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Business Meeting
Three Rivers Kiwanis
Sandee's, Milo, Maine USA - 2/11/09 - There were twelve
members present at Sandee’s Restaurant at the Wednesday morning
Business meeting. Dover-Foxcroft had an inter-club present with
five members. Jessica and Hailey were present from the Builders
Club and three Key Club members, Josh, Camille, and
Stephanie.
Eben DeWitt led us in the Pledge of Allegiance and Camille
offered the Morning Prayer. Heidi provided the Thought for The
Day. Rob Ellison has a birthday on the 16th.
A request from the GFWC Miocic club for an Art Show was
received. This request will be reviewed by the Board in March.
Edwin shared the importance of supporting the Arts with young
children and students.
We received sixteen Happy/Sad Dollars: Dick happy for a
successful Bean Supper that will take place the 1st Saturday of
each month and happy to see Lee here today; Josh is happy the
Harrigans will be returning soon as their house sold in
Florida; Dover misses Lois, Frank and Bobby; happy for Town
Hall Kitchen renovations; Val is happy Doc Sherman has
vaccinated all the cats; good time at Abel’s Blood Dover
Kiwanis Social; happy Garden club will donate to the Kitchen
Fund;
There was an inter-club at Abel’s Blood and one planned for
Orono/Oldtown on the Tuesday, February 24th. Don’t forget
Sunday night is an opportunity to participate in an on-line
inter-club with Kiwanis. February 21st at 12:00 at the Dexter
Legion Hall there will be a Division 2 meeting and officer
training. Lunch will be provided for $7 please RSVP George
Barton at 564-2118 or Gary Nelson if you plan to attend. Next
week the interim Superintendent will speak of what happens now
with school consolidation.
Dover shared its Hottest Ticket in Town fundraiser and how they
raised $3000.
The Variety Show is scheduled for May 8th and the Kiwanis
members will be developing an act. Camille and Stephanie are
working together to develop acts. The theme is Classics-Old and
New. RIF will be having distributions in March.
Heidi requested that the Young Children Priority One Committee
meet on February 18th following the regular meeting at
Sandee’s. Anyone interested may attend. Josh reported that the
Key Club is working on a Book Swap for children and may be able
to stay for the committee meeting to discuss how we could
support this together.
Jan is working on the Kiwanis One Day project for the Pleasant
River Walk, this is also a Key Club project. Jan is working on
getting many different community members to work together on
this project.
The Key Club is selling Shamrocks to support the March of Dimes
and Josh will be getting information to Val for the Newsletter
to inform the community of this fund raiser.
Mary Jane Pokrywka is going to be working on the 501c3
application for the club.
Secret Santa has a balance forwarded for Christmas 2009.
Ethelyn will be meeting with the elementary schools on February
26th at 3:00 o’clock at the Milo Elementary to work on the
Charter application for K-Kids.
The board voted to support the Key Club Convention and Key
Leader Camp. An adult is needed to chaperone the Key Leader
Camp for March 6-7.
The board voted to kick off a fund raiser for the Town Hall
Kitchen project with $1500. The kitchen is an important
resource for Kiwanis and many other community groups. Ken
Woodbury is exploring grant opportunities for this, as the Town
Hall is a secondary emergency shelter, the High School is the
primary shelter in an emergency. Design and code requirements
are being explored. The kitchen stoves cannot be used for
cooking right now due to fire codes.
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Heidi Finson, Secretary
A request from the GFWC Miocic club for an Art Show was
received. This request will be reviewed by the Board in March.
Edwin shared the importance of supporting the Arts with young
children and students.
We received sixteen Happy/Sad Dollars: Dick happy for a
successful Bean Supper that will take place the 1st Saturday of
each month and happy to see Lee here today; Josh is happy the
Harrigans will be returning soon as their house sold in
Florida; Dover misses Lois, Frank and Bobby; happy for Town
Hall Kitchen renovations; Val is happy Doc Sherman has
vaccinated all the cats; good time at Abel’s Blood Dover
Kiwanis Social; happy Garden club will donate to the Kitchen
Fund;
There was an inter-club at Abel’s Blood and one planned for
Orono/Oldtown on the Tuesday, February 24th. Don’t forget
Sunday night is an opportunity to participate in an on-line
inter-club with Kiwanis. February 21st at 12:00 at the Dexter
Legion Hall there will be a Division 2 meeting and officer
training. Lunch will be provided for $7 please RSVP George
Barton at 564-2118 or Gary Nelson if you plan to attend. Next
week the interim Superintendent will speak of what happens now
with school consolidation.
Dover shared its Hottest Ticket in Town fundraiser and how they
raised $3000.
The Variety Show is scheduled for May 8th and the Kiwanis
members will be developing an act. Camille and Stephanie are
working together to develop acts. The theme is Classics-Old and
New. RIF will be having distributions in March.
Heidi requested that the Young Children Priority One Committee
meet on February 18th following the regular meeting at
Sandee’s. Anyone interested may attend. Josh reported that the
Key Club is working on a Book Swap for children and may be able
to stay for the committee meeting to discuss how we could
support this together.
Jan is working on the Kiwanis One Day project for the Pleasant
River Walk, this is also a Key Club project. Jan is working on
getting many different community members to work together on
this project.
The Key Club is selling Shamrocks to support the March of Dimes
and Josh will be getting information to Val for the Newsletter
to inform the community of this fund raiser.
Mary Jane Pokrywka is going to be working on the 501c3
application for the club.
Secret Santa has a balance forwarded for Christmas 2009.
Ethelyn will be meeting with the elementary schools on February
26th at 3:00 o’clock at the Milo Elementary to work on the
Charter application for K-Kids.
The board voted to support the Key Club Convention and Key
Leader Camp. An adult is needed to chaperone the Key Leader
Camp for March 6-7.
The board voted to kick off a fund raiser for the Town Hall
Kitchen project with $1500. The kitchen is an important
resource for Kiwanis and many other community groups. Ken
Woodbury is exploring grant opportunities for this, as the Town
Hall is a secondary emergency shelter, the High School is the
primary shelter in an emergency. Design and code requirements
are being explored. The kitchen stoves cannot be used for
cooking right now due to fire codes.
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