June 17

Playing catch-up again, after suffering through computer/internet problems for ten days. All fixed, I hope.

June 17 was great because we awarded our first award for an outstanding young person. Doug selected Joe Peterson, Mary Peterson's son, for a variety of reasons, one of which was the mission trip to Russia (actually one of the other states(?) but I cannot spell it.) He also is active in KAH and used to help Mary with Aktion Club. He attended our meeting and was presented with a certificate.

Les Harms greeted and Karen Kempf gave the invocation. We had several guests. Joe Peterson and Lyle Weitzel came with Mary Peterson; Franklin Rice was a guest of Don Goodrich; Randy Paxton, a youth minister at Salvation Army, was a guest of Abe Tamayo. Doug gave Lila VanBoening a gift for allowing herself into being railroaded into playing piano at the last possible minute at last week's meeting. Neil Grothen talked about the upcoming smoke detector blitz and Dan Rutt talked about Recovery in the Park. Lucky Lila won the Atta Kiwanian free meal. Mary Plock was happy about a golf tournament, Doc Lemonds was happy to see Franklin Price and he was happy that Ashley Hajny is helping him with some work twice a week. Ashley entertained us with the story of her adventure in picking up Jordan Hammond from Camp OK. Dave Kempf is happy because Mason is home and undergoing chemo. Chuck Hastings told us that KAH packed 46,000 meals in the past week (?) and Don was happy to see the article on Renee Johnson (and her Harley) in the Tribune.

Our program was Energy Pioneer given by Scott Kleeb and Jay (didn't catch his last name.) The goal of Energy Pioneer is to show people how to stop energy waste in their homes at no up-front out-of-pocket expense.