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November 2, 2015

Speaker: Communities in Schools

Sarah Moore is CIS of Mid America at Omaha Affiliate Director.

CIS brokers, coordinates and provides services to meet the unique goals set for each school.

It may be a retention program or anti bullying. CIS staff may teach confidence or personal presentation classes. Students may be connected to YMCA or other mentoring programs. Or CIS may provide a bus for a field trip or new glasses for a needy student.

Thank you Sarah for sharing such interesting information about your work.

Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha

September 28, 2015

Meeting Notes

Speaker coordinator sheet is passing around. Vince is taking sign up.

Salvation Army Bell Ringing coming up.

Highway cleanup 10/17 – see Joe Grier.

Last Friday, read to all 19 kids at Sacred Heart school kids.

10/16 – need 5 Kiwanis readers

10/30, 11/6, 11/20 are upcoming dates.

Thanks Jack for being such an excellent president this year.

Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha

September 28, 2015

New Kiwanis District Secretary

My Fellow Kiwanians:

As most of you know Frank Murphy our District Secretary-Treasurer is retiring September 30, 2015. Frank has done an outstanding job; he has been the continuity and the glue that have held this district together for the last 7 years. I want to personally thank Frank for the great job as District Secretary and for making this transition easier!

I would like to introduce myself. My name is Barb O’Donnell; I belong to the Bellevue AM Club. It is my honor to try and fill Frank’s shoes as the incoming District Secretary-Treasurer. I have been a Kiwanian since 2008 and have held several offices, including Lt Governor, in my short time as a Kiwanian. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am to have this position and promise you all that I will work hard to make this a smooth transition and to serve your needs in the years to come.

A little bit about me – I am married to my wonderful hubby Bill. I have four grown children and 11 grandchildren, 7 boys and 4 girls. Some of my hobbies are golf and making custom greeting cards. I make birthday cards and Christmas cards for all of Bill’s clients. For my Kiwanis Club each member gets a card designed just for them on their Kiwanis Anniversary, our President writes a personalized note and then gives the card to the member. It has been a fun tradition.

The office email is NIKiwanisDistrict “@” gmail.com.

In Kiwanis service,

September 21, 2015

Speaker: Children Respite Care Center

Sarah Children Respite Care Center Outreach Coordinator

Opened in 1990. Growing steadily to include a new, second facility last year on Q.

A number of needs are met. Including therapy sessions, weekend services, daycare, occupational health and other services for mentally challenged kids.

Mental health therapies include family therapy, parenting, behavior therapies.

Family events are also important. BounceU and Storm Chasers are examples of fun outings.

There is no other agency that provides the same range of services.

Thanks Sarah for all the interesting information about CRCC.

– Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha

September 21, 2015

Meeting Notes

Sacred Heart reading kicked off with 5 Kiwanians volunteer reading last Friday. Dale is looking for another couple readers for this coming Friday.

KCOGO is sponsoring 2 campers to Kiwanis Leadership Camp this fall from the Hope Center.

Vince is starting sign up for Salvation Army bell ringing Saturday, December 5. Details to come.

Speaker Calendar for 2016 is being circulated. Even if you don’t want to commit for a month, speaker suggestions are always welcome to Vince.

Our new president reminds us that we have an easy fundraising set up! Many organizations spend hours putting together events to raise money for good works. We have 2 simple, on going ones.

Happy Bucks continues to be our primary fundraiser. $’s being accepted at every meeting.

Recycling Print Cartridges – bring to the meeting. Office Depot pays us for each cartridge we turn in.

August 31, 2015

Speaker: Joe Vetro PhD

Joe works in Nanotechnology Medicine. He is an associate professor in Pharmacuetical Sciences. And works in RNA interference therapy of cancer.

Nanotechnology is the creation of a useful device or system at the nano scale. The nano scale is very small. A drug is around 1 nanometer. Virus is a nano size. The size range of nano is talking to the size of the technology.

Pharmacotherapy is use of drugs that produce beneficial effects. Prevent, cure, stop or slow progression, or reduce or eliminate clinical symptoms.

There are many delivery systems for nano Pharmacueticals. The researchers are looking at the actual material, release mechanism, and how to get the medicine to the right area of the body.

UNMC also works with animals. Production animals and pets helps the scientist learn how nanomedicines react in a complex environment.

Thank you, Joe, for all the interesting information (and keeping it at a layman level).

August 17, 2015

Speaker: Howard E Gendelman,MD

Dr Gendelman started school to become a spy. He studied Russian in school. He went on to work in Isreal.

He then became a Doctor. But after a time he began to study neuroscience at John Hopkins. He finished his education as part of the Army. He spent many years in the chemical warfare area.

Before his retirement, he spent time in Dessert Storm. Once he retired he returned to NYC but was recruited to Omaha.

