October 24, 2016
Welcome to Monday News N E X T M E E T I N G Oct. 31th – 6:15 PM Granville Inn – Denison Rm. Meal cost $10.00. Program – Board Meeting – Agenda items may be: Approve club budget, Approve new members, review request for funds for Blue Steel Band trip. N E X T M E E T I N G A F T E R T H E N E X T M E E T I N G (Otherwise known as November 7th.) This meeting will celebrate Veterans’ Day, which is Friday Nov. 11th, which is in remembrance of the end of WW I on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year 1919, known as Armistice Day. In 1954 it was changed to Veterans’ Day to honor all veterans of all wars. Don Jakeway from Johnstown will be our speaker. He is a World War II Veteran and former Kiwanian. Don requested his United Way donation be given to our Club. If you are a veteran or you know a veteran invite them to the meeting. The meeting will be in the Carriage Hall or the Wales Rm. at the Granville Inn. H ow a r e y o u k n o w n a s a K i w a n i a n ? Promote G U E S T John Mathis (I think a prospective member) B I R T H D A Y S & A N N I V E R S A R I E S Melissa Miller 10/24 None G E T W E L L Jane Brady is recovering from a femur bone fracture near the hip area. C O M M U N I C A T I O N S
Thanks from Adrienne Anderson of the OSU Extension for our support of the 4-‐H Grand Letters Program. Last year they paired 55 students with 38 Grandpals. Our donations were used to help supply stationary, envelops, stamps, and refreshments at the end-‐of-‐the –year-‐party where the students and Grandpals get to meet each other. They plan to expand it to 65 students and additional Grandpals. (Agr. Committee made the donation.)
Mike Sobul, Treas. Of the Granville School Board, thanked us for our donation of $1500 to the Granville
Middle School ROX Program. (Young Children Priority One committee made the donation.)
We received an announcement of the Licking County Soil & Water Conservation Districts 72nd Annual Banquet. November 9th (Wed.) at the Grove by the River, 840 Hollander Street in Newark (The Old Owens Corning Club House.) The Volunteer & Sponsor Reception, and Bd. of Supervisors Election are 5:30 – 6:30 pm. The Dinner and Awards Celebration is 6:30-‐ 8:00 pm. Meal Cost is $25 with a cash bar. Terry Van Offeren plans to go and possibly Bill Brady. RSVP by Nov, 4th (Fri.). To LCSWCD 771 E. Main St. Suite 100 Newark, OH 43055.
Reminder:The Charter Night for the Polaris Area Club is November 1st (Tues.) at the Holiday Inn on N. High St. in Worthington. If you wish to go, the resevation deadline is Oct. 28th (Fri.). RSVP to CindyDuncan [email protected] or (614) 404-‐2739. The meal cost is $25. The following are going: Don & Alice Lewis, Past Lt. Gov.Jen Lewis, Sally Schaadt, and Dave Thomas, and possibly Jean & Ken Cation.
A C T I V I T I E S
1. K-‐Kids – a) Made bookmarks for the Polaris Charter Party, b) plan to write letters to Veterans, c) plan to make posters entitled “Help our Community” and possibly display them around town and the library, c) participate in the planting of a maple tree in November at the Elementary School. They will be choosing one of the two benches below to be installed as a Friendship Bench on the school playground area.
A display case in the entry from Granger St. will be used to display information about the K-‐Kids Club activities and the Maple Syrup Project. Also in the entry will be mounted a directory locating the Maple Trees on the grounds and who they are dedicated to.
2. Aktion Club – Met last Tues. (10/18) at SPARK in Granville to plan their charter party on Dec. 12th at the Doubletree Hotel in Newark. The entertainment will be the NHS (Newark High School) Swing Choir. We will provide the name badges for the charter members. They made and colored bookmarks and will be writing letters to Veterans at their next meeting on Nov. 1st (Tues.).
3. Pres. Don discussed (the pros and cons of) the Christmas Tree sales. (Pros) A profit of $5900 or
(cons) A low profit of $2900 if 25% of the trees are not
G R A N V I L L E
2016-‐2017 Officers: *Pres. – Don Lewis, *Pres. Elect –Sally Schaadt, *Vice Pres. – Lisa Matula *Secr. – Charlene Lossing , *Treas. – Tom Esh *Imm. P. P. – Dave Thomas
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ACTIVITIES -‐ #3 cont. sold. Starting Nov. 25th (Fri.) to Dec. 23rd (Fri.), the hours of operation would be 71 hrs. in a total of 17 days working Thurs (4-‐7), Fri (4-‐7), Sat (9-‐3), & Sun (11-‐4). (Pros) -‐ we deliver Trees. We need about 3 -‐4 members working each 3hr. shifts to sell the Trees or a total of 75 members working on this project. 4. Presidents Party – Nov. 14th – 6:15 pm Granville Inn –
Denison Rm. 6:15 pm to honor our Immediate Past Pres. Dave Thomas. Meal cost $25. Menu – A choice of Tender Beef Tips or Boneless Chicken Breast w/ stuffing, rolls & butter, fresh vegetables, desert, hot beverage and ice tea. Entertainment TBD. This will be a sit down dinner. RSVP to Tom Harvey at www.hopetimber.com or call (O) 740-‐344-‐1788, (C) 740-‐404-‐1189, (F) 740-‐344-‐9361 by Nov. 14th.
