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Make This Summer a Summer to Remember

Monday Morning

There were 15 members and two guests present at the Monday meeting. Valerie Graczyk was the guest and speaker. Rachel Helland was the guest of Mark Luttenberger. Jackie did the grace. Gary Miller and Steve Millin were our greeters. Charlene did humor for the day. Chris Serres reminded all newer members that if you didn’t get your free Kiwanis shirt to contact her. Happy dollars, Pete was happy because he is leaving for Florida. Dawn is happy for her new job.  Glen is happy for their 9th grandchild. So they are able to return to Florida. John was happy for his granddaughter’s birthdays. Glen was winner and loser. He picked the two of Hearts. There are 42 cards left with a pot of $140.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.  

Summer of Fun, Valerie Graczyk

Valerie wants to create a Summer of Fun for children who live below the property level and live in low income housing. She wants to break down barriers preventing them from participating in opportunities offered by the Recreation department, YMCA, Public Library and UW-FDL Continuing Education. In addition, we need to stop children from going hungry during the months of July and August. Some of the ideas needed for Summer of Fun are: Transportation to Learn to Swim, Financial means to pay for College for Kids, bikes for exercise during the summer, help to register kids for new events, transportation to the pool, and transportation to Buttermilk concerts. How can we help with Summer of Fun? Val needs financial support for busing. Funds are needed for snacks at planned events. Volunteers are for both activities and the reading programs.

Beautiful Singing, Beautiful People, Beautiful Christmas

Monday Morning

There were 28 members and guests present at the Christmas Family Breakfast. In addition, we had Corey Schneider and 26 members of the Fondy Cardinal Singers. Dan did the grace. Betsy, Charlene and Harry were our greeters. Everyone was happy to be here for breakfast. John was winner and loser. He picked the Ace of Clubs. There are 49 cards left with a pot of $40.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.

Cardinal Singers, Corey Schneider

The Cardinal Singers lead by Corey Schneider performed for us at our Annual Christmas Breakfast. The Cardinal Singers are a co-curricular SATB chamber ensemble of juniors and seniors. Students must audition to be part of the ensemble. They meet and practice outside of school time. They practice 6 – 7:30 PM on Monday and 7 – 7:45 AM on Thursday. They do thirty concerts each year. In addition they participate in solo and ensemble. And they do a chamber concert on May 5th at the PAC. The Singers also travel the Midwest on tour every other year.

Are You Up for a Challenge?

Monday Morning

There were 14 members and four guests. Our guests were Alex Berg, Scott Rodman, Ben Giles, and Vicente Morales. Charlene did the grace. Mark and Dan were our greeters. Harry had humor. Happy bucks, Gary and Pete had dollars for the great concert. John had a happy buck for getting candy from Steve in the parade. Dave and Pete presented a check for $500 to Alex Berg for Drug Free Communities. Bell ringing signup for December 3rd is started, thanks for all who rang bells Monday night. Remember you can ring more than once during the month of December. Pete was winner and loser. He picked the King of Hearts. There are 51 cards left with a pot of $10.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.

Challenge Day, Scott Rodman

Challenge Day at Fond du Lac High was held Nov. 26th & 28th. They had 92 students the first day and 108 the second day.  Scott is the local coordinator. He was on the committee in 2009, 2010 and 2017. Both Vicente and Ben were participants as freshman in those programs and volunteers the last two years.   Challenge Day is an inter-active Anti Bulling Workshop to break down the walls of separation, isolation and loneliness that young people experience and to create an ambiance encouraging honest communication about issues that divide them. The first Challenge Day was held in Livermore California in 1987. The founders were our facilitators this year. Challenge Day was held in the small gymnasium of the high school. They were be led by these two highly trained facilitators from the California. They host hundred students and thirty adult volunteers per session.