April 14, 2003

K-KIDS had their Charter Celebration on the afternoon of April 5 at The Rink located at Van Dyke south of 23 Mile Road. Thanks to Lisa Nolff, and our teacher advisor, Linda Sprau, and our parent advisor, Renee Wolfe, for all of their hard work. The K-Kids all have shirts, pins, and certificates. Their club has a nice banner and stand. They have been working on projects already and have put together a project tree with all of their altruistic activities on it. This month they hope to kick off their Adopt-a-Resident program with Medilodge.

BOWL-A-THON Get ready for a fun-filled night at Striker’s. Bring your family and friends to join us. Even if you can’t come, we would appreciate having you bring a door prize for us. We will have a 50-50 raffle, a mystery game for the second game, and cosmic bowling for the last game. Tickets are $10.00 each. Let’s fill the place!

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER—MAY 1 Area pastors and people from our city join together for prayer outside City Hall around noon on the first Thursday in May to share in prayers for our leaders and concerns that affect all citizens. We will meet there on May 1 and host a pizza luncheon for all who attend in the board room at city hall. Please remember where to go that day.

E-MAIL We have decided to sent the minutes via E-mail to keep people up to speed on the happenings at Kiwanis. If you don’t have E-mail, please let me know if you want the minutes sent to you weekly. Otherwise, I will give you a periodic newsletter when I have a chance to write it and feel there is enough news to share.

ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY CLEAN UP We have a mile stretch of Armada Ridge Road starting at the city limits and leading toward Armada to clean. All of us will be required to watch a video for training prior to the clean-up. We are to wear vests and gloves. We will meet at Lisa Nolff’s home at 8:30 A.M. on Saturday, May 3. Her home is at 68895 Howard Street. It is a yellow house near 32 Mile Road. Last time we were done by 10:00 and a few people went out for breakfast after our work.

BICYCLE RODEO The advertisements are pouring in. We have lots of helmets in the police garage and more on order. County agencies and the police departments will be coming to fit helmets. We generally start setting up around 8:30 A.M. Be prepared for a huge crowd to suddenly appear on May 17 at 10:00 A.M. at Beebe Street Park. Bicycle Safety talks take around 20-30 minutes prior to giving away the helmets and bicycles. We were given a bicycle by Jim Hanus and another one has been donated by Dave Hamilton. These will be raffled off. A parade will take place to wrap up this portion of the day.
Kelley Osterman has planned the Safety Town again for families. Jim Hanus is setting up a child safety seat inspection for later in the day.

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE We are working toward inviting new people to join us. Please invite people to “Be Our Guest” on Thursday, May 29 at noon.
· Invite friends with whom you would enjoy doing projects
· Invite business people who seem friendly and helpful
· Invite neighbors
· Invite co-workers
· Invite parents who are involved at school or in sports
· Invite relatives who live close to Richmond
Let us know how many people you are bringing by Wednesday, May 28 so we order enough food.

INTER CLUBS We are planning to go to Clinton Township on Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30 P.M. Please contact Jason Verlinde at 727-6525 if you can attend. We are looking for at least two more people.
We also need two more people to attend our early meeting in Sandusky for President’s Exchange Week. We will leave town around 6:15 to drive to up there for the 7:30 A.M. meeting. Contact Bev DeVriendt at 727-2400 Ext. 1485.

MENU FOR REMAINING APRIL MEETINGS
April 17 Turkey wrap, oriental salad, chicken noodle soup
April 24 Sliced roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetable, dinner roll, dessert

DUES Please remember to pay your dues of $30 for each quarter. Since we are entering a new quarter, bills for April – June will be coming out soon.

NOMINATIONS We will be having our vote on officers for next year very soon. Please consider how you could serve in a leadership capacity in our club.

UPCOMING DATES
Inter Club to Clinton Twp. Ernie’s Kings Mill April 23, 6:30 P.M.
Bowling fundraiser Strikers April 25, 7:00 P.M.
World Day of Prayer City Hall May 1, 12:00 P.M.
Adopt-a-Highway Clean-Up Meet at Lisa’s May 3, 8:00 A.M.
Inter Club to Sandusky May 14, 7:30 A.M.
Bicycle Rodeo Beebe Park May 17, 10:00 A.M.
Be Our Guest Day Police Post May 29, 12:00 P.M.
National Convention Indianpolis June 20-24
Michigan Convention Gaylord August

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
I think the people of this world are going to want peace so much that one of these days, governments had better get out of their way and let them have it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower