Ashland Optimist Bulletin September 5 2026
Breakfast (Sept. 12): Dana Cafourek, Tabitha & Letitia Denhartog
Speaker: Eastern District & Conference reports
We will leave right after Ernie speaks to set up our booth at the Ashland Fall Festival. Contact person is Tara Blue. Please contact her at bluebirdtara@gmail.com to help at the booth. We need coverage from 9:00-3:00 (split into shifts) and will hand out information about the Optimists, as well as items for children. We will be seated under a canopy to protect us from the weather. Here is a map of our booth location:
Fall Festival location- 2026
The Optimist Board meeting will be Sept. 10th at 7:00. If you have any items to add to the agenda, please let Barrett Glascock know by Tuesday, Sept. 8th.
Ernie Wren sent out additional information last week about the Ashland Optimist Club Social. which will be held in our building on Sunday evening, Oct. 4th from 5:00-7:00 p.m. This will include installation of our officers, with 2026-27 East Missouri Governor Mary Hatfield and Governor-elect Gary Joe Hatfield, in attendance and will include a catered dinner at a cost of $5 per person. We invite all Ashland Optimist members and family to attend. A sign-up sheet will be coming out with more details soon.
Our next major event will be the Spooktacular on Saturday, October 31st. Ernie Wren will provide more information and will look for volunteers to help with that closer to time.
I have been asked about attendance totals for Friday and Saturday nights at this year's Cattlemen's Day Rodeo and am glad to share that the reports I received said 3,019 tickets sold for Friday and 3,813 sold for Saturday, with a total of 6,832 for the weekend. A big thank you to everyone who helped out to make this another successful year!
Letitia DenHartog
ashlandoptimist.org
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COMING UP
Sep 10 Board meeting
Sep 12 Breakfast EMO and conference reports
Sep 12 Ashland Fall Fest
Sep 19 Breakfast Jane Rutter, author
Sep 25 5th 6th Grade Basketball
Registration Deadline
Sep 26 Breakfast James Zielinski
Oct 3 Breakfast Mary Dewy Dime-A-Day
Oct 4 Club Social & Officers installation
Oct 10 Breakfast Bekki Brewer MO House 44 candidate
Oct 17 Breakfast Sheriff Dwaye Carey
Oct 24 No breakfast meeting, bldg rented
Oct 31 Halloween Spooktacular
