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<o:p><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: large;"></span></o:p><br />President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-7095152810361797622018-10-24T10:05:00.001-07:002020-03-04T23:47:09.918-08:00<strong>February 27, 2020 - </strong>Andy Barthol from Inland Power and Light was our speaker. Inland was founded in 1937 and is the largest power coop in the state, serving approximately 38,000 members. They receive 86% of their power from Grand Coulee dam and are close to being carbon free for their power sources. They have tiered rates for commercial customers and flat rates for residential customers. <br />
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<strong>February 20, 2020 - </strong>Kristin Monasmith of the Spokane Shriner's Hospital spoke to us. There are 22 hospitals in their system and the program began when the Shriner's national leader met Levi Hutton and decided that there should be medical care available to all children. The 2009 recession caused them to start billing any insurance for services provided; currently about 10% of care is for uninsured. Spokane has a fracture clinic and has treated a record of 273 fractures in one month. About 80% of surgeries are outpatient and they have the only pediatric orthopedic doctors in the area.<br />
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<strong>February 13, 2020 -</strong> Vicky Dalton, Spokane County Auditor presented information about the March 2020 presidential primary. It is for the parties to decide how to assign their delegates but the election cost is borne by the taxpayers. If you vote in this election there is an outer envelope where you must indicate if you are a Democrat or a Republican and then you must vote for a candidate from that party. The county must report voter name and party to the respective parties.<br />
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<strong>February 6, 2020 -</strong> Chris Cargill of the Washington Policy Center (WPC) updated us on proposals being considered by the state legislature. The WPC ha a website called washingtonvotes.org where anyone can research information on a bill and check its status. The WPC is a conservative think tank funded 100% by donations. <br />
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<strong>January 30, 2020 -</strong> There was no morning meeting; instead and early Sweetheart dinner will be on January 31 at the Marketplace in Cheney.<br />
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<strong>January 23, 2020</strong> - Emily Grankowski from Cancer Can't spoke about the charity and its need for volunteer drivers. This is a Spokane based charity that provides assistance to adults fighting cancer. Some financial assistance is available and they also provide volunteer drivers to take patients to their treatments. Drivers are put through a background check, must have clean driving records and receive training before they begin their volunteering.<br />
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<strong>September 27, 2018</strong> - We had our annual Youth Protection Training presented by Vicki Frucci. <br />
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<strong>September 20, 2018</strong> - Don Malisani, the "Jerky Don" presented his product for making a 1 or 2 pound slab of ground meat jerky and gave samples. He is a local merchant. Cheney Kiwanis will be at EWU's Neighbor Fest tomorrow to promote re-starting a Circle K chapter at EWU. Our rest stop fundraiser is approaching on October 5-7; we will be at the westbound Sprague rest stop.<br />
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<strong>September 13, 2018</strong> - Douglas LeBar, owner of the Mason Jar and president of the Cheney Merchants Association spoke. This year they are starting a Holiday Hoopla event on Friday, November 30 and Saturday, December 1. Friday night will include: tree lighting, Santa's workshop with free treats and entertainment. Sixteen members attended the meeting and we received proceeds from the 2018 Golf Scramble.<br />
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<strong>September 6, 2018</strong> - Police Chief John Hensley spoke to 15 club members. He updated us on how the recent levy lift funds have been used to increase staffing, provide more training and improve their vehicle fleet. He also spoke about the recent officer involved shooting in Cheney.<br />
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<strong>August 30, 2018</strong> - Sixteen members and two guests heard a presentation by Todd Ableman, Cheney Public Works Director. He talked about recent construction projects in the city, the ongoing water issues when summer irrigation stresses the system and recycling. We will be wrapping up our Value Village fundraiser in early September. The Coats for Cheney Kids collection drive will begin soon.<br />
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<strong>August 23, 2018</strong> - Fourteen members and about 10 guests attended our summer picnic at Sutton Park.<br />
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<strong>August 16, 2018</strong> - Sixteen members attended. We did not have a speaker and spent the time discussing our upcoming projects and a new possible fundraiser selling prepaid Brown Bear car washes. <br />
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<strong>August 9, 2018</strong> - Dave Reagan spoke about his career in law enforcement. Thirteen members and one guest attended. We discussed upcoming fundraisers, evening meetings and packaging of pet food for Meals on Wheels.<br />
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<strong>August 2, 2018</strong> - Aaron Best, EWU head football coach, spoke to fifteen members and two guests. He talked about the team's practice schedule before the season, the complexity of setting the season schedule and information about returning and graduating players.<br />
<br />President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-52399604347424434962018-08-20T00:53:00.001-07:002018-10-19T05:23:07.061-07:00July 26, 2018 - Helen Miller, President of the West Plains Beekeepers spoke to 15 members and told us how bees, yellow jackets, etc. pollinate flowers and crops. They are responsible for pollinating about 35% of the world's crops and are responsible for increasing the production of about 87 different crops. She also showed us characteristics of different bees and wasps.<br />
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July 19, 2018 - Sixteen members heard a presentation by Eric Pettit, the manager of the Cheney Lofts at the former Fisher Building. There are 118 beds in the building; units are studio apartments or either 3 or 4 bedrooms with shared bathrooms and living areas. All furnishings, utilities and Wi-Fi are included in the rent. Where ever possible original building features such as a basketball court and lockers have been retained.<br />
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July 12, 2019 - Dr. Charles Mutschler, president of the Save the Station organization updated 16 members and one guest on the progress in buying and developing a new location for the railroad station. <br />
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July 5, 2018 - John McCallum, editor of the Cheney Free Press spoke to 11 members about changes at the paper and what they do to validate information before it is published. He shared websites he considers to be worthwhile and also books about the role of newspapers both in the US and foreign countries.<br />
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June 28, 2018 - We had an evening meeting and Tom Jenkins, Cheney Fire Chief was our speaker. Eleven members and 6 guests attended. Chief Jenkins talked about the challenges presented by the new West plains developments including the Amazon fulfillment center, additional apartments and a motel. He also talked about steps he is taking to provide better emergency medical service to Cheney.<br />
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June 21, 2018 - We did not have a speaker. The 15members who attended discussed upcoming fundraisers and service projects.<br />
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June 14, 2018 - Fourteen members attended and met Anna Arnsmeyer, our 2018 scholarship recipient. She will attend Western Washington University and plans to study environmental science. <br />
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June 7, 2018 - Robert Roettger, Cheney School District superintendent, was our speaker. He updated us on the progress on the remodels of the various schools and spoke about how school threats are evaluated and concepts they are considering for improved security.<br />
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May 31, 2018 - Bridie Rittick, Betz K-Kids advisor attended along with 6 K-Kids. She told 17 club members and one guest about their projects and had the kids talk about what they liked about being in K-Kids.<br />
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May 24, 2018 - Twelve members attended and heard a presentation by Terrance Nelson from Pacific Northwest Adult and Teen Challenge. They have treatment and recovery programs for various types of addiction and also arrange work options for their clients.<br />
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May 17, 2018 - We id not have a speaker; the 15 members who attended discussed upcoming service projects, our evening membership event and upcoming K-Kids activities.<br />
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May 10, 2018 - Tami Chapman from the Spokane County Library District was our speaker. She and another district employee surveyed our members to find out what we thought needed improvement in Cheney and what goals we had for the community.<br />
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May 3, 2018 - Sixteen members heard a presentation by Cylee Scott from Rescare, a company that provides services to allow elderly to stay in their homes as their capabilities decrease.President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-933977131179250982018-05-06T18:03:00.004-07:002018-05-06T18:03:59.144-07:00
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26, 2018</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> – </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tom Jenkins, the new fire chief for the city
spoke to 14 club members. The department has 9 employees plus 18
volunteers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes 9 people to have 2
firefighters on duty 24 hours a day; with the volunteers, 4 firefighters are
