The Zonta Reporter

August, 2006; Volume 47, Issue 1

From the President… Welcome Back! We’re glad to see everyone after a couple of months layoff. During this break, your club leadership has been actively working to plan the coming two years. Goals were set, committees formed and plans begun. Subsequently, committees have been meeting and setting goals. We are excited about the plans we have o share with you on the 5^th. Thank you all for the enthusiasm you have brought to the committee meetings. Your participation has been incredible and your ideas have been wonderful. I can’t wait to see it all come to pass! Be making your plans now to bring you family, friends, and neighbors to the 4^th annual Empowerment Walk. This advocacy event kicks off the Purple Ribbon Campaign during Domestic Violence Awareness month on October. So get geared up – our strength is in our numbers so we need EVERYONE there. It’s a well-spent hour of your time – to help spread the word in our community that we do not tolerate domestic violence and work toward its eradication. Be at the Farmer’s Market, 8:30 a.m. on September 30^th. Registration forms are included further in the newsletter. In the meantime, get those purple ribbons out and tie them to your tree, your car, your house, and hand them high and proud. Let our goal be to PAINT THE TOWN PURPLE in observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. You bet we want everyone asking us about our purple ribbons – what a great chance to tell them about the Purple Ribbon Campaign. Further, get them to sign a petition supporting the eradication of domestic violence. Resolutions are included further in the newsletter. Can’t wait to see you on the 5^th! Gwen Hopkins, President
Upcoming Dates… September 5 – General Membership Meeting September 19 – Board Meeting September 30 – Empowerment Walk October 1 – 31 – Purple Ribbon Campaign October 1 – 31 – Observe United Nations Month October 1 – YWPA Applications Available October 3 – General Membership Meeting October 13 – 15 – Fall Seminar October 17 – Board Meeting November 3- International Taste November 7 – General Membership Meeting November 8 – Zonta International Day November 15 – Amelia Earhart Fellowship Applications Due November 21 – Board Meeting		Tuesday, September 5, 2006 General Membership Meeting 5:30 p.m. Social, 6:00 p.m. Dinner Provena St. Mary’s Hospital Franco Conference Center Program – Membership Night Overview of Club and Committee Goals Please get your reservations into Char Sims by August 30. She’s at 937-5422 or email her at Csims@firstambank.com.
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Empowerment Walk Dust off your walking shoes; call your family, friend’s, co-workers, neighbors and everybody you know to help us spread the word about eradicating domestic violence in our Society. Join us on Saturday, September 30^th at 8:30 a.m. at the downtown Farmers Market for our 4^th Annual Purple Ribbon Empowerment Walk in support of Harbor House. Listen to some inspirational speakers, enjoy some refreshments, walk and EMPOWER! We need your help! How you may ask? It is as simple and easy as filing out your registration form and returning it to Therese Cardosi. Then showing up on Saturday September 30^th at the gazebo at the farmers market for approximately one hour to show your support. This is one of our service projects. Our committee has been working very hard to put on a wonderful event. Let’s have a GREAT Zonta turn out! Therese Cardosi Empowerment Walk September 30, 2006 8:30 a.m. Farmer’s Market	Just a reminder of the Guest policy: Zonta Kankakee Guest Policy Reservations must be made one week prior to meetings - Reservation changes after the number is submitted are not counted Prospective Member Guests - First meeting is at no charge to the member - Additional meetings charged to member at $12.50 ($18 for Christmas) - New members pay for dinners until their dues have been paid Member Guests - Member charged for dinner at $12.50 ($18 for Christmas) Charges for No Shows - Member will be charged for any No Shows at $12.50 ($18 for Christmas)
	Celebration Dates… August Birthdays: 19 Mary Anderson 24 Betty Peters Lambert 26 Susan Wynn 26 Lynn Zuggenbeuhler 27 Susan Green September Birthdays: 15 Tinker Parker 16 Cheryl Wolfe 17 Sue Legris 19 Lisa Dugan 22 Margie Johnston Happy Birthday to You!
