Want to get your business information on every chair and dinner table? You can - as a meeting sponsor. For the low sum of $100 (for members) you can pepper your materials AND have five minutes on the platform to promote your business.

The August 12 meeting is our semi-annual all networking meeting - wouldn't you like to have your materials be the focal point of the meeting? August is available....

In September the Wind Beneath My Wings Award is given. We'll have a speaker and YOU as the sponsor. Contact me or any leadership team member.

I just guest-blogged on this question at http://bit.ly/91cmcg

My next book in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery series will be released July 6, and I'm having a party to celebrate. If you are a lover of mysteries and would like to attend, RSVP to me at sheila@sheilalowe.com You don't have to be a VCPWN member, just someone who enjoys reading.

Sheila Lowe

VCPWN and Staples office supply are working together to create a consortium that will give our members discounts on supplies they use every day. Details at the June meeting. Just one more reason to join our great organization.

Learn to NETWORK with the Dolphins and Win out over the Sharks!

2010 President’s Annual Report, presented at the May 13, 2010 general meeting
What this leadership team has accomplished over the past year:
• A highly successful Business Expo
• President’s tea party – navigators and board members met to brainstorm
• Executive board members and Committee chairs were rewarded with a free membership for the year (co-chairs split)
• Began community outreach in small ways by giving our share of the 50/50 drawing to a charity of the meeting sponsors’ choice, and we voted to plus make up the donation to $100

Carol Leish will be on the Radio on May 19 between 11:30 and 12:00 on KKZZ 1400 AM with Susan Burrell on "Living Your Inspired Life."

She'a also raising money for a good cause...
On Wednesday, June 16th, I'm going behind bars for a great cause - the Muscular Dystrophy Association's Ventura Lock Up. I'm a jailbird for Jerry's Kids! The local chapter of the MDA has challenged me to raise $1,600 in bail money to support local families living with a neuromuscular disease.

Thurs evening, May 12, we will be presenting our Spirit of Networking award. This is a very, very special honor earned by one of our members for truly embodying what it is to be a "Networking Queen" in the highest interpretation of those words. Please join us as we honor previous honorees, but especially to help us present this award to someone very, very special to our organization.
I'm looking forward to seeing you there.
Sue Gary

“THE ART OF NETWORKING”

SPONSORED BY

BNI

&

THE ARTIST CANTINE

Celebrating BNI Ventura County’s 10 year Anniversary
in Business!!

Incredible Networking Mixer Open to All!!
FUN, FOOD AND DRINK, PRIZES GALORE!

WHEN: Tuesday June 29, 2010

WHERE: The Palms, 2000 Outlet Center Dr., Ste 220 Oxnard

TIME: 5:30PM TO 7PM
COST: FREE!!!
BRING A DOOR PRIZE FOR EXTRA BUSINESS EXPOSURE

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: 805-850-0157
or visit www.bni-vc.com

On May 16th at 2:15 p.m. VCPWN is hosting a wine tasting at La Dolce Vita in Oxnard. For only $29/per person or $55/two people, you'll get 3 wine tastings, fabulous hors d'oeuvres, and a Victorian fashion show.

(Download PDF Flyer)

It's the Sunday after Mothers Day--keep the celebration going. Bring your mother, your daughter, your BFF.

Tickets are available now. Contact Mary Gabriels: (805) 248-0598 or (805) 247-1471 meertje_2000@yahoo.com
or Darian Taylor (805) 289-9259 or (949) 351-4575 beautifulswissyou@yahoo.com

I'm going to be walking a 5K for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, on Saturday, May 1. Won't you join me? The more the better - there is no entrance fee although donations for the cause are certainly accepted.

I've set up a "team" on the NAMIWalks website. The team is called MindMeld. Our "theme" will be tie-dye apparel (just seems appropriate). You can sign up with the team online or just email me at slgumby@sbcglobal.net and let me know you'd like to walk with me.