available. They need to have 4 fighters to send fighters into a fire: two to go
in and two to stay out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The majority of
their calls are for medical emergencies and about 30% of the medical calls are
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We will plant flowers and have the pizza party at the
care center on May 19 at 10am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Betz
K-Kids are planning a car wash on June 9 to benefit Ronald McDonald House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Medical Lake Kiwanis are joining others to
host a bike rodeo on April 28 – maybe it will give us some ideas for creating
one for Cheney.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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19, 2018 – </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Member Dave Daugharty told usabout his
exchange professor experience in Soviet Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Blackhawk/Kiwanis golf event will be in the afternoon of June 12; it
will be a 9 hole event with dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
will pack Special Olympics lunches on Saturday, May 5 at 8am at the wren
Pierson building.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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12, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Four guests from Spokane Valley Kiwanis and 15 Cheney
Kiwanis members heard Mayor Chris Grover talk about the benefits and challenges
of living in Cheney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Benefits include
safety and having a city light department that is in the top 25% of similar sized
departments in the US. Challenges include draw down of city water reservoirs in
summer due to irrigation and the heavy traffic volume on two-lane highway 904.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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5, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Twelve members heard Spokane Airports CEO Larry
Krauter speak about Felts Field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
historic field and is known worldwide to antique aircraft owners and
enthusiasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, people from around
the world come to Felts to learn to operate Kodiak aircraft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he became CEO the field had not been
properly maintained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since then the turf
landing area has been redone and new concrete airplane parking has been
built.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every June Felts Field hosts an
annual Neighbor day for the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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29, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Eric Dotson from Children’s Home Society of Washington
spoke to 18 club members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
organization was created in 1896 to deal with orphan train children who were
left unselected in Seattle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their goal
is to place children in forever homes and to help families through counseling,
early learning programs, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
funding comes from state and federal grants and private donations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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22, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Jim Patterson shared West Plains history with 15 club
members and one guest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 1920’s
large apple orchards were created near Hayford but their irrigation drew down drew
down Silver Lake by 50 feet and lead to peat fires that burned for several
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lawsuit ended the irrigation
and the orchards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was also a large
dairy in the area. He also told us about the interurban and other train service
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15, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Kelly Neumann from the Hutton Settlement spoke to 12
club members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The settlement will be 100
years old in 2019 and is in need of some major upgrades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Originally it was a true orphanage but now residents
have a family but need a better home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2007
all seniors have gone on to some form of higher education which Hutton can
fully fund.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hutton alumni can also
receive counseling, tutoring and some temporary housing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Settlement does not receive any
government funding; they own 25 commercial properties and also fundraise for
their programs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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8, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Melissa Luna from Ronald McDonald House Spokane spoke
to 16 club members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The house has 22
overnight rooms and also provides 2 family rooms at Sacred Heart and they hope
to add more rooms at other medical facilities in the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene
area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said they can use donations of
paper goods and toiletries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They hold 3
major fundraisers each year in addition to receiving donations made at area
McDonalds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Club member Bob Quinn spoke about weather and snow
pack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our mountain snow pack is strong
(about 100 – 120% of normal).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Global
warming is a reality and major ocean temperatures are 1-2degrees Celsius above
normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>February 22, 2018</strong> – Thirteen
club members plus <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5 members of Spokane
Valley Kiwanis heard a presentation by Joe Lachnit from Freedom Has a
Face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a local organization that
focuses on honoring fallen military members and providing financial assistance
to families of fallen military personnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In 2017 they issued 10 grants to families and their goal is to issue 30
grants in 2018.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of their financial
support comes from businesses.</span></div>
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– Twelve members attended and the speaker was Chris Cargill from the Washington
Policy Center, a conservative think tank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He spoke about various tax proposals before the legislature ( carbon
tax, changes in state taxes for school funding and pay by the mile tax).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also talked about the proposed Seattle
income tax and whether it is legal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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Clara reported that Betz K-Kids delivered 400 valentines to the Veterans’ Home
in Spokane.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Instead of a morning meeting, we met for our annual Sweetheart dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eleven members, 9 spouses and the Lieutenant
Governor and his wife attended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
speaker was Ron Seibold from Stem Cell Solutions Northwest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explained how a stem cell transplant
resolved constant pain he had for many years and explained that stem cells
are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not subject to being rejected by the
recipient’s body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>February 1, 2018</strong> – <span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Rob
Roettger, Sean Dotson and Kassidy Probert from Cheney School district spoke to
our club about the upcoming replacement educational programs and operation levy
election.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They explained that this levy
would replace an expiring levy and the new tax rate per thousand (starting in
2019) would be lower than the current levy rate.<o:p></o:p></span></span>President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-71021021459826707732018-01-28T17:59:00.000-08:002018-01-28T17:59:33.171-08:00<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">January 25, 2018 – </b>Delane
Titus of Soldier’s Angels spoke to 12 club members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soldier’s Angels is a national organization
which provides assistance to deployed soldiers, wounded soldiers, soldiers’
families and veterans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The local chapter
partners with various organizations to provide a monthly lunch and entertainment
to 30-40 veteran residents of the community living center at the VA hospital
complex in Spokane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also visit the
residents and organize monthly bingo nights.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our speaker was from Wishing Star, a regional charity that fills wishes for
children with possible terminal medical conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also go beyond the wish to establish and
maintain contact with the children’s families to provide support and help to
family members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have 2 paid staff
and their primary fund raiser is Taste of Spokane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fourteen members were present.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chuck Richardson spoke about Paint-a-Helmet, a Kiwanis District program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The program started in 1997 and is organized
by the East Spokane Kiwanis Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
give away up to 900 helmets a year – the helmets are plain white and the kids
decorate them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year it will be on
April 21 at the Fairgrounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other organizations including SCOPE and
