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Monday Morning

There were 16 members at our Monday meeting plus three guests. They were Karissa Schneider and our speaker, Pam Sippel. Both are from Boys and Girls Club. In addition, Annie Moore, president of the Key Club joined us. Annie reminded us that there is no Storybook Land this year. The Key Club will help the library with a teddy bear sleep over April 8/9th. The greeters were a no show. Gary Miller led us in grace, again. Charlene had the humor. She gets better every week. Happy bucks, both Dawn and Steve were happy.  We have all kinds of fund raisers, Gary Ring for Grief Relief, and Pete for South Shore Coracle on April 23 & 24th. Our speaker picked Glen again. He picked the three of Spades for a non-winner. Next Monday’s 50/50 Raffle will have 28 cards in the game including the five pay cards with a pot of about $315 Our own Jeff Stueber is guest speaker at the Sophia Servant Leadership on Friday morning at Children Museum at 7:00. He is talking about Fish Philosophy. I assume that it is not about Lake Winnebago fish.  

Pam Sippel – Girls on the Run

Girls on the Run of Fond du Lac is an international 501 c 3 youth development program. The program is a transformational learning program for 8 – 13 year old girls that teach life skills through dynamic, conversation based lessons and running games over a 10 week season. Girls on the run has grown from 15 girls and one team to 150 girls and 11 teams in 2016. The 10 week program culminates with school age girls being physically and emotionally prepared to complete a 5K running event. The goal of this program is to unleash confidence through health and fitness. Teams meet twice per week for ten weeks at the school which they are registered.  We inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience based curriculum which creatively integrates running The girls get running shoes and t-shirts. We are donating our PDQ Brat Fry proceeds to sponsor a team. The goal is limit a girls total cost at $60.00 if they can afford it. The race is May 14th. They need volunteers to help the girls. 

Grief Relief

Greif Relief 2016

Monday Morning

There were 16 members at our Monday meeting plus one guest. Donna Altepetea was our guest speaker. Gary had humor? Gary also led us in grace. Charlene was our greeter. Our speaker picked Sharon again. She picked the Jack of clubs for a non-winner. Next Monday’s 50/50 Raffle will have 33 cards in the game including the five pay cards with a pot of about $245.  Happy bucks came from Gary Miller. Reminders, if you are bringing a speaker and need a projector, contact Gary Miller. He has the projector at his house for security reasons. Dan announced that the Trinity Soup dinner is March 3rd at the Trinity’s school gym. Cost is $7 and Dan will have tickets.  In addition, Dan is the soup maker. Dawn has a interclub planned for February 18th. It is the Noon Club’s Chili and Grilled Cheese lunch at the American Legion hall. Cost is $6.

Donna Altepetea – Grief Relief

Donna is the new director of Grief Relief. This program is part of Agnesian Bereavement Support Program. Grief Relief serves children who have had loss in of a close family member. It offers support to both kids and parents. They are also on call to help children in the school system with a loss of a fellow student. The bereavement program started with the hospice program and has grown to cover any death in the hospital or nursing home. The club donated $300 to buy a case of special books for the kids to use in their support groups. The photo is attached. The book was developed by United Healthcare. They also host a two day camp for their kids. Last year they had forty kids at Cedar Valley for the camp. Our own Gary ring was one of the volunteers. Gary also helps with one of the support groups. They always need additional volunteers 907-3940. Their big fund raiser is April 14th at the K/C Hall.

A Very Successful School

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Monday Morning

There were 13 members at our Monday meeting plus one guest. Kelly Norton was our guest speaker. Charlene had groundhog humor for the morning. She is looking for a full time job, as humorist. Pete led us in prayer.  Gary Miller and Mark greeted the group. Our speaker picked Bonnie name. She picked the two of clubs for a non-winner. Next Monday’s 50/50 Raffle will have 34 cards in the game including the five pay cards with a pot of about $235.  Happy bucks came from Dan, Marlin, and Gary Ring. West Bend Kiwanis Chili Cook Off is February 6th. Gary Miller, Gary Ring & Pete worked with the other two Kiwanis Clubs clean the Solution Center Warming Shelter. Reminders, if you are bringing a speaker and need a projector, contact Gary Miller. He has the projector at his house for security reasons.

Kelly Norton – St. Mary’s Springs Academy

Kelly is President of the Academy. The school started with 17 students in 1909. Today, they have 826 students. They are averaging a 9% growth. St. Agnes Sisters started the school. Today, they have 114 staff members with only one sister left. They have raised almost $25.3 million for their new construction and renovation. This includes $7 million for renovation of the existing buildings. The new campus will combine grades kindergarten thru twelfth grade. The tuition in 1909 was seventy five dollars per semester for everything including room and board. Today the tuition goes from $1,500 to $5,900. Football started in 1940 and today they twenty different teams. They have seventy voucher students this year with additional $300,000 of tuition assistance. More information on the Springs can be found at www.smsacademy.org .