BULLETIN

Mike Miller, Editor No. 13 December 29, 2017

December 29th Program

The Program has been explained to me as open for lighthearted fellowship.

Usually low attended so the actual program is to be determined, this year so far

when this occurs the activities have been enjoyable and the conversation

enlightening.

President- Elect Steve Sapp ran the meeting.

Guests: Floramay Miller (spouse) and Mariah Unser (granddaughter) guests of Steve Miller,

Derek Krebs (spouse) and Adam (grandson) guests of Cathy Krebs, Lisa Enloe (spouse) guest of

Steve Sapp, Randy Griffith member of Town and Country Kiwanis.

Project Reports

• Apple Project wrap up.

34 members participated, sold 353 units of product mostly Chieftain 5 lbs. bags and 3

packs of Dumplings, Net income was $2,050.75. Sales Leader was Wally Schloerke at

$617, then Jack Cleasby at $344 and 2 members over $200 John Core and Tom McGee.

Eight members over $100 Bill Bossenberger, Geri Derner, Cynthia Gaunt, Cathy Krebs,

Marla Miller, Don Wishart, Larry Zwagerman.

• Gift Wrap. At the time of this writing Gift Wrap has concluded and we will have totals

and an end report at Future meetings. There are pictures of Gift Wrap later in this

bulletin.

• Pancake Days. Look for tickets and posters in January. The new griddles are here and

will be used this year. Jim Converse is working out the new layout because of the

different size of the griddles. Pancake Days will be March 2 and 3 so mark it down in

your calendar.

Announcements

Board Grants. Approved committee and Board Grants from the last board meeting are

listed later in this bulletin.

Jerry Chase. Former member of this club and now a member of Golden K was in the

hospital with a heart blockage. Please keep him in your thoughts.

Past Announcements. • Programs. Sarah Mowery is working on the next quarters programs and if you have any

suggestions please contact her. • Knickles for Kids. Gary Osweiler will be out of town the last Friday of December so he asks

that you save your bottles and cans from December and bring them the last Friday of January. • Invocations Committee. Ronnie Lindemann, chair of the Invocations Committee, is looking

for a person to line up the next two month of invocations. See her if you are interested or would even like to do it later in the year.

KIWANIS CLUB OF AMES, IOWA ...SERVING THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

Past Announcements cont.

• Heartland Holiday Luncheon. This event occurred and there are pictures later in this bulletin. • Aluminum. Bud Everett reminds us to pull the tabs off our cans at the meetings and he will

collect them for Ronald McDonald House. • Amazon.Smile. When you purchase through Amazon, login through smile.amazon.com ,

designate the Kiwanis Club of Ames Foundation as your benefit organization, and purchase as usual with no extra charges. Part of your purchase price (.5%) goes to our club!

Kiwanis Foundation

• The Kiwanis Foundation serves the children of Ames by providing college scholarships to high

school seniors who excel in serving our community and who require financial assistance to

further their education. Please return your pledge card with a generous donation. Contact

President Cynthia or Club Treasurer Kris Meinhard for details.

Makeup Attendance

Kiwanis International has expanded their definition of a make up for missing a regular meeting:

Contact Geri Derner for details.

Committees

• Aktion Club. December 19 at FUMC they had their Holiday Party and they had great volunteers assisting. The fun began at 3:30 and a great time was had by all carols, Santa and Food and Drink a Christmas Party to remember. Photos later in this bulletin.

• Circle K. They are now on break and will return in January.

Contact Information

• Web Site: Club Webmaster Bud Everett, in coordination with our Board of Directors, has

built a new club web site, using a new internet service. The page looks great and will serve

us well as an updated version of our old system. Type into the browser address bar:

www.amesnoonkiwanis.org.

• To all you cell phone aficionados, I have redesigned our Kiwanis Club website to be cell phone friendly. At least it works great on my Samsung Galaxy F7; you just have to get used to how to move around and find everything.

• To you computer heads like me, it works exactly how it did before, it just has a different look.

• Hope you all like the new look - it had to change to accommodate cell phones, tablets, etc. (Ah! Always trying to catch up with new technology).

• Roster: Go to “Member Login” on our web site. Login with your email address & your

password. Click on “Members” in the left-side navigation column if you have trouble signing

in as I have had this past week contact our Webmaster Bud Everett and he can get you

straightened out.

• Facebook. Maeann Unser and Doug Meinhard have redesigned our page on Facebook.

The address is: Ames Noon Kiwanis. Please visit it and BOTH Like it and Friend it. Send

photographs of our events to either Maeann or Doug to post.

https://www.facebook.com/amesnoonkiwanisclub/

Program Review: Social Committee : Club Holiday Party

There were 3 games played during the event and the tables were decorated with paper Christ-

mas trees and candy tossed all over the center of the table. In amongst the candy were the items

used to play the games, dice, coloring sticks and pencils.

The first game was a table game where each table started with a blank sheet of paper with the

outline of a Christmas tree drawn on it either a triangle or a tree with indentations. Then with each

roll of the dice the member of the table did something to decorate the tree, did nothing, or had to draw

on someone else’s tree. Once the tree was fully done with all items that table won. There was a tie

between two tables and so each table received a prize for each contestant. (Our table received

snowflake ornaments and mine has now been added to our tree at home).