Ronald McDonald house are there to offer information and services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Fourteen members attended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We got information on dinner options for our sweetheart dinner on
February 8 at the Marketplace at 5:30pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We also learned that Betz K-Kids are preparing valentines to for veteran’s
home on the lower south hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Seventeen members were at the meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We did not have a speaker so each person wrote down something we thought
other club members did not know about us and we then guessed which member went
with which statement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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– Thirteen members attended; we didn’t have a speaker so we tried solving some
Christmas puzzles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several members
helped setup the Gifts for Cheney Kids last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A community member emailed our club to ask if
we did a Christmas yard of the month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
didn’t have time to organize and promote it for this year but the club and the
Cheney Gardeners will consider having a competition next year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">December 14, 2017 – </b>Member
Bob Quinn told us about the recent trip he and his wife made to Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob also updated us on current weather
patterns and forecast for our area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Betz
K-Kids are working on recess buddies and classroom helpers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">December 7, 2017</b>
-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fifteen members heard a presentation
from Mary Reinbold of Transitions in Spokane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She talked about their current program to build 24 cottages for homeless
women and children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The site will also
have a playground and they received a $5,000 grant from Pacific Northwest
Kiwanis to help pay for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
explained that their program is very structured and seeks to help women with job
skills and education and ultimately get them into their own housing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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presentation by Chad Karthauser, EWU Associate Athletic <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Director for business and finance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explained the major financing sources for
EWU athletics ( about 30% comes from ticket sales and donations) and said that Roos
Field has an official capacity of 8,600 but usual attendance is about
10,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Typical media game rights bring
in about $40,000 compared to up to $20 million for Pac-12 games. “Money games”
bring in larger amounts. Playoff game money goes to NCAA with shares to the
teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">November 16, 2017 – </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lori Musgrave of the Marketplace,
spoke to 16 members about the upcoming Christmas tree gala.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>The Gala will take place at
the Marketplace and will feature 7 decorated trees, each with at least several
hundred dollars of gifts or certificates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Raffle tickets can be purchased for $1.00 each and purchasers can place
their tickets in the collection boxes for the trees they would like to win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tickets can be purchased from December 1-
December 23.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On December 23 there will
be a prime rib dinner at the Marketplace and winning tickets will be drawn by
Mayor Trulove. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also had reports on activities by Betz
K-Kids and Cheney High Key Club.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Northeast Kiwanis Club.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Our speakers were Tami Chapman and
Catherine Nero Lowery from the Spokane County Library District.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They talked about the various programs at
Cheney for kids:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>story time for small
children; Camp Kaslo during the summer for older kids' partnering with
Cheney schools for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning
and reading buddies programs done with the elementary schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other community programs include:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a seed library (take and plant seeds then
harvest seeds at the end of the season to replenish the seed library);
promoting small business Saturday at the end of November; access to data bases
for business use and grant directories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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heard a youth protection guidelines presentation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an annual training that every club
should have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also discussed issues
related to our rest stop fundraising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We had a
report on our participation in the EWU Harvest Festival: 10 club members,
several Key Club members and one former Salnave K-Kids member helped at the
event.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Cheney Outreach and Feed Cheney to receive our Quarter Cup donations; Jeri
recommended giving the first 7 months to one organization and then 5 months to
the second since we have 3 evening meetings in the first 7 months and don’t
collect money at them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong>October 26, 2017</strong> – Elsy Lusk who organizes the Christmas gifts for Cheney
Kids spoke to us about the program. This
year the set up will be from 7-9pm on December 13 at Wren Pierson building and
distribution will be December 14.
Donation boxes will go out at Cheney businesses on November 21 and needy
families can sign up starting November 21 at Cheney Outreach (hours are Monday
through Wednesday 9am to noon). Last
year 183 kids were served and this included members of several families who had
been burned out. <o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coats
for Cheney Kids – 369 coats were collected and 134 were handed out at Salnave Elementary. There was also distribution
at Sunset Elementary in Airway Heights and remaining coats will be available at
Feed Cheney and then at the Cheney Clothing bank. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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members and 2 guests attended the meeting.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>October 19, 2017</strong> – Julie Meadowcroft from Horizon Hospice spoke to 18
members about the signs of caregiver burnout and support that is available for
caregivers. The coats for Cheney kids
distributions are happening this week and we collected donations for Cheney
Outreach’s Christmas Gifts for Cheney Kids.
Kirk Madison gave the schedule for the October 31 Harvest Festival at
EWU and members signed up to help set up, operate and take down games at the
event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><o:p> </o:p>October 12, 2017</strong> – There was no morning meeting since we had our officer
installation dinner; fifteen members and several spouses attended. Our officers for 2017-18 are: President – Margie Lindner, Vice President –
Mark Eckerich, Secretary – Jeri Morgan and Treasurer – Roger Hagenbuch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>October 5, 2017</strong> – Member Bob Quinn gave a winter weather prediction
(slightly more than normal precipitation, cooler than usual temperatures and
strong snowfall in the mountains) and explained the theory of using sunspot
activity for weather forecasting, the El Nino and La Nina weather patterns and
why weather patterns are different in the Southern hemisphere. Nineteen members were present. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">September 28, 2017 – </b>Eighteen
members<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>heard a presentation by
Suzanne Milton, EWU Dean of Libraries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
talked about the learning commons that became part of the library in the last
few years and how students are being educated to evaluate the authenticity of information
they find on the internet. She also spoke about the challenges of changing to
electronic journals and how electronic media is offering access to a growing
population of EWU students who are not on the Cheney or Spokane campuses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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– EWU psychology professor Russell Kolts spoke about how humans respond to
threats and how anger affects how our minds work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regarding threats, he brought out that
animals size up a potential threat and either react with a threat display if
they feel they can control the situation or act submissively if the feel they
cannot control the situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the
situation is over, the animal recovers rapidly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After humans face a real or potential threat the recovery process can
take hours or days since we tend to replay the situation in our minds and
contemplate “what if…” .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With anger, a
person narrows their focus on the source of anger and doesn’t look at other actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A person is also more likely to blindly
follow an authority figure who expresses the anger that person feels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Fourteen members attended and heard a presentation from incoming Cheney Food
Bank director Jerry Stewart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
explained that most food comes from Second Harvest/Fair Share and a large
amount also comes from Grocery rescue which collects short or some outdated
food from area grocery stores, Pizza Huts and Starbucks. Additional food is
