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Big Sir Message
We had a drop off in our attendance at our last meeting, which means summer and vacations are in full force. Our speaker was excellent and provided a great overview of the Roger Rocka's dinner theater schedule. The results of the Nomination committee are in and the...
July Message from Little SIR
Dan Pessano of Good Company Players put on an excellent show for our luncheon. He was very glad to see so many familiar faces, talking with old friends and meeting new ones. He told me that it was his pleasure to come and share with us the upcoming productions and...
Message from Big Sir
Our Women's Day luncheon was a huge success well over a hundred in attendance and energy in the group was very positive. Many reasons for that energy, excellent table decorations thanks to Mike Barabe, Brian Kelly and Bernie Hollenbeck, the donation of wine from...
Big Sir Message
I want to thank all those that brought guests to our last luncheon we had a record number in attendance (7), I am hopeful we can recruit them to be sirs in the very near future. Lady's Day is our next luncheon and we have received a donation of wine from Gallo which...
March 2016 Board Meeting
Sons in Retirement Branch 169 Board Meeting March 8, 2016 Members Attending: Hiney, Barabe, Evans, Arnold, Rodriguez, Kelly, Parrish, Hollenbeck, Estep, Nichols, Area Director Charles Barrett Minutes of February meeting distributed and approved. Treasurer’s Report:...
April 2016
Thank you all for the very positive response from Don Larson's presentation on World's Fairs and International Expositions at the March luncheon. As Marvin Arnold commented "Don Larson packed more words in a thirty minute talk than any speaker we have had in seventeen...
February 2016 Big Sir Message
We had a good turn out for lunch and our Little Sir provided an excellent program on the Master Gardeners Association. I was not alone at congratulating our speaker, many Sirs took the opportunity to thank her personally regarding her talk, Bernie even told her he...
SIR Happenings New Issue
The latest edition of SIR Happenings has been posted on the SIR website: http://sirinc.org/sirhappenings/ President Don's front page column "Our 2016 Challenge" is about growing our membership. He ends with a great slogan that Branches provide us with "Friends For...
Big Sir Message.
I would like to thank all that attended the luncheon. Little Sir did and excellent job with our first luncheon speaker and demonstration. The Fresno Police Department division of Dog and Horse patrol is under the leadership of an excellent police officer. We...
Big Sir message January 2016
We have just completed a successful year for our branch under the excellent leadership of Lee Nichols and his team. JOB WELL DONE! My goal for the upcoming year is to continue to focus on providing an atmosphere of fellowship and fun. Our first overall goal is to...