Monday Morning

There were 17 members at Monday’s meeting. Sharon, Charlene, and Dawn were the greeters. Chris did the grace. Harry and Pete had the humor. Dawn and John had happy bucks. We went to the Dock Spiders on July 30th. We had eighteen participations. We had great weather and great time but horrible game. Check your calendar, Gary Miller is working on an inter-club to West Bend Morning Club. The date is August 8th. Sign up Monday.  Glen was winner and loser. He drew the seven of clubs. There are still 33 cards with a pot of $205.00.  We received twelve jars of peanut butter and six jars of jelly for the Salvation Army Brown Bag Program. In addition the Satellite Club donated $100 to the program. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.

Pete Vercouteren, National Kiwanis Convention

Pete represented Fond du Lac at the National Kiwanis Convention in Las Vegas. He started the convention with a new president’s meeting on the Thursday before the convention. All the convention’s power points are available on the Kiwanis web page for members to view. The highest growth in the international family comes from the Pacific Rim. The biggest selling point is our motto “All about the kids.” Two areas to look for new members are retired teachers and parents of the Key Club. We need to invite both Key clubbers and their parents to our events. Bad news, we lost 200 clubs last year. Good news, we started 200 clubs last year. There were almost 2,400 delegated at the convention. The convention was at two of the Caesars’ hotels. Remember the saying “What happens in Vegas, stay in Vegas” is not true about the Kiwanis Convention.