Dinosaur Park Party, Friday, Sept. 11, 6pm

Ogden/Weber UniServ is sponsoring our annual Dinosaur Park Party for all of our OEA/WEA members and familiy. We will be sending out flyers to bring for free entry to the park and dinner. Horace Mann (Chris Guymon) is one of our major partners and we ask that you fill out the information card at the bottom of the flyer and bring it to the party.

We value your membership and the party is a way of saying thanks for your support.

Rick

Dinosaur Park Party, Friday, Sept. 11, 6pm

UEA Transformation Survey: Go to www.utea.org

We would like all UEA members to take the Transformation Survey (I am on the Transformation Team to look at improving UEA). You can go to www.utea.org and click on the Tranformation logo. It only takes a couple of minutes to complete the survey. It runs until Sept. 12.

Thanks Welcome back to school. Rick

Lincoln Receives 100% Membership Award

OEA President Doug Stephens presented Lincoln Elementary with their 100% membership certificate for last year. We congratulated their faculty and AR, Max Ferguson, for the fine work. We spoke to a couple of the new teachers and expect them to join and maintain the fine history at Lincoln. In WEA and OEA we have some strong membership schools. We value the hard work of our leaders and building reps to sign up new members. Weber hired around 100 and Ogden over 80 this year. It is with your help that we can maintain our strong association membership. Thanks Rick

Valley Elementary and North Ogden Elementary Dedications

Valley Elementary held their open house and dedication Wednesday night. It is located in Eden. North Ogden will hold their open house and dedication tonight.

OEA President Doug Stephens welcomed the OEA Building Reps to their first meeting of the year. He introduced himself and his new Vice-President, Lisa Vipperman. Terie Maxfield, our new UEA Board Member (replacing Mary Courney) spoke to the group. Lisa gave the AR's a handbook on working through problems at their schools. We will give short mini-lessons on advocacy each month. I explained the membership materials and gave the reps flyers for our Dinosaur Park Party planned for Friday, Sept. 11 at 6:00 at Eccles Dinosaur Park. We hope to see all of you there. Just fill out the Horace Mann Card at the bottom of the flyer and bring it for entrance to the park for you and your family. Horace Mann is a major sponsor of the event.

See you there. Rick

Double Dippers Getting Heat From State Governments

Tuesday's USA Today offered the debate over "double dipping". In the opinion section the two headlines read, "Public Sector 'retirees' draw a Pension- and a Paycheck" with the opposing viewpoint entitled, "Return-to-work is win-win".

Many states (including Utah, according to yesterday's Trib article) are looking at the ability of public sector workers, police, teachers and others, retiring at an earlier age (50-55) and going back to work, receiving their full state retirement and a full pay check. In Utah we have the restriction of six months before going back full-time. Many of our teacher retirees come back half-time and then move into full-time after the six months is up.

The teacher shortage has influenced the discussion about eliminating the six month restriction. Stay tuned for this debate to light up, especially in these tough economic times.

Rick

Go to www.ogdenweber.org for more information on the Horace Mann WIN$WIN Sweepstakes

Go to www.ogdenweber.org to get more information on the Horace Mann $10,000 WIN$WIN Sweepstakes.