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Kiwanis Happenings – May 17, 2012

Here’s a recap of the last two weeks:

Monday Morning
We had 17 members make the trip out to North Fond du Lac Horace Mann High School on Monday morning to visit the Key Club. The Key Club had a great turnout of members who greeted us and directed us to the library/media center where we had our meeting. Jean Hintze, Key Club Advisor, and the Key Clubbers had a great breakfast of bagels, fruit, breakfast breads, juice, and coffee for our Club and their members. No one should have gone away hungry. Gary Miller announced an InterClub to West Bend Morning for Thursday morning for anyone that could make it.

Horace Mann High School Key Club-May 14
Jean Hintze welcomed our Club to Horace Mann High School and introduced the Key Club Officers. Kaylee Lyonns began by talking about the various fund raisers that the Key Club did during the past year. They raised $607.50 from seven fund raisers with a Spring Donut Sale yet to be held. Next, Stephanie Schmitz talked about events where money was raised but then turned over the charity that was involved with the event. The Key Club raised $1,810 and then donated that money to the seven charities that were either running the fundraiser or were designated as the recipient of the fund raiser proceeds. The largest recipient in this category was the Polar Plunge that generated $1,145 for Special Olympics. Last, but surely not least, was Andee Ball who talked about all of the volunteer hours put in by the Horace Mann Key Clubbers. A handout was provided that listed all of the volunteer hours by month by activity. The Key Club put in 2,057.5 hours through April of this year with May still to be counted. An interesting fact about these hours is that 319 of those hours were done during the summer when the Key Clubbers weren’t even in school. What a great example of giving back to their communities by this great group of young adults. A large reason for the resurgence of the Horace Mann Key Club is the great leadership provided by Jean Hintze as Advisor with the help of Co-Advisors Dan Hively and Jim Sandstrom. Thank you for your great guidance and congratulations on a great Key Club year.

Evab Schwalbe, Broken Bread-May 7
Evan Schwalbe joined us to talk about Broken Bread. The mission of Broken Bread is to feed the hungry, purchasing and rescuing surplus food and distributing it to those who are in need. Broken Bread began as an outreach ministry of St. Paul’s Cathedral on January 31, 1991. Following the mandate of Christ to feed the hungry, Broken Bread is an ecumenical, community-supported program dedicated to relieving the needs of the poor and hungry. Broken Bread food program serves approximately 150 families, or about 600 individuals every week. Dozens of volunteers representing a variety of churches and organizations devote hundreds of hours collecting, sorting and distributing hundreds of pounds of surplus food. Broken Bread has no paid staff and could not function without the hard work and educations of its many volunteers. It has been estimated that 20% of all food produced in this country is wasted every day because it cannot be sold. Broken Bread Food Program works in cooperation with area businesses, bakeries, supermarkets and restaurants to utilize food that otherwise would go to waste. By redistributing this “rescued” food, Broken Bread helps both the poor and local businesses. “Rescued” food enables the poor to purchase items at local stores they otherwise would be unable to purchase. “Rescued” food helps local businesses by relieving them of unnecessary disposal costs and allowing them to project a positive image in the community.
The success of Broken Bread depends on the cooperation of everyone concerned.

Kiwanis Happenings – November 10

sorry we missed this post last week; please read the report on both of the past two meetings included in this post.

Monday Morning
We had 19 members and four guests at Monday’s meeting. Joining us as guests were Joan Seidl and Lois Towne along with our guest speakers Bob and Marie Wondra. Mark Luttenberger started circulating the sign-up sheets for our first Salva-tion Army Bell Ringing date of November 29th. “Happy Bucks” were offered by Bob Kahl, to celebrate Deanna’s last visit to the cancer center in Milwaukee, and also by Gary Miller celebrating the halfway point in his shoulder surgery recuperation. Mar-lin Towne was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the ten of spades, a $10 winner. Great Job Marlin. There’s still plenty of money left in the Raffle for next week.

Key Leader Program – October 31 Meeting
Six of our Key Clubbers (five from Fond du Lac High School Key Club and one from North Fond du Lac Horace Mann Key Club) attended a Kiwanis Key Leader Program on September 23-25th at Camp Wawbeek in Wisconsin Dells. Those six Key Clubbers joined us on Monday morning and gave us a summary of what they did and what they thought of the Key Leader Program. These six young adults showed us their agenda booklets, worksheets and other materials that they received at their weekend program. According to one of the speakers the Key Leader program went from about 8:00AM to midnight. When they arrived at Camp Wawbeek they were all introduced to one another, had dinner and then were divided into neighborhood groups. The five main points stressed in the Key Leader Program are: service leadership, integrity, growth, respect and community and pursuit of excellence. While they did a lot of classroom type work they also had the opportunity to develop teamwork and trust by participating in a ropes course at Camp Wawbeek. All six of the Key Clubbers found the Key Leader Program to be beneficial and thanked us for providing them the opportunity to attend. From a District perspective, the Key Leader Program is current Governor Fred Dietze’s Governor’s Project for the current year. Governor Fred is strongly encouraging District Kiwanis Clubs to sponsor a student(s) from either a Key Club or a Circle K Club to provide these future leaders with this valuable leadership experience.

Bob Wondra’s Return to Vietnam – November 7 Meeting
Bob Wondra along with his wife, Marie, joined us on Monday morning to tell us about a recent trip they made back to Vietnam, 42 years after Bob was wounded in the Vietnam War. Bob brought a video of their trip in October 2010 that he played while he and Marie talked about their trip back to Vietnam. While Marie admitted that she didn’t really want to go on this trip she knew that Bob really wanted her to go. And from how she talked about what she saw, it sounded like she was really glad she did go. It took Bob and Marie three days to actually get to Vietnam with only four hours of sleep during the trip. The group of 16 travelers, all from Wisconsin, landed in Hanoi, which was the last place that Bob thought he’d ever visit. While in Hanoi, the group was able to see remnants of the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” along with a small museum at the site. Bob and Marie shared a number of facts about Vietnam that were most interesting; such as they have over 27 million motorcycles in the country, people don’t walk there, they motorcycle, the average monthly family income is about $2,000, which provides for a very comfortable living and even though they are a communistic country their citizens have a great deal of freedom to own property, businesses and practice their own religion. One final interesting factoid was that the country has only one casino and it can only be used by foreign tourists. Thanks Marlin for arranging this very interesting program.

FDL Library Express Opening
Congratulations to the FDL Public Library which is opening its new express location in Johnson Crossing Shopping Center next Thursday. Be sure to support the Fond du Lac Public Library by making use of this convenient resource.