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Creating and Cultivating Bookworms

Monday Morning

There were 11 members plus one guest at our Monday meeting.   Marianne Geiger was our speaker. Dan was our greeter. Gary had the grace. Steve had the humor. No happy bucks, it was snowy outside. Bonnie was a winner and non- winner. She drew the ace of clubs. We still have 29 cards, 5 winners and a pot of $300.00.    Side note – Del is at home and loves visitors. He will have leg surgery on March 17th. West Bend German night is March 28th.    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.

Marianne Geiger, Wisconsin Bookworms

Recipe for a “Love of Reading”. Mix : 170 students from ages 3 to 5, give them 8 new books free per year, 20 volunteer readers. This reading program is a collaboration of: Fond du Lac County Association for Home and Community Education (HCE), UW Cooperative Extension Family Living Programs, and Wisconsin Public Television. In addition they get a tote bag fort their eight books. We donated one book for the program. Our book was Puddle Pug by Kim Norman. In case, you want to buy for your library. The 170 students are from “Head Start” in Fond du Lac and Early Childhood Class in Ripon. The readers also plan a craft activity in conjunction with the book read. In their seventeen years of reading, they have helped 2,615 children with 22, 000 books. If you wish to read or donate, contact Marianne at 948-9431.

United to Help

Monday Morning

There were 14 members at our Monday meeting plus one guest, Amber Kilawee. Amber was our guest speaker.  John and Bonnie were our greeters. Glen had grace. Harry had the humor. Happy bucks came from Bonnie, Sharon, Jim and Dan. Jim won again and drew the queen of diamonds, no winner.  We have 40cards, 6 winners and a pot of $150.00. 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 Dawn 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.

Amber Kilawee, United Way

Amber Kilawee Director of the Fond du Lac United Way was our program on Monday. The fund Raising Committee presented a check for $800.00 from proceeds of Fondue Fest. United Way funded over $570,000 last year. There are twenty six different agencies from Habitat to Astop. In between, there is Senior Center, Girl Scouts, YMCA and Catholic Charities to name a few. Almost 30,000 individuals are served by United Way agencies. Harry’s check presentation photo and a link to their video (Fred) are on our Facebook. For more information or to donate go to fdlunitedway.org

How to Defeat Cancer

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Monday Morning

We had 17 members and our guest speaker, Katie McCormick from the American Cancer Society.  “Happy Bucks” were offered up by Charlene Pettit for a weekend trip back to Iowa for a wedding and family get together but a rainy drive home and also by Steve Millin for not only his and Mary’s wedding anniversary but also in celebration of his in-laws 68 year wedding anniversary celebration over the past weekend.  John Cooper was the 50/50 Raffle drawing winner on Monday but he drew a non-winning Seven of Spades.  Next week’s drawing will have 34 cards with six pay cards and a pot of at least $224.

Katie McCormick, American Cancer Society

John Cooper introduced Katie McCormick, our local representative for the American Cancer Society (ACS) and also the local Relay for Life ACS Coordinator.  John & Charlene presented Katie with a check from our efforts at last year’s Relay for Life Brat Fry.

Katie then talked about the history of the local Relay for Life.  The local Relay started 30 years ago in 1985 and raised only $19,500.  Last year’s Relay raised over $210,000, even with the ugly weather they had, and over the past 30 years they’ve raised over $5.7M.  ACS estimates that over 400 lives a day are saved as a result of the funds raised by the various Relay for Life events held around the county.  Katie also noted that ACS gets 70 cents of every $1 raised back into patient related programs, many of which our local citizens are able to take advantage of right in our local community.