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Best Place to Get in Touch with Nature

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Monday Morning

There were 19 members at our Monday meeting plus one guest. Our guest speaker was Tracy McDermott.  Happy bucks came from no one. Everyone was unhappy.  Special thanks to our greeters, Marlin and Chris. Dan handled the invocation and our guest speaker, Tracy did the humor. For the second week in a row, we have a Dr. Waffle Award winner. John was the ticket winner. He drew the eight of clubs for no money. Next Monday’s 50/50 Raffle will have 42 cards in the game including the six pay cards with a pot of about $105.

Tracy McDermott, Gottfried Prairie & Arboretum

Tracy is the executive director of Gottfried Prairie and Arboretum. It is a non-profit entity with no funding from either UW Campus or Fond du Lac County. The project began in 1990 when a group of student and staff approached Dean Bradley Gottfried with an idea to establish a prairie on campus. The majority of land surrounding the campus was open lawn. In 1992, the first 20 acres of native grasses and wildflowers were planted by volunteers. Since then, the prairie has grown to an additional 22 acres. It includes a formal arboretum; interpretive hiking trails a bike trail, a shelter, two native display gardens and a wildlife pool. All projects have been funded with private donations and grants. They have added 4.5 acres representing eight types of Wisconsin forest communities. At one time, most of Fond du Lac County was covered by prairie – native grasslands that were home to bison, prairie chickens, bobolinks and other wildlife. Arboretum is named for Bradley Gottfried, former dean of UW Fond du Lac and a major force behind the project. The arboretum is a public park that is open to the public. The luminary holiday walk is Sunday December 13 from 4:30 to7:30 pm. The annual snowshoe hike is the 3rd week of January. For more information go to their web page.

The Next Ryan Braun Could Play Here

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Monday Morning

There were 19 members at our Monday meeting plus two guests. Our guest speaker, was Dr. Ryan Haus. In addition, Tonya Feucht, our newest member from MPTC Satellite Club joined us for breakfast. Happy bucks came from Sharon for tonya being our newest member. Pete added two bucks, one for Tonya and one for Sharon bringing Tonya in. Special thanks to our greeter, Dawn and Mark for invocation. Vickie handled the humor for the day. She does qualify  for the Dr. Waffle award. Chris  was the ticket winner. She drew the ten for diamonds for $10.00. Next Monday’s 50/50 Raffle will have 43 cards in the game including the six pay cards with a pot of about $95.

Dr. Ryan Haus, Fond du Lac Youth Baseball

Ryan is working to build two new diamonds at Lakeside Park. They will be built in phases with the lights being the final stage. The project has been delayed because of the dispute between the Fond du Lac School Board and the Boys Baseball. They hope to break ground in 2016 and play ball in 2017. History, two boards were formed in 1984. One was to develop the fields and the second one to run the daily baseball games.  A new nonprofit was developed to run boys baseball and add new fields. We have committed $5,000 to the news fields. No money has been spent on the new fields. The two fields on Fourth Street have not been used in the past year. They are owned by the old Baseball Inc. The new nonprofit would like to rent the fields for 2016.

You Can’t Keep These Folks Down!

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Monday Morning

There were 21 members at our Monday meeting plus one guest. Our guest speaker,  was Cathy Loomanns.  Happy bucks came from Vickie for her mom’s 87th birthday. Dan handled both the invocation and humor for the day. Steve Millin was our greeter. Thanks to everyone. Bonnie had thanks to Donna Freund, John Cooper, Pete Vercouteren, Dave Twohig, Lisa and herself for working the Salvation Army coat distribution on Saturday. John was the ticket winner. He drew the five of hearts, five dollar winner. Next Monday’s 50/50 Raffle will have 44 cards in the game including the seven pay cards with a pot of about $100.  

Cathy Loomans, Fond du Lac Senior Center

Cathy has been the director for almost one year. The Senior Center is owned by the City of Fond du Lac and three of its employees are city employees. The balance of employees is part of the Friends of the Senior Center. Like all friends groups they support the senior Center with additional employees and fund raising. You are not required to join the Friends to attend the Senior Center. In additional to fund raising, the Friends run the Travel Program and the gift Shop. The Senior Center has a senior outreach program. It is sponsored by United Way. The Out Reach has four different programs to serve their senior clients. They serves about 1000 visitors per week at the Senior Center.  To learn more about the Senior Center, call Cathy for a tour. In addition, by joining the Friends, you will receive a monthly newsletter. Finally, if you buy their restaurant coupon book, you support the Friends and save on dining out.