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Senior Level Excitement

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Monday Morning

There were 12 members at our Monday meeting plus two guests, Cathy Loomans and Sydney Loomans. Our guests, Cathy is our guest speaker and Sydney is Key Club President. Dan of Leeds & Lefeber was our greeter and had the grace. No one was funny on Monday. Happy bucks came from Dan, Gary and Mark. Mark drew the six of diamonds and won nothing.  We have 45 cards, 7 winners and a pot of $35.00. Fourteen members qualified for the rewards program for last year. Their charity will receive $50 from the Kiwanis. All winners need to get their Charity to Harry.  Rules of the program; participate in three fund raising events for total of at least twenty hours, participate in two interclubs, participate in two community service projects. All activities must be reported to Harry. Any questions please check with Harry. Children’s Museum open house for the Agnesian Healthcare display starts November 7th from 5:00 to 6:30 pm.   Side note – Del is at home and loves visitors.  ATTENTION – Dawn is looking for a volunteer to be our Vice President for the coming year. See Dawn for details. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, like our page.  We have a projector for our speakers; please contact Dawn if you need it. Speaking of programs for the future, get information to Jackie or myself. Member names are being added under Programs for your future dates.

Cathy Loomans, Senior Center

Cathy Loomans is the director of the Senior Center. Cathy is a city employee and the building is owned by the city. The Friends of the Senior Center is the fund raising arm of the Senior Center. Their membership drive is the main fund raiser. The have a summer social, dinner raffle books, gift shop and a travel club. The Friends have five employees at the Senior Center. Over 60,000 seniors visit every year. They have a number of outreach programs, health & wellness, art, recreation classes, movies, and caregiver programs for seniors.

How to Develop Key Leaders

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Monday Morning

There were 14 members at our Monday meeting plus three guests. Our guests, Marisa Strobel, Ashley Waldvogel, Rachel hays talked to us about Key Leader program. Jan was our greeter. Dan had the grace. Harry had humor and  it was good. Please get all money and tickets to Marlin as soon as possible. Pete drew the two of spades and won nothing.  We have 46 cards, 7 winners and a pot of $25.00. Fourteen members qualified for the rewards program for last year. Their charity will receive $50 from the Kiwanis. All winners need to get their Charity to Harry.  Rules of the program; participate in three fund raising events for total of at least twenty hours, participate in two interclubs, participate in two community service projects. All activities must be reported to Harry. Any questions please check with Harry.  Side note – Del is at home and loves visitors.  ATTENTION – Dawn is looking for a volunteer to be our Vice President for the coming year. See Dawn for details. Highlight of the installation banquet. Anne Lemke was named Kiwanian of the Year. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, like our page.  We have a projector for our speakers; please contact Dawn if you need it. Speaking of programs for the future, get information to Jackie or myself. Member names are being added under Programs for your future dates.

Key Leader Program

Our club sponsored three students from the high schools to attend this year’s program in September at Camp Wawbeek. The Key Leader program is twelve years old. They have offered 569 programs to over 28,000 high school students. It is open to all high school students. Over 75% of the students are Key Club members. Gary and Donna Miller took our students to the event in September. Ashley and Rachel are from Fond du Lac High School. Marisa is from North Fond du Lac High School. It was three days of building leadership skills and team building. The three students did demonstration some of the activities, such as effective listening.

 

Best Ways to Develop an Economy

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Monday Morning

There were 12 members at our Monday meeting plus one guest. Our guest, Steve Jenkins, FCEDC Director, was our speaker.  Sharon and Jackie were our greeters. Dave had the grace. Sharon had  humor and it was good. Please get all money and tickets to Marlin as soon as possible. Dave Krug drew the four of spades and won nothing.  Fourteen members qualified for the rewards program for last year. Their charity will receive $50 from the Kiwanis. All winners need to get their Charity to Harry.  Rules of the program; participate in three fund raising events for total of at least twenty hours, participate in two interclubs, participate in two community service projects. All activities must be reported to Harry. Any questions please check with Harry. Oakfield Storybook Land had their open house from 9:30 to 11:30 on Saturday. Side note – Del is at home and loves visitors.  Mark was Sharon’s replacement to be our representative for the Boys and Girls Club Spelling Bee on October 12th.  Dawn is looking for a volunteer to be our Vice President for the coming year. See Dawn for details. Highlight of the installation banquet. Anne Lemke was named Kiwanian of the Year. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, like our page.  We have a projector for our speakers; please contact Dawn if you need it. Speaking of programs for the future, get information to Jackie or myself. Member names are being added under Programs for your future dates.

Steve Jenkins, Fond du Lac County Economic Development Corporation

Steve Jenkins has been the director of FCEDC since 2012. They are responsible for work force development. The economy is still strong in Fond du Lac. However, he believes Fond du Lac is a status quo community, too conservative. They are studying a merger with Association of Commerce. Good items, the sale of the Retlaw, new activity at Forest Mall and group to coordinating a valley growth.