March eNewsletter

Upcoming BPW Events

General BPW Member MeetingWednesday, March 16th at 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Pybus Public Market - 3 N Worthen Street, Wenatchee, WA

98801

YOUNG CAREERIST - Wenatchee BPW's Young Careerist

candidates will be performing their speeches. The Virginia Allen

Young Careerist Program (YC) was founded in 1964 by BPW

National President, Virginia Allen, in order to recognize the

professional, personal, and political achievements of young

professional women and men. Participants, both BPW and

prospective members, compete to represent Wenatchee BPW on

the Local and State level by delivering a prepared 4-minute

speech, interviewing with judges, and preparing a biographical

statement and application. The Young Careerist Program is about

mentoring and building self-esteem and confidence. It is about

giving recognition and acceptance and the celebration to all

participants.

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH - Wenatchee BPW will be

continuing our annual tradition of presenting local librarians with a

new literary book.

GET CONNECTED - We will be hosting our 1st Committee Sign

Up Fair! Looking for a new challenge to sink your teeth in to?

Board positions will become available soon. Current Board/Chairs

are free to discuss position requirements, duties, and

expectations. Come see how you can be a part of Wenatchee

BPW and build your connections with wonderful women in the

Wenatchee Valley. Wenatchee BPW needs strong individuals to

help meet the needs of our growing membership - current

committee members will be present to answer questions and talk

about ways you can participate.

Open to all members and interested women. Buy or bring

your own lunch.

Open networking opportunity after the meeting from 1:00pm -

1:30pm. Mix, mingle and make those connections!

Thank you to our March lunch sponsor - GWATA, North Central Washington's

Technology Alliance!!

Mark YourCalender!

MAR

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Project Citizen

12pm - 3:30pm

MAR

8

How to Become a

CEO Webinar

4pm - 5pm

MAR

16

General BPW

Meeting - Young

Careerist; Committee

Sign-Up Fair;

Women's History

Month

12pm - 1:30pm

MAR

17

2016 Start A

Business Weekend

Online Expo

Webinar

7am - 5pm

MAR

19

Happiness Wall

10am - 5pm

MAR

19

Get Connect

Family Expo

10am - 3pm

MAR

19

Wenatchee Valley

Farmer's Market

Spring Fest

6pm

MAR

17

In Celebration of

Dangerous Women

1:30pm - 5:30pm

MAR

29

GWATA Innovator

Awards

12pm - 1:30pm

MAR

31

Comfort Suites

Business After

Hours

GWATA - North Central Washington technology alliance - is a

regional organization founded in 2000 to promote a vibrant

technology-based economy benefiting the citizens and

communities of North Central Washington and the Greater

Wenatchee Area. GWATA will host the 16th Annual Innovator

Awards on March 29th from Noon-1:30 p.m. at the Wenatchee

Convention Center. During the Innovator Awards Luncheon,

GWATA will present several awards showcasing

entrepreneurship, innovation, and education. See more

information below and get your tickets today!!

Are you over 25 and continuing your education at a post

secondary school or training program? Do you know someone

who is? We want to help! We are now accepting applications

for our Mature Woman Continuing Education Scholarship.

Information and application at

www.bpwwen.org/scholarships.html.

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BPW Member Events

Project CitizenTo volunteer please contact Brian Lee at

lee.b@wenatcheeschools.org.The goal of Project Citizen is to

connect high school students to the processes of participatory

democracy, to learn what it’s like to get involved, to get connected

with people, events, and at the same time become advocates for

a solution. Students are working in groups to research state and

local public policy, identify a problem and recommend a policy

change or solution. Student groups will present their projects to a

panel of judges.

-- COMMUNITY JUDGES NEEDED -Wenatchee High School

Wednesday, March 2nd, from 12pm - 3:30pm

How to Become a CEOTuesday, March 8th from 4pm - 5pm

A Free Webinar Hosted by The Entrepreneur's Source

5:30pm - 9pm

About BPW

We are a professional,

business networking group

based in Wenatchee,

Washington. We encourage

women of all ages to join our

group to enhance personal

growth, leadership and career

opportunities.

