BLOOD DRIVE

If you are reading this before 5:45 p.m. on Friday, September 3^rd, there's still time to help with our quarterly Blood Drive! The tele-phone committee of Jan Jensen, Dave Meyer, and "Count" Esford spent a little over 2 hours on August 30^th along with Biz Bauer from the Red Cross calling potential donors. Our Goal for this Drive is 50 units!! Our Volunteers include Julie Witthoeft and President Ryan handling Registration; Marion Kuebler as Donor Director for the entire day!; Hank Hoffman and Marv Howell as Escort/Unit Aides; and, Hugh Winnell and Brad Foster (sampling the cookies) working the Canteen. The cookies, of course, have been baked with love by Marion Kuebler - how do we thank her for all that she does?

BOARD MEETING

The final regular meeting of the 2009-2010 Board of Directors is scheduled to take place on Thursday, September 9^th. President Ryan will host the meeting at the News-Review office, 319 State St. beginning at 12:00 Noon. There will be several key issues dis-cussed by the Board as the club prepares for the new Kiwanis year. ALL Officers, Directors, and Service Committee Chairs are urged to attend.

INTER-CLUB SCHEDULE

For September - Rick Neumann and Hank Hoffman are arranging our two inter-club visits. Rick is planning a trip to Indian River for a Monday luncheon visit (date to be announced); and, Hank will be heading to Rogers City on September 16^th for lunch at the Lighthouse Restaurant. Joining Hank will be Elson Carmein, Hugh Winnell, and Brad Foster. This visit will also complete One Round Robin of inter-clubs for the year.

OFFICER INSTALLATION

The Installation of the Officers, Directors, and Committee Chairs for the 2010-2011 Kiwanis Year will take place during this year's Installation Banquet. The Kiwanis Club of Little Traverse Bay is the "go to" group for planning this year - it will be their regular meeting for the week. Plans, as I have them so far, call for the meeting to be held at the Winter Sports Park with "steaks on the grill (one more grill needed)" and a dish-to-pass. Wednesday, September 29^th is the date for this kick-off to the new year. Watch coming issues of News & Views for additional details.

BRIDGE WALK

On Monday, September 6, 2010 (Labor Day), Governor-designate William "Bill" Gohier will be walking across the Mackinac Bridge in the annual Labor Day walk. Kiwanians, family & friends, are invited to join Bill and help launch his "Share Your Kiwanis Spirit" campaign. Bill will be leaving at 8:30 a.m. from the Vindel Motel, 223 W. Central Ave, Mackinaw City to walk two blocks to the bus. The cost of the bus is $5. He will begin his walk immed-iately upon reaching St. Ignace and return to the motel where water will be available for thirsty Kiwanians and family members. You can email Bill at wgohier@comcast.net to give him a head count or a word of encouragement. Lt. Governor Dave Garland encour-ages all Kiwanians to join the walk.

THIS WEEK - September 7, 2010

Secretary Designate Julie Witthoeft will be Program Chair for today's meeting. She has invited Carlin Smith from the Chamber of Commerce to be our guest speaker. Carlin's topic will be the United Way Drive for Emmet County.

NEXT WEEK - Sept 14^th

Todd Winnell is scheduled to be Program Chairman for this week's meeting. Unless I miss my guess, I'd say we'll probably be treated to "Appalachian Adventures with the Winnell Family, Part Deux".

LAST WEEK

Our thanks to Mr. Jack Harris, philanthropist extraordinaire, for the program at last week's meeting. We also thank the folks at N.C.M.C. for the video chronicling the donation of twelve out-standing sculptures to the campus at the college. Our thanks also to Ken Winter for arranging the program.

NEW PROGRAM LIST

President-Elect Designate Marion Kuebler has completed the appointing of Weekly Program Chairs for the 2010-2011 Kiwanis Year. For those receiving this bulletin in "paper" format, the list is included - for those receiving the "electronic" version, you can access the list on our web-site by clicking the "Program Chairs" button in the left column. We will attempt to continue the practice of announcing the upcoming programs in future issue of News & Views.

TRAVELOGUE SIGN-UP

Travel & Adventure Series Chairman David Jones will be circul-ating a "Sign-Up" sheet for help with this year's travelogue programs. The sheet lists opportunities for Kiwanians to sell/take tickets; operate the projector; handle the lights; and, new this year, INTRODUCE THE SPEAKER. Our 59^th Season of Travel & Ad-venture begins Thursday, September 23^rd. Mr. Marlin Darrah will be our guide for "Cuba: A Road Trip from Havana to Santiago de Cuba". Curtain time will be 7:30 p.m. in t he Middle School Auditorium. Volunteers should report for duty by 6:45 p.m.

AND, OUR TABLOID...

should be arriving with an issue of the Petoskey News-Review this week! Now the "thank-you's": to Jan Jensen, Advertising Chair, for her dedication to bugging members of the Sales Team; to all the members of the Sales Team for making contacts, especially Hank Hoffman, who brought in 3 or 4 new advertisers; and, to Dave Far-ley for "burning the midnight oils" and getting the finished product to the printer - end result: over $13,000 gross income!!

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Sep 21 Jill Ryan

28 President Designate Jim Ehrnst

Oct 5 Brad Foster

12 President Jim Ehrnst