Author Archives: Kiwanis

Where Would You Like to Go Someday?

Monday Morning

There were 14 members plus two guests at our Monday meeting.  They were Wayne and Val Graczyk. Glen was our greeter. John had grace. Steve and Charlene shared the humor.  Happy bucks came from Gary, Charlene and Val. Gary was the winner and non-winner. He drew the nine of diamonds. We have 25 cards and a pot of $350.00.  Special committee is looking for members – see Dawn.  Bonnie announced that we are serving lunch for Habitat on May 6th and May 18th. We are landscaping for Habitat on July 18th.  Side note – Del is at home and loves visitors.  Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, like our page.  We have a projector for our speakers; please contact John if you need it. Speaking of programs for the future, get information to Jackie or myself. Member names are being added under Programs for your future dates.

Wayne and Val Graczyk, Someday Travel

Val and Wayne Graczyk have owned Someday Travel since 2010. They plan and take two tours a year. Groups are limited to twenty five persons. They did bring a lot of interesting facts from their travels. City of Athens allows loose dogs. The first Olympics came from Greece. Delphi is the center of earth. Jackie Kennedy started Capri pants. Monto Carlo has to bring in sand for their beaches. 26% of the Netherlands is reclaimed land. Venice is 118 islands. Finally, we learned the true meaning of upper crust and cold shoulder. Upcoming trips are Northern Italy May 16th 2017. Bavaria/Switzerland  is September 6th 2017. In 2018,  they are going to Greece, Athens and Santorini. The final trip of 2018 is the Seine River Cruise.

Incredible Teens Aim to Make a Difference

Monday Morning

There were 15 members at our Monday meeting.  Key Clubbers were our greeters.   Special committee is looking for members – see Dawn.  Bonnie announced that we are serving lunch for Habitat on May 6th and May 18th. We are landscaping for Habitat on July 18th.  Side note – Del is at home and loves visitors.  Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, like our page.  We have a projector for our speakers; please contact John if you need it. Speaking of programs for the future, get information to Jackie or myself. Member names are being added under Programs for your future dates.

Fondy High Key Club

We were served a great breakfast by members of the Key Club. Sydney Loomans, Present President, introduced the news officers. They are: Co-presidents are Rachel Hays and Anistyn Dreifeurst. Vice President is Ashley Waldvogel. Secretaries are Emma Guelig, Hannah Joslin and Kassie Ellingson. Treasurer is Eliz Ziegler. Class directors are Abe and Ben Stoffel-Murray. They have 60 active members. During the year, they had 16 regular meetings. They send two members to Key Leader and two to DCON. They raised $500 for the penny wars. Half was give ti UNICEF and half to March of Dimes. They adopted  two families for Thanksgiving and Christmas. At their regular meetings, they had four outside speakers. They purchased 1,400 books for Reading Mothers Program at the hospital. One hundred students attended Youth Service Day.  Special thanks to Gary, Chris and Manny for all their hard work with the Key Club.

The Best Way to Improve the Workforce

Monday Morning

There were 15 members plus three guests at our Monday meeting.   Melissa Worthington, Lisa McArthur and Bernadette Seefeld were our speakers. Marlin and Chris were our greeters.  Charlene had the humor. Mark, John and John had happy bucks. Harry had the grace. Gary Ring is selling raffle tickets for Grief Relief. Special committee is looking for members – see Dawn.  Bonnie announced that we are serving lunch for Habitat on May 6th and May 18th. We are landscaping for Habitat on July 18th. Bonnie drew the four of diamonds. We still have 26 cards and a pot $325.00. Side note – Del is at home and loves visitors.  Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, like our page.  We have a projector for our speakers; please contact John if you need it. Speaking of programs for the future, get information to Jackie or myself. Member names are being added under Programs for your future dates.

Melissa Worthington, Lisa McArthur, and Bernadette Seefeld, Fond du Lac Works

Melissa, Lisa and Bernadette all work for the Fond du Lac Association of Commerce. They talked about different programs at the Association. They range from Fond du Lac works, which is working on the skilled shortage. Other programs are Lemonade Day, Career Academy, Youth Apprenticeship, Project Grill and many more. The ideas are mainly to help replace the retiring boomers in the work force.