P R O G R A M Sally Schaadt introduced Ed Bohren Exec. Director of the Newark YMCA. Ed has been involved in the Y in OH, PA, & W V for the past 28yrs. Ed is a graduate of Ohio University with a master’s in Physical Ed. and served in the Marine Corp. Ed mentioned his wife was first in her group at our 5K/10K Maple leaf Race. She participated in the walk. He said they have used a mixture of maple syrup and bourbon. I didn’t catch if that was over pancakes or was it a drink; I guess it depends on being hungry or thirsty. YMCA started in Newark in 1876. Mr. J. R. Davis was elected as the 1st president of the local Y. The Y was located at the southwest corner of Church St and N. 3rd St. The Y closed the downtown facility and moved to West Church St. at its current location. There is now a branch in Pataskala on Broad St. It has 14,000 members. Ed Showed a film about the history of the YMCA and its development as a Christian organization serving the homeless, the hungry, the young and families to encourage healthy living and social responsibilities. The Y started as a men’s organization, but now serves the entire family. The Y is for forever, in giving and support for the community. Ed introduced Doug Lowe who spoke about the “Knapsacks for Kids” program, which helps feed children that may need a meal, or otherwise they would have nothing to eat on the weekends. The program had its start in 2014 at Carson Elementary School in Newark, when his daughter mentioned she saw kids taking extra food at the lunchtime. This is not supposed to be done, but the teachers do not enforce it. He met with friends September 14, 2014 to develop a program to provide meals for students when they are not in school. They feed children that are need of food on the weekends. They visited Nashville Tenn. that has a program to feed children on the weekends. They loaded prepackaged foods on a truck and delivered them to the children. The program started at Carson Elem. School with 46 students and has grown to 300. They now serve some children at Northridge. We rely on teachers to give us references of the children needing assistance. They get the food from the Licking County Food Pantry thru Chuck Moore. Each child receives 4 – 9 pounds of food,
which will provide them six meals for the weekend. The food can consist of pasta, cereal, peanut butter, etc. They have distributed 118,000 lbs. of food. It takes about 2 hours to package 1500 – 2000 packages. It was done at LICCO for 33 cents a package. They decided instead to rely on volunteers and use the money to buy food instead. The food in the knapsacks is delivered to the school for distribution. Extra food is distributed at Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays It is the responsibility of the children to return the knapsacks to the school to be refilled. Why do it? Children that are hungry are more susceptible to illnesses, are less able to learn, have more mental health problems in depression and suicides, and exercise less. If they come to school hungry on Mondays they are less focused on their schoolwork and need to visit the school nurse more often. How can you help? Volunteer to package the food. It takes about 30 people at a time to do this in the 2-‐hour period. Donations of funds are always welcomed. Questions?
1. What is the cost? It cost $2.84 per child for the weekend. 2. How do brothers & sisters affect the food sent home? Sometimes
extra is sent or a note giving location of where free meals can be obtained.
3. What are the needs? They would like to extend the program to middle schools but the idea of students picking up a knapsack while good for elementary might not be good for a middle school student. Or possibly have a food pantry in a school.
4. Has there been feedback from the parents? Yes, teachers have received notes from parents and grandparents that are taking care of the children. Parents have sent notes when they no longer need help.
5. Is it possible to have a packing party? Yes there can be. The schedule usually is at 5:00 – 7:00 pm at the food pantry. If there were less than 30 they would be teamed up with others.
5 0 / 5 0 d r a w i n g w i n n e r – Rick Pyka -‐ no jackpot but Rick does win a free Kiwanis dinner. Does that include a Presidents Party dinner? T H E 6 O B J E C T S O F K I W A N I S
This weekly presentation comes from Kiwanis International web site. The Third Object To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards. The ways you can illustrate the Third Object include developing eco-‐friendly projects with youth groups and promoting the causes supported by Kiwanis foundations.
Distinguished Club Criteria for Object 3 Work with Service Leadership Programs or other youth clubs to protect the environment. Suggestion: Celebrate Earth Day on April 22 2017 (Sat.) by planting a tree with SLP .
Walt Chaney Notes: Slanted words are my commentaries Corrections – welcomed Criticisms – tolerated Kiwanis Club of Granville Meets @ Granville Inn 6:15PM Monday’s P.O. Box 133 Presiding – Don Lewis President Granville, OH 43023 Invocation – Doug Boldon Web Site-‐ www.granvillekiwanisclub.org Volume 3 seventy eight edition of Monday News