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Blue Goose Alberta Pond IN FORMATION October 2015 News Bulletin MLG’s Message We are at the start of a new and exciting year for our Pond. This will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of our pond and we look forward to not only our usual and well attended events including the Wine Tasting in November, Toy Mountain in December, the Pool Tournament in April and both Golf and the Lobster Fest in June, but also a Spring event to honour our history and all our wonderful PMLG’s. Our aim for this year is to increase engagement of our membership and we look to each of you for an increased effort. If you only attended one meeting last year, try to make two. If you know someone who would make a good gosling, nominate them. If you have a little time to spare, let us know and we will find you a job. If you have lots of time we will find you a bigger job. Most of all, encourage everyone you know to attend our events and to increase our ability to donate to the many worthy charities we support. Looking forward to a full-filled and fulfilling year Your Most Loyal Gander Isabel McNab Upcoming Meetings We look forward to seeing you at our next Initiation Meeting which is being held on October 26 th . We encourage all new applicants to attend the initiation is the next one is not scheduled until April 2016! Note: New members to be initiated are not required to pay for dinner, but do need their membership Fee of $75.00. October 26 th dinner meeting & Initiation Location: Danish Canadian Club Time: 5:00 cocktails 727 – 11 Ave SW 5:30 meeting Cost: $30 for dinner 6:30 dinner RSVP to Carlene Sorensen ([email protected]) by: Thursday, October 23, 2014 Just a reminder that if you confirm your attendance and cannot attend, payment is still required. Thank you. I NSIDE T HIS I SSUE MLG’ S M ESSAGE U PCOMING M EETINGS U PCOMING D ATES TO R EMEMBER P AST E VENT R ECAP C ONTACT U S
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Blue Goose Alberta Pond
IN
FORMATION
October 2015
News Bulletin
MLG’s Message
We are at the start of a new and exciting year for our Pond. This will mark the
100th anniversary of the founding of our pond and we look forward to not only
our usual and well attended events including the Wine Tasting in November,
Toy Mountain in December, the Pool Tournament in April and both Golf and
the Lobster Fest in June, but also a Spring event to honour our history and all
our wonderful PMLG’s.
Our aim for this year is to increase engagement of our membership and we look
to each of you for an increased effort. If you only attended one meeting last
year, try to make two. If you know someone who would make a good gosling,
nominate them. If you have a little time to spare, let us know and we will find
you a job. If you have lots of time we will find you a bigger job. Most of all,
encourage everyone you know to attend our events and to increase our ability
to donate to the many worthy charities we support.
Looking forward to a full-filled and fulfilling year
Your Most Loyal Gander
Isabel McNab
Upcoming Meetings
We look forward to seeing you at our next Initiation Meeting which is being held on October 26th. We encourage all new applicants to attend the initiation is the next one is not scheduled until April 2016! Note: New members to be initiated are not required to pay for dinner, but do need their membership Fee of $75.00. October 26th dinner meeting & Initiation
Location: Danish Canadian Club Time: 5:00 cocktails
727 – 11 Ave SW 5:30 meeting
Cost: $30 for dinner 6:30 dinner
RSVP to Carlene Sorensen ([email protected]) by: Thursday, October 23, 2014
Just a reminder that if you confirm your attendance and cannot attend, payment is still required. Thank you.
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Upcoming Dates to Remember, with more information to follow:
Wine Tasting .................................................................................................................. November 19, 2015
We are looking forward to our 4th Annual Blue Goose Wine & Beer Tasting which will feature selections from Italy, France and Germany, as well as food pairings to complement the tasting selections. Evan Acheson will once again provide his amazing piano skills, and our charity of choice ARF, will be
in attendance to answer questions, and provide us with information on how we can assist with their
charity as well as how the funds we raise provide support for their everyday operations.
Location: Willow Park Wine & Spirits - 10801 Bonaventure Drive SE, Calgary in the lower level ballroom Event Hours: Doors open at 5:00 pm - Pouring Begins at 6pm and Wraps up at 8pm Ticket price: $80 members/$85 non-members
To purchase tickets please email Isabel McNab at: [email protected] For general enquiries: [email protected]
Sponsorship: we would like to thank those that sponsor each year. A small portion of these funds goes to assist with our local Blue Goose to ensure we can continue to bring you great events. The remainder of the funds goes to support
those less fortunate. This will be the third consecutive year our event has raised money to support
ARF (Animal Rescue Foundation) providing funds to rehome and provide much needed medical
attention to animals in need.
Sponsorship opportunities:
Gold - $600.00: Includes 2 tickets, company name and logo/ Sponsorship level on overhead screen
Silver - $300.00: includes 1 Ticket, company name and logo/ Sponsorship level on overhead screen
Bronze – Draw prize of your choice (Value of $75.00) – Company name will be announced as the prize is drawn.
Christmas meeting/Bottle Bingo ..................................................................................... December 1, 2015
General Meeting ............................................................................................................... February 8, 2016
General Meeting/Initiation ...................................................................................................... April 4, 2016
Jurgen Mausch Pool Tourney ................................................................................................................. TBD
AGM ......................................................................................................................................... May 30, 2016
Golf .......................................................................................................................................... June 2, 2016
Lobster Night ..................................................................................................................... June 8 or 9, 2016
In addition, we will be hosting an event in the New Year to celebrate our 100th Anniversary as a pond.