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Organization, Membership & Classification Committee… We are pleased to announced the following newest members: Kay Pangle, sponsored by Kay Green Kelly Gaunce, sponsored by Elisabeth Dunbar Christine Scivally, sponsored by Tinker Parker We will induct them into the Zonta Club of Kankakee at our next meeting, September 5, 2006 . Please join us and their sponsors in welcoming them into our organization. Welcome!!	These are the subcommittees and their chairpersons: Co-Chair – OPEN – Any Volunteers??? Tickets – Sue Legris Sponsorships – Char Sims Raffle Baskets – Robin Savage Facility/Set-Up – Elizabeth Lamie Publicity – Tinker Parker/Anita Schluter Wine – Laura Snyder Food/Programs – Bernadette Henriott Order Room – Sylvia Thomas Please be thinking of which committee you might like to help out with before the September meeting. This year we are adding sponsorships for our Raffle Baskets in addition to the Table Sponsors. This means we need to find 10-12 more sponsors than last year, so if your business, or one that you know of, would like to be a sponsor (the fee is $50), please bring the contact information to the meeting and give it to Char Sims. We also still need some baskets if anyone has larger size baskets lying around and would like to donate them for a good cause. Taste Tickets will be available at the September meeting. This year we are encouraging everyone to pay the $80 for their 10 tickets as early as possible. Everyone that has paid Sue Legris for their tickets by the beginning of the October meeting will be entered into a drawing for a basket to be given away at that meeting. Plan ahead and bring your checkbook to the September meeting – the basket will be great! Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments any time. Rhonda Thomas Taste Chair
International Taste Committee Report… The Taste is just around the corner and the plans are underway. I really appreciate all of the members who volunteered to be on our committee and look forward to working with you all. I would encourage anyone’s input (committee member or not) for ideas to make this year’s International Taste as successful as the past ones and even more so. If all of the committee members would stay after our September meeting for a brief brainstorming session, I would like to assign volunteers to the subcommittees and talk about some ideas to improve this year’s Taste (table set-up, traffic flow around the tables, etc.) ___________________________________________________________ ******************************** We’ve got a new look!! Check us out on the web at: www.zontakankakee,org ************************
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Ad Hoc Service Project Committee Report… Thank you to you all for your serious consideration of the service projects presented to you at the June meeting. From the balloting that you did, our service projects for the 2006-2008 biennium are Harbor House and KC-CASA. We will provide financial, as well as volunteer support to these two organizations over this next two years. However, your interest in the projects at Options CIL and the Azzarelli Outreach Clinic were apparent. Throughout these two years, we will keep you posted on volunteer opportunities and activities for these two organizations as well. Thank you to the committee: Sandy Donley, Cheryl Trudeau, Elisabeth Dunbar, and Gwen Hopkins	Congratulations!! To Joy Hanson on her retirement from National City Investments! Best Wishes….. …for a speedy recovery to Doris Williamson as she and her new knee heal. …to Jayne Kleist…We regret that Jayne will no longer be a Zontian in our club. She has moved from the area. We wish her well as she ventures into this new chapter in her life. Thanks…. …as Jayne Kleist was no longer able to serve as assistant treasurer, Rhonda Thomas has stepped up to the plate and agreed to serve in that capacity for the next two years. Thank you, Rhonda, for answering the call!!
Zonta Club of Kankakee Board of Directors 2006 - 2008 President Gwen Hopkins President Elect Cheryl Trudeau Vice President Robin Savage Recording Secretary Sandy Donley Corresponding Secretary Kathy Thomas Treasurer Sylvia Thomas Assistant Treasurer Rhonda Thomas Director, ’05-’07 Theresa Cardosi Director, ’05-’07 Lori Foster Director, ’05-’07 Pam Regel Director, ’06-’08 Patty Clancy Director, ’06-’08 Beth Lamie Director, ’06-’08 Margie Milone	Program Committee: September 5 – Membership Night – Overview of Club and Committee Goals October 3 – Legislative Program presented by Joliet State ’s Attorney November 7 – Zonta United Nations Committee presented by Terri Hult and the Zonta UN Committee Cheryl Wolfe, Chairperson
The Zonta Reporter is published monthly by the Zonta Club of Kankakee . Submissions may be made via e-mail to: SandraKKambic@ProvenaHealth.com or by regular mail to Sandy Kambic, Medical Staff Services, Provena St. Mary’s Hospital, 500 West Court Street, Kankakee, IL 60901. I may also be reached at 937-2477. Submissions must be forwarded by the 3^rd Thursday of each month for inclusion in the newsletter.
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Harbor House

