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Upcoming Kiwanis Events

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We have several events coming up over the next several months as you look at your upcoming calendars.

  • Fond du Fest – Today in Downtown Fond du Lac.  We take a scaled down version of our cheese curd operation to the street in front of National Exchange Bank with the hopes of selling anywhere from 250 – 500 pounds of cheese curds. The weather is forecast to be beautiful, so come out and support the Kiwanis.
  • 38th Annual Pork Fest – Thursday, September 25th at the KC Hall.  Tickets available online
  • A confirmed date of October 8th has been set for our Annual Installation Banquet.  Get the date on your calendar.  Cocktails will be at 5:30PM with dinner at 6:30PM and the installation program to follow.  The cost per person will be $20.  The menu selections should be out next week.
  • The Club Satellite’s first annual Pink Pumpkin Run/Walk is set for October 18th at 10:00AM.  This is a collaborative project between students at MPTC and our Club Satellite and Host Club Members.  Proceeds from this event will be going to women battling with breast cancer by sponsoring them to attend a four day retreat through Bcrecovery.org.

 

 

Boy’s & Girl’s Club Updates

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Monday Morning

We had 19 members along with our guest speakers, Karissa Schneider and Pam Sippel from the Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac.  A “Happy Buck” was offered by Sharon Kollman for being back from Florida and 80 degree weather.  President Dave reminded everyone that the Evening Kiwanis Club Annual Spaghetti Dinner is this week, Wednesday, November 13th, at the Eagle’s Club.  If you attend let Glen Treml know and you’ll get an attendance credit as this will probably qualify as an InterClub.  Chris Serres was the winner of the 50/50 Raffle drawing and she drew a Three of Diamonds, not a winner.  Next week’s game will have 44 cards with eight pay cards and a pot of at least $101.

 Boy’s and Girl’s Club of Fond du Lac

Karissa Schneider, Director of Operations, and Pam Sippel, Johnsonville Unit Director, at our local Boys & Girls Clubjoined us on Monday to talk about what’s new at the Boys & Girls Club.  Karissa started by outlining their mission; The Mission of the Boys & Girls Club is dedicated to empowering all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens through academic, social and emotional support.  Karissa also told us that there are no income restrictions on membership in the Boys & Girls Club so anyone can join and participate.

Pam talked about their three After School Programs at the Johnsonville After School Clubhouse with satellite After School programs at Pier and Chegwin Elementary Schools.  Transportation is provided on regular school days to the various after school programs.  Homework help and enrichment programs are offered on a nightly basis at all of the sites.  Enrichment programming at the Johnsonville Club may include access to YMCA facilities like the dance studios, swimming pools and/or gymnasiums.  A nutritious meal is offered to all members each night at no cost.

There is also a Summer Program that runs out of the Johnsonville Club location that runs for a ten week period from 9:00AM – 5:00PM.  There is also a Teen Center program that operates out of the Johnsonville Club location during the school year in the evening for 6th through 12th graders.

United Singers of Fond du Lac Receive Check from Kiwanis

Monday Morning
We had 15 members and eight guests at our Monday morning meeting at the Retlaw Plaza Hotel. Joining us were our guest speakers, Kris Shoemaker, Terry Shoemaker, Diane Fricken and Adam Holz as well FDL High School Key Clubbers Megan Buechel, Joshua Gutzman and Kevin Ditter and Evening Club Member Brian Olson. Brian was selling Spaghetti Dinner tickets as well as the Evening Club’s Big Money Raffle tickets. Adult dinner tickets are $8 and Children are $4.00. The event is moving this year to the Eagles Club vs. the KC Hall. “Happy Bucks” were offered by Bob Kahl ($2) for the nice press we got for the photo op of our donation to the Fruth Field project, Harry Schneider for his wedding anniversary and Steve Millin for being late and forgetting to greet and do the invocation. Chris Serres was the 50/50 Raffle winner and she drew the King of Clubs, another non-winner. That leaves 47 cards with eight pay cards for our next drawing in two weeks. The new pot for our next drawing will be at least $59.

United Singers of Fond du Lac
Former member Kris Shoemaker was the main speaker and she introduced her entourage of folks associated with the United Singers of Fond du Lac. This choral group started in 1994 at Brooke Industries and was affiliated with VSA of Wisconsin until this past year. They are now an independent group that is establishing themselves as a 501(c)(3) so they can receive tax deductible donations to help support this effort. United Singers of Fond du Lac currently has 42 members and is the largest such choir in the State. Adam is a current member of the choir, and also a Kiwanis Aktion Club Member and he gave a brief talk about why he loves being in the choir. He’s been in the choir for about five years and loves performing and practicing. The United Singers practice on Tuesday nights at the Church of Peace from 5:30 – 6:30PM. Anyone is welcome to come and watch the choir practice if you’d like. Our Club made a check presentation of $200 to the United Singers of Fond du Lac at Monday’s meeting.