Well, the recently concluded IFA mem-bership contest ran down to the wire! In addition to the five new members that were recruited by mid-December, five more joined up at the January meeting:

Birgit Okamoto, sponsored by Donna Schehl Anthony Magnotta, sponsored by Pat Smith David Magnotta (Anthony’s cousin), sponsored by Anthony Magnotta Fred Wolin, sponsored by Donna Schehl Peggy Frick (Fred Wolin’s wife), sponsored by Donna Schehl With the addition of these five new members, the member-ship drive ended with the following results: Donna Schehl – 4 new members Pat Smith – 2 new members Don Braden – 1 new member Jean Tomlinson – 1 new member Bob Romer – 1 new member Anthony Magnotta – 1 new member

Carson ValleyFootprinter

VOLUME 41 February 2016 Issue 2

The President’s MessageHello, Wow! What a great turnout we had at our January meeting! I was very happy to see everyone there - from our longest affiliated members to our newest mem-bers. I would like to congratulate Donna Schehl on winning the Lake Tahoe Re-

sort Package! Not only did she win a prize, we as an organiza-tion won by obtaining more valuable members! Thank you to everyone who assisted in recruiting our newest members. Our Footprinters Organization will be all the better with these fine new recruits! Welcome!! I am happy to announce that we will begin another recruit-ing contest (starting in February of this year running through June where the winner will be announced at our June meet-

From the Secretary—Treasurer President Ron Pierini pre-sented Donna Schehl with the “Lake Tahoe Resort Package” prize as having re-cruited the most new mem-bers during this period. Remember that phase two of the membership drive be-gins now and runs through June. More prizes to be awarded. Stay tuned…

We had 63 people in atten-dance at our January dinner meeting held at the Carson Valley Inn. This puts our av-erage dinner meeting atten-dance so far this fiscal year at almost 58. I would imag-ine that this average prob-ably compares favorably with other chapters of the Footprinters.

Ray

ing) for another fabulous award (details of the prize still to come!). I would like to extend a warm thank-you to Wendy Garri-son, the director of China Spring Youth Camp for her educa-tional and interesting talk. I hope she helped clear up some misconceptions about the camp and brought to the forefront the need of such a facility. The Camp truly cares and is whole-heartedly invested in improving and expanding the lives of their occupants. There was talk of visiting the Camp as one of our regularly scheduled meetings. I am sure if that is solidified you will all be informed. Thank you again for your friendship and membership! See you all soon!

Ron Please Call

Yesor No

by 02/11for the 02/18

meetingRay Hoyt 267-4355E-mail rhoyt@charter.net

Or RSVP via websiteat: http://cvfootprint.org

Vice President’s Staff

From the 1st Vice President From the 2nd Vice President

Hello Fellow Footprinters, What a great meeting we had in Janu-ary. We started 2016 with a great speaker (Wendy Garrison, Director of the China Spring Youth Camp) and a lot of new members. It is wonderful to see so many

people interested in what our organization does. I was asked by a new member, “Why do we go to different places for dinner?” For those who don’t know, our mem-bers are from both the Carson Valley and Carson City. To be fair to both, we try to make the travel reasonable, so we rotate our meetings between the two cities. Our February 18th meeting is at the Carson Nugget. Please RSVP by February 11th to get in the early bird drawing to win a free dinner. The cost is $21.00. Social hour is 5:30pm with dinner at 6:30pm. Please try to bring a friend and a Pot “O” Gold gift.

Pat

Hello Fellow Footprinters, Thank you for the great turnout at our January meeting, it was nice to be back at the Carson Valley Inn. There was a lot of interest in Wendy Garrison’s pre-sentation (Director China Spring Youth Camp) and several members expressed the desire for a group tour/field trip in lieu of the traditional monthly meeting. Please let us know at the February meeting, because I will not book a speaker for March and use that month for a group tour. At the February meeting we will have our own Mike Mary who will talk about the Citizen’s Patrol, I look for-ward to seeing everyone there.

Paul

February BirthdaysDennis Slavin 02/10Fred Asmann 01/12Hedy Carter 02/12Don McRoberts 02/24Bayan Lewis 02/25

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Donna Schehl Winner!!!Lake Tahoe Resort New

Member Recruiting Package

NEW MEMBERS: Peggy Frick, Fred Wolin, David Magnotta, Anthony Magnotta & Birgit Okamoto

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Camille Howard & Betty MillerGuest Speaker Wendy GarrisonDirector - China Spring

Youth Camp

2nd VP Paul Howell, Guest Speaker Wendy Garrison &

Pres. Ron Pierini

Bev Thayer & Phil Kasper Celeste Pierini Lois Howell

Hedy & Bill Carter

Pat Smith & Fred Asmann

Janet & Ed Bryant Jane & Roger Wade

Anna & Jim Hansen Bayan Lewis

CHAPTER PAST PRESIDENTS

1991-92 BillDepew, 2000-01 Fred Hersey Charter Member 2001-02 Clay Hill deceased 2002-03 GradyGoodwin1992-93 Doug Tucker deceased deceased 2003-04 Dorman Dane1993-94 Eston “Red” Baker 2004-06 Phil Kasper deceased 2006-08 Larry Gray 1994-95 Bill Shay 2008-10 Claudia Lowe1995-96 Ray Hoyt 2010-12 Bayan Lewis1996-97 Lon A. Curtis 2012-13 Charlene Spinner deceased 2013-14 David Aymami1997-98 Elza Turkington 2014-15 Mike Rhoades deceased 1998-99 Bob Minton1999-00 Rodney Snead deceased

IFA, Carson Valley Chapter #72P.O. Box 2242Minden, NV 89423

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2016To:

INTERNATIONAL FOOTPRINT ASSOCIATION, INC. CARSON VALLEY CHAPTER #72

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President Ron Pierini 783-0602 1st Vice President Pat Smith 265-5332 2nd Vice President Paul Howell 266-4127 Secretary-Treasurer Ray Hoyt 267-4355 Sergeant-at-Arms George Lamonica 265-5555 Immediate Past President Mike Rhoades 7 83-8094 Grand Director Larry Gray 783-9759 3 Year Director Bayan Lewis 882-8068 3 Year Director Bill Peters 901-2671 2 Year Director Phil Kasper 267-5365 2 Year Director Claudia Lowe 267-5630 1 Year Director Betty Miller 782-7935

BOARD APPOINTMENTS Newsletter Editor Larry Gray 783-9759 Chapter Webmaster Don McRoberts 267-0025

Visit our Chapter on the web at: http://www.cvfootprint.org

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