provided by several community food drives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Financial and residence eligibility for food bank use is handled by
Cheney Outreach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A typical box of food
contains 47 pounds of food and the food bank purchases toiletries, toilet paper
and laundry soap to provide to their clients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They receive no federal funding; the city provides free rent and
utilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The food bank is run by 12
volunteers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Krauter, CEO of Spokane International Airport spoke to 13 club members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He spoke about federal budget proposals to
cut funding for contract weather observers and the possibility of having
contract air traffic controllers at Felts Field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regarding security, he spoke about the Read
ID act and how standard Washington driver’s licenses are not compliant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A feature coming in 2018 will be a gas
station and convenience store located between the connector roads to provide
fuel and other items to travelers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Fourteen members attended and we did not have a formal speaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We discussed plans for the upcoming coat
drive, the club officer installation dinner and our planned club liaisons to Betz
K-Kids and Cheney High Key Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob
Quinn presented information on hurricanes and typhoons that have recently
occurred and explained that hurricanes typically do not happen in our area
since they develop over warmer water and the northern Pacific water has usually
been colder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Todd Ableman, Cheney Public works director, spoke to 17 club members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explained that the state maintains First
Street (SR 904) until the city population exceeds 20,000 then the city would
maintain it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also spoke about the
solid waste plan that is being developed and possible ways to mitigate the
water restrictions that have been required during summer in recent years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Thirteen members heard a presentation from new EWU head football coach Aaron
Best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told us that in the last year
EWU football coaches visited all but 2 Washington state high schools and also
traveled as far away as northern California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He talked about how prospective players are evaluated and how a typical
prospective player’s campus visit is structured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Final plans for the club’s summer picnic were
discussed and we continued to have member sign up for working the September
rest stop fundraiser.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Augie Hernandez, assistant EWU athletic director for equipment services spoke
to 18 club members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explained that he
and one other full time employee work with 10-12 student employees to set up
practices and insure that needed equipment is available for home and away
games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For football, System Transport
has donated the use of a 53 foot truck trailer that is used to haul about 7,000
pounds of equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He uses truck
drivers who’ve done the transportation in the past to make the deliveries and
set the transportation schedule. Uniforms and some other essential equipment
travel with the players.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Fourteen members attended and we did not have a speaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We discussed having a club picnic and also a
possible fundraiser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also had trivia
questions related to Cheney history and facts about the month of August.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">July 27, 2017 – </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fifteen members attended the meeting.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Chris
Grover, running unopposed for Cheney mayor, spoke about his vision for
Cheney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is focusing on keeping the
small town feel of Cheney along with having a vibrant downtown and keeping city
government fiscally responsible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Water
availability is currently priority one for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The city is issuing a request for proposal to get and outside
engineering evaluation of the water system and wells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The water supply problem is triggered by
summer irrigation and possible solutions include expanding reservoir capacity,
reclaiming waste water for irrigation and developing a better routine
maintenance program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was asked about
the 50 acre park, which was funded by a grant but has become an eyesore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is that the parks and recreation
maintenance staff have been cut back so the park has not been well
maintained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Margie
reported that 4 club members spent about 45 minutes last week packaging dry dog
and cat food for distribution with Meals on Wheels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She hopes to make this an annual service
event.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">July 20, 2017 – </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fifteen members and Lt. Governor Marty Phanco heard
Mayor Tom Trulove talk about his years of service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said he is both the youngest and the
oldest person elected to the office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
reviewed the water situation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there are
8 wells, one of which is dedicated to irrigation only.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 80% of housing in the city is
multi-family but he doesn’t feel those residences are the reason for the draw
down on the water supply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also
discussed the recent rezoning for the Parkside development near the city pool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The area had been zoned R3 (multi-family) and
the developer was requesting R3H (high density multi-family).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city felt that they would lose if the
issue went to court and agreed to the R3H designation in return for the
developer agreeing to install more on-site parking than currently required.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We
had a preliminary report on the golf scramble – since the Cheney High athletic
director resigned in June there wasn’t any support from school district staff
and the level of participation was about one-third of what it was last year.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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engineer for the local short line railroad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is operated by the Eastern Washington Gateway and the state owns the
railroad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explained that many of its
loads are grain that is brought to the Highline grain facility for blending and
then shipped to customers in the Pacific Rim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each grain car carries the equivalent volume of three semi-trucks, so
rail transportation is more efficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It takes 6- 8 hours to typically load a full train of wheat; sometimes
cars have to be unloaded if the wheat is tested and doesn’t meet the buyer’s
specifications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that federal law
allows a train to block a road for not more than 15 minutes but that time
period starts when the train has stopped moving; if it is moving very slowly
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members attended and discussed plans for a club picnic and for volunteering to
package dry pet food for distribution through Meals on Wheels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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members heard John McCallum, editor of the Cheney Free Press, talk about the
challenges the paper is facing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of
their revenue comes from display ads, classified ads and legal notices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of these have dropped off because there
are no-cost alternatives on the internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are also about 2400-2500 subscribers to the Free Press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have to be careful to separate editorial
and news content from advertising to avoid appearance that advertisers are
influencing the newspaper reporting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John explained that the parent company also publishes the Spokane Valley
Herald, Davenport Times and Ritzville Adams County Journal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al Stover, who has been at the Free Press for
several years will relocate to Ritzville to fill a vacant reporter position
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means there will be only 2
full time editorial staff and one intern at the Free Press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may have to rely on free lancers to help
cover community news and may ask community organizations to submit information
on their events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was asked why the
Free Press does not have any marijuana ads – it cannot publish them because the
paper is distributed by US mail and marijuana is still an illegal drug under
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<strong>June 29, 2017</strong> - Guest speaker Josh Potter spoke on what you might be missing by not letting your kid play youth football (for 10-12 year olds). He coaches youth football and talked about the life lessons that youth football offers:<br />
