Spotlight On...

The Hub Carwash & Diner

Rep: Diane McCreery, Owner

The Hub Car Wash and Diner is a family owned and operated business.  We began operation in October of 2002.  The Hub is a multi-faceted operation.  We also have a detail shop and a gift shop.  The Hub is located one block east of Centennial and Garden of the Gods, at 4460 Forest Hills Rd.  Our hours of operation are Monday through Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm.  Beginning Sunday, April 18^th, we will be open on Sundays.

The car wash is full service and is called a cloth wash.  We were the first car wash in Colorado Springs to reclaim our water.  80% of the water enters tanks and is filtered and reused in the wash.  Also, our cleaning products are environmentally friendly.

The detail shop offers a wide variety of seasonal and all occasion gifts.  We also have greeting cards, toys and an auto wall.

The diner has a fifties theme.  We serve breakfast and lunch, and we have a lighter fare menu for late afternoon.  We also offer daily breakfast and lunch specials.  Right now the Atkins diet is a big seller.  However, our burger and fries platter is our biggest seller.  We are available for private parties.  The Hub does not have a liquor license as yet, but for a private party you may bring your own bottle.

President's Message The Journey - Halfway By Marti Hartman

Here we are - halfway through the 2003-2004 year. 

In October, we'll have a new year, a new board, and The Journey will start all over again.

Here's everything I know about our 2004-2005 Journey - Linda Williamson will be our President, and that's all I know.  Linda and Sally are keeping the details of the rest of the board nominees a secret for right now.  It's driving me crazy!

And here's some of what I know about our next President.  Linda Williamson is one of the kindest-hearted women you will ever meet; and her laugh is the MOST contagious you'll ever hear.  We shared a room in Denver at the National Convention last year.  I will never, ever tell you whether or not she snores, but what I will tell you is when you're dead tired and ready to go to sleep, "Linda's Little Talk Button" is ON!  Linda has more energy at midnight than most of the rest of us have at noon.

What I found out about Linda is she's very energetic, extremely intelligent, fair-minded, insightful, empathetic, and WISE.  I haven't told her this, but Linda has become my silent mentor - when she's around, I do my best to sit back, listen, watch, and learn from Linda.

Next year, we all will have the opportunity to see this beautiful lady in action.  And maybe one of the meetings will be Linda teaching us all to Belly Dance!

News!

Please send submissions for the Chapter Pulse to:

Contact: Kathy Wallace

Phone: 548-0582

E-mail: kawallace@msn.com

Next Deadline
April 20

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Thank you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Last Month's Meeting
EWI Business Fair

The Antler's Adam Mark was the site for lots of "laughs", "oh---so that's what you do", "let me putt next", "yes, I need that goodie-how much", and sounds of good food being consumed. Our program was US---34 firms participated by displaying their wares and answering questions about their companies. Hats off to those firms!!!! We had 86 reservations with a great turnout.  Several ladies were overheard to say, "Networking, networking and networking - that's what I like." Our many door prizes were donated by The Corkscrew Wine Shop, Girl Scouts, The Hub-2, Management Advantage, Orbit Promotions, Purple Mountain Coffee, Shewmaker Camera-2 and Wallace Vision.  World Savings awarded special prizes to the best dart thrower and bean counter plus EWI's Ways & Means Committee awarded prizes to our best putters. Thanks to Jerry Jo Shires and Liz Youngquist for a fun night. 

April
Chapter Meeting

RSVP Guests & Regrets Only

RSVP by April 9th!
Click Here to RSVP

PLACE: PHANTOM CANYON BREWING CO.
2 EAST PIKES PEAK AVE.
3^RD FLOOR

COST: $30.00

TIME: 5:30 PM - SIGN-IN NETWORKING
6:00 PM - DINNER AND EWI BUSINESS
6:45 PM - PROGRAM
PROGRAM: DEALING WITH VIOLENCE IN THE WORKPLACE
SPEAKERS: TRUDY STREWLER, EXEC. DIRECTOR - CASA
(Court Appointed Special Advocates)
CAROLINE DAVIS, EXEC. DIRECTOR - TESSA

If you have special dietary needs, please advise in the comment area of your RSVP.

Membership Postings

Casey Cool.   Major: Medicine, Minor: Psychologist

Ann Carlisle, MD  Major: Medicine, Minor: Psychiatry

La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries, rep: Lisa Washko, Major: Furniture, Fixtures & Furnishings; Minor: Household Furniture, Retail

New Members

Physique Transformations Studio, Rep: Lauren Shaw, laurenshaw@msn.com

Colorado Aviation, Rep: Kimberly Powell

Sturman Industries, Rep: Nancy Karsh, nkarsh@sturmanindustries.com

Changes

Sinton Dairy has decided NOT to drop its membership, and Bea Stealin will still represent them.

Upcoming EWI conferences!

Dallas Spring Conference: April 22-24 at the Renaissance Hotel.  Contact Caroline Whitlock at (214) 969-8143 or email at caroline.whitlock@ey.com.

Portland Spring Conference:  May 20-22 at the Benson Hotel.  Contact Jeri Petrella at jeri_petrella@pgn.com.

