Since Joan B went to the Care Givers program today, instead of the Kiwanis meeting, I told her I would attempt to do the blog of today's meeting.
Greeters were Heather Bolte and George Howard.
Group singing was led by Don Goodrich with Mary Plock at the piano.
There were many Happy Basket people today! Dave Kempf was happy that Ashley Hajney attended. However he was quite sad that his cousin's 8 year old daughter was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Patrick Crawford reported about the Community Theatre performing this coming weekend. Ashley Hajney was happy her brother is going to church. Mike Howie was happy about going on a boy scout campout. Dan Rutt reported about the Prayer Breakfast which will be held next Thursday am. Margaret Shaw was happy to have an Open Table bowl.
She also encouraged members to attend the pep rally for the Special Olympics participants at Hastings College field this evening. Special Olympics needs many volunteers. Linda Stark passed along greetings from Kevin Cunningham.
David Kempf handed out the sign-up sheets for the volunteer opportunities. He has those sign-up sheets organized as good as possible. However, I still prefer to sign up on the web site. He has made that web site very convenient to sign up, also. Some more volunteers are needed for the book fair this coming Sunday.
Darrel Nelson was the Kiwanian of the Day, introducing today's speaker, Kerry Winterer, CEO of the Nebr Dept of Health and Human Services. It was really a good informative program! If you missed the program, I think you can get the handout sheets he brought. Does our Kiwanis Club have good programs? Yes!! You better believe it!
Doug N closed the meeting with the final thought, " Everything has its own beauty, but everyone does not see it."
Neil G
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Neil, thanks for doing this! Just want to make a small correction, it is my cousin's 8 year old son Mason Arik Kempf, his parents are Eddie and Andria. He was diagnosed last week with diffuse pontine glioma, an in-operable tumor of the brainstem that has a very bleak prognosis. The average survival time for this disease is only 1 year and only 20% survive to 2 years. The only current treatment is radiation therapy but the tumors are quick to grow back and when they do, radiation cannot be used again. They use chemo therapy but it has not been shown to have any significant impact. They have been accepted to a trial program at St. Judes Children's Hospital so they are currently in Memphis for the next 6 weeks. I did get some encouraging news from Eddie's sister Jen while chatting via Facebook, that one of the children in this trial has survived now for 5 years. The longer we can extend that, the greater the chance for them to find a more effective treatment or even a cure.
ReplyDeleteI ask all my Kiwanis friends to lift them up in prayer, this precious little child is in desperate need of a miracle. If anyone is interested in following his progress, my cousin has started a blog at http://masonarik.blogspot.com. His sister has ordered awareness bracelets to help raise money for the medical expenses. When I get some, anyone that is interested could contact me, I believe she is selling them for $3.50.
Thank you friends for letting me share my story, you are all great!
Dave