
Happy Super Bowl Sunday Everyone!! Hope you all have you hotdogs & popcorn ready! It’s going to be a great game!

This coming Thursday, February 6th is our Optimist Night meeting at 6:00 pm. President Art has a guest speaker, Dave Dare from Puzzle HR, that will provide us with some valuable information!! Please come and meet, greet & eat!! Of course Ruth will have one of her yummy tummy-filling dinners!
CALSO MEETING: Saturday, February 8th from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm is our 2nd Quarterly CALSO meeting. This will be at the Santee Elks Club in Lakeside. (Your $20 includes continental breakfast & lunch). What a Deal!! Bonnie Styles is available to take your payments. 😉 Allmembers are invited to attend!!

Please remember to sign up for our Valentine’s dinner. It’s Friday night, February 14th at 6:00 pm!! You can respond to me now, you can respond to Linda Steele Fisher at lindasteele1@yahoo.com or you can wait until Thursday night. A signup sheet will be passed around at the meeting. We have a lot of fun planned for you & your special companion!! We will not have a Thursday morning meeting on February 13th since we are having our Valentine celebration on Friday, February 14th.
Lots of Optimist February Birthdays!! (both current & former members): Dwayne Junker, Bill Meyers, Pete Komasa, Donna Rafenstein, Al Cornell, Linda Steele-Fisher, Larry Boysen. Love is still “in the air”!! 😉
Reminder: Essay Contest applications are due on February 17th. (see attachment) Please send your completed applications to Tim Jeffries at timjeffries@cox.net
Wednesday February 19th: Board Meeting at 4:00 – Foundation Meeting at 5:00 – Tim & Vicki’s home. 😉
Last Wednesday evening at the Provence House, we enjoyed a fantastic CPR / AED Trainingfrom Gina Robles. All those that attended were pleased with what they learned and the information they are able to share with their families. Sometimes we just don’t know what we don’t know. Thank you so much Gina! AND, thank you so much Jim & Alma Stjern for being the benefactors in this event! For those of you that take care of the Provence House during the weekend parties, please make sure you know where our AED machine is located. Hopefully we never need it. 😉



And then to follow at our Thursday morning meeting, we enjoyed listening to the Chairman of Fleet Week, Gordon Rutherford, share the terrific turnout of events that took place over Veteran’s week 11/11/19. Perfect time to share in the Veteran’s Day Parade!!



Vicki Garcia-Golden