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Is YOUR Email Information Current? If you’d like to receive electronic reminders – meaning you not only have email, but actually use it! – make sure our Treasurer and Annual Chair have your current email address. Last month I sent out a broadcast email reminder (for the Salmon Bake 09/11/11) to all members who have provided their email address at some point. This information is culled from the Treasurer’s Membership List. There were 43 email addresses returned as ‘undeliverable – fatal error’ or ‘permanent failure’. Updating the contact list within our BYC Notices email account was time consuming but a task I gladly took on. I believe that those who are comfortable with electronic modes of communications also appreciate the convenience of this technology. For a ‘connected’ member who has yet to make the decision to sign up for an event, getting an electronic reminder is a great prompt. The recipient(s) can then return an email to the Chair of the specific event or call. So, no longer do you have to plan a time in your busy schedule to go down to the club just to get your name on the list and you can then simply utilize your email! Just remember that it only works when we have a valid email address. Verify your email address by simply sending a message to our Treasurer, Anita Albright [albrightanita32@gmail.com]. In the subject line, type VERIFY EMAIL ADDRESS. Galley Graces Concerns have been voiced about the pots, pans, serving ware, and glassware that have been left conspicuously on the various counter services or in the sinks – dirty no less! Galley Chair Monica Phillips has been doing a wonderful job in keeping standard items in stock for committees to utilize in the storeroom for use during events and clean up in the galley following same. Since taking on this commitment she has organized the supplies down in the storeroom but finds herself continuously reorganizing the items following events. She has been diligent in keeping on top of the needs of the committees, but her job has been a challenge when she must continuously re-organize items. A committee chair or designated committee member should take care to return all unused items in the place it was removed from. When using partial boxes of plastic eating utensils, please be mindful (and considerate) to nest all the ‘go backs’ in other partially filled boxes. If using some of the saved plastic table covers, once they’ve been wiped down, please refold to fit back into the boxes where you took them. Doing our part in keeping an established organization – well, organized!, those needing to pull items from the shelf can easily see at a glance what’s available without need for purchasing needlessly. But it only works if everyone doesn’t their part – and a little more! Finally, it bears stating that our Galley Chair’s responsibilities do not include cleaning up the galley following a committee’s usage. I’m confident that no member intends to deliberately leave a mess for someone else to clean up, but distractions do occur. It’s evident that some committee members may be getting pulled away from a clean up task and returns well after another member discovers a mess and makes a complaint to me. Other members are quick to pull a drinking glass from the scullery and after using it, simply places it in the sink for discovery by another. A plate here, a drinking glass there, a bit o’ garbage tossed in a cleaned trash bin. . . . . In my home I have to remind family that we’re all welcome to use what we need, but for heaven’s sake – and my sanity - please clean up after yourself. There has been talk for quite some time amongst others in this position that perhaps the galley/scullery should be kept under lock and key. This option seems heavy handed to many, but for those to whom complaints are made and others held accountable, perhaps it’s not such a bad option. We can certainly do a better job at policing ourselves and remaining diligent at keeping our club clean for the pleasure of those coming behind us for their use. We all have the expectation that members should clean up after themselves. Let’s do it right! Mona-Lisa, Rear Commodore |