& Zonta Club of Kankakee

sponsor

THE PURPLE RIBBON CAMPAIGN

OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS the American Medical Association now estimates that almost 4 million women are victims of severe assaults by boyfriends and husbands each year and about one in four women is likely to be abused by a partner in her lifetime;

WHEREAS each year, women are the victims of more than 4.5 million violent crimes;

WHEREAS in 29% of the violent crimes against women by lone offenders, the perpetrators were intimates – husbands or boyfriends, or former husbands or boyfriends;

WHEREAS each day, more than three women in the United States are murdered by a male intimate partner;

WHEREAS 75% of the women who are killed by an abusive partner are killed after they leave or when they are attempting to leave the abusive relationship;

WHEREAS in 1992, a congressional report indicated that the most dangerous place in the U.S. for a woman to be is in her home. Former Surgeon General Antonia Novello has labeled domestic violence an epidemic;

WHEREAS Harbor House, which offers services to victims of domestic violence, and Zonta Club of Kankakee, a service club dedicated to advancing the status of women, are promoting The Purple Ribbon Campaign to create awareness of the devastating effects of violence against women and children in the United States and to encourage support of agencies and shelters dealing with this crisis;

WHEREAS Harbor House and Zonta Club of Kankakee are dedicated to the eradication of violence against women and children, having implemented distributing and wearing purple ribbons during the month of October to bring awareness to this issue;

BE IT RESOLVED THEREFORE that ______________________________________________ supports The Purple Ribbon Campaign in recognition of violence against women and children and encourages individuals to wear purple ribbons in support of eradicating this violence.

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Signature

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Please Print Name

______________________________________

Date

Raising Awareness - Not Funds

in support of Harbor House

Saturday, September 30, 2006

at Downtown Farmer's Market in Kankakee Corner of Merchant Street and Schuyler Avenue

Registration at 8:30 am / Walk at 9:00 am

At least one out every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime - with the abuser being someone known to her. Violence against women and children is a universal and local problem of epidemic proportions. Perhaps the most evasive human rights violation that we know today, it devastates lives, fractures communities and stalls development.

Statistics paint a horrifying picture of the social consequences of violence against women and children. It is estimated that violence against women is as serious a cause of death as cancer, and more women die from violent assaults than from traffic accidents.

Violence against women and children is a despicable form of discrimination that must be eradicated!

(Detach and return this portion)

Yes! I want to participate in the Empowerment Walk to help in the eradication of this serious injustice against women and children.

Participation is FREE

(Participant - Please print all information and return completed form by September 8th, 2006 to Therese Cardosi, 455 West Court Street, Ste. 300, Kankakee, IL 60901 or fax to 815-928-6098)

Name_______________________________________________________________________________________

Address __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

City___________________________________________________________ State_________ Zip______________

Day Phone ( )________________________________ Home Phone ( )______________________________

E-mail Address_________________________________________________________________________________

A Commemorative Hanes 50/50 Purple Long Sleeve Crew Sweatshirt will be available for a donation of $13.00 per shirt

Size: Small__ Medium_____ Large_____ X-Large_____ XX-Large_____ ($2.00 additional charge) XXX-Large_____ ($3.00 additional charge)

Donation for shirt enclosed____ (Make checks payable to Zonta club of Kankakee) Will pay for shirt at event__

Participant Waiver: In consideration of signing this agreement, I hereby for myself, my heirs, my executors and administrators waive and release any and

all rights, claims, and causes of actions against the organizers, sponsors, and all others connected with the Zonta Club of Kankakee Empowerment Walk,

their representatives and successors, as a result of my involvement with said event. I attest and certify that I am medically able to participate and assume

all risks of participation in this event. I have read and fully understand the foregoing and certify and represent that the information is true.

Participant Waiver Signature:___________________________________________________________________________________________________