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Zonta Club of Mankato - P.O. Box 915 - Mankato, MN 56002-0915

Volume 42, Number 2, August 2015

zontamankato@gmail.com - www.zontamankato.org

September 3 - Happy Birthday Kate Loging!

September 10 - Morning Business Meeting - Pathstone 6:45 am

September 18-20 - District Meeting in Kansas City

September 15 - Happy Birthday Julie Vetter!

September 15 - Service Project - Clothes Closet 5 - 7:30 pm

September 24 - Program Meeting -TBD

August 1 - Happy Birthday Vicki Young!

August 5 - Happy Birthday Debbie Kolstad!

August 13- Morning Business Meeting - Pathstone - 6:45 am

August 26 - Happy Birthday Patty Palm!

August 27 - Program Meeting - See info below

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What: Zonta Mankato Club Program Meeting

When: Thursday, August 27th, 2015

Where: Bonnie’s offices – Profinium Bank Building, 100 Warren St. 7th floor conference room – We will

be on the patio overlooking downtown Mankato. Bring your shades!

Time: 5:00, Meeting starts at 5:30

Misc: Sandwiches from Jersey Mikes will be available for $

5. Please rsvp to Shelley Schultz by August 25th at

Family5@frontiernet.net

Parking: Free! Enter the Profinium Bank parking ramp either

from Riverfont drive, just after Warren OR off of

Warren Street, right across from Walgreens. You can

park of 1st floor - free, or take a ticket and receive 2

hours of free parking.

August Program Meeting

Zonta International Foundation: The Impact of our Dollars

Women learning more about obstetric fistula through

ZI’s program in Liberia.

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Don’t Forget!

Tree Planting Ceremony

at Hinicker Pond before

the program meeting at

4:15!

Program Committee ~ Shelley Schultz, Briana Hinz, Bonnie Ben-nett and Vicki Youngerberg

Program meetings are held to educate

us in the world of Zonta – Empowerment of Women

through Service and Advocacy, support like-minded

organizations, socialize and share a meal with our Zis-

ters and guests. Please make sure the following dates

are reserved on your calendar: Aug. 27, Sept 24,

Oct. 22, Dec – Christmas celebration, April 28,

May 26 (Annual Mtg) and June 23. These events

begin at 5:15pm at locations that will include a light

meal. Topics that we are researching are… impact of

Zonta International projects, SURGE, CADA Kids,

Women’s Health topics, 16 Days of Activism ( Novem-

ber 25 – Dec 10 ), and Women’s Empowerment Prin-

ciples. We are open to your ideas so please feel free

to contact one of us if you have a suggestions for a

speaker or topic.

Service Committee ~ Sue Frost, Pat

Will, Kathy Thielges, Vicki Young

The Service committee would like to thank the club for their support in increasing the amount for our YWPA and JMK Scholarships. We are hopeful that the increase to $1500/ scholarship will spike more interest in applying. We will be using this next year to explore the feasibility of adding another schol-arship for an adult woman returning to college.

Our first service project, the Clothes Closet at Encore, will be on Sept 15. We need 8 volunteers for each of two shifts. We are especially in need of volunteers from 6-7:30. If you can help out please notify Vicky Young. The next one is scheduled for Oct 15.

Don't forget your contributions for the Habitat for Hu-manity welcome baskets. These donations can be brought to any of our meetings or given to Vicki Young or any of the members of our Service Commit-tee as soon as possible. We are also looking for me-dium to medium large baskets that you might want to donate. If you have forgotten what you are asked to contribute please contact Sue Frost. Baskets this year will also contain a first aid kit and information regard-ing health and safety issues as well as services pro-vided by Open Door Health Center.

We are working on the CADA kids project in conjunc-tion with CADA. Stay tuned for more information and

please be sure to attend the program meeting in Sep-tember which will feature Renita Robinson talking about CADA Kids.

Habitat baskets will include food items with

the theme:

Rice that there may always be food in your home

Bread that there may always be friends and family to

share with

Salt that there always is a little spice in your life

Sugar that sweetness touches even your worst days

Candles that you may always find your way back

home

Wine (sparkling juice) that there may always be

reason to celebrate.

Since each committee has 4 members we are asking

that each member contribute one item (more if you

wish) of what your committee has been assigned:

Membership -2# bag white rice.

Finance -box salt.

Program -5# white sugar.

PR -2 candles each.

Service -Bread and juice.

Fashion show, Kayaking, Walk a mile and Kate -any of

the above-please coordinate with each other.

We ask items be donated as soon as possible and

given to any member of service committee. In addi-

tion to food items we will include info on nutrition,

health and safety, services provided by ODHC and a

small First Aid kit. Any member that has medium

sized baskets they no longer have use for, we would

appreciate those donations as well.

