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This Event Was a Huge Success!

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Monday Morning

We had 21 members at Monday’s meeting which included our Club Satellite member  guest speakers, Brenda Schaefer and Jeff Stueber. There were no Happy Bucks, probably because everyone was bummed out about the Badger Football team route on Saturday night.  Marlin Towne was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the Eight of Clubs, another non-winner. Next week’s pot will be $65 with 47 cards left in the deck and nine pay cards.

1st Annual Pink Pumpkin Walk/Run Recap

Brenda Schaefer and Jeff Stueber from the Club Satellite joined us on Monday morning to recap the 1st Annual Great Pink Pumpkin Run/Walk.  They began by thanking both the Host Club and the Club Satellite for all the support, both financial and moral, to make this event such a success.

The idea for this fundraising run started several years ago when Jeff Stueber started thinking about a way to raise breast cancer awareness and raise some money for the cause.  He posed this project to his Business Practice Firm class at Moraine Park Technical College, where Jeff is an instructor.  Students treated the project as if they were starting their own business. They needed to come up with a name, concept, logo and design, take care of logistics and garner support from the community. The students were able to include their work in their professional portfolios.

Not only did Jeff’s class take off on this project but so did a number of other MPTC students, faculty and student organizations.  Another key figure in this entire adventure was fellow Club Satellite member Brenda Schaefer.  She not only invested her personal time but she also help to coordinate and solicit assistance from MPTC students and faculty as well as help Jeff get over 300 pumpkins painted pink before the race.

The original goal for the run was to have 200 runners/walkers participate.  Imagine the excitement when the registrations pushed over 300 and finally ended at 310 participants.  This event raised over $9,600, $6,000 of which was donated to Breast Cancer Recovery for Infinite Boundaries Retreats with the remaining $3600 held in escrow as seed money for the 2nd Annual Great Pink Pumpkin Run/Walk to be held on October 17, 2015.

We Gave Away iPad Minis?!?

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Monday Morning

We had 17 members at the beginning of Monday’s meeting but that number grew to 18 after we inducted our newest member, Dr. Caron Daugherty.  Dr. Daugherty was sponsored by Bonnie Baerwald and is the Dean of General & International Education at Moraine Park Technical.  Caron hails from the Ozarks region of Missouri but seems to have adapted well to Fond du Lac and Wisconsin.  We also had our guest speaker, Shannon Schultz from the Fond du Lac School District at Monday’s meeting.  Gary Miller is organizing an InterClub to the Evening Club for Wednesday night, December 17th to support our Club member Steve Millin, who will be the program that night.  Check your calendars and let Gary know if you can attend.  Happy Bucks were offered by Pete Vercouteren who is glad to be back and hopeful that Barb’s hospital encounters are over, Gary Miller for his helping out at the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day, Bonnie Baerwald for getting her outside Christmas decorations up on Sunday before the rains came, Sharon Kollman for being thankful she’s back from the warm beaches of Florida and finally Vickie Goldapske for fun deer camo with her family this past weekend.  Chris Serres was the 50/50 Raffle winner and she drew the Three of Clubs, another non-winner.  Next week’s pot will be $31 with 49 cards left in the deck and nine pay cards.

Shannon Schultz, Fond du Lac School District

Shannon Schultz joined us on Monday morning to talk about the benefits of the iPad Minis that our Club has donated to a number of students in our community.  Shannon is the Autism Program Support Teacher for the Fond du Lac School District and is in her fourth year in this role for the school district.  Shannon has been an educator for 18 years, 15 of those in the Fond du Lac District.  Shannon works with children and young adults in grades kindergarten through age 21that are on the autism spectrum.

Our Club has donated a number of iPad Minis to autistic students in both the Fond du Lac and North Fond du Lac School Districts over the past several years as part of the Past Governor Messer’s Project.

Shannon used two of her students as examples of how the iPad Minis are used by these students to function in everyday life, from a communication device to a scheduler that helps a high school student get ready for school and get to his job helping to serve breakfast at school, without someone helping him every step of the way.   The specialized apps that are available for the iPad Minis provide these students with a new whole world.  With the rate of autism now at 1 in 65, there is plenty of need for these kinds of instructional aids.

Kiwanis Supports Fair Trade!

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You have another chance to support the Kiwanis Club of Fabulous Fond du Lac and fair trade through Just Fare Market by shopping on December 9 from 5-7 p.m. during our a Community Shopping Night. The Kiwanis Club will receive 15% of the sales if total purchases reach $500. In addition to helping our community through Kiwanis, purchases also benefit fair trade farmers and artisans in this special partnership.

Just Fare is located at N7645 N Peebles Lane, Suite 2 in Fond du Lac; you can find out more information on Just Fare and the Community Shopping Night on Just Fare’s website