May 28, 2015 meeting:  Twenty members were present.  In club business it was reported that 8 members planted flowers for our Kiwanis One Day activity and there will be an interclub to East Spokane Kiwanis Club on June 4 at noon. 


Our speaker was Jack Smith, owner of the Cheney SNAP fitness center.  SNAP fitness is located in over 10 countries and has about 2000 locations.  Members have an access card that allows use of any center at any time.  Cheney has about 800 members and he will be opening a SNAP fitness center in Medical Lake this fall. 

May 21, 2015:  Eighteen members attended the meeting.  Members are invited to plant flowers at the Cheney Care Center on May 23 at 10am.  This will be followed at 11:30 with a pizza party to thank the Assisted Living residents who stuffed plastic eggs for the egg hunt.


Our speaker was Michael from the Christian Motorcycle Association (CMA).  It is not a motorcycle club; it is an international organization that spreads Christianity worldwide.  One way they do this is to provide transportation for local ministers in third world countries:  they give everything from motorcycles to bicycles to horses and boats to ministers to help them travel. 

May 14, 2015 meeting:  Seventeen members attended; we changed the Kiwanis One day flower planting to May 23 and will also have a pizza thank you party that day for the Assisted Living residents who helped put candy into the plastic eggs for the Easter Egg hunt. 
Our speaker was Tim Irgens, who is a certified strength and fitness specialist at Apex Physical Therapy.  He talked about the components of fitness and recommends a varied exercise program at least three times a week to maintain fitness.  Apex offers a one hour Senior Fit class 4 times a week and one club member who attends has been able to increase her bone density by participating in it. 

May 7, 2015 meeting:  The 19 members who attended heard a presentation from John Robertson, Program Director at the Crosswalk Teenage shelter in Spokane (kids from Cheney school district also are served).  Their goal is to get kids ages 13-17 off the streets and break the cycle of homelessness; they have found that the majority of adult homeless people were homeless as kids.   They partner with various organizations to provide a broad range of help from emergency shelter, meals and clothing to helping kids get GED certificates; helping with medical and dental care; substance abuse counseling and helping with cost of getting state ID cards.  Volunteers are needed to help prepare meals and help with sports activities. 


John provided a Crosswalk wish list:  girls underwear and grooming products; boys underwear; feminine hygiene products; body wash and disposable shaving razors; socks; gently used clothes and shoes; bus passes and gift cards for movies, haircuts, food, books.etc.  Items can be delivered to 525 West Second Street in Spokane.








We also discussed plans for the Blackhawk Golf Tourney and planting flowers at Cheney Care Center.

April 30, 2015 meeting:  There were 23 members at the meeting.  Our speaker was Vince Barthels, a biologist with JUB engineers.  The company works with smaller municipalities to plan public works projects and clients are located from Eastern Washington to Colorado.  He said the current drought situation has helped with equipment and soil movement but causes problems for fish monitoring.  He also mentioned the Washington Shoreline master plan which does not allow new railroad lines to be constructed within 200' of the high water mark of waterways. 

April 23, 2015 meeting:  We planned the Special Olympics lunch packing event on May 2.  There were 25 members present and we had our annual child protection training.

April 16, 2015 meeting:


The meeting was called to order at 7am and 23 members were present.  Rande is our new interclub organizer. 


Our speaker was Jay McNall of the Spokane County Sheriff's Dept.  The department currently has about 200 commissioned officers.  Their training includes 6 months of academy work, 3-4 months of working with a training officer and one year of probation.  He is a commander of SWAT teams and the team members have to meet special forces physical qualifications.  SWAT teams are only used when there is violent, armed crime in progress or when there is a possible hostage situation.  The county is #4 in the nation for stolen cars.  Most theft is due to drug addicts;  pawn shops have voluntarily agreed to report all items that are pawned (so it is critical to keep a record of serial numbers in case of theft).  Meth is still the drug of choice but number of meth labs have dropped off due to harsh sentencing.