August 2015 Treasurer's Report - Judi Leibbrand, Treasurer

Account Balances as of 7/24/2015 Bank Statement

Checking - $20,416.84

(of this balance $5,142.89 is from Women's Night Out)

CD - $5,000.00

Zonta Committee Budgets

For Fiscal Year June 1 to May 31

FISCAL YEAR Program Budget Amount Re-

maining

2014-2015- Final

Operations $1,000.00 -$52.60

Membership $700.00 $54.58

Program $550.00 $2.34

Service $370.00 $104.62

Public Relations $450.00 $191.78

Membership Development $3,870.60 $499.79

2015-2016 Approved at 8/13/2015 Business Meeting

Operations $1,950.00

Membership $700.00

Program $700.00

Service ** $2,615.00

Public Relations $550.00

** increase in Service Budget is to allow for $1000 to ZIF and to raise the YWPA and Klausman

Scholarships to $1500 each

Available to Spend in 2105/2016

Membership Development $3,945.63

Service - Scholarships (from Blooming Pretty and

Scarves for Scholarships)

$1,786.51

Services - Other Donations $3,781.77

Moon Dogs ~ Sue Frost

Moon Dogs ticket taking is over. Thanks to all who signed up

and volunteered. Special thanks to those who agreed to take

2 shifts and those who got stuck with the double header and had to work

longer. I do not know how much money we will receive but when it ar-

rives in late fall, you will be informed.

Sara Pierce taking tickets at the Moondogs game with former Zontian Cate DeBates.

Membership Committee ~ Kelly

Rosenberg, Judy Arzdorf, Kelli

Damlo, Antje Meisner, Judy Ringler

Mountain

We had a great Meet & Greet Happy Hour at

Chankaska Winery in July. There were 6 guests and

several Zontians on a beautiful night in a beautiful

setting!

Just a reminder if anyone has someone that they

would like to learn more about Zonta, please invite

them to join us at a Business meeting or Program

meeting. You can forward their information to any

one on the committee and we will follow up with

them.

The committee also sent cards and flowers to our Zis-

ters that need some extra support at this time. We

are thinking of our former President, Diane Volden,

who lost her husband in July. Ron was a very special

man and did a lot for the community. Here is a link

to his obituary.

http://www.mankatofreepress.com/obituaries/ronald-

wayne-volden/article_13ceaa46-3638-11e5-a6f6-

53a3b9eb2252.html

The Zonta Star goes to Debbie Kolstad and Barb

Bergman for all of their hard work planning the

final Blooming Pretty Garden Tour. Their idea to

team up with the Betsy Tacy Society and have a

walking tour of the historic gardens associated with

the books was a great idea!

Meet and Greet July 2015 - Jacki Dewald, Barb Bernioehr, Jennifer Hyk, Carol Lee and

Pat Will

Zonta Club of Mankato President,

Kate Loging was featured in the Au-

gust Issue of River Valley Woman!

The article is on page 18 and is

called, Kate Loging - Empowering

Through Support. Click on the link

to read her article.

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SURGE!TM is a leadership program for High School girls adapted from a proven adult executive

leadership curriculum. It is designed to help girls understand their own ability to control their fu-

ture through their strengths, positive thinking, goal-setting and planning.

August 18 - 21 - 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Any day or amount of time appreciated! Ideally, we would like a volunteer to stay for the whole

afternoon, but we can be very flexible!

Friday, August 21 is a horse day - outside extended learning with horses :)

Dress is CASUAL all week. And, if attending the horse afternoon, please be sure to dress for the weather, wear closed

-toe shoes, and bring sunscreen, bug spray, hats, etc.

If you have anyone interested in volunteering, or would like to work with Judy for next year’s camp, let Judy Ringler

Mountain know.

Former Zontian Cate DeBates and Greg Weis met

while modeling in the 2013 ZONTA Fashion show.

They got engaged at a MoonDogs game this June and

are planning a wedding for Sept 2016. Congratu-

lations to the happy couple!

We are looking forward to the ZONTA fashion Show

this November!

Fashion Show Wine Wall ~ Sue Frost, Pat Will, Antje Meisner

We are now accepting wine for the Fashion Show Wine Wall and wine can be given to any one of us on the

wine wall committee. Just a reminder that the wine should be worth $10 or more/bottle. Next month we will

have a sign up sheet for contacting businesses, etc.

The night of the fashion show we will also be selling cute little wine cork key rings. We will be meeting at

Pat Will's house on August 19 at 7:00 pm to start to assemble the key rings. We anticipate working only

about 1-11/2 hours.

How to start/update a Zonta Resume

Zonta Resumes are a great way to keep track of your Zonta

service, and is a resource for nominating fellow Zontians for

awards such as Zonta Woman of the Year.

Click this link :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hi4C_zXdyzLvKleVAKQLL3x0RTuBwv7QbH1_GN2lai8/edit

Copy and paste the form on the first page onto a page in the

resumes. Fill in the form with your information. Remem-

ber to update your resume annually!

Zonta Resume: Your Name / Date you’re updating Name: Year joined: 1. Board and/or standing or special committee chair posi-

tions held (include years if possible):

2. Significant contribution to Zonta fundraising events or major service projects (include years and what event/project

it was if possible):

3. Activity at the Area, District or International level, includ-

ing: officer or member on the board; standing or special committee chair; attendance at Area, District or International

functions; significant contribution to major service project or fundraising event (include years and locations if possible):

4. Awards received in Zonta and/or the community:

5. Other professional or community activities you are in-

volved with that help promote the visions of Zonta:

6. New members I have brought into the club (present and/

or past members):

There are directions and a link to the Resumes on the

Members Only section of the website. (Password is

rockstarz)