President’s Message January 2022
Hello!
I hope everyone kept healthy and had a safe Christmas. Your executive wishes you all a wonderful New Year full of promise and happiness for months to come.
As you read on you will notice we have planned a dinner meeting for Wednesday January 12th at Kelsey’s. Hopefully things will remain as they are and that we are able to fill the room to capacity(under the new rules) with up to 30 attendees. We are staying in touch with the kind manager Rob, and if we need to cancel, we will revert back to a zoom meeting, but hopefully only temporarily.
We have a great speaker arranged for this night, thank you Leah for arranging.
Congratulations to Raffaella Tassone as our 2021 Nelle Carter Woman of the Year and Paige Hannan as our 2021 Lisa Brooking Young Woman of the Year. We couldn’t have asked for more deserving recipients and nominees.
Please keep checking our Facebook page on updates on the video. Due to technical difficulties there has needed to be some post Gala work done on it.
Thank you to Andrea Sullivan, Leah Cavanaugh, Shelle Hossack and Susan Zaroski for their perseverance in helping to keep our organization up and running during these difficult and challenging times. And also thank you to these hard working ladies for also doing all the work of many to keep our Gala running each year. Talk about working overtime, often putting their own lives aside to make sure everything is in place for that one amazing evening of celebration. And our Judges, Carey Moran, Sponsors, and Contributors? Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!
As always, thank you to Charlene Mackenzie for creating our Zoom Membership Meetings when needed. Hopefully you won't need to be doing this much longer.
Looking forward to seeing your beautiful faces on January 12. So, see y’all next year!!!
Much love and respect to all. Stay well and safe.
With Warmest of Regards,
Sharon L. Van Noort, OBWA President
January Dinner Meeting will be held at Kelseys Restaurant, 405 Memorial Ave. Orillia, L3V 0T7
QR Code for proof of vaccination and ID will be required
Please note: You must e-mail OBWA at: networking@orilliabusinesswomen.com by Friday January 7th to reserve your dinner reservation
You will order and pay for your meal plus your tip at the restaurant
5:30 – Networking
6:00 p.m. – Members will order their dinners
6:20 p.m. – Guest Speaker – Gill Tillmann
Gill Tillmann is a teacher, speaker & life coach. Her Business Gill Tillmann Coaching is her vehicle to work with others to embrace change & make the future of their design. Gill has been named Orillia Citizen of the Year & has held the Nell Carter Woman of the Year award. These awards have humbled her as they represent the results of teams, groups & organizations not her individual actions. Her life’s work and passion is journeying with others to connect to their authentic selves.
“Let’s take this opportunity to dig into the science and psychology around being pumped for the future. You can choose the good stuff that speaks to you personally” Join Gill in hitting the ‘refresh’ button!
7:30 p.m. – 30 Second intro & our business updates
(please respect each other by keeping to the time limit)
The OBWA is now changing when our annual membership fee of $100 will be due. All members will have a renewal date of Sept. 1st. each year for their annual membership. The majority of our members have not paid their dues during the pandemic. Those members will need to renew their memberships starting January 1, 2022 for a pro-rated amount of $60. That will put the member in good standing from Jan.1, 2022 until June 30, 2022. Then on Sept. 1, 2022 everyone will pay their membership dues which will cover their membership for Sept.1, 2022 until June 3, 2023. Members have the privilege of posting on social media & have their information about their business and themselves on our website as well as posting on FB.. Non-members can attend meetings though without the other privileges. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact one of our executive members.
OBWA Executive is in need of a Membership Co-ordinator for our group. If you are an OBWA member please consider putting a written application in for a nomination for that position before Jan. 31. We will take a vote at our February meeting and announce those who have put their names forward. Nominees need to be present at our February meeting so a member vote can take place. Nominees need to send an e-mail to our networking e-mail with their intentions be known.
2021 Young Woman of The Year Recipient
Paige Hannan
2021 Woman of the Year Recipient
Raffaella Tassone
Our 2021 Gala Sponsors
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