Saturday, June 10, 2017

April 27, 2017 - 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.

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.


April 20, 2017 - 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. 

The egg hunt was a success - good turnout, good weather and about 6 Key Club members volunteered.


April 13, 2017 - Twenty-one members attended.  Final plans for the egg hunt were discussed as well as plans for the May 6 Special Olympics lunch packing. 

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.


April 6, 2017 - 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. 

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.