SERVICE:Canvassing- cans around the ovalTuesday September 25th. 5-7Mckenna CaspersBen LeeTheresa ButterfieldMaryanne MeyerMeet at transit center at 4:45 to carpool over to the neighborhood.Ben Lee will have all the supplies needed for the event.Canvassing ContinuedThursday September 27th 5-7Elisa StagnerLauren LuthroCollen McAnullenHailey BergeronJacque WilsonSami SlenkerKarlee BobzienGarrett GacitaMeet at transit center at 4:45Game night. Park Wood Estates 6:45-8Tom CalandreilloJessie WorgerAlex BuckleyCourtney HammBen LeeKatie BrownMeet at transit center at 6:15Environmental Learning CenterFriday September 28th 4-6Emma HueberTom CalandrielloAmanda ZetahSami SlenkerShelby JensmaLauren LuthroJennifer LukasBen LeeAlex CollopySam LasherChrisanna Van AnneColleen McAnallenMeet at transit center at 3:30Make sure you log hours on Ramlink!Please contact Garrett or Wren with any questions.FELLOWSHIP:Food, Games and Hunger Games will be held Wednesday at 6:00pm in theHonors at Hall AV.If you are having trouble with Ramlink- all of the fellowships areposted up to date. If you log on, go to events schedule and look onthe lower right hand side, you will see a button that says “Iattended” and it will mark that you attended.MEMBERSHIP:The Big/Little ceremony is going to be next Sunday at 6:00pm. Meetingplace TBD.If you are interested in being a big, please respond to Ben Lee'semail asap with the requested information!FUNDRAISING:This week, we raised $450 plus $53 in tips YAY!Remember that if you sign up for concessions, please show up.Concessions are a great way for us to earn money for our chapter forevents such as nationals and alt. spring break. Also, concessions is ahuge privilege for us to participate in so please help us keep thisprivilege and get involved, it is a great way to earn service hoursand hang out with your brothers!T-SHIRTS:Kate Douglas has the artwork finalized for our shirts for the semester(the document has been attached to this email). If you are a duespaying brother please email Kate the size you want. Her email iskmarina@rams.colostate.eduAlso, please respond to the invitation Kate sent our for our alumnipicnic October 7th at 2:00pm at Rolland Park.If you are interested in joining the Alumni Corresponding Secretarycommittee, please email Kate!MBU:Since this email is rather lengthy this week, I have also attached adocument regarding MBU. If you are interested in participating, pleasesign up ASAP and let Jacque know. This is a fantastic serviceopportunity and we are really in need of volunteers!PR:Nick needs help building the float for homecoming! If you areinterested, please contact him immediately. You will get service hoursfor helping with the float, and if you are in the parade it will countas a fellowship. Our float design is a mountain with the A on it, andis going to be super awesome! Please contact Nick Kuhns if you areinterested.ATTENDANCE:This is VERY important regarding attendance for meetings. You areallowed TWO unexcused absences each semester for meetings. If you aregoing to miss meeting, you need to email me at least TWO HOURS beforemeeting for both excused AND unexcused absences. In the email subjectline, please put your full name, the date, and include your excused orunexcused reason inside the email. I will not be accepting textmessage or phone call notifications unless it is a sudden emergency(you suddenly were sick, car accident, horrible awful things that Ihope do not happen to you, etc.), Please do not make this an issue!Meetings are very important and it is your responsibility as a memberto hold yourself accountable and attend.ALT SPRING BREAK:• March 15th-24th• We will be volunteering with 2 organizations the 18th-22nd• Housing: Adullan Christian Outreach Center• Meals: provided. Dinner authentic New Orleans food (yum!)• Concessions on October 6th will be going towards alt. spring break ,please sign up for fundraisers as they will help ease the high costs.• This break will be working with the St. Bernards Project rebuildingthe homes and lives of Katrina Survivors• Aother organization will be the Animal Rescue of New Orleans,service will include night dog walking/kennel cleaning teams and catcleaning teams on any of the seven nights of the week• The application is located on Ramlink. Make sure you specify youwant to go on the APO trip and are an APO member.• Application are due by Tuesday, Oct 23 by 5pm• please visit this link if you are interested:http://www.slice.colostate.edu/alternative-breaks.aspx SLICE webpage• You can also apply for grants on this page!• If you are not chosen for the APO trip, there are other trips thatyour application may be passed on to.
