding the Community League meeting.
Dear Don:
Rather late, yet in hope; our St. Albert Community League asks you to invite all members of the community to attend the NGO Conference that we are hosting at our hall (17 Perron Street) this coming Saturday afternoon, February 13.
For members of the community who are not already members of one or more NGOs, we think this will be a great opportunity to learn what we're all about, and even to become member of one or the other, and join in the fun.
A copy follows of an email just sent out. We think it will give a pretty good idea of what this gathering is about:
To our invited NGOs who have confirmed your attendance, and those we hope will confirm: we hope the following will be helpful.
The purpose of our conference will be described below. There is no intention to formalize a "league-of-NGOs"; rather our hope is to discuss possible mutual benefits of drawing closer together.
This copy of an email to SACL members may be helpful to you:
This is to inform all SACL members of the NGO Conference which we are convening at our hall this Saturday (13 Feb.) beginning at 3:00 PM; hopefully to wind up at 5 PM. NGO = Non-government organization. In this case, NGOs like us: non-profit, self-sustaining, and community-oriented.
Invitations have gone out to 30 some St. Albert NGOs. Responses have been very positive. We are hoping around 22 will be represented.
Our prime motivation in hosting public gatherings is to draw crowds of citizens who we hope to recruit to membership. And to increase public awareness and support.
Beyond that, our purpose in hosting this NGO Conference is to try to find group motivation for *all* St. Albert NGOs to draw closer together. And to begin a "to-be-continued" dialogue if we see the benefit.
Following is copy (edited for new info)) of an email I sent to Carol Wodak, well-known Edmonton community activist.
Dear Carol:
I have already expressed my delight with your agreement to deliver our keynote address. I'll try to lay out as clearly as I can our present thinking regarding format as follows.
Roy Bedford, a City employee, has agreed to moderate our gathering. He's being a grand help to us.
Vic Charlton, our SACL president, will lead off with a welcome and introduction of SACL. Vic will then invite NGOs to introduce themselves in turn (one minute each).
That complete, Vic will then introduce Carol for her twenty minute keynote address. That complete, Vic will thank Carol. He will then introduce Roy who will call for a brief Q&A (15 min.). That concluded, he'll declare a 10-minute tea-break. Roy's major task will be keeping the conference focused in our second hour.
Those are the high points. See Wednesday's Gazette and today's SCN for more. And Don Sinclair's mybirdie.ca web site. This is beginning to show itself a very ambitious undertaking. We'll hope for the best. We think we see the potential for major mutual benefit.
Hope to see you and your many readers there.
Sincerely,
Deane Doucette
For St. Albert Community League
The Bottle Of Wine
Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road.
As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the Navajo woman if she would like a ride. With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car.
Resuming the journey, Sally tried in vain to make a bit of small talk with the Navajo woman. The old woman just sat silently, looking intently at everything she saw, studying every little detail, until she noticed a brown bag on the seat next to Sally. 'What in bag?' asked the old woman.
Sally looked down at the brown bag and said, 'It's a bottle of wine. I got it for my husband.'
The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said 'Good trade.'
