Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Upcoming Events:

Jan:

1/28-History of Optimist/Doc Haines

 

Feb:

2/4-Pottery Bayou by Gina Voelz

2/18-Lake City Roller Dolls

 

 

Meeting:

President Rick Kerlin led our meeting.

 

74 Optimists & several guests:

 

• Ivan Schuler-guest of Bob Ibach.
• Greg Rauen-guest of Joe Wilkey.
• Kim Zink-guest of Brooke Hamstra.

 

Door Greeters:   Gina Voelz & Jeff Owens.

 

Prayer:  Ken Anderson.

 

Pledge was given to the American flag.

 

Promise yourself was said in unison.

 

Hail to Optimism was sung in unison. 

Birthday Honorees:  Juergen Voss and Joy Lavendar.  Happy Birthday!

 

Check Presentation:

$370 was given to Eric Lane of Fellowship Missions. 

Membership:

Kellie Malcolm, Membership Chair, conducted

• Third reading for:
  • Kim Zink-Sponsored by Brooke Hamstra.
  • Greg Rauen-Sponsored by Joe Wilkey.

 

CEO Report (Club Essential Optimists):

None this morning.

 

Committee Reports:

• Oratorical Contest-Will be held on March 6^th.
• Golf Outing will be on June 18^th. 

Announcements:

• Andy Swihart introduced Doug Baumgardner as the Assistant Treasurer for the club.
• District Meeting will be Jan. 23 & 24 at the Honeywell Center in Wabash.
• Please add wboc@warsawoptimist.org to your safe sender email list!
• Are you on Facebook, be sure you go to our page (https://www.facebook.com/warsawoptimist) and “Like Us.”

 

50/50:  John Sullivan was our winner this morning!  He generously donated his winnings of $57 to the Scholarship Fund.

 

Video:  None. 

Sergeants-at-Arms:  Jeff Owens & Bob Jackson entertained us:

 

• 5 Things You Need To Know about….
  • Don Kenipe:
    • Snow shovel/Snow blower          = Blower.
    • Cotton/Down coat?                       = Down.
    • Gloves/Mittens?                             = Mittens.
    • Ice Skating/Sledding?                    = Ice Skating.
    • Real/Artificial Fireplace?             = 2 Real Fireplaces.

 

• $1 Charge:
  • Chad Zaucha-for 1200 new members joining the new YMCA facility this year!
  • Ivan Schueler-for coaching Bob Jackson and saying, “pace yourself, make sure you save something for the end of the game!”
  • John Elliot-go Buckeyes!
  • Harry Gigous and Bill Landrigan were recognized for doing such a great job as Sherriff’s for the clubs attendance.
  • Everyone who went somewhere warm (FL) or is heading somewhere warm soon:
    • Dan Metzger
    • Ron Chambers
    • Rick Kerlin
    • Dave Taylor
    • Dave Cates
  • Trina Hoy said she saw Ed Norton out and he recently had a heart attack and was in the hospital for 5 days. She encouraged us to reach out to our members if we haven’t seen them in a while to check in with them.
  • Trace Hansen for a box jump injury, and Trace was happy to announce his father is coming home and will be home for a month.

 

• Optimistic $1:
  • Jim Hayes happily announced that the Triathlon Registration is up and running and we already have 10 athletes registered for the event!

 

Program:

Don Krouse from Midwest Poultry Services presented about the Good Egg Project this morning (https://www.incredibleegg.org).  He shared a lot of information about their operation and the cycle of how eggs get into the stores.  Some interesting facts include:

• In 1940 one farmer fed 19 people, today one farmer will feed 150 people.
• The sell by date on an egg carton is 30 from when the egg was laid.
• Eggs will keep in the refrigerator approximately 3 months.
• Last year MPS donated 63,000 dozen eggs to local and surrounding community food banks. 

Great job and thank you for sharing with us! 

Reminders:

• Clean up tables.
• Invite a Guest.