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Making Fond du Lac County Great

Monday Morning

There were 20 members and two guests present at the Monday meeting. Allen Buechel was the guest and speaker. Curtis Carter was the guest of Dan Leeds. Vicente was installed as our newest member. Jim did the grace. Mark was our greeter. Charlene did humor for the day. Happy dollars, Pete was happy for a great Midwinter. Gary was happy for our newest member. Mark was happy to take his family to Lion King.  Steve is happy to celebrate his daughter’s birthday. Pete bought four awards home for our club from Mid-winter. For interclub we got the Round Robin. We earned the Distinguish Club award for last year. Mark was winner and loser. He picked the two of diamonds. There are 43 cards left with a pot of $130.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.  

Fond du Lac County Update, Allen Buechel

Allen has been supervisor and county executive for around 43 years. Allen presented the new plan for new intersection of Hwy 23 and K. Good news; the state should start work on Hwy 23 this year in Sheboygan County. They have $19.4 million to start this year. Bad news, they wouldn’t finish at Hwy K until 2022. The County hopes to start the railroad overpass at Hwy N (Kinker Rd.) this fall. It will cost about $4.5 million but will stop the blockage of roads North of Fond du Lac by trains. Take a ride to South Hickory to see the new County Garage. This will replace the one on Dixie St. In addition it will have an outdoor shooting range; Sheriff’s impound lot and storage for Senior Service vehicles. Around May 1st the County/City building will have new security check point entrance. All traffic will enter thru the North door.

Reaching Juveniles with Difficult Pasts

Monday Morning

There were 11 members and three guests present at the Monday meeting. Lisa Frankow, Sara Gerritson and Vicente Morales were our guests. Vicente is a prospective new member. Marlin did the grace. Jackie & John were our greeters. Happy dollars, John was happy.  Steve had the humor. Dan announced that “Souped Up” is February 7th this year. See Dan for tickets. Dan is also the chef for all the soup. Pete is looking for a third delegate to the District Midwinter on Feb. 16th. Chris took eight members to an interclub at the Noon Club.  John was winner and loser. He picked the Six of Hearts. There are 46 cards left with a pot of $90.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.

Lisa Frankow & Sara Gerritson, Fond du Lac Detention Classroom

Lisa Frankow and Sara Gerritson are teachers with the Fond du Lac School District who teach in the Fond du Lac County Detention. Lisa teaches students from ages 10 to 17. She works to keep them up to date on the work that they are missing. The hope is that they graduate from high school. Lisa helps the older student to get their GED or equivalent. Fond du Lac Jail program can house twenty seven juveniles.  Some will come from other countries if space is available. How can we help them with their students? In addition to money to supplement their budget, they need volunteers to share their skills with the students.

How Fondy High Makes a Difference in Our City

Monday Morning

There were 16 members and seven guests at Monday’s meeting. Matt Steinbarth was our speaker. Key Clubbers here were Hannah Juslin, Emma Bahr, Austin Clark, Daniela Rivera, and Ashley Waldvogel. Key Club Advisors here were Chris Stelmacher and Mandy Liebenow.  Dan did the grace. Steve had any humor. Chris had a happy buck for a great start to the Key Club year. Steve had a happy buck for two great high school football high games and money towards Trent’s funeral. Pete had a buck for a great vacation. Harry has the popcorn sheets out. Get your popcorn orders to Harry. Bell ringing signup for December 3rd is started. Sharon was winner and loser. She drew eight of diamonds. There are 45 cards left with a pot of $55.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.

Fond du Lac High School, Matt Steinbarth

This is Matt’s second year as principal at Fondy High. He started out as an algebra teacher. He moved to assistant principal at Woodworth, principal Lakeshore and now high school principal. Fond du Lac high school opened 2001. It is the largest high school per building size in the state. Their population is 2,070. Their PAC is the best in the area. Forty two business helped build a new ACE Trades building. Interesting fact, they have gone from 12% free lunch to 50%. To help with school spirit and pride, all students this year got a Fondy Pride t–shirt. They are increasing college credit courses to help students get out of college faster. In addition to sports and sport clubs, they have two rope courses and a great weight room. They will host Challenge Day to help eliminate bullying. In addition to the principal, they have four assistant principals, two police officers and many more teachers including our own Chris Stelmacher and Mandy Liebenow.