Hello APOers, Thank you to everyone who showed up nice and fancy last night, wehad fantastic attendance! I know it was a short meeting withinitiation, but here are a few important notes for this week:Membership• We have voted to fuse the pledge meetings with the active meetings.This is a great way for us to get to know the pledges and for them tostay more involved in what is going on each week in the fraternity.• Make up ceremony this week- TBD. For the pledges who were unable tomake it to meeting last night, there will be a makeup ceremony held atsome point this week, more information will be followed up.Service• Larimer Humane Society. Tuesday Sept. 18th 12-5pm• Environmental Learning Center, Friday September 21st. 4-6pm• Game Night at Parkwood Estates. Thursday September 20th. 6:45-8pm• Kids at Heart. Saturday September 22nd. 4:15-8:30pm• If you have not been to Kids at Heart before, there will bemandatory training at 3:30.• Fort Collins Brewfest. Saturday September 22nd 6:45-10pm• Please remember to be posting your hours on RAMLINKFellowship• Wednesday kickball at 5:00pm. Following kickball there will also beanother fellowship at the flag football game, taking place at 7:00pmat the IM fields. Come support our APOers as they go head to head!• Rockies Game: Friday. Please meet at transit center at 4:00pm.Volunteers to drive will be needed, tickets are $5 and please bringmoney for gas and parking for the drivers!Fundraising• Concessions this weekend at the CSU vs. Utah State game- please signup with Christian if you are able to make it!Corresponding Secretary• MBU is coming up! Yay!• It is taking place Saturday October 27th from 7am-5:45pm. If youhave not signed up yet and are interested, please speak with Jacque.Other important notes:Nationals are Dec 27-30 in Anaheim, CA. Our delegates are Tom and Ben,congratulations you two! This is a great opportunity to be even moreinvolved in APO, especially since the National Board can’t change thebylaws, rituals, or memberships. Members get to vote on it. Moreinformation will continue as the event gets closer! Please see Lisawith any other questions regarding the trip.Rachel Schrader and our Service VPs are working on coordinatingservice hours with La Familia, The Family Center that Rachel isworking with. While they continue to figure out service hours, pleasecontact Rachel if you are interested in volunteering with herclassroom. Any time that you can dedicate is greatly appreciated. Moreinformation can be found on the APO Facebook page.
This year, we are going to try and implement a lot of the suggestionsfrom the surveys taken at the end of last semester. For starters, weare going to be keeping track of our hours this year with agoal-keeping "thermometer" in order to reach our 2,000 hour goal. Iknow that we can reach this goal, so let's get crackin' on thoseservice hours!! Also, please hold yourself accountable for the eventsyou sign up for. We are a part of a wonderful organization dedicatedto serving our community; please honor that commitment and be there,be on time, and be focused. Pledges: we love our pledgies:) so pleasebe interactive with them and get to know them, especially in meeting.On that note, please honor the drinking policy with pledges. There isabsolutely NO grey area with this, drinking with pledges is notacceptable. Please represent our organization well and respect thepolicy.This week in:Service:Cards and seeds were a tremendous success, way to go guys!• Larimer Humane Society: Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00-5:00pm• Environmental Learning Center: Friday from 4:00-6:00pm• Sustainable Living Fair- 14th-16th 10am-6pm. If you are interestedin volunteering, you will need to fill out a form on this link:https://www.volgistics.com/ex/portal.dll/ap?AP=271357294• Conference at Mines: This Saturday, the 15th 8:30-5pm. Toparticipate, you will need to register online. The cost is $15.• Leadership Catalyst: Saturday Sept. 29th, 9:30-4:30 Cherokee ParkBallroom. To participate, you MUST REGISTER BY FRIDAY AT 5PM.Membership:• Tuesday night is bid night: 7pm at AV. It is an ice cream social,please see the list of items Haley emailed out.• Initiation is next Sunday at 5:15. Please dress business casual (NO JEANS)Fellowship:• Saturday night: Cobra Starship. The concert starts at 6:30pm. Pleasemeet at the transit center at 4:45. Tickets are $10.• Next week- Kickball is on Wednesday at 5pm at Rolland Park.• Rockies game on Friday the 21st.Fundraising:• Way to go with concessions everyone- yay! We raised 8100 dollars,yeah yeah! Plus, we received $62 in tips. Booya!Information regarding sectionals this Saturday:• Sectionals are this weekend, Saturday the 15th at Mines. Start timeis 8:30 am. Please meet at the transit center at 6:50 and be ready toleave by 7:00am. There will be a carpool should you need a ride. Thisis a wonderful opportunity to meet and collaborate with otherchapters.Other important notes:- Remember to register to vote with Frances! You will receive 30minutes of service if you register to vote. Plus, VOTING IS IMPORTANT!So do it!- If you are interested in attending nationals, Lisa is forming acommittee. Please join if this sounds like something you would like toparticipate in. Nationals are taking place in Anaheim, CA December26th-December 20th- Alt Spring Break: kickoff is this week for Adara and Kalie, moreinfo to come next week! You can sign up in advance if you go to theSLICE page and type in: Alt Spring Break, make sure that you put thatyou are an APO member and interested in the APO trip.- Remember to post fellowships and service hours on RAMLINK.- Dues are due NEXT SUNDAY. Please have your dues submitted to Karleeby next week.- Please contact Lisa, Kalie, or any other members of e-board if youhave any questions or concerns.