Welcome NewMembers!

Ande Chapman

Vicki Chadderton

Sherry Erickson, Patriot

Plumbing, Heating & Cooling,

Inc.

Anita Janis, Wenatchee

Valley College

Chelsea Baird, Total Travel

Mary Mains, Mount St. Helens

Gems/Emerald Foxco

Ashley Armstrong

Happy BirthdayLadies!

Amy Garrison, Jazzercise -

8th

Mary Mains, Mount St. Helens

Gems/Emerald Foxco - 8th

Callie Klein, Country Financial

- 18th

Lori Vanderbrink, Sleeping

Lady Resort - 20th

Diana Haglund, Wenatchee

Learns Connect - 24th

Chelsea Baird, Total Travel -

23rd

Be sure to wish these lovely

BPW Ladies a very Happy

Birthday this month!

BPW Members

Kelly Allen, Kelly Allen

Insurance – Barb Andre-

VanLith, Ring-A-Bell’s

Catering – Ashley Armstrong

– JC Baldwin, GTE Technical

Support – Barbara Bantan,

Olympic Credit Services –

Chelsea Baird, Total Travel –

Carrisa Blair, Washington

Trust Bank – Pamela Brulotte,

Munchen Haus – Julie

Burdick, Julie Burdick

Photography – Jennifer

At this FREE Webinar, learn how to embrace business ownership

as a career alternative, navigate your fears, and find options that

have the potential to fulfill your income, lifestyle, wealth and

equity goals.

Register at: http://bit.ly/1T1VU8m or call Wendy at 509-888-0863

for more information.

2016 Start a Business WeekendOnline ExpoA Free Webinar Hosted by The Entrepreneur's SourceMarch 17th-19th from 7am - 5pm daily

with just 1 step! Take just 30

minutes to discover

opportunities and obtain

information that will fuel your

dreams of business ownership. All free of charge from the comfort

of your computer. Visit over 140 virtual booths, listen to keynote

speakers, network with other professionals, and watch over 100's

of free videos.

Register for FREE at: www.startabusinessweekend.com/?

wdalpez. For more information call 509 888-0863.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yObyxfigLj0. Call Wendy at

509-888-0863 for more information.

Get Connected Family ExpoSaturday, March 19th, from 10:00am - 3:00pm

Wenatchee High School

Bushong, Town Toyota

Center – Linda Butler,

Augustedge Accounting &

Insurance – Penny Carpenter,

International Service – Vicki

Chadderton – Ande

Chapman, Mary Kay

Consultant – Patricia Chvatal,

Attorney at Law – Stefanie

Clift, New American Funding –

Angie Coleman, Nick McLean

Real Estate Group – Marissa

Collins, Numerica Performing

Arts Center – Pamela Cooke,

Windermere Real Estate –

Nikki Cox, Kid Connect –

Jerrilea Crawford, Wenatchee

Valley Chamber of Commerce

– Wendy DalPez, The

Entrepreneur’s Source –

Charlene Earing – Sherry

Erickson, Patriot Plumbing,

Heating & Cooling, Inc. –

Yvette Davis – Debbie Feist –

Ashleigh Flint, Clifton,

Larson, Allen LLP – Cathi

Foland, Premier Designs –

Allison Foreman, Foreman,

Appel, Hotchkiss &

Zimmerman – Carol Forhan,

NCW Media, Inc. – Cassandra

Franklin, The Glass Doctor –

Kalen Fraser, The Labor

Brain, Inc. – Amy Garrison,

Jazzercise – Marie Gooch,

MLG Bookkeeping – Nancy

Grette, Aletheia Riding Center

– Diana Haglund, Wenatchee

Learns Connect – Karrie

Hartman, Washington Trust

Bank – Cherise Hassett,

Screaming Octopus – Beth

Hayes – Trina Heuchert,

United Way – Robyn Higdon,

Wenatchee Valley Credit

Union – Connie “Sunfire”