Details will follow.
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Helping our Edmonton Pond Strive toward the Convention 2018:
As most of you should know by now, the Edmonton Pond will be hosting the 112th International Grand Nest convention in 2018. This event, speaking from our experience from the 2012 convention, takes an enormous amount of fundraising and effort on behalf of the volunteer committee for the convention. One of the Edmonton Pond’s fundraising efforts comes in the form of a print that can be ordered in a variety of sizes or in a canvas gallery wrap. The photo below shows
a sample of the print that was created by member and photographer David Buzzeo. Please contact PMLG Neil
Miller at [email protected] or 780-458-2526 for more information on how to order.
Past Event Recap
Jurgen Mausch Memorial Pool Tourney: held on May 13, 2015 at The Hidden Spot
On behalf of Chair Gander Thannhauser:
I wanted to write to thank you all for coming out to this year’s Jurgen Mausch Memorial Pool Tournament
at The Hidden Spot. It looked like everyone was having a good time: sharing laughs, meeting new people
in the industry, and enjoying the high-quality play at the tables. This year we raised $630 for the Women
in Need Society.
Our winners from 2013, Allan Akins and Jon Andrasz, were able to recapture the cup once again.
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I would like to thank the sponsors for their continued support of the tournament: Alberta Fire and Flood, Westcan Appraisals, and Collision Analysis. This tournament would not be possible without them. Alberta Fire and Flood also provided some excellent door prizes for the evening.
Finally, if you have any comments on the tournament or suggestions for improvement please let me know.
Thanks again.
Steve Thannhauser, [email protected]
(Caption: Winners of the 2015 Jurgen Mausch Memorial Poor
Tourney)
Blue Goose Golf Tournament: held on June 4, 2015 at Lacombe Golf and Country Club
The weather was almost perfect for golfing at this year’s Blue Goose Golf Tournament involving participants from Edmonton, Red Deer, and Calgary. There were 104 golfers and a few additional guests from our sponsors to round out a great outing and afternoon feast of prime rib and fixings. Winners of the day included Jesse Collins (Alberta Pond) capturing the low net score, and Cam Hiebert and Mark Lunnin securing the low net for the Alberta and Edmonton Ponds respectively.
The attendance was closely split between the Edmonton and Alberta Ponds, with the Alberta Pond’s average net score just edging lower
(Caption: the prize table at the 2015 Blue Goose Golf Tournament)
than that of the Edmonton members. However, the Edmonton Pond members dominated in the skills
department with 4 of the 5 prizes. Thanks to co-chairs Carlene Sorensen and Mike Peck from the Alberta Pond
for organizing and a big thanks to all the sponsors for the event.
Annual Blue Goose Lobster Night, June 10, 2015 held at the Inglewood Golf and Curling Club:
This year’s Blue Goose Lobster Night was another sellout as members of the Alberta Pond and the industry
congregated at the IGCC for a feast of lobster and seafood. “First In Line” provided the evening’s
entertainment to the 180 plus guests who waited patiently for their turn getting in the buffet line. Monies
raised from the event will be donated this year to Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids, which is a lunch program
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for kids within Calgary schools that might otherwise go hungry throughout the day of not for this program.
Thanks to all the sponsors of the event which included:
o Sintra Engineering Inc.
o Alberta Fire and Flood
o ServiceMaster Calgary
o Action Restoration
o Belfor
o ClaimsPro
o SAMAC Engineering
o Western Site Technologies
o Alberta Jewellery Claims
o Stantec Consulting
o Century Roofing
o Graziano Investigations
o Rocky Cross Construction
North
(Caption: Guests attending the Lobster Night enjoying the outside before dinner)
109th Grand Nest Convention, Baltimore:
This year’s annual convention was hosted by the National Capitol Pond in Baltimore, MD, from July 19 to July
22. There was an impressive turnout for this convention and our own Pond sponsored our delegates Lynne
Fawcett and Stanley Winter to attend the event. News reported back to our Pond from the convention
focussed on some discussions that have been going on about potential future changes to the regions,
particularly, reducing the number of regions from 5 to 4. This may impact our Canadian Region, so be sure to
stay tuned and express any of your thoughts or concerns to our executive.
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In other news from the convention, this past year saw an increase in overall membership, the second year in a
row of positive membership growth. This is good news for our order which suffered declining membership for
a number of years recently. Also, charitable donations from ponds in the Canadian Region surpassed $100,000
– an impressive figure and one of which to be proud! For more information and to see photos from this year’s
Baltimore Convention, visit: http://www.nationalcapitalpond.com/pond-events/
Contact Us
If you have any questions or would like to volunteer for any of the committees or events please don’t hesitate to contact any of the members below.
2014-2015 Executive Members
MLG Isabel McNab (Most Loyal Gander)
Email: [email protected]
SOF Carlene Sorenson (Supervisor of the Flock)
Email: [email protected]
KGGE Michael Peck (Keeper of the Golden Goose Egg)
Email: [email protected]
WGQ Michael Peck (Wielder of the Goose Quill)
Email: [email protected]
COG Ann Marie Graziano (Custodian of the Goslings)
Email: [email protected]
GOP John MacIver (Guardian of the Pond)
Email: [email protected]
