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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.
Where Our Parks Committee's Rubber Meets the
Road!
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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 27th 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 9th at the Whitcomb.
There will be a regular monthly Board meeting Noon at Kiwanis Park on Wednesday,
August 4th.
A reminder that our August 3rd 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 17th.
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!!!

"I cannot believe that the purpose of
life is to be "happy."
I think the purpose of life is
- to be useful
- to be responsible
- to be compassionate
It is, above all
- to matter
- to count
- to stand for something
- to have made some difference that you lived at all."
-Leo Rosten
Clinton County ISD Superintendent Larry
Lloyd shared the above quote with me to describe our father-in-law.
Frankly, I think all of us should give the above words some serious thought.