ANNUAL MEETING and NEW PRESIDENT 2013-2014
Hi Moms! Fall is coming, meaning the OHMC Mom's Club Annual Meeting will be here before we know it! We already have an excellent committee on board for this event, though we are still in NEED OF A HOST! OHMC will offer house cleaning services either before or after the event, in addition to a small gift! If you would be so kind to host this event, please contact me ASAP at [email protected] - your committee will take care of everything else!
A date for this event is TBA, though expect in late October.
At the Annual Meeting, I will introduce you all to our new President for the 2013-2014 school year, MICHELLE WALKER! We are all very very fortunate to have Michelle on board, and we look forward to an excellent year!
For those of you newer to the club: The Annual Meeting happens only once a year! You will be introduced to the new president, enjoy wine and food, sign up for committees and activities, and in most cases there are several guest speakers.
NEW MEMBER COORDINATOR, NEW MEMBERS, AND THE NEW RESIDENT COFFEE
Welcome to the OH Mom's Club Liz Puskala and Melissa Franklin!
Kristie Feeback has already agreed to continue her duties this year as the New Member Coordinator! Thank you Kristie! If you have any prospective new members, send them to Kristie! She will welcome them to the club, share our website, add them to the directory, and be sure they attend our Annual Meeting and most importantly, our New Member event in February!
Contact Kristie via email: [email protected]
Keep in mind, not all new members need to be new to the village! There are many moms who used to be involved in the mom's club, and are no longer. Did you know the majority of the events and activities associated with the mom's club are adult only? This is an excellent way to socialize, network, and get involved with a fantastic group of women. Join the book club, enjoy an evening of cocktails and appetizers during the Progressive Dinner---introduce a NEW activity or event to the mom's club! The possibilities are endless. :)
Note: The OH Office of Village Life periodically hosts a New Resident Coffee. If you are new to the area, and are interested in learning more about the village, please contact Shelly or Dorothy for more information!
Office of Village Life: Shelly Jamieson & Dorothy Figy 419.537.9852
SPREADING THE LOVE
The Mom's Club would LOVE to sponsor an organization in need this year! In the past members have brought meals to the Ronald McDonald house, though I would love to open this up to additional organizations our member's are passionate about! Please send your ideas directly to me!
[email protected]
At the Annual Meeting, members will vote, and one organization will be chosen. If YOUR organization wins, you will serves as the primary liaison between this organization and the Mom's Club. We will organize a committee for you and figure where our services are most needed!
The past two years the OHMC has sponsored the Animal House Rescue booth at the Fall Festival. It has been OUR PLEASURE, and all Luanne Roberts Billstein had to do was ask! We are here to show our support and LOVE- now send in those ideas!
Literature and Non Fiction Book Group
Book Group meets (usually) on the first Thursday of the month at a member's home at 7:30 pm. Check out Mom's Club on Facebook or send Amy Gustine an email if you'd like to get on the special reminders and updates email list. [email protected]
The remaining books this year are:
OCTOBER Admission by Jean Korelit (long)
Portia Nathan is a thirty-eight-year-old admissions officer at Princeton University, a place so discriminating that it can afford to turn down applicants who are “excellent in all of the ordinary ways” in favor of the utterly extraordinary—“Olympic athletes, authors of legitimately published books, Siemens prize winners, working film or Broadway actors, International Tchaikovsky Competition violinists.” Portia compares her job to “building a better fruit basket” and achieves career success by helping her institution pluck the most exotic specimens, but her personal life is permanently on hold because of a traumatic incident from her own college years that she has never come to terms with. Although the reader may unravel the mystery of Portia’s past before the plot does, the novel gleams with acute insights into what most consider a deeply mysterious process.
NOVEMBER Say You're One of Them by: Uwem Ukpan
Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family’s struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle’s attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees—a microcosm of today’s Africa—a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a treacherous ride across Nigeria. Through the eyes of childhood friends the emotional toll of religious conflict in Ethiopia becomes viscerally clear. Uwem Akpan’s debut signals the arrival of a breathtakingly talented writer who gives a matter-of-fact reality to the most extreme circumstances in stories that are nothing short of transcendent.
DECEMBER A Hologram for the King/Dave Eggars
A National Book Award Finalist, One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, One of the Best Books of the Year from The Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together.
