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You Won’t Believe All the New Places in Fond du Lac

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Monday Morning

We had 19 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speaker, Dyann Benson from the City of Fond du Lac.   Happy Bucks were offered by Jim Freiberg ($5) in honor of his daughter’s graduation from Mount Mary College, and she wasn’t the oldest graduate, Mark Luttenberger for being on vacation for the next three weeks and in thanks for everyone who helped ring bells for the Salvation Army, Harry Schneider for his 65th birthday and Vickie Goldapske for past weekend’s 3rd grade basketball tournament wins.  Marlin Towne was the 50/50 Raffle winner (two weeks in a row) and he drew the Three of Diamonds, still not a winner.  Next week’s pot will be $81 with 46 cards left in the deck and nine pay cards.

Dyann Benson, Fond du Lac Community Development Director

Dyann Benson, Community Development Director for the City of Fond du Lac joined us on Monday morning to talk about her new role.  Dyann has been on the job as Director since October and prior to that she was the Redevelopment Planner for the past three years.

The Community Development Department includes functions relating to planning and zoning, economic development, redevelopment, downtown parking, city-owned industrial parks, building inspection services and the senior center.

Community Development staff provide information and guidance regarding local zoning and land use laws, long range planning, floodplain development, housing rehabilitation loans, redevelopment services, and historic preservation.  The Department reviews and processes requests for variances, special use permits, rezoning, annexation, certified survey maps, plats, code amendments, and other discretionary approvals.

The Community Development Department also oversees the development of three City-owned industrial parks: Fond du Lac West Industrial Park, South West Industrial Park, and Fox Ridge Business Park. Staff will facilitate the first-time purchase and development of land in one of the industrial parks, as well as assist in providing guidance for the expansion and/or reuse of existing structures.

Dyann noted the recent happenings in FDL included two new Kwik Trips, new Hampton Inn, new Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn Conference expansion, Panera, Panda Express, Grande Cheese Corporate Headquarters, Student housing at UW-FDL, redevelopment of the former Retlaw Theater, redevelopment of the former Wells Mfg. and the redevelopment of the AC Nielsen location.  Wow, that’s a lot.

This Event Was a Huge Success!

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Monday Morning

We had 21 members at Monday’s meeting which included our Club Satellite member  guest speakers, Brenda Schaefer and Jeff Stueber. There were no Happy Bucks, probably because everyone was bummed out about the Badger Football team route on Saturday night.  Marlin Towne was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the Eight of Clubs, another non-winner. Next week’s pot will be $65 with 47 cards left in the deck and nine pay cards.

1st Annual Pink Pumpkin Walk/Run Recap

Brenda Schaefer and Jeff Stueber from the Club Satellite joined us on Monday morning to recap the 1st Annual Great Pink Pumpkin Run/Walk.  They began by thanking both the Host Club and the Club Satellite for all the support, both financial and moral, to make this event such a success.

The idea for this fundraising run started several years ago when Jeff Stueber started thinking about a way to raise breast cancer awareness and raise some money for the cause.  He posed this project to his Business Practice Firm class at Moraine Park Technical College, where Jeff is an instructor.  Students treated the project as if they were starting their own business. They needed to come up with a name, concept, logo and design, take care of logistics and garner support from the community. The students were able to include their work in their professional portfolios.

Not only did Jeff’s class take off on this project but so did a number of other MPTC students, faculty and student organizations.  Another key figure in this entire adventure was fellow Club Satellite member Brenda Schaefer.  She not only invested her personal time but she also help to coordinate and solicit assistance from MPTC students and faculty as well as help Jeff get over 300 pumpkins painted pink before the race.

The original goal for the run was to have 200 runners/walkers participate.  Imagine the excitement when the registrations pushed over 300 and finally ended at 310 participants.  This event raised over $9,600, $6,000 of which was donated to Breast Cancer Recovery for Infinite Boundaries Retreats with the remaining $3600 held in escrow as seed money for the 2nd Annual Great Pink Pumpkin Run/Walk to be held on October 17, 2015.

More Key Club Service!

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The Fond du Lac High School Key Clubbers have been as busy as Santa’s elves.  Over the next several weeks they’ll be helping with Shop With a Cop, Fondy Food Pantry to create holiday grocery boxes, ARC Bingo Night, Christmas Cookie Decorating, and Christmas Adopt-A-Family.

They also have coming up over the next several months the ARC house cleaning, Polar Plunge, and Reading at the Children’s Museum. Keep an eye out for the Key Clubbers as they endeavor to make our community and world a better place to live. We are proud of our key clubbers and encourage them to keep up the fantastic work.