May 6 Meeting

Here are notes from the May 6 meeting. Jim Karloff and Dwayne Strasheim were greeters and Jim Lewis gave the invocation. Congratulations went out to Mary Peterson for running in the Lincoln Marathon. We had two guests--Susan Price and Carmen Engelhardt (daughter-in-law of Tom Engelhardt). Both guests were a result of our membership drive. We had more names on out list of potential members, so hopefully some of the others will attend a future meeting. Today was supposed to be the day for potential new member attendance, so I was a little disappointed with the turn-out. Doug recognized the 8 Kiwanians who helped out at El Dia de los Ninos, which was a very fun event. Doug also announced the date for the Annual Meeting, May 20. At that time we will elect four new board members and a vice-president. Help is needed at the USPS food pantry drive this Saturday between 10:30 and 4:30. Darrell is looking for volunteers to transport two young campers to Camp OK in Gretna. We installed two new members today. They were Rose Lindstrom and Leroy Hahn, sponsored by Linda Stark and Tom Genung respectively. As it turns out, Rose and Leroy are soon to be married (to each other), but Rose seemed somewhat confused about the date--either May or September! Speaking of newlyweds, Lee Saathoff reports that he has been married one whole month now, but when asked, he admitted he has not been able to recover his sock drawer from Eileen. Last week's Atta Kiwanian was Father Benton. This week's winner is Kaleena Fong, who was recognized for the work she does in promoting Hastings tourism. Kaleena's name has been drawn a LOT of times previous to today, but you have to be present to win and she wasn't! So it was nice to see that stars aligned for her to win today! Mike Johnson and Mary Plock led us in song. Darrell Nelson was K of the Day. Our speaker was Donna Hastings of the Nebraska Arts Council, who assured us that the arts are alive and thriving in Hastings, Nebraska.