THIS WEEK - August 3, 2010

David Meyer will be Program Chairman for today's meeting and will introduce the other member of the Meyer family, his brother Bill. Bill is the Chapter Coordinator for the local Young Eagles, part of the Experimental Aircraft Association.

NEXT WEEK - Aug 10^th

Rick Neumann is the Program Chairman this week and Cindy Holman has arranged a program featuring Jake Emling. Jake is the Manager of Prescription Services, Inc a retail pharmacy owned by NMRHS.

LAST WEEK

Our thanks to Heather Giammalva and Sue VanDeVenter, Faculty Advisors of the Petoskey Middle School Builders Club, for the informative program at last week's meeting. They gave us a pretty complete run-down on the activities planned and undertaken by the members of the club and thanked us for our support - both finan-cial and by our interacting with the club. Our thanks also to Marion Kuebler for arranging the program.

BOARD MEETING

The regular monthly meeting of our Board of Directors for the month of August will take place on Thursday, August 5^th. President Ryan Bentley will host the meeting in the offices of the Petoskey News-Review (319 State St.). The starting time will be 12:00 Noon - and ALL Officers, Directors, and Service Committee Chairs are invited and urged to attend. Prompt arrival will allow for proper consideration of all Agenda items.

BEST WISHES, JORDAN!

We wish Jordan Dutcher best wishes as he sets off to undertake a new occupation. Jordan will be taking a Leave of Absence from our club as he heads for Barber College in Lansing. His family will continue to live in Harbor Springs and he plans to commute home for the weekends.

IN HIS ABSENCE...

During Jordan's absence, Pat McGinn has agreed to join Hank Hoffman in co-chairing the Stars & Stripes Flag Project. Our thanks go to Pat for accepting these duties without hesitation. We need to get out and sell more flags - we haven't even scratched the surface on the potential for flying flags. Hopefully, Pat can put together a few more events to canvas residents in more of Petoskey. We have materials for 150 flags and have sold less than 50 so far!

AND ONE MORE THING!

Jordan's departure also leaves us in need of a new Chairperson for the Youth Services Committee. This is a major committee due to the emphasis our club places on helping the youth of our commun-ity. Anyone interested should contact President Ryan as soon as possible. We'll be like a "ship without a rudder".

TRAVELOGUE TABLOID

The deadlines are approaching! The chairman of the layout com-mittee (Dave Farley) called this morning to make preliminary contact on the status of ads for this year's Travelogue Tabloid. Travel & Adventure Series Chairman DJ has been in contact with the News-Review to arrange the printing and inserting of the tab-loid. Advertising Chairperson, Jan Jensen, continues to ask for salespeople to help with the follow-up calls to last year's advertis-ers. This project (the tabloid) is our club's single, largest source of income for the many projects undertaken by your club. It deserves your assistance. Call Jan (347-7353) and offer to help.

WHAT'S NEXT?

President Designate Jim Ehrnst and President-Elect Designate Marion Kuebler completed their Club Leadership Education last Saturday and are anxious to get started on a new Kiwanis Year. The first item on their agenda is going to be the appointing of Committee Chairs and the lining up of weekly Program Chairs for the year. These assignments should be completed by mid-August to allow time for "proper training" of Committee Chairs. Jim will want to schedule his President's Leadership Conference to meet with his Board and Committee Chairs in early September. This meeting will line up the goals and objectives for the coming year.

INDUCTION POSTPONED

The induction of Doctor Charlene Sweeney which was scheduled for last week's meeting has been postponed until this week due to Dr. Sweeney's medical schedule. Please join us at this week's meeting and help welcome Charlene to your club.

KIWANIS AT A GLANCE

The Mission of Kiwanis is "to serve children of the world". This is accomplished with a Membership of 586,000 adult and youth members (261k adult/325k youth). These members make up a total of 16,400 clubs in 80 countries or geographic locations around the world. They are served by a professional staff of 122, from the Kiwanis International headquarters located in Indianapolis, IN. Each year, Kiwanis clubs sponsor nearly 150,000 service projects; raise more than $107 million (US); and, devote more than 6 million hours to service. Kiwanis was founded in 1915, right here in Michigan (Detroit). This is your organiz-ation and you can rightly take pride in our accomplishments.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

The following Kiwanians are scheduled to arrange club meeting programs on the dates indicated:

Aug 17 I understand a program has been arranged, but I need to know details please!

24 Ted Teller

31 Ken Winter

Sep 7 Julie Witthoeft

14 Todd Winnell

21 Jill Ryan