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by Ed Meny 269-429-2025 or 269-930-4824  (Last updated on July 27, 2010)  Program reports and recaps below are in date order with the earliest at the beginning and the last meeting at the end.  Future programs, member birthdays, district rating and calendar of events, and news about new links and features added to this page and site are at the top of this page.

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 Contents
Section 1 News In Brief
Section 2 Meeting Notes
Section 3 Announcements
Section 4 Program Schedule
Section 5 Membership
Section 6 Treasurer’s News
Section 7 Additional Information

Section 1 News In Brief
Member Birthdays:
July:
Dick Peterson 2, Clare Musgrove 8, Jason Storm 13, Roy Dost 14, Nancy Pekarek 16, Dick Mackie 17
August:
No August Birthdays

Section 2 Meeting Notes

President, Bruce Moleneaux called the July 27^th meeting to order at the Boulevard Hotel.
Dick Peterson offered the Invocation.
Darl Williams led the group singing. 
Our 50/50 Raffle winner was Roy dost.  Roy was the winner of $6.00.
Our guest speaker was introduced by Bob Cheek.  Bob introduced Kerry Wright.  Kerry is the sales manager for Harbor Shores Real Estate.  
Kerry discussed the four Harbor Shores districts; "Harbor", "Golf", "River", and "Shores".
The "Harbor" district will include condos, town homes, restaurants, shops and a beautiful river walk built around a marina and marine village.  A conference center and hotel have been proposed for the "Harbor" district as well.  
The "Golf" district will have as its center piece...you're correct!  the beautiful 18 hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course.  The "Golf" district will eventually include  29 custom homes (The Fairways), Nicklaus Golf Cottages,  a practice facility and Jack Nicklaus Academy of Golf . 
The "River" District will include 58 cottages and homes in the Hidaway, and and inn and spa.  
The "Shores" District will include a beach village, fitness center, grocery, bank, shops and restaurants.  Of course a very integral part of the Shores District will be Jean Klock Park.  Kerry told us that Jean Klock Park will be owned and managed by the City of Benton Harbor and maintained by Harbor Shores.  An interesting marriage, if you ask me.       

 

Section 3 Announcements
 
Pancake Day:
Pancake Day is scheduled for October 9^th at the Whitcomb.
There will be a regular monthly Board meeting Noon at Kiwanis Park on Wednesday, August 4th.
A reminder that our August 3^rd meeting will take place at the Elks Building (where we used to meet!), and we will give Cravings and the new management team up there a try.  Report to the big room at Noon!
The Steak Fry, and a golf outing, will take place on August 17^th. 
The Board is trying to work something out to provide a larger and more accommodative meeting place with good lunches.  We are somewhat limited by the size of our Club, our meeting day and buy our expectations regarding the cost of our lunches.  In short, we are trying.
Bruce announced that the Whitcomb has offered us meeting space there.  They have reduced their minimum to 25 and would charge us $9.00 for lunches.  Unfortunately, we would have to move our meeting day to Wednesday.  
Our August 24th meeting will be a joint meeting with the Exchange Club.  The Coaches Crying Towel.  We will meet at the Whitcomb.  
There are no special charges involved with either the August 3rd meeting at the Elks or the August 24th meeting at the Whitcomb.  Just come and enjoy and you will be billed for your lunch on your regular quarterly statement as you normally would. 
Paul Jancha is spearheading Kiwanis involvement in a Lincoln Township fire hydrant restoration project.  Saturday August 14 and Sunday August 15th Paul is asking for volunteers to clean and paint fire hydrants in Lincoln Township.  This is a project that Glenn Youngstedt began.  Contact Paul to clean and paint a hydrant;  983-0109 at work and 470-2420 at home.

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of our good friend and very long-time and loyal member, Vince Miller.  Our prayers and best wishes go out to Mark Miller and his family.  Vince, a wonderful member and a fine gentleman, will be missed.

On a much happier note, Clare Musgrove reported that Hank Klos' condition has improved.  Clare reported that Henry might even get to the next meeting!
        



Section 4 Programs
Program Chairs; please get me your programs as soon as possible.  As you can see we have some holes in our up-coming program schedule.  Please let me know when you have future programs set!

 
Section 5 Membership

Membership is the life blood of a Club.  Invite a friend to our meeting and encourage him or her to join our Club.  Promote your Club!

Section 6 Treasurer’s News

Pay your statement promptly!
Most of you have your latest statement.  You will notice that the amount billed is quite a bit less than you are used to.  The reason is the change in how we bill meals.  Dick Mackie is billing for meals eaten rather than billing for meals in advance.  Your next statement will be more like “normal”. 

Additional Information

Our regular meetings:  Boulevard Hotel; Noon – 1:00 PM; Every Tuesday – Lunch Served and Guest Welcome!

Members!  
Please attend our meetings!!!!  Our programs have been excellent and interesting.  It really hurts our Club's reputation when speakers have just a few members to present to.  You can read about it here but there is no substitute for having lunch and fellowship with at your Kiwanis Club!  Put Tuesday, Noon to 1:00 PM on your schedule.  COME ON!

Key Clubs
Key Clubs are a very good thing.  Those of us who have been involved in an advisory role, have found the young members of our Key Clubs to be great ambassadors for Kiwanis and hopefully future Kiwanians at some point in their lives.  
Key Club allows the High School students involved to take leadership roles at their schools and involve themselves in organization and community service.  Key Club is a little bit of the outside world in a High School setting.  Given a chance, the Club becomes a very important part of the High School experience and a big contributor to the school.

 

Hey!  Attend meetings regularly!  Its important! 



Come to the meetings!  Fellowship and entertainment abound!!!