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12:00 noon
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President
Bev DeVriendt
W (586) 727-2400
Ext. 1485
President Elect
Jason Rewalt
Vice President
Lisa
Nolff
Secretary
Sharon
Hiller
H (586) 727-4457
W (586) 727-3565
Ext. 6008
Treasurer
Becky Jagoda
Board of
Directors
Patrick Bird
Kelley Osterman
Dennis Privette
Jason Verlinde
Past
President
John Hiller
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MINUTES
September 4, 2003
The Kiwanis Club of Richmond meet at Richmond Police Post. The meeting was
called to order at 12:20 by John Hiller. We stood for the pledge of
allegiance to the flag. Shane Prewitt shared the opening prayer. We ate our
lunch supplied by Richmond Community Schools.
Members present were: John Hiller, Dennis Privette, and Shane Prewitt. Our
guests from Sterling Heights were: Frank Birdwell (who will be our
Lieutenant Governor), Bob Tobelek, Sherry Shannon, Larry Potrin, and Joe
Owczarek.
The Sterling Heights group has 25 members.
John shared the projects we do here including the Bicycle Rodeo. We started
K-Kids. They will be in a parade on Saturday. We make pies as a fundraiser.
We pick up trash which we need to schedule for this month. We are in the
process of setting up a free throw contest. We do not participate in the
Good Old Days since so many other groups are doing that. Two weeks ago we
had a presentation by a girl we sent to police academy. She is hoping to be
involved in the FBI or CIA.
For the parade, the children are decorating the trailer at 6:00 P.M. on
Friday night. We need some people to walk alongside the trailer to watch
children during the parade. On Saturday, we will meet at Beech Street at
10:30 A.M.
Sterling Heights does a five day food basket project. Nineteen schools
collect food. We take it to a central location, sort it, repack it, add to
it, and deliver it 310 senior citizens and 208 families. It is a big
project. They collect 50 to 60,000 canned goods. We have a building free of
charge to use as a central distribution place as long as it isn’t rented
out.
Since 1985, we have had a Kiwanis World Service Metal which comes with a
grant of $10,000. Nguyen Thanh Binh is the recipient this year. She founded
Children of Peace in 1993, an organization that serves poor, disabled, and
orphaned children in Vietnam. They support schools and health care. Support
comes from her personal funds, schools, churches, organizations, etc. It
still runs out of her home with all volunteers helping over 2,000 children.
There are another 4,000 to be served. Chuck Nagy, our next governor, has
chosen this as our project for the coming year. He is asking for $10 per
member to support this project. He also has asked us to personally support
it. Frank Birdwell, our next Lt. Gov., did a pitch on this project asking us
to budget it for the coming year. He would like us to call if we will be
supporting it.
The meeting adjourned by 12:50 P.M.
Minutes reported by
John Hiller
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