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Fond du Lac History in Pictures

Monday Morning

There were 16 members plus five guests. at our Monday  meeting. Lois Towne joined Marlin for breakfast. We had an interclub from the Noon club. They were Don Kurki, DickTaddey, Ray Farr and Ann Calnin. Glen and Pete were our greeters. Marlin and Chris had happy bucks. Father Glen had the grace. Steve had humor. Harry announced preliminary numbers on Pork Fest. We had 1,375 tickets turned in for dinner.  Profits look to be around $8,900. Reminder from Anne Lemke be sure to “Like” our Kiwanis page on Instagram.  Melissa Schmidt represented the club at the Boys and Girls Club Annual Spelling Bee last week. Their team came in the middle of pack. She was teamed with a 3rd and 6th grader.  Reminder from Harry, Rewards Winners be sure to fill out and return your form. Sharon was our winner and loser. She drew the Ace of Clubs. There are 35 cards left and a pot of $230.00. 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 John if you need it. Speaking of programs for the future, get information to Peter or myself. Member names are being added under Programs for your future dates.

Tracy Reinhardt, Lakeside Park Photo History

Tracy has collected a number of Langdon Divers’s photos of Lakeside Park. Lakeside was just a marsh on Lake Winnebago in the early days. There was more water than land in the beginning. The first pavilion was built at the end of Main St, in 1905. In 1921 the trolley ran to the park along Main St.. Other attractions to the park in the early days were camping, boat houses, and skating. They had races on the ice. As part of beach, a 60 slide was built in 1921. The beach and bath houses closed in 1965 due to the poor water quality. In 1924 they built the present band stand and a giant sandbox. The band stand is still there. Tracy works at the Galloway house and loves to collect history on Fond du Lac. Tracy has a great program on the night the churches burned in Fond du Lac.

How to Make Public Works Work

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Monday Morning

There were 16 members at our Monday Meeting plus our guest speakers Jordan  Skiff and John Redman. We were greeted by Steve and Gary Miller. Steve had the humor for the day. Mark had the grace. No one had happy bucks. Happy birthday was sung to Mark by Dan. Dave Twohig was the raffle ticket winner and drew the nine of hearts, no winner. Monday’s 50/50 raffle will have 13 cards including four pay cards with a pot of $511. Side note – Del is at home.  We have a possible interclub from New Holstein Kiwanis. Their Spanferkel is Monday August 29. See Dawn to sign up. Social committee is planning a night at Thelma street band on August 25th. See Thelma or Charlene for details. Sharon will be our representative for the Boys and Girls Club on October 12th.  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 Gary Miller if you need it. Speaking of programs for the future, get information to Dave or myself. Member names are being added under Programs for your future dates.

Jordan Skiff – Lakeside Park Improvements

Jordan Skiff and Parks Director John Redman were her to present ideas to improve Lakeside Park. Ideas from the seventeen person advisory committee were turn over to Excel engineering for a plan. The main idea is a new pavilion at the end of Main St. The possibilities of a restaurant and a pier into the lake are on the list. This would be the hub of the park. Because of all the variables, this is on the 2019 list of projects. A splash pad would be on the 2018 list of projects. Other items would be a bridge to the West side. Viewing stations would be added for Supple Marsh’s. Bike trails thru the park. Add an ice rink. A number of opinions are pushing for improving the old pavilion.

The Next Ryan Braun Could Play Here

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Monday Morning

There were 19 members at our Monday meeting plus two guests. Our guest speaker, was Dr. Ryan Haus. In addition, Tonya Feucht, our newest member from MPTC Satellite Club joined us for breakfast. Happy bucks came from Sharon for tonya being our newest member. Pete added two bucks, one for Tonya and one for Sharon bringing Tonya in. Special thanks to our greeter, Dawn and Mark for invocation. Vickie handled the humor for the day. She does qualify  for the Dr. Waffle award. Chris  was the ticket winner. She drew the ten for diamonds for $10.00. Next Monday’s 50/50 Raffle will have 43 cards in the game including the six pay cards with a pot of about $95.

Dr. Ryan Haus, Fond du Lac Youth Baseball

Ryan is working to build two new diamonds at Lakeside Park. They will be built in phases with the lights being the final stage. The project has been delayed because of the dispute between the Fond du Lac School Board and the Boys Baseball. They hope to break ground in 2016 and play ball in 2017. History, two boards were formed in 1984. One was to develop the fields and the second one to run the daily baseball games.  A new nonprofit was developed to run boys baseball and add new fields. We have committed $5,000 to the news fields. No money has been spent on the new fields. The two fields on Fourth Street have not been used in the past year. They are owned by the old Baseball Inc. The new nonprofit would like to rent the fields for 2016.