November 2023
Vice-President’s Message
Welcome!
That's how we hope you feel when you attend our monthly dinner meetings. Please, sign up for our event and bring a friend!
Special note: Erin Overton-Dooks and Sheelagh Gunn are presenting as Business of the Month (due to a technical glitch last month. Thanks, Erin, for being so gracious and understanding!)
Each month we have a theme, and for November, it's Remembrance Day, a day of reflection and honour for the members of our Canadian Armed Forces, now and then, who serve our great nation.
We have so many connections in our community, our lives, to those in the Forces and Reserves and Peace Keeping units. On November 11th, we stop to thank them, honour them and if we're so inclined, say a prayer for them.
We look forward to hearing from Cheryl Butler, CAF as our guest speaker.
Lest we forget.
Trisha Cuthbertson
Vice-President
November Dinner Meeting will be held on November 8, 2023 at
Kelseys Roadhouse Restaurant,
405 Memorial Ave. Orillia, L3V 0T7
The restaurant will be following the Covid Protocol that is currently in place
at their establishment
You must e-mail OBWA at: reserve@orilliabusinesswomen.com
by 3 p.m. Friday November 3, 2023
Our RSVP numbers are submitted to Kelseys that day as they need to know
numbers for staffing
If you reserved your dinner spot and can’t attend please contact us right away so that
we can try and fill the spot with someone else that may be on a waiting list.
As always we welcome all women to the OBWA and we are encouraging our members
to bring a guest or two to our November meeting!
We have brought back some of our old traditions to our OBWA Dinner Meetings! Toonies for Toiletries where the money collected goes for hygiene products for those in need in the community
This November let us show the Sharing Place our support as they are desperately in need of Donations. We will be collecting non-perishable food items and as well Clean Reusable Grocery Bags which we will donate to the Orillia Sharing Place.
In October 31 pounds of food was donated to the Sharing Place by the OBWA members
As well we will be doing a 50/50 draw at each meeting! Winner of last month’s 50/50 draw of $25.00 was Corry Ticknor
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
There will be an event charge of $5 for members and $10 for non members payable at the door
5:30 – Networking – please bring your business cards & brochures with you
5:50 – You will order and pay for your meal plus your tip at the restaurant
6:15 Businesses of the Month: Erin Overton-Dooks Independent Director with
Thirty-One Gifts
&
Sheelagh Gunn-Seer & Spiritual Consultant & Juice Plus Consultant
6:30 p.m. – 30 Second intro & our business updates
(please respect each other by keeping to the time limit)
7 p.m. – Guest Speaker-Petty Officer 2nd Class -Cheryl Butler will speak this month at our dinner meeting.
Petty Officer 2nd Class (PO2) Cheryl Butler was born in Glace Bay , Nova Scotia. She enrolled in the Canadian Forces as a Supply Technician on 31 October 1989. During her time with the Reserves she aided with the ice storm of 1998 (Op Recuperation)) and also with the Kosovo refugees in 1999 (Op Parasol). After 14 years of service with 35 Service Battalion, she completed a component transfer to the Regular Force (Land) on 5 November 2001 and was posted
to CFB Halifax.
She completed her Naval Environmental training and on 3 June of 2002 was posted to HMCS Preserver. During her time onboard HMCS Preserver she attended numerous courses which included her QL5 and the Harassment Advisors Course. After serving three years with the ships company, she was then posted on 1 April 2005 to Formation Logistics. While with FLOG she worked as a Purchasing Officer with the Procurement Cell. During this time she did a uniform change from Land to Sea. After serving four years base side she was then posted back to sea with HMCS Montreal on 14 July 2009. After a short time with HMCS Montreal she posted to FMF Cape Scott where she worked as an Expeditor.
Promoted to MS in June 2010, MS Butler was posted to Canadian Forces Logistics Training Centre (CFSAL) at Canadian Forces Base Borden as an instructor. After three years of teaching QL3 and QL5 she was then posted to Base Operations, where she received the Commanding Officer’s Award.
On promotion to her present rank in July 2018, PO2 Butler was posted to Material Management Section as the Warehouse Supervisor and is still currently working. She recently received the Canadian Armed Forces Chief Warrant Officer coin for her work with the Purge Survivors event. PO2 Butler has just completed 22 years’ service with the regular force.
PO2 Butler is currently the chair for the Borden Pride Network and the regional co-chair for the Defence Team Pride Network National.
Happy Birthday to our October Members
Sharon VanNoort
Lynn Peterson
Dale McKay
Starting at our October meeting and running until September 2024 we will be honouring our OBWA members in good standing with Birthdays in that month. When you attend our Dinner Meeting the month of your Birthday we will waive your $5 event fee. Those having Birthdays in May, June, July and August will have their event fee waived accordingly. Please make sure to let Susan Zaroski know the month of your Birthday so she can get you on our Birthday Month list. She will be sitting at the door at the meeting to take the information from you or if you wish please e-mail your Birthday Month to Networking@OrilliaBusinessWomen.com
Please note: Memberships were due September 1st , 2023 & need to be paid for you to be a member in good standing. $100 membership fee will keep you a member in good standing until August 31,2024 . 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 Face Book. 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. Paypal payments accepted only: https://orilliabusinesswomen.com/OnlinePayments
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