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North Fond du Lac Key Clubbers Serve Breakfast

Monday Morning

We had 15 members at Monday’s Appreciation Breakfast hosted by the North Fond du Lac Horace Mann Key Club. In addition to our members there were 12 Key Clubbers, Jean Hintze, their awesome advisor, and Ken Stephani and a couple of his VEX Robotics Team members. John Cooper, Vickie Goldapske and Del Waldschmidt presented a check to Ken Stephani to complete our donation to the North Fond du Lac High School VEX Robotics Team. The total donation was $1,000 with the majority of the funds coming from the NFDL PDQ Brat Fry. The 50/50 Raffle drawing on June 2nd will have 21 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $425.

North Fond du Lac Key Club Year in Review

The NFDL Key Club hosted a wonderful Appreciation Breakfast on Monday morning with an abundant offering of fruit, bagels, muffins and assorted beverages. No one should have gone away hungry. Michael Friedel, outgoing President, led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Key Club Pledge. Michael and his fellow outgoing officers then introduced the new officers for the 2014 -15 Key Club Year. The President will be Holly Palmer, Vice President – Dylan Palmer, Secretary – Stephanie Mallinger and Treasurer – Marisa Strobel. The current Key Club has 82 members of which 68 are very active. The Key Club is the single largest Club at the High School. They raised over $518 in their various fundraisers and made donations of $3,524 to a number of community groups. From April 2013 through April 2014 the Key Clubbers performed 2,563 volunteer hours in countless projects.

The goals for 2014-15 Key Club Year are:

New volunteer sites
Additional officer training
10 Commitment to Excellence Awards
Three joint activities with FDL HS
Shared projects with other groups

Habitat for Humanity Accomplishments and Goals

Monday Morning

We had 18 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speaker, Paul Osterholm from Habitat for Humanity and two guests, Dawn Rehrauer from Grief Relief and Dan Hebel from Boy’s & Girl’s Club. Gary Ring presented checks of $500 each to Dawn and Dan for our matching grant to his Cheers for Volunteers donation. “Happy Bucks” were offered by Glen Treml for his granddaughter’s baptism on Sunday, Vickie Goldapske for a successful and fun archery golf outing this past weekend at the NFDL Archery Club and Gary Miller ($2) for the Bicycle Loop dedication on Saturday and for his golf league starting on Wednesday. Glen Treml was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the eight of Spades, not a winner. Next week’s 50/50 Raffle drawing will have 22 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $413.

Habitat for Humanity – Paul Osterholm

Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac County has an open-door policy. All who believe that everyone needs a decent, affordable place to live are welcome to help with work, regardless of race, religion, age, gender, political views or any of the other distinctions that too often divide people.

Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac has completed 23 homes in the community. They have placed 104 family members into completed houses in Fond du Lac County. Homes have been built in Fond du Lac, North Fond du Lac, and Ripon.

Habitat houses around the world are built according to the same 3 guiding principles:

Simple: Habitat houses are modestly-sized. They are large enough for the homeowner family’s needs, but small enough to keep construction and maintenance costs to a minimum.
Decent: Habitat for Humanity uses quality, locally-available building materials. Habitat house designs reflect the local climate and culture.
Affordable: The labor of volunteers and partner families, efficient building methods, modest house sizes and no-profit loans make it affordable for low-income families to purchase Habitat houses.

Kiwanians Discuss Recruitment at Annual Meeting

Monday Morning

We had 16 members at Monday’s Annual Club meeting and Elections. Bonnie Baerwald announced that the Children’s Museum is looking for a couple of volunteers to help with waterproofing the Garden Shed about 1:00PM to however long it takes to complete the waterproofing project on Sunday, May 18th at the Children’s Museum on Scott Street. Let Bonnie know if you can help. Bonnie also announced a Wild Goose Trail Clean Up on Saturday, May 10th. Check out the details under Kiwanis Happenings. A “Happy Buck” was offered by Gary Ring for finding out that Grandma Lois will have a grandson later this year. They found out at a “Reveal Party” this past weekend in Chicago. Pete Vercouteren was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the seven of Clubs, not a winner. Next week’s 50/50 Raffle drawing will have 24 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $378.

Annual Club Meeting

Monday was our Club’s Annual Meeting and Election of Officers and Directors for the administrative year that begins on October 1, 2014. The Club Satellite members voted on Thursday, April 17th and the Host Club voted on Monday. The results of both votes were combined and the results are shown below. Congrats to all and thanks to everyone that agreed to run for an Office or Director seat.

Dan Leeds, Gary Ring and Pete Vercouteren then did a short program on how to think about increasing our Club’s membership, be it at the Host level or the Satellite level. Three questions were posed to the members:

Why do we come on Monday morning?
What’s our Club’s impact on the Community?
How do we do what we do successfully that positively impacts our Community?

A discussion was held on how we use the answers to these questions as we think about who we can ask if they’d like to be members of our Club.

2014-2015 Kiwanis of Fabulous Fond du Lac Club Officers and Directors:

President – Charlene Pettit

President-Elect – Gary Miller

Vice President – Dave Twohig

Treasurer – Chris Serres

Directors (incoming) – Dan Leeds, Jan Krug, Gary Ring