The second game was an individual game where you had to answer questions quickly about

the poem “The Night Before Christmas”. Luckily we had just read this poem the week before as a

group activity by President Cynthia. There were 20 questions and very little time between questions

and once all the questions were asked and appropriate time was given to complete the last question

pencils were laid down the papers passed to the left and checked and Sue Converse had 18 of the

20 questions correct, at our table Steve Sapp had 15 of 20.

The third game was a “Reindeer Game”. Two reindeer ornaments with two candy canes for

antlers were passed to either the left or the right depending on what direction word was read by Geri

Derner in a rewritten Frosty the Snowman story. The persons ending up with the ornament at the

end of the story got to keep the ornament and the candy canes.

Then to end the event Bill Boon told a story about the birth of their daughter on Christmas day.

The gist was he was working, got hit in the throat, lost his voice, went home, shocked his wife Phyllis

so much she went into labor early, and had their daughter the next day which was Christmas Day.

A good time was had by all and we got to take home the paper Christmas trees from the table

if we wished and mine are now on my mantle. The base was made of Hershey kisses so before they

are put away the base will be eaten and a new base added next year.

Editors note: I hope you all had a good Christmas and due to the Holiday season this bulletin has

been delayed. We are traveling this next weekend to Minneapolis to see the Vikings vs the Bears a

Christmas gift from our son Steve so the next bulletin will also be delayed. Hopefully only a day or

two. I will be at the meeting this Friday and I hope to see you there. If not have a great New Years

and I will see you next year.

PS. Thanks to everyone who assisted with Gift Wrap this year and helped tear down the booth it was

the quickest ever and just so we do not lose track of it “the Gift Wrap Binder” or the “G” key Geri

Derner took them and all the inventory at the end of the day. Thanks Geri for keeping track of these

important items until next year. The Treasurer Items were also taken back by Kris Meinhard to keep

for next year. Thanks Kris for also doing this important task.

KIWANIS CLUB COMMITTEE CHAIRS FOR 2017-2018

Standing Committees Please contact President Cynthia or the committee chair and volunteer for at least one Committee. The more on a committee the better we can serve so serving on two or three would be great.

Membership – Stephen Sapp Flowers and Remembrance – Lynell Dougherty, Jack Cleasby, Co-Chairs Grants – Marla Miller

History – Gary Wade, Chair Interclub – Larry Zwagerman, Chair Invocations – Ronnie Lindeman, Chair Music – Carl Anderson, Don Wishart, Co-Chairs Bulletin – Mike Miller Programs – Sarah Mowery, Chair Publicity – Chair? Reception and House – Ted McDonald, Jack Cleasby Social – Cathy Krebs, Chair Election – Immediate Past President Bill Bossenburger Website – Bud Everett, Chair Food Shelf – Bernie White, Chair

Service Projects Major Emphasis and Worldwide Service Project – Ted McDonald, Chair Food at First – Bernie White Scholarship – Tim Tryon, Chair Teen Maze – Ronnie Lindemann, Bob Currie, Co-Chairs Bike Rodeo – Jim Converse, John Core Fundraising Projects

Apples – Paul Domoto/Carl Anderson, co-chairs

Gift Wrap – Deb Russell

Pancakes – John Core and Ted MacDonald, Co-Chairs Knickles for Kids – Gary Osweller Sponsored Programs Aktion Club – Ed Gillott, Chair ISU Circle K Club – Ted MacDonald, Steve Sapp

Committee and Board Grants approved at the last board meeting for this Kiwanis year.

Committee Grants

Agency Description Requested Recommended Approved

YSS Transitional Living 566 500 500

YSS Earn-A-Bike Program 600 600 600

YSS Family Development and Self

Sufficiency 400 400 400

YSS Youth Summer Enrichment Pro-

gram 300 300 300

Octagon Art Camp: membership and

supplies 1000 1000 1000

YWCA Girls Power Mentoring Program:

rent, supplies, food 1000 900 250

Story Theater theater, utilities, ads, sets, cos-

tumes, etc. 800 800 800

Ames Public Library INSPIRE 9700 1000 1000

Early Childhood Boost preschool scholarship 500 500 500

ERP Backyard 1800 1000 1400

Good Neighbor Healthy Food Vouchers 1000 500 500

Camp Fire Achievement Camp 1000 500 500

LSI People Place parent education 500 0 250

Board Grants

Agency Comment Approved

Teen Maze 1300

Circle K 800

United Way 150

HOBY 1 camper @ $400 400

Camp OK 400

Key Leader 1 camper at $250 250

Backpacks 500

Raising Readers 1000

Boy's Little League 600

Girl's Softball 600

Other Board Grants Includes $500 for Children's

Chior 1750

Above: Member Anne Schmidt

wrapping with gusto on a number

of packages.

Above :

Presents waiting

for Christmas.

To the Right:

Volunteer Diane

Gillott pricing a

gift wrap job.

Above: Ronnie Lindeman works

with a customer on wrapping

choices.

To the right: More presents

waiting for their owner to take

them home for the Holidays.

Gift wrap 2017

1. Working at the booth

2.Wrapping takes Concentration

3. A stylish new tie.

Ronnie (above)

and Bernie (to

the left) help

serve the

Heartland

Senior Holiday

Dinner.

Aktion Club 2017

Christmas Party

Food and Drink, Meeting

Santa, Singing Carols and

a good time was had by

all.