Judy Dallaway Governor Profile & Contact Details

Darrell Cooper Governor Profile & Contact Details

District Reports: Governors

Septmeber 2009

Another great Kin year is about to unfold! Hopefully all clubs have their new executives in place and their plans laid out for the year. Your Deputy Governor can and will assist you with your planning. Just let them know what you need or where you are going.

For those of you who attended the National Convention, East meets West, held in Niagara Falls, I am sure that you enjoyed it as much as Judy and I did. It was a great convention. Everything was very positive, no bickering, and lots of celebration. If you missed it, you missed a good one. Watch for more news about the convention coming soon.

Our new National strategic plan was reviewed and discussed. Vision 2020 is something that many people have been requesting for many years. The plan is actually quite simple, even though the first charts that were presented to the membership were confusing at best. Basically there are three main areas of focus, membership growth, green initiatives, and advancing in technology. There is no need to focus on all three, just pick out what suits your club the best and run with it. It is quite possible that working towards one goal, will bring the other one along with it. For example, if you chose membership growth (which we have as a district) and you attract new younger members, they might already be involved in some kind of “green” project which could involve your club. Young people are quite often more “technical” than people like me, and would update club communication just by being there. Now you have hit on all three areas of Vision 2020 and all you had to do was bring in some new members. Over simplified I know, but I hope that you get the idea. If you chose not to use Vision 2020, that is your call as well. Whatever works best for the continued growth of your club!

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the Fall Leadership convention in Guelph this November.

Fall Leadership Conventions are to provide training for the upcoming Kin year, and we hope that we will have something for every there. It is also a great time to meet new people and see old friends. We are hoping to host an open forum, good ol’ town hall meeting on Friday night. Although the list of dignitaries is not confirmed yet, please plan on coming out to voice your opinions or ask the hard questions to our National Executive. Should be fun and informative.

The members of the District executive are here to help YOU! Kin should be fun for everyone, and the people that chose to move to district levels are just trying to do their little bit to ensure the future of the organization. You help them and they will help you. Just let us know what you need and we will do our best to help you out.

Yours in Kin
Darrell & Judy