[Executives] summer social

[Kevin Wang]

I think the BBQ might be a good idea; it will give a chance for members to
socialize a bit. It would be good to nail down a date first, since a lot of
people would be on vacation I would imagine.

Kevin

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Wayne and Grace Ostrowercha <
wandgo at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Hi yuliya
>
> I think a BBQ still sounds okay.  You won't please everyone, but this is a
> good summer kind of event.  Most people do want to be outdoors, so if we
> want a variation of this, it still should be an outdoor activity rather than
> bowling.
> We still could think about bowling some other time when the weather gets
> worse.
>
> About a room, if you set a firm date then it's easier to ask Jessica to try
> to book a room.  It might not have to be our regular meeting room though.
>
> But, if you arrange with the Parks board, sometimes you can book a park
> shelter so then the weather does not matter.
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Yuliya Talmazan <yytalmazan at shaw.ca>
> To: Wayne and Grace Ostrowercha <wandgo at yahoo.ca>; Toastmaster Executive <
> executives at metrospeakers.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:20:00 PM
> Subject: summer social
>
> Hi everyone. I sent out an email to all the members recently asking
> what they want to do for our summer social, and most of them prefer a
> BBQ in the park. However, some members mentioned that they would
> prefer something different for a change. So I just phoned a bawling
> club in Burnaby. It would have worked for us perfectly actually as it
> is right next to Holdom skytrain station and so would be a convenient
> commute, but it turned out that their rates are ridiculously
> expensive. A 2 game bawling and a meal consisting of pizza and pop
> would cost $27 per person (or $17 without food)!! Obviously, our club
> can't afford that, so I guess we will have to give it a fail. Now, I
> think park BBQ is the most likely scenario. I will need to email
> members to see who would volunteer to be a bbq man. Also, in case of
> bad weather, I would like to have our regular meeting room booked to
> make sure we have somewhere to go in case it rains. So, I will ask
> Jessica to look into that.
>
> Please, let me know what you think.
>
> Yuliya Talmazan
>
>
>
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