March 25 Meeting

Here is a synopsis of our first Post-Pancake meeting, held March 25. Dave was the president-of-the-day as Doug was unable to be there. Dave did a good job and will serve us well as the new club president next October. Eric and Lee were greeters; Doc gave the invocation. On the menu was Reuben casserole or hot dogs and saurkraut. I passed on eating--maybe next week! However, the cookies from Means-on-Wheels, given in appreciation for our help in delivering meals, were delicious.

One of the benefits of this year's Pancake Day was that we got two new members as a result of it, Rose Lindstrom and Leroy Hahn, both of who came to eat and decided to join. We also had several visitors--Kristy Weeks of Mothers of Pre-Schoolers (or as Don fondly calls them--Mothers Against Pre-Schoolers), Dave Hartman (volunteer at KAH and also a pancake eater), Theresa and Joe Kempf (Dave's wife and son), Kathy Lee (?) of Meals on Wheels and "Ranger Ed" of the Boy Scouts. I hope I haven't left anyone out and that I got the names right.

Donation checks from Kiwanis were given to Kristy Weeks for MOPS and Heather Bolte for Boy Scouts.

KAH still needs more facilitors for packing events. Renee encourages would-be facilitators to attend a session to see what goes on at a typical event. One-Day is April 10 and members are asked to help out at one of our two projects for the day--tree planting at the Arboretum (Ken Franzen gave us an update) or working at Prairie Loft. Linda Stark talked about the new member drive. Jim Krebsbach is just beginning to tally the results of Pancake Day, but he still has a "pile of money" to count, so early results are not yet meaningful.

Maureen Mohlman won the Atta-Kiwanian free meal for our next meeting.

Les Harms presented another Know Your Kiwanian program. This week's "Mystery" Kiwanian was Renee Johnson, whose "past" none of us would have ever guessed!

During Happy Basket, Franc E. talked about the Health Fair March 27 and 28. Kid Vision will be doing vision screening and volunteers are still needed. Dwayne Strasheim told us about an upcoming senior voice recital on April 16. Renee promoted the Open Table's Empty Bowl Soup Supper, April 22. (We also learned that Renee and Kathy Schultz are cousins!)

Don and Mary led us in our weekly songfest.

Finally Ed Wiles of the Boy Scouts presented an exceptionally moving account of his life as a child without the benefits of Boy Scouts. I don't know how else to say it. It was simply very, very moving.