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Food for Freedom Set to Begin

Food for Freedom Logo
Monday Morning
We had a smaller group of 15 members and our guest speaker, Danny Loomans, at Monday’s meeting. “Happy Bucks” were offered by John Copper and Dave Lefeber for their upcoming vacations to Florida, Sharon Kollman for her granddaughter’s fifth place finish at the Green Lake fisheree and Pete Vercouteren for his and Barb’s not getting injured in a traffic accident on slippery roads last Friday night. Gary Miller was able to get five volunteers for an InterClub to the Noon Club for Tuesday. Marlin circulated a Get Well card for members to sign to encourage Ron Seidl to get better soon so he can get back to our Monday meetings. Dan Leeds announced that Trinity Baptist School was sponsoring a “Souped-Up” fundraiser on Thursday night at the Trinity Baptist School gym from 4:00-7:00pm. Carryouts are available. Dave Lefeber was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he was ready to win the big one for his vacation. Unfortunately for Dave he drew the Six of Hearts, not the winner he was hoping for. Next Monday’s game will have 33 cards, eight pay cards and a pot of at least $242.

Danny Loomans – Food for Freedom
Danny Loomans is a 16-year-old junior at Fond du Lac High School who is the driving force behind the Food For Freedom effort. The goals for the Food for Freedom effort are as follows:

  1. To provide Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Winnebago, Outagamie, and Brown counties with substantial amounts of food to feed thousands of people who are less fortunate in our communities.
  2. To be a leading effort in large food drives or other charitable events around our communities, our state, and our nation.
  3. To give the citizens of our communities emotions of excitement, accomplishment, success, fun and purpose.

The obvious question is how can we help?

  • Option 1: Donate Funds
  • Option 2: Organize a Food Drive at your Organization or place of business
  • Option 3: Be on a Board Subcommittee
  • Option 4: Volunteer During the Event
  • Option 5: Spread the Word About this Wonderful Event!

The event will be held on Saturday, May 25th starting at 1:00pm until Sunday, May 26th, ending at 1:00pm. During this 24 hour period it is hoped that over 560,000 pounds of food will be collected, sorted and loaded into semis for delivery to food pantries in the five county area. It is expected that over 1,000 volunteers will help with this herculean effort to not only break a Guinness World Record but also provide much needed food supplies for local food pantries that can in turn help those less fortunate than ourselves. If anyone can get it done, it will be Danny. What a fine, ambitious young man.

St Vincent DePaul and Food for Freedom Bring Kiwanis Update


Monday Morning
We had 19 members and eight guests who joined us for an early breakfast on Monday morning. Our guests were four Fondy High Key Clubbers, Katie Bucher, Luckie Cha, Emily Nett and Bridget Stollfus, our guest speaker, Danny Loomans and his dad, Mitch Loomans, and our District Governor Elect Lynn Messer along with current Lt. Gov. Tonya Alling. Gary Ring announced again that there is a District Brewer Game Outing on September 16th if anyone is interested. Gary Miller is looking for volunteers for an InterClub to the FDL Noon Club on August 14th to help celebrate their 95th anniversary. More details next week. “Happy Bucks” were offered by Pete Vercouteren for the end of a successful EAA last week and Lt. Gov. Tonya Alling for our Club being a model Club plus Gov. Elect Lynn Messer’s upcoming term. Gary Miller has an “Honor Buck” for his wife that he’ll present the next time she gets to one of our meetings. Marlin Towne won the 50/50 Raffle drawing (second week in a row), and he drew the Nine of Hearts. Again, that wasn’t a winner but it took one more card out of the deck. Next week’s drawing will only have 34 cards in the deck with seven pay cards and a pot of over $440.

Danny Loomans, Food for Freedom – July 30
Danny Loomans joined us on Monday morning to tell us about a project he’s undertaking to try and break a Guinness Book of World Record plus supply a lot food for our local food pantries. Danny has taken on the task of collecting over 600,000 lbs. of food in a 24 hour period. Danny has set the dates of May 25, 2013 through May 26, 2013 for this huge undertaking. As Danny explained the size of this endeavor the work that needs to be done was overwhelming. The Sponsorship/Volunteer Proposal lays out the process that Danny is going to follow as he embarks on putting this project together. Our Club will be discussing anything we can do to help with Danny’s monumental undertaking as well as encourage our Key Clubs to also consider if they might be able to help in this record breaking attempt. Check out Danny’s website for more details and progress on the event.

Carol Braun, St. Vincent DePaul – July 23
Carol Braun joined us on Monday morning to bring us up to date on St. Vincent de Paul’s move into their new store on North Peters Avenue. In August of 2011 it was announced that the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Fond du Lac had agreed to purchase the old Copp’s Grocery store for their new Thrift Store. The transaction closed in late September 2011 and the effort to remodel and move into their new location began in earnest. Over 200 volunteers put in over 400 hours of time to get the store ready for their March 2012 opening. A major funding source for the Fond du Lac St. Vincent de Paul Society is the St. Vincent de Paul Store. The thrift store accepts community donations of quality used clothing, household goods, and furniture and sells them at greatly reduced prices. It provides items at no cost to people in times of crisis. The profits from the store provide about half of the Society’s funds for financial assistance to the poor. Additional funds come from money given directly to the Society through its annual fund raising appeal, estates, grants and other gifts. As a totally volunteer Society, administrative costs are minimal, and 93% of the money raised goes to serve the needy in Fond du Lac County.