Lets all work together to build our membership, you never know when you'll find the next Governor/Senior Regent or just that fun guy or gal hanging out in our Lodge. Hopefully we'll find somebody with some new jokes....

Sponsors.... Do you know where your guest are?

What dose it take to keep our newly sponsored member coming back each year?

Think back to all the new members we signed up this year, where are they? If you don't see them around give them a call & see what's going on, they might not know what's going on in the Lodge. Remind them about all the activities, dinners and other events. Going through the sign-up  process just to get member isn't the main goal, the goal should be to built a fraternity to allow our member a safe/fun place to go while at the same time supporting Mooseheart & Moosehaven.

Lets go & see how many non-active members we can bring back.

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District Meeting September 20, 2009

Hosted by the Torrance Lodge

·         All Lodges were present, Hawthorne had the highest attendance & won the new monthly Moose

o        The District has an attendance Moose, each month the Lodge with the most members participating for the breakfast/meeting wins this Moose for the month. The Moose can be decorated to represent your Lodge. At the end of the District FY the Moose is donated to the Lodge with the highest points, once confirm this year’s winner should be Hawthorne. (Hosting Lodge is excluded for that month)  

·         CNMA sent a letter thanking our Lodge for the $552 endowment sent during the 2008/2009 fiscal year. We must exceed this amount during this F/Y to achieve our Premier Lodge Award

·         Reminder for the Simi Valley Legion Picnic, October 11^th. Have some fun and show your support by attending this event.

·         $476 raised during this meeting (Food, raffle tickets & Charlie’s infamous  50/50 drawing)

o        Ivan and his wife won 4 out of the 10 50/50 drawings……Some people just have all the luck.

·         Moose International (Moose Charities) has awarded our Lodge a certificate recognizing our efforts in donations to the greater good of Moose Heart & Moose Heaven, our “Benefactor Level was between $750 - $999 for the year. The WOTM were presented something similar.

·         Each year when the new District Officers take over they hold a drawing to see which Lodges will host particular District functions, in the past Redondo has always seem to get the popular Casino Night. Well this new Governor happened to draw the King/Queen Coronation Dinner, we need to pick either Saturday May 1^st, 8^th or the 22^nd of 2010. I tried to trade Sana Monica for the Casino Night but they decided to keep it. We need to determine the actual date and report back @ the next District Meeting.

There were a few additional items discussed, but I didn’t capture all the notes, some people don’t use the microphones and it hard to hear… What did you say?  How much.. who is that? You get the point.

I’ll try to keep the Lodge informed the best I can, we’ll have copies of the District meeting notes at our LOOM meeting for all to see. Stop on in & see what’s going on within our Lodge and your District.

Jerry Edwards/Governor