Lending a Hand to Help our Friends at Phi Upsilon Omicron

Dear Friends of Phi Upsilon Omicron

We need your help and in return we have an amazing offer we think you can’t refuse!

We have partnered with a national fundraising organization called Fitness Fundraisers and for a very limited time you can purchase a 3 Month Health Club Membership Pass for only $20 to Fitness Inc. through our organization. This is a HUGE value to anyone even mildly interested in giving fitness a try, and even better….50% of the proceeds goes directly to Phi Upsilon Omicron and supporting our mission.

We are so grateful for your support and in return would like to make it easy for you to give a fit lifestyle a go! Simply print the attached order form, review eligibility details, and complete the attached order form. Then mail it to us right away with your check, or call me directly for more information.

Hurry! This opportunity ends on December 14^th, 2009!

Sincerely,

Denay Parks (Chairmen)

Phi Upsilon Omicron

150 1/2 N. Johnson

Pocatello, ID – 83204

Phone: 208-859-6988

Email: parkdena@isu.edu

P.S. The 3-month health club membership passes make great holiday gift ideas for friends and loved ones!

If you know of anyone who would benefit from such a great offer contact Denay Parks promptly and she can make arrangements so that you can sign up before the deadline. This should be a wonderful opportunity for our friends at Phi Upsilon Omicron as they intend to use proceeds from this fundraiser to have a Christmas party for the veterans at the Idaho State Veteran's Home in Pocatello. Thanks alot and we hope you have a Merry Christmas.

Upcoming Events

Christmas Potluck

On Monday, December 7th there will be a potluck at 12:15 p.m. in the Foods Lab. The club should be providing food but feel happy to bring anything to help out. We will be having some fun activities and will be discussing some of the things that have been going on..

Web production relating to the dietetics field

Tuesday, December 8th there will be a Lean Body Mass Webinar presentation from 10:00-11:00 a.m. in Room 130 at Reed Gym. This should be very insightful and we hope all of you can attend.

Upcoming Events

Idaho Food Bank Volunteer Night:

On Wednesday, November 4th @ 6:00 p.m. we will help the Idaho Food Bank with their backpack program. This program helps feed school-aged children in the local area by filling each pack with enough food to feed them over the weekend. The staff at the Idaho Food Bank is always very thankful for helping hands and it will count towards end of the year incentive points. We hope to see you there at 6:00 p.m. tonight. They're located @ 555 South 1st Avenue in Pocatello.

ADA Retreat:

Some of the students who attended the American Dietetic Association (ADA) meeting this year will be presenting some insightful information on Monday, November 9th @ 12:15 p.m. in the Foods Lab. During this presentation most of the students will talk about the great experiences they were able to participate in while at the conference. This should be very beneficial to all who attend. Please come and listen. The conference next year will be in Boston, MA and this may influence your decision to attend that conference as well.

Fundraisers:

Coupon Book sales are still available to sell. Feel free to contact Krista or any other club officer if you would like more details. $1 from each sale will be donated to the Idaho Food Bank in order to help fund their Backpack Program.

Canned Food Drive to raise support for the local Idaho Food Bank

As part of the Dietetics Club is heading back to Pocatello from their weekend trip to Denver, others in the group are preparing for a canned food drive to help raise support for the local Idaho Food Bank.

We will be collecting canned food items during the week of October 26-30th, 2009. Donations can be brought into the Health & Nutrition Sciences office located in the basement of Reed Gymnasium. We will also be combining with Phi U on the night of Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 during the Bengal Boo-tacular Carnival at the Pond Student Union Building starting at 6 p.m--canned food items can also be dropped off there. If any of these two places do not make for an easy donation, feel free to post a message on this blog or send an email to: Idaho.State.Dietetics.Club@gmail.com and we will reply as soon as we can to help make your desire to donate go smoothly.

There will be a raffle drawing which will include the book, The Food You Crave, by Ellie Krieger, the hostess of the Food Network's television show Healthy Appetite. Many other great prizes will be raffled so please lend a hand. One raffle ticket will be given for every five cans. We will also be collecting toiletries as well for the Food Bank cannot purchase these.

Thanks for deciding to support our cause. We hope to see you soon! Thanks again and have a great Halloween!

ADA 2009 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo

Many club members headed to Denver, Colorado earlier today for the American Dietetic Association's 2009 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo. They should have plenty of great information to share with the rest of the club members who were not able to attend this year. If all goes as planned, they should arrive back in Pocatello this coming Tuesday, October 20th.

More details will be posted following their return.