Below are excerpts from the latest blogs posted on Quakerdale.org. If you want to read the whole story, click on "Read More". Enjoy, and Thank You for Subscribing!
|
|
Tournament Champions
Of the 363 people who participated in the 2016 Quakerdale Winter Classic ProAm, 286 qualified to compete for Tournament Champion and started out with an even-Par 72 golf score. Of those who qualified, 39 were able to raise $50 or more to provide themselves the
opportunity to reduce strokes on holes of their choice, and thus improve their golf score. Here’s how the top 39 ‘golfers’ finished …
|
|
Read More
|
|
|
|
Today I received a letter from a former employee of Quakerdale. In the context of the letter he mentioned the value of Quakerdale to the kids that he served in his tenure. I can attest that when people know you are from Quakerdale they come and they tell you how their life was impacted by it; maybe personally, or a family member, or friend, who made important changes in their life. They received …
|
|
Read More
|
|
|
|
I would like to introduce you to Emi and Neumann. Neumann is the first mother-raised infant Japanese Macaque at the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines Iowa in over 20 years. My family first encountered these two on family vacation in early July. You couldn’t help but notice that Emi was extremely protective of Neumann, she basically controlled his every move. We watched them for a good thirty minutes and we did not see her let go of him
once. Hard to tell, but he doesn’t look very happy to me, what do you think? Then I overheard a high school – aged girl say, “I bet she is exhausted …
|
|
Read More
|
|
|
|
One of the great things about working at Quakerdale is the investment that our leadership puts into staff at all levels. One of the ways that occurs is through reading books and having discussions with co-workers about how we can make improvements in the areas that are outlined in the book. The Present is a book that we recently went though – it was a very quick read, but had some significant points that were made through the
story’s fable. Spoiler Alert – I am going to tell you what the Present is ...
|
|
Read More
|
|
Sometimes we have messages that we will broadcast via email that are not included in the monthly newsletter. If you would like to be included in these broadcasts then be sure to modify your settings by clicking on the link "Change Subscriber Options" below and set "Special Messages Group" to "YES".
If you would
like to read previous newsletters and broadcasts, then be sure to ... |
|
|