Hill, Web Development –

Sandy Hinthorne, Eagle EMS

Training & Learning

Academu/Eagle Studios NCW

– Amanda Holaday, Chelan

County PUD No. 1 – Veronica

(Roni) Hosfeld, D'Olivo –

Carmen Houge – Crystal

Hughes, Premier One

Properties – Renee Hunter,

TOGETHER for Drug Free

Youth – Anita Janis,

Wenatchee Valley College –

Callie Klein, Country Financial

– Melissa Knott, Highgate

Senior Living – Darlene

Leenders, Pacific Appraisals

Associates – Gretchen Littler,

It Works – Stacey Lockhart,

Wenatchee Valley College

Foundation – Stacy

Luckensmeyer, WVC Center

Join Kid Connect for the 4th annual GET CONNECTED FAMILY

Expo! This is a fun family event with all kids of entertainment and

activities for the whole family! We are thrilled to bring the Oregon

Museum of Science and Industry on board this year, who will be

setting up a science fair, filled with hands on activities for our

families! We also have a number of stage performers including

Vikki, a ventriloquist from Seattle, who will be doing a

performance on anti-bullying. Don't miss the fun! If you are a

vendor and would like to be at this amazing event, please contact

Nikki at nikki@ncwkidconnect.com.

Happiness WallSponsored by Live HappySaturday, March 19th from

10am - 5pm

Pybus Public Market

People, adults and younger,

can post ways they can make

others happy (raking

someone's yard, smiling,

reading a book, etc.) Score

stickers and bracelets for

participating :) Questions? Contact Carmen Houge at 509-293-

1339.

Wenatchee Valley Farmers Market Spring FestPybus Public Market Events Center

Cost is $25 per person -Saturday, March 19th at 6pm

for Entrepreneurship – Mary

Mains, Mt. St. Helens

Gems/Emerald Foxco – Vicki

Malloy, Harry’s Cherries, Inc.

– Reimi Marden, The Winning

Edge – Trini Mayo, USDA

Rural Development – Laurie

McDaniel, Best Life, LLC –

Beverly McGrath – Kathleen

McNalty, Asuris Health

Northwest – Tami Milner,

Rodan & Fields Dermatology –

Virginia Murphy, Lake Chelan

Community Hospital

Foundation – Jenny Napier,

GWATA – Joanna Nesgoda,

Jeffers, Danielson, Sonn &

Aylward – Betty Palmer,

NCESD Tech Skills Center –

Melissa Ortega, Castle and

Bay – Ellie Ownbey, Your

Family Name – Georgia

Riggleman, Allstate Insurance

– Patty Rush,

NuSkin/Pharmanex – Deloma

Sherwood, Personal Image –

Christina Shull, Integrity

Piercing – Debbie Smith,

Express Employment

Professionals – Kathy

Smithson, Smithson

Insurance Services, Inc. – Jen

Staat, Elements Salon & Spa –

Jackie Stallings – Stacy

Suydam, North Cascades

Bank – Samantha

Swangwan, Elements Salon &

Spa – Kate Taylor, Sleeping

Lady Mountain Resort – Lori

Vandenbrink, Sleeping Lady

Mountain Resort – Jamie

Whitener, Washington State

Patrol – Linda Younkin,

Cascade Insurance Pros –

Diana Zumini, Cherry Creek

Radio – Kara Zupke, Pacific

Engineering & Design

Be a BPW Lunch

Sponsor!

Want to get your name out

there during our general

membership meetings?

Become a LUNCH

SPONSOR!! For only $75 you

can sponsor our next BPW

General Membership Meeting.

We will blast your logo via our

newsletter, website, social

media, as well as assisting you

with printed and handout

materials the day of the

meeting. Let your BPW sisters

know who you are and what

your business is all about.

The WENATCHEE VALLEY FARMERS MARKET will be holding

their 3rd annual SPRING FEST at PYBUS PUBLIC MARKET.