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<li> engaging in new and uncomfortable activities: running into another person is counter-intuitive; the sooner they learn how to deal with being uncomfortable the sooner they can have fun</li>
<li>he treats 5 day a week practices as 'work' and the game as 'payday' - this mirrors the work world.</li>
<li>the first month of practices is like going to school - there is a lot to learn, the kids need to be stretched to grow and then have fun</li>
<li>it is more inclusive than other sports - it takes 20-22 kids to have a team and this means that a broader variety of backgrounds are represented. A participant does not have to be from the 'right" family or have the 'right' physical characteristics to be on the team.</li>
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Concern about concussions - Concussion rate is very low and coaches receive extensive training on how to recognize symptoms and proper follow up. Helmets are primarily designed to prevent skull fracture and building neck strength and knowing how to safely tackle are the main ways to reduce concussions.<br />
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Anna Payne, our scholarship recipient, spoke about her involvement with Key Club and her education plans when she attends the University of Washington. Her mother also attended the meeting. Sixteen members attended the meeting.<br />
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Rodeo parade cotton candy sale on July 8- the machine will be set up around 9:30am and sale will be from 10am until about 11:30 when the parade starts.<br />
Blackhawk/Kiwanis golf scramble on July 16 at 8am - fee is $75 for round of golf, cart use, lunch and chance to win prizes.<br />
Looking for a treasurer for 2017-18: probably involves about 1-2 hours of effort a month to track incoming money and money paid out and update the budget. <br />
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<strong>June 22, 2017</strong> - We didn't have a formal speaker; member Bob Quinn spoke about the weather. An El Nino is developing but is not very strong. The entire North Pacific is warming up and that may generate some thunderstorms. He expects summer to be warm but not blazing hot. A question was asked about people surviving lightening strikes. Strikes are the highest mortality weather event and lightening bolt temperature is about 50,000 degrees. About 90% of people 'struck' by lightening survive - this is because most people are not directly struck but are very near the strike. Of the people directly struck, about 50% survive because the are struck by a smaller branch off of the main lightening bolt. Trees that are struck are heavily damaged since they are mostly water and the water expands and vaporizes due to the heat of the lightening bolt. Fifteen members and one guest attended.<br />
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Club business:<br />
At Betz Elementary recognition event, Clara and Paul were recognized for being the Kiwanis K-Kids liaisons.<br />
Pat donated $41 to our scholarship fund in recognition of his 41st wedding anniversary.<br />
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<strong>June 15, 2017</strong> - Member Bob Quinn was our scheduled speaker. He explained that when there is an El Nino winter about 50% of the time the storm track splits around us and we have a dryer than usual winter. Most of the rest of the time we may have a warmer and wetter winter due to being on the edge of the storm track. HE said that short term forecasting (up to 10 days) is becoming more accurate but beyond 10 days the forecasts are still not very accurate. He discussed global warming: it exists but it isn't certain how much man has contributed to its development. Levels of carbon dioxide, which holds in infrared heat, have doubled since 1900. Fossil fuels are a source as are natural causes such as vegetation decay. Fifteen members and one guest attended.<br />
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Club business:<br />
Roger reported that Cheney Outreach hasn't received their usual level of donations and have had to cut back on assistance provided to needy residents. Outreach provides up to $100 to assist with rent and utility bills, provides bus passes and pool passes among other assistance. The club has a donation budgeted and Jeri will find out if it has been paid.<br />
Golf Scramble - attendance and donations may be down since the athletic director left.<br />
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<strong>June 8, 2017</strong> - Sixteen members attended and we did not have a scheduled speaker. We continued with members sharing their personal histories, including when they came to Cheney and why. Rande talked about his time in the military and about the ongoing development of Camp Comia. Carl talked about growing up in South Dakota and how he came to Spokane after working in Sheridan Wyoming. Jeri talked about growing up in western Washington, coming to eastern Washington to go to college and then coming to Cheney when she got at job at EWU. Sixteen members attended.<br />
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Club business:<br />
Krista Delaney will return as Key Club staff advisor next year.<br />
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<strong>June 1, 2017</strong> - Members Gary Shamblin and Tom Whitfield provided a concert of country and old time rock and roll music. Seventeen members attended.<br />
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<strong>May 25, 2017 -</strong> We were unable to schedule a guest speaker. Club member Kirk Madison gave an impromptu presentation on shrimping on Hood Canal. He explained that shrimping is only allowed for 4 days a year, for 4 hours on each day and the limit is 80 per person per day. Their shrimp trap was bated with a combination of wet cat food, oysters and oyster juice. Traps are set out about 100-150 feet from shore, about 40-60 feet apart and about 220-250 feet deep. They are marked with buoys and left in place for about one to one and a half hours. Twelve members attended.<br />
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Club business:<br />
Betz K-Kids trunk sale was cancelled due to rain; on May 26 they will have a participation celebration and then will be recognized on June 16 at an end of the year event.<br />
Care Center flower planting, part 2 will be this Saturday at 9am. Five members plan to attend.<br />
The Blackhawk/Kiwanis golf scramble is July 16 at 8am. Tom and Mark are soliciting sponsors and prizes.<br />
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<strong>May 18, 2017-</strong> Dustin Flock, recently selected as a Fire District 3 division chief, spoke to us. The district was started in 1945, covers 565 square miles and also handles medical and wildlife events. There are 125 personnel and 45-50 apparatus in the district. In 2016 they handled 1,517 calls and expect to handle over 1,600 calls in 2017. The highest call volume is at Four Lakes due to SR 904 and I-90. A ladder truck is being added to this station due to increased industrial plant development in the area. Average response time is 14 minutes which includes time to go from volunteers' homes to station to event. Recruit training happens year round: about 120 hours of structure fire training happens in fall, wild land fire training is in spring and about 60 hours of emergency medical responder training (EMS) happens in winter. The EMS training prepares recruits for a national test. If they pass the test EMT training and certification is the next level. Eighteen members attended.<br />
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Club business: <br />
Betz K-Kids will have a trunk sale this Saturday. Money raised goes to Second Harvest; unsold items go to Goodwill.<br />
Care Center flower planting will be at 10am and will be followed at 11:30 with pizza party for the assisted living residents who put candies into plastic eggs for the egg hunt. Daisy scouts and mothers will also join in both activities.<br />
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<strong>May 11, 2017 - </strong>Mike Flansaas from the Christian Motorcycle Association spoke about the organization and its international efforts to spread Christianity. They just finished holding their Run for the Son ride to raise money to provide transportation to missionaries. Provided transportation has included motorcycles, bicycles, boats and camels. The organization began in 1975 and is present in all 50 US states and 18 foreign countries. Eighteen members attended.<br />
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Club business:<br />
We have received the applications for our scholarship. Roger and Vonice will review and select the winner; Carl will make the presentation.<br />
Margie asked for club volunteers to work on July 20 packaging dry pet food to be delivered to Meals on Wheels recipients. Five members volunteered.<br />
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<strong>May 4, 2017</strong> - Mike Doggett, the after care director at Union Gospel Mission (UGM) spoke to us about the after care program. UGM has a 18 month addiction recovery program and then after care is available for life. Nationwide, 65% of recovery participants relapse within 3 years; if a participant does not relapse in 3 years they have a good chance of staying addiction free; if they go 5 years without relapse they will probably stay addiction free for life. After care also includes help in getting GEDs and vocational education; seminars on how to be a good employee and about 110 businesses offer practicums for participants to get experience. About 65% of practicum participants are hired by those businesses. Sixteen members attended.<br />
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Club business:<br />
Special Olympics lunch packing will be this Saturday starting at 7:30am. EWU women's soccer team will help pack. Club members will lead the packing and help set up on Friday morning.<br />
Mayfest, May 13 - Kiwanis will have an information table and silent auction for 2 - $50 restaurant gift cards. Tom and Mark will work the table from 9-2.<br />
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President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-59742287658012560602017-06-10T21:45:00.001-07:002017-06-10T21:45:32.790-07:00<strong>April 27, 2017 - </strong>Nineteen members attended and heard a presentation by Keith Fauerso. His father was a navigator on a B-17 that was shot down over Germany. He was captured and became a POW at Stalag Luft III, the camp where the Great Escape occurred. He was a member of the escape committee and lost over half of his weight before the camp was liberated. Keith was able to visit the camp's site and showed pictures of it and shared mementos from the camp.<br />
