WIC WEEK 2023

NAWIC Boise 245 had a busy WIC Week. Our events were well attended and successful.

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Monday 3/6 our members and a few guests were treated to a Job Site Tour of The Boardwalk Apartments.

Huge thank you to Andersen Construction for hosting this tour and Vida Properties for allowing us access.

Tuesday 3/7 Members and other guests attended a Blue Print Reading Lesson hosted by McAlvain Construction. There was in person and online options and attended by several men and women wanting to expand their blueprint reading skills. Huge shoutout to Tyler Resnick, Current Director of Industrial Construction for leading the class.

Thursday 3/8 Our Boise Chapter hosted a Mix & Mingle at Harry’s Hideaway Bar & Grill. Food, Drink, Fun & and Door Prizes were in abundance. This was a great networking event and we met new friends. We also held a canned food drive. We gathered donations and money that will be donated to the Food Bank for students at the BSU Campus.

Saturday 3/11 NAWIC Boise held our 34th Annual Awards and Dinner Auction. This is one of our largest fundraisers of the year and a time to celebrate our members and companies.

March General Meeting

Our March General Meeting presenter was Colleen Wienhoff, Owner & CEO of Wienhoff Drug Testing.

Colleen Wienhoff has been in the Drug testing business since 1988 when she established her Idaho company Wienhoff Drug Testing, which was the first Nationally Accredited Drug Program Administrator. Her combined companies provide drug and alcohol programs and related services to over 6500 employers, municipalities, state agencies, and trade organizations throughout the United States. Colleen is a nationally recognized expert in the administration of Drug and Alcohol Programs. She is actively involved with the ITA, Idaho ABC and a multitude of other organizations. She currently serves on the Board of National Drug and Alcohol Screeners Association. Her background and training also include Certified Collector Trainer, Breath Alcohol Trainer, DER Trainer, Third Party Administrator and Certified Phlebotomist. She also serves as an expert witness for the Criminal Justice System.

Colleen provided a great presentation on the “Tricks of the Trade” as far as drugs go and how workers try to get around testing requirements. She told about all the different drugs and how to detect possible offenders at work.

February General Meeting

Our February General meeting presenter was Debbie McCormick

Debbie McCormick is a LinkedIn marketing and branding expert and an award-winning speaker on the topic. Her best-selling book, The LinkedIn Manual for Rookies, is the resource she wishes had been available when she was learning LinkedIn.

She’s known as the LinkedIn Boss Lady because she and her team have written hundreds of fully optimized profiles and LinkedIn Company Pages that have professionally showcased her clients, helping them stand out from the noise and attract the people with whom they want to do business.

Her mission is to be a step up on the ladder of success for entrepreneurial women, and her zone of joy is live training on the fundamentals and Pro Tips of LinkedIn success, especially how to write a magnetic profile.

Debbie has trained at businesses all over the country, including Nasdaq, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Lincoln Motors, the Harvard Club of Boston, Nasdaq, and has trained hundreds of entrepreneurs through the Inspired Living by Keri Murphy program

Our members learned the DO’s and DON’Ts for their LinkedIn Profiles from her 5 Essentials for a Magnetic LinkedIn Profile Presentation.

• Know your client

• Use keywords

• Keyword Optimization

• Writing Structure

• Profile Photo

Along with Bonus information:

• The poor, Oft-Forgotten Banner

• The Company Page

She had all of us looking at our LinkedIn profiles and planning changes right away

Visit her website for more information: Here

January General Meeting

Our January meeting presenter was Sherry Stirling Fernandez.

For two decades Sherry Stirling Fernandez has been a speaker, a teacher, a mentor, and is now a bestselling author. Sherry’s new USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller Life Mastery: Personal Progression Toward an Infinite Potential tells her rags to riches story and explains the principles and tools she used for success. Sherry has taught these principles to hundreds of people who have also found success, and the happiness that follows, using the Life Mastery program.

Our members were engaged and informed by her presentation. We were all also gifted with her book:

Life Mastery, Personal Progression Toward An Infinite Potential.

Available Here from Amazon: Here Check it out today!

Member Spotlight!

Holiday Charity

The Cottages of Emmett is a smaller, home-like assisted living and memory care facility that has been providing specialized care for seniors with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia since 2001. Partnering with them this past holiday season gave us the opportunity to provide individual, personalized gifts for 24 residents.

Our generous members came together and donated so many wonderful items for these baskets. Can’t wait to do it again next year!