Join us for our annual fundraiser & auction! Enjoy good food and

community - Hor d’oeuvres, desserts and a no-host bar. Bid on

fabulous items in our live and silent auctions, or enter a drawing

for the chance to take home one of many exciting prizes. All the

proceeds for this event benefit the WENATCHEE VALLEY

FARMERS MARKET. For tickets, call 509-663-8712 or at to the

PYBUS Info Booth.

In Celebration of DangerousWomenSunday, March 20, 2016 - 1:30pm to 5:30pm

Snowy Owl Theater

March is Women’s History Month and Icicle Creek is proud to

celebrate many of the dangerous women who helped to make

America great and the land of opportunity it has become. The

afternoon will culminate with a gripping one-woman show,

“Returning the Bones,” performed and written by acclaimed

Seattle actress Gin Hammond who has many Broadway and

regional theater credits to her name and is a winner of both the

prestigious the Helen Hayes and Katherine Cornell awards for her

acting. “Returning the Bones,” based on a true story, features

Ms. Hammond playing of multiplicity of roles in this poignant,

humorous, and absolutely gripping portrayal. Plan on spending

the whole afternoon, to be moved, informed, and thoroughly

entertained! Tickets include light afternoon refreshments, with

beer and wine available for purchase. Cost - $22 General

Admission; $24 at the door; $10 Students. Buy tickets here:

https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=61530.

GWATA Innovator AwardsWenatchee Convention Center

Tuesday, March 29th from Noon - 1:30pm

Contact one of your Board

Members today at

info@bpwwen.org.

BPW Collect

Keep us, O God, from pettiness;

Let us be large in thought, in

word, in deed.

Let us be done with fault-finding

and leave off self-seeking.

May we put away all pretense

and meet each other

face to face - without self-pity and

without prejudice.

May we never be hasty in

judgment

and always be generous.

Let us take time for all things;

Make us to grow calm, serene,

gentle.

Teach us to put into action our

better impulses,

Straight-forward and unafraid.

Grant that we may realize it is the

little things

that create differences, that in the

big things

of life we are as one.

And may we strive to touch and

to know the great,

Common human heart of us all,

and

O Lord God, let us forget not to

be kind.

Mary Stewart

The Collect was written by Mary Stewart

in 1904. She had it published as a

Collect for Club Women, because at the

time she believed that women working

together with wide interests and

important goals was a new

phenomenon, and that a special

meditation of their own would give them

a sense of unity. The Collect soon was

adopted among working women

throughout the world.

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Join GWATA and over 300 leaders from NCW as we recognize

innovators, entrepreneurs, educators, and students at the 16th

Annual Innovator Awards. This year’s luncheon theme is going to

be fun..... it's Virtual Reality! Our keynote speaker, Ari Hollander

of DeepStream VR is a Seattle Entrepreneur who is pioneering

virtual reality games for pain relief. Tickets are $25.00 for GWATA

Members and $30.00 for the general public. We hope you will join

us!

To register - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gwata-innovator-

awards-tickets-20845675978 - To sponsor and find out more: Call

Jenny Napier at 509-661-9000.

Business After Hours at ComfortSuitesThursday, March 31st, 5pm - 7pm

Comfort Suites

NETWORKING EVENT - The

Comfort Suites are excited to

host this networking event and

show off their space! Join us

for light refreshments, local

wine, and networking

opportunities. Business After

Hours is free to attend so bring a friend or co-worker and enjoy!

See more at: http://wenatchee.org/event/business-after-hours-at-

the-comfort-suites/#sthash.nk8BlH3O.dpuf.

Jazz Ambassadors of US Army Field BandSaturday, April 2nd at 7pm

Town Toyota Center

FREE CONCERT - The Jazz

Ambassadors, the United

States Army’s premier touring

big band, travels thousands of

miles each year to present jazz

to enthusiastic audiences

throughout the nation and around the world. As a component of

The United States Army Field Band of Washington, DC, the Jazz

Ambassadors supports its mission of carrying “into the grassroots

of our country the story of our magnificent Army.” In performances

across America and throughout the world, the men and women of

this internationally-acclaimed organization take great pride in

reflecting the excellence of all our nation’s Soldiers.

