Chopping Away

Last night a stellar group of folks showed up and smoked all efficiency standards at KAH - Over 10,000 meals were packed.

Lots of wood to chop

Friends, we have a lot of wood to chop at KAH to prepare for our millioneth meal celebration. The first goal is to package 130,000 more meals. Gather up your family and friends in packs of 8-10 and establish a time to pack-away! We have each Wednesday night and Saturday morning in January for dates available. If those times do not work for you - give Pastor Renee a jingle to set something else up. The 1,000,000th celebration will be February 12th. Think of groups you are involved in and jointly get your hands in the tubs and help us meet the 1,000,000 mark. Neighbors, workmates, church groups, fams, coffee clubs, therapy circles, teammates....Start scooping friends!

BFE relay race

Are there any willing Kiwanians to join me in the 1st BFE relay race. It is a 60 mile race for teams of 5-7 people. The legs of the relay range from 3-5 miles. The course is through Adams County ending up in downtown Hastings. It looks to be a good time. The race is a fund raiser ($275 per team) for The Special Children's Fund and Girls on the Run. Both are fabulous orgainzations. So, if you want to jaunt around Adams Co - let me know. We also will need a driver to tote us around the course.

Fairfest Parade pictures!

Sorry for the delay in posting these! It is now August 2 – but the parade was July 17. I'm not exactly sure what happened those days (weeks!) in between. Life, I suppose, just happens!

In either case, it was a beautiful day for a parade, and as you can see the Kiwanis entry looked great!

In retrospect, I should have taken a photo of Tom G, who was a Fair judge for the day. (Sorry Tom!)

For more on the parade, click here for the previous entry by Mary P.

If you click on any of the photos, it will go to a new window and display a larger photo, which you can download and perhaps use to make a print. (Otherwise, just call or email me and I can send you the original 3-4 MB files.)

Contract Disputes

Perhaps some of our newer members need to have a sit-down with Tom G. Several times during the parade set-up, Tom kept mentioning that x,y, and Z were not in his contract.

Fairfest Parade

Many thanks to Doug N, Don S, Eric B, Tom G. The parade trailer was fabulous. This quartet did a great job decorating the trailer with recycled table cloths from Kiwanis events. 8 chairs, a plant, the Kiwanis flag, along with the banners donned the float. Aktion CLub was delightfully represented by David B, Chris M, Lois H, Terry, and Andrea F. They added a lot of cheer to the event. Doc L, Darryl. and myself held down the last three seats on the trailer while Doug and Don flanked the float walking. Tom G served as a parade judge. A ginormous thanks to Steve Plambeck for toeing our float with his antique John Deere tractor. Also, much appreciation is due to Don S for dismantling the float.

July 1

I was really blown away by today's program. I saw the topic--something about Hastings K-9 dogs and thought "ho-hum"(yawn) but I was very pleasantly surprised. The officers were so professional and so interesting that the program just flew by. (Much like Fr. Benton's presentation--spell-binding, but in a different way). Anyway, as the mom of two boys similar in age to Larry and Travis, I kept thinking just how proud their own parents must be of them. And Rex (the dog) was fearsome.

Mike Howie was the greeter and Ron Veburg gave the invocation. There were two guests; Darla brought her sister, Kathy, who works for her and Randy Paxton from the Salvation made his second visit. We installed (inducted?) two new members, Susan Price and Michie Burmeister.

We talked about the upcoming events--Recovery in the Park, the concession stand for the Friends of the Library sale, and the Kaboom playground project. Dave Kempf and Doc Lemonds are back from the Internation Conventional in Las Vegas and I believe will give a report on their activities at a future meeting. Linda Stark won the Atta Kiwanian drawing, but deferred since she had recently won. Jim Krebsbach was the next name drawn, but he is in Germany. Finally Kathy Schultz was drawn from her work on H.H. day. (At the time I took these notes, I knew what HH stood for, but by now I have forgotten.)

Karen K. was happy because her family will join her on July 4 to watch fireworks from her front yard, and because she got a new printer (and had to return two other new printers, but that is another story.) Dave K. is happy because of his convention experience, and also because he got a full time IT job at Mary Lanning. Doc L. was likewise happy about the convention. Mike Howie is happy because it is his wifes' b'day and because he survived a camping trip with 16 Boy Scouts. Mike Johnson is happy because of his birthday and anniversary. He has a trip with some Boy Scouts on the horizon.