Fresh Start in Wild Rose Country

By Patti Nolan
  

Hopefully most of you have heard about our name change by now.  On November 26, 2003, Calgary Fish Creek ladies club became Calgary Wild Rose.

As Wolfgang mentioned in the last issue of the Progression, the club voted to change the name for a couple of main reasons.  We were often being mistaken for a club that met in the Fish Creek area.  We meet centrally and none of our members live near Fish Creek.  We felt this geographical label could deter possible new members from other areas of the city.  We were also looking for a fresh start.  All of our active members are somewhat new to Progress and we felt it was a good time to announce a new name.

Our New Member’s Night on November 26, 2003 was very successful.  We had approximately 40 people attend, of which roughly 20 were guests.  The remainder were Progressians.  Thank you all for your support, it was fabulous.  We also inducted our newest member that night, welcome to Christina Langlois.  We’re expecting to see many of these guests returning for our first meeting of the New Year.

More good news for the New Year, our world traveling Past President, Cari McLaughlan arrived home January 2.  Glad to have you back Cari!

All positive things for the newly named Calgary Wild Rose.  Looks like a good year ahead.