BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
MEMBER NEWSLETTER
July 2013
Dear Members of the Boundary Historical Society,
welcome to our July BHS member newsletter!
First of
all, I want to remind you all that our AGM will be coming up in late September
or early October (date will be decided at our Board meeting in early August.)
We’re hoping to hold it in Midway this year, but are still working on a
suitable venue. It is absolutely
imperative that we have a good attendance at the AGM and that we are able to
fill the upcoming vacancies on the Board of Directors. Specifically, we MUST
have a President, Secretary and Treasurer. We cannot continue without these
positions being filled and the members currently in these roles are unable
to take on another term.
Any
organization is only as strong as its membership, and low turnout at an AGM can
be an indication that a society’s days are numbered. So please, we’ll let you
know the date as soon as it’s decided and we’re asking you to plan on attending
and encourage your friends, neighbours or other interested parties to do the
same. We’re working on finding a guest speaker and we might even have door
prizes!
Our picnic
last month was enjoyed by all who attended. Approximately 30 members were in
attendance, and Rick, of Owl Mountain Ranch, has an incredible number of
artifacts there for viewing and sharing information on. We’re hoping next
year’s picnic can serve to help increase the involvement of younger members of
our communities so are considering including things such as a children’s period
costume contest. If you have ideas to help our picnic appeal to younger
families or visitors to our area, please let a member of the board know.
Our
publications committee is continuing to work hard on both our next report and
our upcoming post card book. In the meantime, we’re working at making sure our
books are available to those who need them. We’ll be selling books (and
memberships – it’s not too early to renew!) at the Christina Lake Homecoming,
the Grand Forks Fall Fair and the Rock Creek Fall Fair. We’ve made arrangements
to donate full sets of our reports to the history classes of both secondary
schools and are also ensuring that all 3 public libraries in our area have
complete reference and circulating copies of all reports.
Still on the
subject of our reports – we’ve set a special price for people buying a complete
set of reports and, even more importantly to you – our members – we’ve set a
new policy that any BHS members purchasing reports directly from us can
purchase at the wholesale price!
Remember
- we need new faces for our board as of
our AGM in the autumn. If you’re interested in a specific position, feel free
to contact the person currently in that position (or any other board member)
for information about what’s involved.
Our next
Board meeting is scheduled for early August, so the next newsletter should be
posted on our blog, and an email notification sent shortly thereafter. In the meantime, history unshared is history
lost so spread the word and help your society carry on!
Deb
Billwiller, Secretary
Boundary
Historical Society
PO Box 2346
Grand Forks
BC V0H 1H0
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