2013 OTTAWA HILLS FALL FESTIVAL
Hi Moms! Fall is coming, meaning the OHMC Mom's Club Annual Meeting will be here before we know it! We already have an excellent committee on board for this event, though we are still in NEED OF A HOST! OHMC will offer house cleaning services either before or after the event, in addition to a small gift! If you would be so kind to host this event, please contact me ASAP at [email protected] - your committee will take care of everything else!
A date for this event is TBA, though expect in late October.
At the Annual Meeting, I will introduce you all to our new President for the 2013-2014 school year, MICHELLE WALKER! We are all very very fortunate to have Michelle on board, and we look forward to an excellent year!
For those of you newer to the club: The Annual Meeting happens only once a year! You will be introduced to the new president, enjoy wine and food, sign up for committees and activities, and in most cases there are several guest speakers.
NEW MEMBER COORDINATOR, NEW MEMBERS, AND THE NEW RESIDENT COFFEE
Welcome to the OH Mom's Club Liz Puskala and Melissa Franklin!
Kristie Feeback has already agreed to continue her duties this year as the New Member Coordinator! Thank you Kristie! If you have any prospective new members, send them to Kristie! She will welcome them to the club, share our website, add them to the directory, and be sure they attend our Annual Meeting and most importantly, our New Member event in February!
Contact Kristie via email: [email protected]
Keep in mind, not all new members need to be new to the village! There are many moms who used to be involved in the mom's club, and are no longer. Did you know the majority of the events and activities associated with the mom's club are adult only? This is an excellent way to socialize, network, and get involved with a fantastic group of women. Join the book club, enjoy an evening of cocktails and appetizers during the Progressive Dinner---introduce a NEW activity or event to the mom's club! The possibilities are endless. :)
Note: The OH Office of Village Life periodically hosts a New Resident Coffee. If you are new to the area, and are interested in learning more about the village, please contact Shelly or Dorothy for more information!
Office of Village Life: Shelly Jamieson & Dorothy Figy 419.537.9852
SPREADING THE LOVE
The Mom's Club would LOVE to sponsor an organization in need this year! In the past members have brought meals to the Ronald McDonald house, though I would love to open this up to additional organizations our member's are passionate about! Please send your ideas directly to me!
[email protected]
At the Annual Meeting, members will vote, and one organization will be chosen. If YOUR organization wins, you will serves as the primary liaison between this organization and the Mom's Club. We will organize a committee for you and figure where our services are most needed!
The past two years the OHMC has sponsored the Animal House Rescue booth at the Fall Festival. It has been OUR PLEASURE, and all Luanne Roberts Billstein had to do was ask! We are here to show our support and LOVE- now send in those ideas!
Literature and Non Fiction Book Group
Book Group meets (usually) on the first Thursday of the month at a member's home at 7:30 pm. Check out Mom's Club on Facebook or send Amy Gustine an email if you'd like to get on the special reminders and updates email list. [email protected]
The remaining books this year are:
OCTOBER Admission by Jean Korelit (long)
Portia Nathan is a thirty-eight-year-old admissions officer at Princeton University, a place so discriminating that it can afford to turn down applicants who are “excellent in all of the ordinary ways” in favor of the utterly extraordinary—“Olympic athletes, authors of legitimately published books, Siemens prize winners, working film or Broadway actors, International Tchaikovsky Competition violinists.” Portia compares her job to “building a better fruit basket” and achieves career success by helping her institution pluck the most exotic specimens, but her personal life is permanently on hold because of a traumatic incident from her own college years that she has never come to terms with. Although the reader may unravel the mystery of Portia’s past before the plot does, the novel gleams with acute insights into what most consider a deeply mysterious process.
NOVEMBER Say You're One of Them by: Uwem Ukpan
Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family’s struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle’s attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees—a microcosm of today’s Africa—a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a treacherous ride across Nigeria. Through the eyes of childhood friends the emotional toll of religious conflict in Ethiopia becomes viscerally clear. Uwem Akpan’s debut signals the arrival of a breathtakingly talented writer who gives a matter-of-fact reality to the most extreme circumstances in stories that are nothing short of transcendent.