2016 Refresh Leadership LiveSimulcastWednesday, April 13th from 10:00am - 3:00pm

Join us for a leadership event you won’t want to miss! Mark your

calendar to attend the seventh annual Refresh Leadership Live

Simulcast. This year’s speaker lineup features an outstanding trio

of leadership and development experts who are ready to share

their expertise on reaching the next level, inspiring your people,

and becoming a more effective leader.

The 2016 Refresh Leadership Live Simulcast speakers include:

� Marshall Goldsmith, Author, Professor, and Executive

Coach

� Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal, Television Sports Analyst and

15-time NBA All-Star

� Kaplan Mobray, Author, Motivational Speaker, and Career

Consultant

This half-day event was designed with leaders like you in mind.

Join us to learn more about the power of great leadership and

take away new insight on how to refresh, energize, and motivate

the people you lead.

Sign up here - https://www.expresspros.com/RLL2016/

Or contact at Karrie.hartman@expresspros.com. Questions?

Call Express (509) 662-5187

Cheap TrickMonday, April 25th from 7pm 9pm

Town Toyota Center

With over 5,000 performances

spanning four decades and 20

million records sold worldwide,

Cheap Trick is undoubtedly

one of the most influential

classic rock groups of the past

50 years. The band was

formed in 1974 and while it has

evolved throughout the years,

Cheap Trick has continued to

reach mainstream and critical

success. Hits such as “I Want You To Want Me,” “Dream Police,”

and “Surrender” have cemented the group as one of America’s

top rock ‘n’ roll bands of all time. Tickets not on sale yet.

Knights Golf ClassicTournamentFriday, April 29th

Highlander Golf Club

The 20th Annual Knights Golf Classic Tournament to benefit

Wenatchee Valley College student athletes is almost here!

Registration, and chipping and putting contests, begin at 9 a.m.,

followed by a shotgun start at 10 a.m. A silent auction, lunch and

raffle immediately follow the conclusion of the tournament. Cost

for the chipping and putting contest is $5 for three balls per

contest. Participants may register individually or as a foursome.

The individual package costs $125 and includes a golf cart,

tournament gift bag and soft drinks provided by Pepsi-Cola of

Wenatchee, all green fees including the cart, and lunch catered

by the Highlander. The Silver Package for a group of four costs

$600 and includes a sponsorship sign with company name and

logo at the tee or green, two golf carts, and all additional items

that are included in the individual package. For more information

or to register, please visit the Knights Golf Classic Tournament

web page at www.wvc.edu/athletics, or contact Greg Franz, WVC

Athletic Director, at 509.682.6771.

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Wenatchee Valley YWCAVolunteers Needed!!

YWCA Wenatchee Valley is in need of volunteers for our thrift

store, estate sales, and especially on our 4 standing committees

which include: Community Engagement & Advocacy, Fundraising

& Development, Finance & Sustainability, and Nominating &

Personnel.

For more information contact Alyssa Martinez at

alyssa@ywcawen.com or 509.662.3531 x115.

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Wenatchee River InstituteCheck Us Out!!

Their mission is to connect

people, communities, and

the natural world. They

teach with the whole picture

in mind and understand that

our environmental, social, and economic needs and actions are

all intertwined. What affects one, affects all three. They work to

improve our community's understanding of this model through

youth and adult programming, special events, strategic

partnerships, and barrier-free access to nature.

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Promote Your Next EventOnce a month, our enewsletter reaches over 300 people - BPW

members and interested

community members. Stay

connected with your fellow

BPW members while

exposing your event to even

more people. We will

promote and offer additional

marketing for free as part of

your BPW membership.

Contact Kara (kara@pacificengineering.net) today to give your

event that extra exposure!! Newsletter submissions are due 3

days before the 1st of the month.

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Want to Become a BPW Member?To learn more about membership, opportunities to join a

committee, networking or simply meet some of the ladies, email

info@bpwwen.org or visit our website at www.bpwwen.org.

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