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On May 20 starting at 10am we will plant flowers at the Care Center and then have a pizza party for the assisted living residents who placed wrapped candies into the 5,000 plastic eggs that were set out at the egg hunt. Some Daisy scouts and their mothers will also join in the planting and pizza party.<br />
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<strong>April 20, 2017 - </strong>Twenty members attended and heard a presentation from Jamie Van Wormer, the volunteer coordinator for the Spokane County Library District. The library district is becoming active in a number of community related programs and she focused on the reading buddies and the tutoring programs it organizes in conjunction with Cheney area schools. Currently there are reading buddies at Salnave and they plan to offer buddies at Betz in the near future. Buddies meet for about 1 hour a week after school. The students are usually in the 2nd or 3rd grade. During the hour there is a snack, then 25 minutes of reading and a 10 minute academic game at the end. Volunteers receive training by video, are interviewed before being accepted and also have to pass a Washington State patrol background check. <br />
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The egg hunt was a success - good turnout, good weather and about 6 Key Club members volunteered.<br />
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<strong>April 13, 2017 -</strong> Twenty-one members attended. Final plans for the egg hunt were discussed as well as plans for the May 6 Special Olympics lunch packing. <br />
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Our speaker was Maggie Crabtree, from one of the Spokane Kiwanis Clubs. She is public relations and communications professional. She spoke briefly about the change in public relations from being one-way (organization uses media) to two-way communication with feedback from the public. Currently public relations focuses on whether the public is aware, have they formed and attitude and have they acted as a result. She illustrated how this could apply to our egg hunt event.<br />
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<strong>April 6, 2017 -</strong> Seventeen members heard Dick Donley speak about Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address. In Lincoln's day the President didn't speak to the public but Lincoln did, asking the people to rededicate themselves to the cause of democracy. The first paragraph of the Gettysburg Address focuses on the past, the second paragraph focuses on the present and the final paragraph focuses on the future. <br />
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Club members were given an update on the plans for the egg hunt which will be on Saturday, April 15 starting at 11am. Volunteers should arrive by 9am. We had interclub visitors from Medical Lake Kiwanis. President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-42139955606664296432017-05-06T23:03:00.000-07:002017-05-06T23:03:02.310-07:00<strong></strong><br />
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<strong>March 30, 2017 - </strong>Nineteen members heard<strong> </strong>Julie Meadowcroft from Horizon Hospice speak about brain health. She explained that 'dementia' is the umbrella term for mental decline and about 70-80% of dementia cases are actually Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's is the 6th leading cause of death. The first symptoms are recent memory loss and in late stages the patient talks in 3rd person. The patient loses peripheral vision and should be approached from the front and people should identify themselves. She explained that Medicaid can cover memory care after the first 18 months in a facility.<br />
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<strong>March 23, 2017 - </strong>Twenty-one members were present and we continued to share our backgrounds. <br />
The Betz K-Kids rummage sale will be on May 20; proceeds go to Second Harvest and unsold items will be donated to Goodwill.<br />
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<strong>March 16, 2017 - </strong>Eighteen members attended and we did not have a formal speaker. Instead, several members spoke about themselves and shared where they born and where they grew up, what brought them to Cheney and something we probably didn't know about them. <br />
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The egg hunt will be on April 15 and Bob has contacted our event partners and beginning to organize it. Betz K-Kids will hold a rummage sale later this spring with proceeds to go to Second Harvest.<br />
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<strong>March 9, 2017 - </strong>Seventeen members heard Chuck Richardson speak about Kiwanis Childrens Cancer Program. It raises money to fund children's cancer research fellowships at 3 locations in the Northwest (including one in Victoria, British Columbia). Larry Barringer, who works with the local Aktion club explained that it gives adults with disabilities a service club so they can help their communities. One of their programs is to collect and package donated cat and dog food for distribution to people who receive Meals on Wheels. They distribute 500-600 packages a month. He also contacts Kiwanis clubs to see if they will help fund member jackets for the Aktion club participants.<br />
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<strong>March 2 , 2017 - </strong>We officially welcomed Gary as a new member. Our sixteen members heard a presentation from Jana Beals who has started a non-profit organization called West Plains Youth. She learned that her granddaughter was giving some of her clothes to fellow students who didn't have clothes to wear. She is focusing on providing teens with clothes, toiletries and school supplies. She has a physical location where teens or families can pick out donated items. She also hopes to set up a 'store' where teens can shop and would like to offer life skills classes such as cooking, interviewing and personal finance. <br />
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Betz K-Kids will donate last year's car wash money to UGM on March 18 and they are helping set up a book fair at their school.<br />
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<strong>February 22, 2017 - </strong>We had our 2nd annual Sweetheart dinner. Fourteen members ( including 2 couples) and 12 guests attended.<br />
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<strong>February 16, 2017 - </strong>Chris Cargill from the Washington Policy Center (WPC) spoke to 15 club members. He talked about the state budget for the next biennium; it may increase by $2.6 billion and the legislature the following taxes are being considered: state income tax, state capital gains tax, carbon tax and increase in the B&O tax. Education spending is a major issue; the GOP favors spending a minimum of $12,500 per student statewide and having a statewide levy to replace district levies. Voters have defeated a state income tax 9 times and the WPC favors a constitutional amendment prohibiting and income tax. If the Affordable Care Act is abolished, there may be many people going onto Medicaid and it's not clear if the federal government will provide any financial support for that increase.<br />
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Last Saturday the Betz K-Kids took 400 valentines to the Veterans Care home in Spokane.<br />
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<strong>February 9, 2017 </strong>- Thirteen members attended the meeting; we did not have a speaker.<br />
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<strong>February 2, 2017 - </strong>Dave Gorton from the EWU entrepreneurship program spoke to 10 club members and one guest. The entrepreneurship program developed about one and half years ago, opened in fall of 2016 with 21 students and has 30 students in winter 2017. He said the entrepreneurship minor may enroll more students than the major program since science and art majors may have entrepreneurship interests. Program participants have prepared "Shark Tank" type pitches and participated in business plan and model competitions.Funding for prizes and events are provided by family, friends, the Jones foundation and other parties.<br />
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He distributed copies of an "idea napkin" and a "sketch pad". The idea napkin helps determine if the person has the intensity to make the idea happen; the sketch pad pulls together key features of the idea and rates the strength of its impact and its feasibility.President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-5325674217382279312017-03-19T13:34:00.003-07:002018-10-19T05:52:10.770-07:00<br />
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presentation from Cheney School district administrators Rob Roettger, Sean
Dotson and Kassidy Probert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
distributed the final plan for the district levy that will be on the ballot in
early February.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dollar amount has
increased;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all elementary schools and
the high school would get additional classrooms and all schools would have
re-designed, more secure main entrances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some money is also expected to go to purchasing additional land for a
future school.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">January 19, 2017</span> </b>- <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Icy roads impacted our meeting; only
11 members and one guest attended and our scheduled speaker did not come out
from Spokane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shared stories about
past bad winters that we experienced here or elsewhere.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">January 12, 2017</span> – </b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cheney Police Chief John Hensley
spoke to 16 club members and one guest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He began by thanking us for our support and helping to pass the 2016
levy lift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About $46,000 was applied to
the purchase of 3 fully equipped all-wheel drive cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2017 they plan to execute a
