Friends of the Frost AGM

Friends of the Frost Centre AGM
Saturday, January 10, 2007, 10:00am,
Kinmount Community Centre

Please attend if you can! (details below)

Dear Friends and Colleagues

On behalf of the Friends of the Frost Centre I would like to thank you for supporting our bid to operate the Frost Centre. Your interest, words of encouragement, your attendance at the community forum, your donations, and/or your membership gave us the will and courage to prepare a strong proposal. We are proud of what we accomplished presenting the government with an option that would have provided affordable and accessible programs for a wide variety of learners, helped achieve some of the government’s own strategic priorities, and served the local community in significant ways. Contrary to what has been reported in the media, our proposal was not about opening the Centre as it was; it offered, by necessity, a new way of doing things. We are, of course, disappointed that we were not the successful bidder; we gave it our best shot. That said, it is now time to look to the future.

On Saturday, January 6, 2007, at the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Frost Centre, the future of the organization will be decided. Some options that will be considered include the following:

1. Continuing as a cooperating association to support, enhance and offer affordable environmental education programs to a wide range of learners and to support other environmental initiatives in the Frost Centre area;

2. Changing to a community foundation for environmental and heritage education that would develop and offer learning programs and services, and support learning initiatives in the Haliburton and/or Muskoka area;

3. Transforming into a community foundation to serve other community needs; or

4. Dissolve as an organization and forfeit our charitable status.

Obviously, all options except 4 require ongoing community support and participation.

If you are interested in helping to shape the future of the Friends of the Frost Centre,
we invite you to attend our AGM at the Kinmount Community Centre,
(2 Dickson Street, Kinmount, Ontario)
on January 6 at 10:00am.
Only members will be allowed to vote.
For more information or to sign up as a member please visit www.friendsofthefrostcentre.ca , call 1-877-892-9955 or 705-754-3436 or email friendsofthefrostcentre@gmail.com

If you are unable to attend the AGM, please feel free to share your thoughts/preferences on the above options before January 5th. Should we decide on one of the first three options we will need members to serve on the Board of Directors. If you are interested please let us know.

Thank you again for all of your support.

Max Radiff

President

Friends of the Frost Centre

Friends of the Frost Centre
P.O. Box 1002,
Minden, ON
K0M 2K0
705-792-9955 / 877-892-9955