Warsaw Breakfast Optimist, October 4, 2023
Presiding – Charlie Wagner
Attendance – 84
Invocation – Luke Becknel
Greeters – Dave Taylor & Rick Swaim
Announcements – We need help this Saturday to clean up the Goat Barn. Also we need members to sign up for cleaning up the Fall Displays the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Thank you to all of those who helped already.
Birthdays – Ot Schroder, Jim Brennan & Mitch Goon
50-50 – $35 to Gary Tanner
Membership – Ken Shamblin had his first reading today.
Program – Shari Benyousky introduced Miriam Fabiola Nunez from Warsaw Community Schools. She made a presentation to promote the Warsaw Community Schools Washington STEM Academy Literacy Night. The literacy night offered eye screenings, free books and reading activities, crafts and local authors were in attendance. Pages Aplenty bookstore, the WILL Bus, Kate’s Kart, the Bike Library and other literacy services in the county were also in attendance. Teachers and staff set up games, reading rooms and other opportunities for students and parents to further engage in literacy and understand what services and other programming that is available to them in Kosciusko County. Local college students participated with initiatives they’ve created to help students gain new language skills.