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North Fond du Lac Key Clubbers Serve Breakfast

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Monday Morning

We had 15 members at Monday’s Appreciation Breakfast hosted by the North Fond du Lac Horace Mann Key Club. In addition to our members there were 12 Key Clubbers, Jean Hintze, their awesome advisor, and Ken Stephani and a couple of his VEX Robotics Team members. John Cooper, Vickie Goldapske and Del Waldschmidt presented a check to Ken Stephani to complete our donation to the North Fond du Lac High School VEX Robotics Team. The total donation was $1,000 with the majority of the funds coming from the NFDL PDQ Brat Fry. The 50/50 Raffle drawing on June 2nd will have 21 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $425.

North Fond du Lac Key Club Year in Review

The NFDL Key Club hosted a wonderful Appreciation Breakfast on Monday morning with an abundant offering of fruit, bagels, muffins and assorted beverages. No one should have gone away hungry. Michael Friedel, outgoing President, led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Key Club Pledge. Michael and his fellow outgoing officers then introduced the new officers for the 2014 -15 Key Club Year. The President will be Holly Palmer, Vice President – Dylan Palmer, Secretary – Stephanie Mallinger and Treasurer – Marisa Strobel. The current Key Club has 82 members of which 68 are very active. The Key Club is the single largest Club at the High School. They raised over $518 in their various fundraisers and made donations of $3,524 to a number of community groups. From April 2013 through April 2014 the Key Clubbers performed 2,563 volunteer hours in countless projects.

The goals for 2014-15 Key Club Year are:

  • New volunteer sites
  • Additional officer training
  • 10 Commitment to Excellence Awards
  • Three joint activities with FDL HS
  • Shared projects with other groups

 

 

What do Pink Pumpkins Have to do with Fundraising?

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Monday Morning 

We had 17 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speakers, “The Mission Drivers” from MPTC. Two “Happy Bucks” were offered by Bonnie Baerwald for a successful Wild Goose Trail Clean Up and the other for Club Satellite Member Jeff Stueber and his Business Management class from MPTC. Bonnie thanked everyone that helped out on Saturday morning to clean the Wild Goose Trail. We had 11 members and seven guests help out in this effort. Harry Schneider was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the six of Clubs, unfortunately for Harry, not a winner. The 50/50 Raffle drawing on June 2nd will have 21 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $425.

The Great Pink Pumpkin Walk/Run – Jeff Stueber

Jeff Stueber and his Business Management Class from MPTC, “The Mission Drivers”, joined us on Monday morning to talk about their organizing efforts for the October 18th inaugural Great Pink Pumpkin 5K Walk/ Run. The Mission Drivers is a group of ten students under the direction of Jeff Stueber who are planning not only the inaugural Great Pink Pumpkin 5K Run/Walk but also putting into place a sustainable group of people that will carry on this event into future years. The mission of this group is “to serve our communities by utilizing their strengths and skills to create and promote a close community”. Their vision for this project is:

  • Develop a sustainable business model
  • Benefit the community and students involved
  • Raise breast cancer awareness
  • Register at least 200 runners/walkers
  • Raise $1,000 to donate

The group has gotten the support of the MPTC Student Senate, the Culinary Arts, Corrections and EMT departments and 24 individuals and/or companies in the Fond du Lac area. To date they’ve raised almost $3,500 in cash, $210 in gift certificates and in kind donations of water, orange drink, apples and oranges and ice. The cash donation goal is between $4,000 and $5,000 so the group has almost reached that goal with several more months to go. Great Job Mission Drivers.

Habitat for Humanity Accomplishments and Goals

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Monday Morning

We had 18 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speaker, Paul Osterholm from Habitat for Humanity and two guests, Dawn Rehrauer from Grief Relief and Dan Hebel from Boy’s & Girl’s Club. Gary Ring presented checks of $500 each to Dawn and Dan for our matching grant to his Cheers for Volunteers donation. “Happy Bucks” were offered by Glen Treml for his granddaughter’s baptism on Sunday, Vickie Goldapske for a successful and fun archery golf outing this past weekend at the NFDL Archery Club and Gary Miller ($2) for the Bicycle Loop dedication on Saturday and for his golf league starting on Wednesday. Glen Treml was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the eight of Spades, not a winner. Next week’s 50/50 Raffle drawing will have 22 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $413.

Habitat for Humanity – Paul Osterholm

Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac County has an open-door policy. All who believe that everyone needs a decent, affordable place to live are welcome to help with work, regardless of race, religion, age, gender, political views or any of the other distinctions that too often divide people.

Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac has completed 23 homes in the community. They have placed 104 family members into completed houses in Fond du Lac County. Homes have been built in Fond du Lac, North Fond du Lac, and Ripon.

Habitat houses around the world are built according to the same 3 guiding principles:

  • Simple: Habitat houses are modestly-sized. They are large enough for the homeowner family’s needs, but small enough to keep construction and maintenance costs to a minimum.
  • Decent: Habitat for Humanity uses quality, locally-available building materials. Habitat house designs reflect the local climate and culture.
  • Affordable: The labor of volunteers and partner families, efficient building methods, modest house sizes and no-profit loans make it affordable for low-income families to purchase Habitat houses.