She said it was "good information for our new members and a refresher for long time members."
Debbie talked about the history of our club, how our club is part of the Illinois-Eastern Iowa District of Kiwanis International. There are four other clubs in our division. We raise money to pay for our projects from money raised at our annual Pancake Day in the spring and Peanut Days in the fall.
She also pointed out our support in donating to spastic paralysis research through the Bowl-A-Thon and personal donations. Kiwanis clubs from around the world were responsible for contributing to the Kiwanis International Worldwide project to eliminate iodine deficiency in third world countries.
Debbie encouraged members to get to know other members better and participate in interclubs to other Kiwanis clubs. Introduce Kiwanis to friends and prospective members to help the club grow.
We will not meet at Wesley Village on Tuesday, November 17. Instead, we will meet at Cafe Aroma, 301 W University Dr. (Click here for a map) Vicky Torreson, Vice President of the Macomb Area Chamber of Commerce, will be the guest speaker.
We will also meet at Cafe Aroma December 1. November 17 and December 1 were the only days that Wesley Village was not available for us to hold meetings.
Guests at this weeks meeting were a interclub from Carthage that included Susan Starr, Dennis Royalty, Rodney Clark and Marilyn Walker. Karen Carpenter, Principal at MacArthur School, was this weeks representative from our new corporate member, the Macomb School District.
Happy Birthday this month to George Hermann, Jay Carter, Tim Moss and Rick Bulger.
George just celebrated his 90th birthday. He said he has belonged to Kiwanis for over half of those years.
Tim Moss reported we netted about $2,300 for this years Peanut Days. Thanks to everyone that helped out over several weekends.
Four members will head to Galesburg Friday, November 13, to attend the Galesburg Kiwanis Club Pancake Day. Getting ready to enjoy the pancakes that day are Debbie, Tim Moss, Dave Stites and Owen Thompson.
Debbie read an email from Walker Robb who is proposing an Interclub November 30 to Bloomington. Kiwanis International President Paul Palazzolo, member of the Springfield, Illinois Downtown Club, will be the featured guest.
Mike Pritchard confirmed Breakfast with Santa is Saturday, December 5 at Macomb High School. This is where we help the Lincoln School PTO by serving pancakes and sausage while kids get to visit with Santa. Mike said they're expecting about 700 people so we should be busy. Debbie will start passing around a sign up sheet at next weeks meeting.
Debbie is still looking for program chairman for upcoming months. She passed around sheets for members to fill out telling about their interests and hobbies to be used as fill in programs as needed.
We still have an opening for our reading program at Lincoln School in December.