He moved to Omaha in 1991.

Dr Gendelman began working in Alzheimer’s, MS and Parkinson’s disease research. In NE, we live statistically 8 years longer than people that live on NYC. Because we live longer we are experiencing more of these diseases.

The double blind research study is just completing and getting ready for publication. It’s taken 16 years to research, test and human test through the FDA to find a treatment for these diseases.

In the next few months the study will be fully released and we will be very excited to see the full results.

Thank you, Dr Gendelman for the education on these diseases.

August 3, 2015

Speaker : Robert Cryne

Iraq: The Neighborhood, Then and Now

Retired in 2014. And is now practicing law in Omaha and teaching at Bellevue University.

Islam began in Saudi Arabia. 632 AD when The Prophet passed but not any of his sons survived to adulthood. This began the splits into sects.

A great history lesson and how this impacts the geo-political matters in that area.

Thank you for all the information.

August 3, 2015

Lyle Memorial Golf Tournament

Good News Golf Event raised about $60,000.

July 28, 2015

If You Love Bacon…………

Fellow Kiwanian, John Wehrle, asked me to pass along…

Bacon Fest Omaha

August 9
1:00-5:00

Kroc Center
2825 Y Street

Need tickets? 20% discount code for adult tickets ($25 adults; $5 kids). Use Code: PARTNERBACON

Need more information: OmahaKroc.org/BaconFest or contact John 402-898-6052

July 27, 2015

Meeting Notes

Kiwanis conference this Saturday. Coach Miles is the speaker.

All Play this Saturday is our club responsibility this Saturday. Sign up online at allplay.org

July 13, 2015

Speaker: Brian Smith, National Weather Service

What Not to Do During Severe Weather (or Just Don’t be Stupid)

Brian manages the emergency service in this area. He also studies and applies his storm damage knowledge around the country.

The National Weather Service (NWS) wants the nation to become a “National Weather Ready” citizenry. Getting business to become informed and share information with their employees.

There are 5 hazards with thunder storms.

1. Lightning

2. Flash Floods

3. Wind

4. Hail

5. Tornado

Try the app “Radar Scope” to watch the weather.

Thank you, Brian, for all the storm safety tips.

July 13, 2015

Kiwanis Meeting Notes

District Conference is Aug 7-8 in Lincoln. See the District website for details.

Rundee is getting a Kiwanis team together. Rundee is August 29. See Shawn for team details.

All Play schedule is posted. Our Kiwanis club is assigned to August 22. Sign up online.

Watch for Board meeting details a week from Wednesday.

Happy Bucks continues to support the Greater Omaha Kiwanis Club.

June 22, 2015

Speaker : inCommon Community Development

Christian Gray, inCommon Commnity Development.

Key Ideas: unite and strengthen neighborhoods. You are a product of your environment.

Park Avenue neighborhood is the current focus. 1 in 3 people in the area earn below the poverty line.

There has been a huge increase in poverty in the U.S.

Neighborhood development gets to the root of issues. InCommon built a community center 2 years ago in Park Ave area. Gives a “front door” to the people in the area.

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) – who are they? Started with churches organized into Neighbors United. Foster relationships with community meals, Zumba, job training programs, and setting up a recycling business to employ people.

Civic Power + Social Change

Thank you, Christian, for sharing your mission with Greater Omaha Kiwanis.

June 18, 2015

Speaker: Hope Center for Kids

Brenda Block, development director and interim executive director, spoke about the mission of the Hope Center for Kids.

She showed videos of the Hope Center in action and concluded with a fun video of current UNO student that went through the Hope Center, following his journey through the years, the people who influenced him and the kids he in turn influenced.

The Hope Center has seen a dramatic increase in kids served, from 75 only 5 years ago to over 250 today and now has a center in Fremont that partners with the Fremont Family YMCA. The center needs over 65 volunteers each week to work alongside the staff. She particularly emphasized the Employment Academy that trains kids how to be successful not only as students but also as future employees in the work force.

A weekly stipend is paid to students and 2 out of state college visits are provided for kids enrolled in the academy. The Center is a partner with 9 other agencies in the Step Up summer program that sponsors jobs for kids.

Thank you, Brenda, for educating our Kiwanis Club on all you do for our kids.

May 14, 2015

Special Olympics Sign Up

Our Kiwanis club is helping out again this year at the Special Olympics. This event is always on of the highlights of the year for our club. If you would like to volunteer please email Chris Farris at chrisf@illuminatefinancialgroup.com. Be sure to include your t-shirt size in your email.

We will need to have our roster turned in by Monday, May 18^th if you are planning on helping out please contact Chris by this date. You can also call Chris to RSVP at 402-547-1608.

Special Olympics

When: Friday May 22^st at 6:00

Where: Northwest high school (north end of the football field)

May 11, 2015