DECEMBER A Hologram for the King/Dave Eggars
A National Book Award Finalist, One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, One of the Best Books of the Year from The Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together.
2013 OTTAWA HILLS FALL FESTIVAL
Fall Festival is around the corner:
Saturday, September 28
Please join the Ottawa Hills Schools Parent Association Saturday, Sept. 28, at the 9th Annual Fall Festival: a marketplace of items from art to fall decor and many in between. The event is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Geresy Field (corner of Indian and Evergreen roads); admission is free. Activities include children's activities, wagon rides, great food, music and fun for all ages.
Be a Part of the Fall Festival!
We are looking for volunteers to help make the Fall Festival another success. We have shifts available in all areas on Friday and on Saturday during the festival. Volunteering is an opportunity for family members and friends to work together. It is a great way for students to earn community service hours. Contact Vanessa Prince at 419.536.5725.
Still Accepting Vendors
Email Joyce Stengle at [email protected] if you want to be a part of the Marketplace. Booth Fee is $100. DOWNLOAD AND COMPLETE THE FORM BELOW:
Saturday, September 28
Please join the Ottawa Hills Schools Parent Association Saturday, Sept. 28, at the 9th Annual Fall Festival: a marketplace of items from art to fall decor and many in between. The event is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Geresy Field (corner of Indian and Evergreen roads); admission is free. Activities include children's activities, wagon rides, great food, music and fun for all ages.
Be a Part of the Fall Festival!
We are looking for volunteers to help make the Fall Festival another success. We have shifts available in all areas on Friday and on Saturday during the festival. Volunteering is an opportunity for family members and friends to work together. It is a great way for students to earn community service hours. Contact Vanessa Prince at 419.536.5725.
Still Accepting Vendors
Email Joyce Stengle at [email protected] if you want to be a part of the Marketplace. Booth Fee is $100. DOWNLOAD AND COMPLETE THE FORM BELOW:
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Drive 4UR School: Sept. 28, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Help raise up to $6,000 for Ottawa Hills Schools! Ford Motor Co. is sponsoring the Drive 4 UR School Program, through it will donate $20 per test drive to Ottawa Hills Schools at NO cost to you! The more people who drive, the more we'll earn for our schools. The test drive takes place in front of the high school from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
The test drive will have a mapped-out course on village streets and should take 5-7 minutes. The Ottawa Hills Schools Parent Association is working with Kistler Ford to organize this one-day-only event. No purchase is necessary. Even if you drove in 2009 and 2010, you can drive again! So please join us and test drive a Ford on Sept. 28! Limited to one test drive per household, 18 and over, valid driver's license required. Contact Vanessa Prince for more information [email protected]
Pigskin BBQ: Friday, Sept. 27
It’s time to enjoy some amazing BBQ and help support the Boosters. Advanced tickets are being sold, and must be paid for by Sept. 20. Order form and details available at this link. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. Drop off completed forms with payment at either the schools or mail to: The Hupps, 3428 Brantford Rd., Ottawa Hills, Ohio 43606.
Help raise up to $6,000 for Ottawa Hills Schools! Ford Motor Co. is sponsoring the Drive 4 UR School Program, through it will donate $20 per test drive to Ottawa Hills Schools at NO cost to you! The more people who drive, the more we'll earn for our schools. The test drive takes place in front of the high school from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
The test drive will have a mapped-out course on village streets and should take 5-7 minutes. The Ottawa Hills Schools Parent Association is working with Kistler Ford to organize this one-day-only event. No purchase is necessary. Even if you drove in 2009 and 2010, you can drive again! So please join us and test drive a Ford on Sept. 28! Limited to one test drive per household, 18 and over, valid driver's license required. Contact Vanessa Prince for more information [email protected]
Pigskin BBQ: Friday, Sept. 27
It’s time to enjoy some amazing BBQ and help support the Boosters. Advanced tickets are being sold, and must be paid for by Sept. 20. Order form and details available at this link. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. Drop off completed forms with payment at either the schools or mail to: The Hupps, 3428 Brantford Rd., Ottawa Hills, Ohio 43606.
KINDERMUSIK
Moms of little ones! Kindermusik is enrolling for the Fall!!
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Moms of little ones! Kindermusik is enrolling for the Fall!!
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION