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Monday Morning

We had 16 members at our Monday morning meeting along with four guest speakers from ADVOCAP, Lu Scheer, Stephanie Kaiser, Aria Baade and Dylan Smith.  Gary Miller finalized an InterClub to Ripon Early Birds for Wednesday, August 12th.  “Happy Bucks” were offered by Sharon Kollman and John Cooper in appreciation for the Club’s support of their respective Relay for Life Teams.  Chris Serres was the 50/50 Raffle drawing winner. Unfortunately she drew the Seven of Hearts, which was a non-winner.  Next week’s drawing will have 29 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $299.  Now we’re getting into real money!!

Lu Scheer/Stephanie Kaiser, ADVOCAP

We had Lu Scheer and Stephanie Kaiser from ADVOCAP along with two client members; Aria and Dylan join us to talk about the Fresh Start Program.  Dylan has been in the program for five or six months and encouraged Aria to also join a couple of months ago.  Both Aria and Dylan talked about how they got into the Fresh Start Program and the circumstances of their pasts that caused them to need the services of this ADVOCAP opportunity.

Fresh Start is a paid employment and training program that serves participants between the ages of 17 and 24.  The program works with young adults that have multiple employability barriers.  It assists the participants with working toward getting their lives on a better path while building a house that is sold to a lower moderate income family.

Program participants can work toward earning their high school diploma (GED or HSED), and getting through other barriers that may be stopping them from obtaining employment in their field of choice.  The programs emphasis is on positive rewards that come from physical work and healthy human interactions.

How Do You Spell Success?

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Monday Morning 

We had 19 members at our Monday morning meeting at the Retlaw Hotel along with our guest speaker, Tiffany Heim from the Boys & Girls Club.  Gary Miller is looking for an InterClub to Ripon Early Birds on Wednesday, August 12th.  Check your calendar and let Gary know on Monday. “Happy Bucks” were offered by Mark Luttenberger as he is officially retired, Charlene Pettit in thanksgiving for some rain, Dawn Scannell for a successful Relay for Life Rummage Sale with Sharon K and finally, from our guest speaker Tiffany for her incoming presidency of the Noon Kiwanis Club.  Dawn Scannell was the 50/50 Raffle drawing winner. Unfortunately she drew the Eight of Spades, which was a non-winner.  Next week’s drawing will have 30 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $280.

Tiffany Heim, Boy & Girls Club

Tiffany Heim is the Director of Resource Development for the Boys & Girls Club and also a fellow Kiwanian from the Noon Club.  Tiffany talked with us about the upcoming 2nd Annual “Spell for Great Futures”.  Spell for Great Futures event is a themed, team spelling bee featuring local business leaders teamed up with their Club members as participants, includes action-packed audience participation, and is planned around a different and exciting theme each year.  This year’s theme is based around the Jurassic Park/World series.  This event raised over $17,000 in its first year in 2014 and they’re expecting bigger and better things at this year’s event on October 14th.  Our Club was encouraged to not only consider a monetary donation but also consider having some of our members act as participating partners with the spelling teams.  Gary Ring did it last year and had a lot of fun.  He encouraged others to consider joining this effort for a great cause.

This Organization Can’t Be Held Down

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Monday Morning

We had 19 members for our Monday meeting back at the Retlaw Hotel.  Our program speakers were members Donna and Gary Miller.  Vickie Goldapske noted that her clinic was participating in the Save-A-Sole Challenge in conjunction with the Salvation Army and Payless Shoes.  Donations for this effort can be dropped off at Vickie’s clinic on South Park Avenue.  Gary Miller is looking for program ideas for the last two Mondays in August and all of September if you can help him out.  Glen Treml was the 50/50 Raffle drawing winner on Monday. Unfortunately he drew the Two of Diamonds, which was a non-winner.  Next week’s drawing will have 31 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $265.  Multiple members also received door prizes from Donna and Gary from the International Convention.

Gary & Donna Miller, Kiwanis International Convention Report

Donna and Gary Miller provided Monday’s program recapping the recent Kiwanis International Convention held in downtown Indianapolis.  Donna started by saying that this was her first International Convention as an authorized delegate of our Club even though she’s attended previous conventions as Gary’s guest.  Donna noted that women were first allowed into Kiwanis in 1987 and the first female president will assume her role in 2017, 30 years after they were allowed to join this international service organization.  Donna noted that there were 3,000 delegates at the International Convention but only 1,300 actually took part in the voting on the various issues that were presented.  Gary summarized the various amendments that were presented with the most significant being a dues increase of $10 and a rejection of web based voting on International amendments.  Gary also gave an update on the Eliminate Project to date.