EWI Leadership Conference & Annual Meeting: September 23-25, New Orleans at the New Orleans Marriott.

Directory:

It has been determined that the membership of EWI would in fact like to have a published local directory of some sort hopefully to be completed about mid-year, 2004.  As directory chair (and a committee of one!) for the past couple of years, I have only gathered info.  We have had no local directory published since 2001.  In order to facilitate actually publishing a directory, I will need help.  If anyone has the skills and would like to volunteer, I would greatly appreciate it.  The Board is discussing publishing something to include photos and in a PDF file format for use in a protected internet atmosphere.  I possess NONE of the skills necessary to accomplish this task and have no access to administrative help! So I'm asking for volunteers to work with me.  If you'd like to help, please call me at 228-3011 or email me at cjohn@pepsilane.com.

 THANKS,   Cathie John

Fore!  Fore!  Fore!
Kissing Camels Golf Course:  June 15, 2004
Come One, Come All!

The 2^nd Annual Scholastic Classic Golf Tournament is right around the corner.  The tournament is the one and only fund raiser for this year to benefit the ASIST (Adult Students in Scholastic Transition) scholarship fund.  This year the tournament is at the beautiful Kissing Camels golf course on June 15, tee time of 1:00 p.m.  Please commit to help the Ways and Means committee in securing major sponsors (PhD, Masters and Bachelors levels), sponsors for each hole, men and women to play (we need 72+), prizes for the awards presentation, items for the goodie bags to give players, and volunteers to help on tournament day.  Please contact Joan Saucerman or Verna Severson if you can help in any capacity!  THANKS

Minutes

Executive Women International

Colorado Springs Chapter

Record of Board of Directors Meeting

March 4, 2004

Members present: Kathleen O'Leary, Verna Severson, Beth Alexander, Joan Pierce, Susan Wood-Ellis, Sally Seidlitz, Marti Hartman, Kathy Wallace, Jerry Jo Shires, Lorrie Todd, Jean Roblewsky, Bea Steahlin, Cathie John, Kelly Wood, and Linda Williamson

Meeting called to order at 5:00 PM by President Marti Hartman

Secretary Report: Minutes from the last board meeting were approved.

Sergeant-at-Arms:  January meeting attendance: 64 of 83 firms; 3 of the 6 sustaining members; 0 life members; 9 guests

Membership Report:  Membership renewals, resignations, postings, moves (to sustaining or life) will be reviewed next week and roster will be updated - at that time if any board or chapter voting needs to take place, President Marti Hartman will take action to see it gets done.

Treasurer Report: As of 2/29/04 here are the balances:

               Operating account:      $42,022.69

               Scholarship account:  $10,348.03

               Scholarship Fund:        $79,789.11

Also, it was reported that we had net income from the January meeting of $77.29 and door prize donations to scholarship fund of $69.00.

Ways & Means Report:  Golf Tournament - June 15^th Kissing Camels. They will have a putting contest at March meeting to publicize the tourney and the need for players and sponsors.

Publications: Kathy Wallace emphasized that any articles or information for the newsletter need to be in to her by the 20^th of the month. They are very frustrated with not getting the info they need to put out a complete, professional newsletter. PLEASE BE PROMPT IN GETTING ARTICLES, PICTURES, MEMBERSHIP INFO, ETC. TO KATHY BY THE DEADLINE!

Directory: Cathie John reports that she will put together a specific description of the help she needs to get a chapter directory put together. She will get this to Kathy to post in the newsletter. She will also need the most current membership data. IT WAS REPORTED THAT MANY MEMBERS HAVE EXPRESSED A FRUSTRATION WITH GOING ON-LINE TO THE CORPORATE WEB SITE TO UPDATE THEIR OWN RECORDS.

Hospitality: It was agreed that the mixer for February's meeting went very well and YES was a very positive experience! Beth Alexander made a motion to approve the purchase of 50 more name badges at a cost of $9.10 each ($455). It was approved.

Programs: Jerry Jo reviewed upcoming meeting programs and the list of companies signed up for the Firm Showcase at the March meeting. She will make sure that someone on the committee gets the meeting summaries to Kathy Wallace for the newsletter by the deadline. Al Todd (Lorrie's husband) of PageCafe was present at the meeting to get input as to subject matter that he could speak about at a meeting in the future. He and Lorrie own PageCafe Internet Consulting, Inc. which create and host, and promote web pages (Websites for Entrepreneurs). 

Publicity: Not present at meeting.

Historian: Not present at meeting.

Nominating: Sally is working on getting nominations for the 2004-2005 board.

Scholarship: Not present at meeting - it was noted how nice it was to have one of our scholarship recipients at the February meeting (Rebecca Tonn)!

Next board meeting will be Thursday, April 8 at 4:30 p.m. at Accent Photo.

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Corporate Office Contact Information

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Salt Lake City, UT 84102-2801

Phone (801) 355-2800

Fax (801) 355-2852

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Email:ewi@executivewomen.org

P R I N C I P L E S

• To bring together key individuals from member firms of EWI to achieve world-class status as an organization through applied standards of