lease-to-purchase for 2 or 3 additional vehicles. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New body armor and vests have been
purchased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One officer has been added
and the goal is to have no officer alone on any shift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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enforcement responsibility was transferred from the fire department to the
police department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since June there have
been 680 code enforcement cases leading to 400-500 letters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only 3 tickets were issued and 4 cases are
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He discussed
2016 crime statistics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thefts were up 8%
over the previous year due to a rash of car theft/break-ins done in June by 3
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If those crimes were removed
from the count, there would have been a 22% decrease in thefts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said they are able to recover some car
theft items by checking Craig’s List.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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if there were any open carry gun issues in Cheney and also about concealed
carry permits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said there were no
service calls related to open carry. Concealed permit application process
information is available at the police station and the number of applications
has increased in the last year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">January 5, 2017</span></b> – <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sixteen members heard a weather
update from member Bob Quinn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
reported that we had 6.9 inches of precipitation in October, which made it the
wettest October in history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The oceans
are warming which leads to more moisture and more precipitation in winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The arctic air is here and will bring
snowfall that will bring us to average snowpack in the mountains.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He said that
another ice age is due, geologically speaking <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and will be rapid (less than 100 years long).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ice age triggers include the relationship of
sun and earth, tilt of the earth, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Member John
Taves has started “Snow Angels” to recruit volunteers to help clear walkways
for citizens who are unable to do it for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can be reached at 509-559-5670.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-65865292642289618722017-02-08T19:18:00.001-08:002017-02-08T19:18:53.921-08:00<strong>December 22, 2016</strong> - Lt. Gov. Marty Phanco spoke to us about Kiwanis district and division projects and updated us on future regional and district conference dates and locations. Fourteen members were present. We also had a report on our participation in setting up the Gifts for Cheney Kids and a report on Betz K-Kids activities.<br />
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<strong>December 15, 2016</strong> - Fourteen members attended and heard a presentation by Elsy, who is organizing the Gifts for Cheney Kids done through Cheney Outreach. She told us of her background and how she was selected to take over the gift event. Tonight the set up will happen from 4 to 6 pm and the distribution is scheduled for tomorrow from 8am to 1pm. We took up a collection for the event and several members planned to help tonight.<br />
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We agreed NOT to meet on December 29.<br />
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<strong>December 8, 2016</strong> - We did not have a speaker; the eighteen members at this meeting discussed the presentation we heard the week before.<br />
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<strong>December 1, 2016</strong> - Eighteen members and one guest attended. The club heard a presentation from PJ Watters of the Inland Northwest Community Foundation. She explained that it administers funds for a large number of charities in a 10 county area in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. The foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization and our scholarship fund could have the benefit of 501(c)(3) status through them. They would invest our funds for a fee and would administer the scholarship award and verification. We could participate in selecting the recipient.<br />
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<strong>November 24, 2016</strong> - Thanksgiving day; no meeting.<br />
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<strong>November 17, 2016</strong> - Our eighteen members heard a presentation from Cheney School District administrators regarding the bond issue that is being developed for a vote in February 2017. They explained that the high school was build for 900 students but currently 1225 attend it and enrollment is expected to climb to about 1600 by 2026. They distributed a handout showing how a total proposed bond of $55 million would be used to provide additional facilities at the high school, 3 elementary schools, one alternative high school and provide money to purchase land for an additional future school.<br />
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<strong>November 10, 2016</strong> - Seventeen members and two guests heard a winter weather update from our newest member, Bob Quinn. He said the weather patterns indicate we should meet our average annual snowfall of 45 inches and he expects strong snowfall in the mountains. He said there is global warming - 8 of the warmest years in history have happened in the last decade. The question is what is the cause? There can be natural causes that are reflected in huge variations over very long geologic time; there are unnatural (man made) causes also. Atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased 30% since 2000. He noted both carbon dioxide and water vapor contribute to the greenhouse effect.<br />
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<strong>November 3, 2016</strong> - we did not have a guest speaker.President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-15062717871005697402017-02-05T18:26:00.000-08:002017-02-05T18:26:58.643-08:00<strong>October 27, 2016 - </strong>Chief Walters of the EWU police department spoke to 16 club members. He has been in police work for 38 years, with 25 years as a state patrolman before coming to EWU. He explained that EWU police are fully commissioned and can make arrests; the department handles 50-75 service calls a day. They use a community policing approach - getting out of the car to interact with students and others on campus. There are student cadets that work in the department and 3 of the officers are former EWU students. He explained that terrorism and violence are the major issues facing police departments and talked about the department's role in new student orientations.<br />
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The club voted to donate the October 2016 through February 2017 quarter cup donations to Camp Comia and the March through September 2017 quarter cup donations to Friends of the Cheney Library.<br />
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<strong>October 20, 2016 - </strong>We did not meet in the morning since our officer installation dinner will be on October 21.<br />
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<strong>October 13, 2016 - </strong>Thirteen members attended. Catherine Nero Lowry, supervisor of the Cheney Branch of the Spokane County Library District (SCLD) talked about the children's programs offered at the library. They include STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) after school activities and a Jr. Achievement program for grades K-5. There is also a financial literacy series being offered on Saturdays. Tami Chapman, also from SCLD, spoke about employment and business resources available at the library. Employment resources include resume and cover letter coaching and review. People can enhance their skills through GALE ( up to 5 free classes) and Lynda.com. Imagine Microsoft Academy includes training, testing and certification; apprenticeship and college application resources are also available. There is a 'business card' that gives immediate access to small business related resources including SCORE, SNAP women's business center and information on how to direct online search results to your business.<br />
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Clara reported that 27 students were at the last Betz K-Kids meeting. They are working on skits about respect and reading to younger students.<br />
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<strong>October 6, 2016 - </strong>Eighteen members and one guest heard an encore presentation by Dave Wall on the women's programs at Union Gospel Mission Spokane (UGM). He explained that Anna Ogden Hall ( a former convalescent hospital) was opened in the 1970's. It has 18 rooms and averages 88 occupants a night; there has been as many as 122 occupants a night. He bought two women from the programs to speak about their situations. Cindy was a nurse, came from an abusive relationship and became addicted to alcohol. She has gone through the crisis center several times. Deb also had an alcohol addiction and was in abusive relationship. She is working to be able to help others at the shelter. <br />
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We also heard updates on the rest stop fundraiser, the upcoming officer installation dinner, Betz K-Kids and the Cheney Coat drive.<br />
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<strong>September 29, 2016 - </strong>Twenty-one members heard Gesha Thupten Phelgye speak about his Buddhism and life experiences. He was 3 when China invaded Tibet and his family fled, was caught and put in a refugee camp. He fled it and got to India where he hard the Dali Lama and decided to follow a religious life. He explained that Buddhism is humanism which leads to compassion and a belief in the sanctity of all life . A goal of Buddhism is enlightment and becoming a Buddha. Buddte is wisdom and knowledge and a person who has accomplished Buddte is a Buddha. <br />
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Clara reported that Betz K-Kids had 22 students at their last meeting.<br />
