2006 Cherokee County Saddle Club Goals
By Marianne Torchia
The new Board, along with the outgoing Board, recently
discussed club goals for 2006. Some of those were the following:
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Marketing – We would like to be more visible. Discussion
was to improve advertising our club, produce handouts, upgrading
our website by listing our club meetings, speakers, and planned
rides. Not only via our Website, but also creating a meeting
notice that can be distributed to local feed stores, barns,
anywhere we can promote our club. This can also include local
saddle clubs like Midway and Bent Tree to name a few.
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Membership – This is the heart and soul of our club. Renewal
membership is due in January. Any newcomers are welcome throughout
the year. If you don’t renew by March’s meeting,
it will be assumed that you have dropped out of the club. New
and renewal members, please, please provide an email address
and phone number. I had so many returned email addresses and
wrong phone numbers trying to contact people for the Christmas
Party. By having updated email addresses, the club will save
several hundreds of dollars not having to mail out the newsletter
(we will still mail to those not having access to the Internet).
We will now be posting the newsletter on our website and have
a login/password for members. Upon renewal of membership, members
will be asked to sign the Release of Liability and Waiver so
all are current.
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Meetings – Please respect our invited speakers. This has
been a problematic situation that has repeatedly been voiced
by the board. The club tries to bring in speakers that are interesting
to all, but please don’t talk while they have the floor.
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Rides
– If we can get two ride leaders per ride, we’d
be able to advertise a Level 1 ride along with a more progressive
ride. This will entice more riders to join our monthly rides
and not exclude any members.
January 10th Club Meeting –
New Location
The
speaker for our January 10th meeting is Dr. Kelly Fleming with the
University of Georgia. Dr. Fleming will discuss equestrian topics
that will be valuable for our members.
Our
new club meeting location is Slapshots Bar & Grill in Woodstock.
Dinner and socializing begins at 6:30 p.m. with the program and
business meeting beginning at 7:30 p.m. Please honor the Meetings
Goal presented in Marianne’s message above. Slapshots is located
just off the east side of I-575 Exit 8 (Towne Lake Parkway), adjacent
to Cherokee Ford. The address is 185 Woodstock Parkway and their
phone number is 770-516-4921. This restaurant has undergone several
owner changes in the past few years but now appears to be more stable.
It offers a location convenient to a large portion of the County’s
population.
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