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Helping Those Who Need it Most

Monday Morning

There were 14 members and one guest at Monday’s meeting. Mike Bonertz was our guest. Harry and Chris were our greeters. John did the grace. Steve had any humor. Bonnie and John had happy bucks. We will have final figures by the Pork Fest wrap up meeting, Oct. 25th 6:45 Faros. Start your Christmas List, Harry will have the popcorn sheets on Monday. Rewards winners, get your CHARITY to Harry.  Jackie received her plaque for going President. Chris Serres had received her plaque for “Kiwanian of the Year”. Gary Miller was winner and loser. He drew four of clubs. There are 47 cards left with a pot of $45.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.

ADVOCAP, Mike Bonertz

Advocap is a private corporation formed in 1964. They are Community Corporation serving Green Lake, Winnebago and Fond du Lac County. Board is made up of 1/3 government member, 1/3 community leaders, and 1/3 lower income individuals. Some of programs that they offer: Home Energy Conservation, Weatherization and Furnace Program. They provide Affordable Housing and Home Rehabilitation. As part of these programs, they train future carpenters. Their Businesses Development services help low to moderate income individuals become self-sufficient through self-employment. Winnebago County offers a Senior Nutrition Program. They offer Head Start for low income families and children.

A Newsletter You Can’t Live Without

Monday Morning

There were 18 members and one guest, Michelle Tidemann at Monday’s meeting. Mark and Gary Miller were our greeters. Dan did the grace. Charlene had any humor. Charlene had happy buck to help Iowa win. John had one for the new location. Gary Miller had on for a record raffle total. Pete had on for a great mission and vacation. . Bonnie has the signup sheet for Salvation Army coat distribution on October 20th. Harry and Marlin reminded everyone to turn in your ticket money. Marlin and Harry are working on the numbers for Pork Fest. Most details should be available by the board meeting. Dan was winner and winner. He drew five diamonds for $5.00.There are 49 cards left with a pot of $25.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.

Michelle Tidemann, Just In Time Parenting

Michelle received a $750 check from Dan and Pete for our annual contribution to the Just in Time Parenting newsletter. We have been donating for the last twenty five years. Our donation this year is down from $2,000 to $750.00. The cost is down because the newsletters have gone digital. The newsletter started out to infants for their first three years. Now, they receive the newsletter for five years. We now have parent’s receiving newsletter that received them as infants. All six Kiwanis Clubs in the county contribute to the newsletter. Our newsletter is the largest in the state. They are working to get the newsletters to foster parents and adoption services.

Real Heroes Making a Difference in FdL

Monday Morning

There were 11 members and one guest, Peter O’Leary at Monday’s meeting. Mark and Jan were our greeters. Jim did the grace. Charlene had the humor. Happy bucks from Bonnie for the bike trail clean up. Harry was happy to attend his 50th class reunion. Gary Miller was happy to attend his 60th class reunion. Donna is still looking for two people for the Scrabble Bee on October 2nd. Harry and Marlin reminded everyone to sell tickets. We have plenty of tickets and posters. Chris was winner and loser. She drew the six of spades. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.

Peter O’Leary, FDLFD

Peter has been fire chief in FdL for the last ten years. He started out with Fire Department in Western Chicago over 39 years ago. He is proud of the International and ISO Class One rating. Fond du Lac fire Department has an annual budget of $8 million dollars. They do receive additional revenue by being the Regional Haz Mat Team and offering advance ambulance service to the outlying cities. They have three ambulances in service at all times. They can pull fire fighters from other crews to man the fourth and fifth ambulances. Of the 6200 calls last year, they took the reserve ambulances out 99 times. There are only 67 fire fighters and twenty are on duty at any time. They just broke ground on the new $4.2 million Fire 7 Police Training Center. It is located NW of the movie theater. It will be used by Fond du Lac Fire and Police Departments plus outlying volunteer fire department.