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<strong>September 22, 2016 -</strong> Fourteen members and one guest heard a presentation by Dave Wall, Director of Community Engagement for Union Gospel Mission Spokane (UGM). He said that the fastest growing homeless population is women and children. UGM focuses on 3 things to help women and children: emergency rescue (food, clothing and shelter); addiction recovery (drug, alcohol and relationship) and restoration (independent housing and job training). These are part of an 18 month program that also includes parenting training. Later this year the women's shelter will move into a new location - a former nursing home. The current women's crisis location on East Sprague will become a youth shelter. UGM receives no federal money. <br />
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We also heard updates on the rest stop fundraiser for late September and the Harvest Festival on October 31 at EWU.President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-22003794540207591012017-01-04T17:03:00.001-08:002017-01-04T17:03:28.823-08:00<strong>September 15, 2016 - </strong>Sixteen members attended and heard a presentation from local meteorologist Bob Quinn. He described weather prediction as a combination of science and mystic art. His prediction for this winter: significant snow pack in the mountains and mild winter at lower elevation. While there is global warming, we can still have cold, nasty winters. This year we are experiencing a La Nina weather pattern.<br />
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<strong>September 8, 2016-</strong> Seventeen members heard updates on the officer installation dinner, planned for an interclub visit to Medical Lake and signed up to collect or distribute coats for the Community Coat drive. <br />
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Tom Capul, EWU professor in computer science spoke about the computer science program. It has been nationally accredited since 1987, has 13 full-time faculty and about 400 students. Some senior capstone projects have student teams build software for free for local groups. Past projects included rebuilding the Spokane County crime check web site and an EWU advocacy website directed to state legislators. If a capstone project is built for a business and money is earned, a percentage goes to the department. One guest was also present.<br />
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<strong>September 1, 2016 -</strong> Seventeen members attended; we had updates on the proceeds of the Blackhawk/Kiwanis golf tournament and information on Kiwanis dues for 2016-17. We agreed to have no meeting on October 20 since we will have our officer installation dinner on Friday, October 21.<br />
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Member Mark Eckerich brought a WW2 Jeep for us to see. Before we looked at it he gave some history of the development and use of the Jeeps. The federal government gave 4 companies a one-month timeframe to design a vehicle for military use. A total of over 600,000 Jeeps were built by Willys and Ford. Some unique features of a WW2 Jeep: it had blackout headlights and the headlights could swivel to light up the engine for repairs; the instruction manual included extensive instructions on how to destroy it if it was in danger of being seized by the enemy and it had an 11 gallon radiator. Civilian use Jeeps had a tail gate and outside gas filler; military models had no tail gate and the gas fill was under the driver's seat.<br />
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<strong>August 25, 2016</strong> - Seventeen members and one guest attended the meeting. We got preliminary information on the officer installation dinner and learned that the Community Coat drive collection period will be September 12 through October 7 and distribution will be at Salnave Elementary on October 15.<br />
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Todd Ableman, Public Works Director for the City of Cheney gave a presentation on water usage, supply and future plans to reuse water for irrigation of city parks and school district property. There is a major green belt from the city pool past the high school and Betz Elementary to the 50 acre park. During irrigation season the system's maximum capacity is almost completely used and that is why residents have been asked to follow an alternating day irrigation schedule, based on house number.<br />
New housing and apartment construction may require drilling an additional well to provide adequate water supply. He also talked about sidewalk disability ramps being changed to comply with federal requirements so the city can request federal grants for future street and paving projects. The city is also updating water mains crossing First street so the work is done before the state does a new surface overlay in 2017. <br />
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President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-11766413122603048612016-10-23T00:13:00.000-07:002016-12-20T10:43:45.464-08:00On August 18, 2016 new Cheney District Superintendent Robert Roettger spoke to 17 club members. He was at St. John Endicott district for about 5 years then became superintendent of the Lind-Ritzville district for 5 years before becoming Cheney superintendent. He told us about his 10 educational beliefs and talked about the growing student population and that the administration will be looking at how to deal with increases in elementary enrollment, enhancing security features at the schools and how to deal with the overcrowding at Cheney HS.President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-18162030052767505872016-10-23T00:08:00.000-07:002016-10-23T00:08:08.801-07:00At our August 11, 2016 meeting we did not have a speaker. Tom gave an estimate of our proceeds from the Kiwanis/Blackhawk golf tournament and Margie presented information about the upcoming Cheney Coat drive.President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-90103443763429346962016-10-23T00:04:00.002-07:002016-10-23T00:04:28.126-07:00Sixteen members were at our August 4, 2016 meeting and heard Aaron Best, offensive lineman football coach at EWU. He talked about coaching and said his biggest accomplishment was helping a player work through tough circumstances and eventually complete his masters' degree in five and a half years. He characterized offensive linemen as "most trusted but least recognized " because they support the offense but don't "make" the plays. He said that EWU does more with less resources than any other school in the Big Sky and talked about the 2016 schedule. President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-82535874411818284472016-10-22T23:56:00.001-07:002018-05-27T21:31:10.449-07:00On July 28, 2016 fourteen members heard a presentation from Charity Rotinski regarding 4-H and her home-schooled 4-H Club, West Plains Kidz and Chickz. She explained that 4-H stands for Head, Heart, Health and Hands. Clubs focus on STEM education, political awareness and arts as well as livestock and other activities. There have been 4-H clubs in Spokane County since 1902 and 81% of the kids who stay in 4-H through high school go on to post-secondary education. She explained that project management is one of the skills that 4-H members learn: they keep records, do budgets, give presentations about their projects and learn goal setting and develop confidence through their activities. She also spoke about her own special needs kids and how she worked to have the Spokane Interstate Fair modify its rules so special needs kids could participate in livestock showing. She also talked about the Junior Livestock show and how its sale provides funds for 4-H members; unfortunately it is struggling financially and its future is uncertain.<br />
<br />President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-52471804058578062112016-10-22T23:45:00.004-07:002016-10-22T23:45:59.483-07:00July 21, 2016 - Eighteen members heard a presentation by Tom Davis, who was a telegrapher for a brief time at the Northern Pacific railroad station in Cheney. He spent two years learning Morse code and other telegrapher duties but only worked about 6 months because telephones and computers were eliminating the telegrapher's role. Amongst other duties, the telegrapher was responsible for taking and delivering train orders, selling tickets and changing switches and he demonstrated how train orders were 'handed' to the engineer as the train slowed down while passing the station.<br />
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Members were told that the plan is to move the station to another location along First Street and near the downtown. They envision using the station for some small businesses. President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-4108731409181223932016-10-22T23:38:00.000-07:002016-10-22T23:38:46.357-07:00On July 14, 2016 nineteen members heard a presentation by Charles Mutschler, President of the Cheney Depot Society. He explained that the current station was an upgrade requested by Clarence Martin, who owned the flour mill and also was Governor of Washington. It is one of about 3 mission style stations in the Northwest. He also talked about the types of service available in the past: package delivery by Railway Express Agency, first class mail service via mail cars and passenger service. He explained how train orders and time tables worked and said that Cheney once had a 24 hour station agent who handled all items at the station. <br />
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The most notable visitor to Cheney by train was President Truman who stopped in 1950 to see Mr. Martin who had campaigned for the building of Grand Coulee Dam. President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693622365709229183.post-5718228371596400842016-10-22T23:31:00.001-07:002016-10-22T23:31:37.961-07:00At our July 7, 2016 meeting 19 members heard presentations by Miss Rodeo Washington and Miss Rodeo Florida. They explained that Florida has more rodeos than Washington and is number 5 in the nation for number of PRCA rodeos. They explained that the Miss Rodeo USA pageant is a week long event and includes public speaking about current events, extemporaneous speaking, interviews and testing on horsemanship and horse health.<br />
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We also heard that eh Golf tourney donations are going well; the event will be July 17.President/Board Memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09082655373805872396noreply@blogger.com0