I have been involved with this community service club for 5 years now, and I have been Secretary twice, 2nd VP for 1 year, and have been elected for my second term as 1st VP so I know my way around this organization to say the least . They have wanted me to be President for a couple of years now but I won't take the position, I have my reasons . Well the guy who is President will be doing it for his second term this year and it's not starting out any better than last year. I guess some people do not learn from past errors no matter how you try to intervene.

One of the biggest complaints from membership this past year was that "we have not participated in enough activities" . We have on July 14th, Camp Open Arms coming up. This is a 2 week day camp operated by Cancer Action, for children with cancer and their siblings. They seek sponsers and our club sponsers an entire day of actiivities. We hire a DJ, Ball Crawl, Blow up Slide, Clown, Face Painters, etc and provide food as well. Our President forgot to inform members last year when the event was and didn't plan on most of the activities and things till the week of the event even though he was well informed of the July date in January, . Needless to say as he called me in a panic attack to save his ass, I did my fair share of hustling as well, not appreciated one bit by me! There are normally over 100 kids and 30 something teenage counselors that we provide and serve food to so we need several volunteers to cook, serve, clean up, etc.

Well tonight was the final meeting for the season, we won't have a membership meeting till Sept and as I was saying good bye to some of the members, they commented "see you in September", I say aren't you coming to Camp Open Arms? They had no idea when it was, grrr. A repeat of last year I see. I had been so busy with the play for a bit but had reminded Doug multiple times about this event that I thought it stuck but WRONG!!!! So tonight I smacked him multiple times as I asked did you do this? No? SMACK, why not! (It was in a playful way) This was repeated multiple times and the other members quite enjoyed it ! I did too , got quite a bit of frustration out, lol.

I made him change the board meeting to next Thursday, told him he better or get his Secy to get a note out to all members about the Camp ASAP as I will smack him twice as hard if he doesn't . He didn't see why I was so upset till I explained to him that you can't keep a club active with members unless you prove there is a need for them. Men, they just don't get it sometimes!