I need to delete this website: Kiwanisomaha.com since the club has merged with another club: www.kiwaniswest.org! Is there a way to put a link on the old website: kiwanisomaha.com to refer to the new website:
www.kiwaniswest.org???
Bill Spiecker
Speaker: German American Society
John spoke about the German American Society.
For social events: www.germanamericansociety.org.
Friday night in the Rathskeller Pub dinner is open to the public.
There are various Clubs within GAS. Singing, dancing, shooting clubs, etc. There is a gymnast club for children. Monthly dinners. October Fest. Beer making clubs and Sausage Making. And other events.
The German American Society has about 800 members.
Thank you John, for informing our Kiwanis about the venue we meet.
meeting notes
MAY 16 – Sacred Heart Zoo trip.
9:00 meeting at Sacred Heart to ride the bus. Or 10:00 at the zoo. Lunch with the kids.
Sacred Heart Reading. Contact Dale to sign up for remaining
Saturday April 22. All Play Cleanup. 10:00
May 20 and June 24. Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha designated dates. Sign up online now.
May 6. Highway cleanup Joe will have a sign up next week.
Camp Okay campers in process. Jack is meeting today to get campers.
Bill is setting up meeting Invocation volunteers.
Rod is promoting Membership Drive.
Garage Sale. June 1,2,3
Sally is suggesting collecting items now. And needs volunteers for these dates.
Meeting Notes
Sacred Heart reading this Friday. Contact Dale.
Zoo Trip coming in May.
April 22, Saturday- All Play clean up weekend. More details coming.
Highway Cleanup in process. Joe is looking at dates.
Board Meeting tomorrow. At TD2. Noon.
Speaker: Equestrian Championship
Mike West, CEO of the Omaha Equestrian Foundation
Mike is a sports and event manager including the Omaha Equestrian Foundation, Cox Classic and CU athletic department.
Omaha is known as an amateur sports event hub. Fan support is unprecedented.
The Omaha Equestrian event is a multi day international, professional sporting event. This is the Olympic class athletes participating.
Bringing the horses in was almost a million dollars. The horses need a passport. And blood test before they leave quarantine.
Expo and shopping areas are free. Daily tickets are available. There is a fan friendly area specifically aimed to kids.
March 29-April 2
The next city this will be held in is Paris.
meeting notes
Camp Okay is underway for this summer. Jack is working with Nathan Hale to find a camper to sponsor June 4-9. Jack is changing school so we can work toward a better engagement. Jack has a second option to work with Sacred Heart.
Sacred Heart reading is Friday. Please contact Dale if you can read.
Zoo trip is being planned for May.
Friday Readers Needed
Dale is looking for Sacred Heart readers for March. Snow day from Friday is being made up ‘this week.
John is seeking more visitors. Please bring a guest.
Deb and Jack received recognition for their individual contributions to the Eliminate Project.
Speaker: UNO Math Lab
Mary talked about the growth and changes in the 40 year long Math Lab program at UNO.
Mary has been with the program since 2002. She now runs the program.
Mary redesigned the classrooms and lab work space. The curriculum was also created to meet technology integration.
Our Kiwanis group needed a weighted curve to pass Mary’s pop quiz.
Thanks for all the interesting information.
Speaker:Omaha World Herald
Joel Long from the Omaha World Herald.
Paper started in 1885. Peter Kiewit bought the paper in 1962 and held until his death in 1979. It then became employee owned until BH bought the paper.
There have only been 6 publishers to the OWH.
The paper has gone through changes and changed to electronic news delivery. 2/3 of Douglas county population interacts with the paper and omaha.com.
Thanks Joel for the interesting information about the Omaha World Herald.
meeting notes
Please sign up for reading at Sacred Heart. See Dale for volunteering.
Watch for All Play clean up. April service project.
More spring volunteer projects coming.
Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha
Holiday Meeting
New invocation list for 2017 is being designed by Bill.
January 28. Mike and his lovely wife is again hosting Chinese New Year! Mark your calendar. More details forthcoming.
Sacred Heart holiday lunch was last week. Reading resuming January 6. See Dale to sign up.
Dan is our newest member. Welcome and thank you for jumping into service projects.
meeting announcements
Sacred Heart reading is Friday. Resumes again in January.
Service hour sheets passing around.
Salvation Army bell ringing a success.
Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha Announces Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
As seen in Strictly Business Omaha. – 11/1/2016…
Kiwanis Club (KCOGO.com) is volunteering to keep Omaha beautiful yet again! And, the local volunteer organization is always looking for more Kiwanis members to join in the efforts.
Twice a year, Kiwanis members take over a 1 ½ mile stretch of Hwy 31, just north of Elkhorn, to clean up the roadside. This Adopt-A-Highway activity has been ongoing for over 20 years with poundage of debris cleaned up and recycled.
Helping the elderly and disabled with fall yard clean-up is an important volunteer effort for Kiwanis Club too. They coordinate with a local church to take care of a few yards in Omaha to help these members of our community. These homeowners cannot otherwise get landscaping help, so the club pitches in by spending a few hours as a team with chainsaws, leaf blowers and garden tools getting their yards ready for winter. The Club will then return in the spring to wake these yards up for the season.
As the season changes, volunteers will be ringing bells for the Salvation Army at a store near you. All are encouraged to come join them for some hot chocolate, and feel great about giving back to your community.
Come to a Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha for a Monday lunch meeting or visit KCOGO.com for more details.
Back to School Means Back to Reading!
Back to school means back to reading with the 2nd graders at Sacred Heart!
The Kiwanis Club helps with individual reading on Friday afternoons with the 2nd graders at Sacred Heart school. This one-on-one has a significant impact on the kids both with helping them read and giving their teacher individual time with other students. But most of the time the true impact is on the adults!
Want to give to the kids in Omaha? Come be a reader by joining Kiwanis.
Speaker: Mustach Joe Tours
John from Mustach Joe Tours is our Kiwanis speaker.
John is following in the family footsteps. He is working full time in the business after graduating from Creighton with his MBA.
Tours are both US and international. 2017 schedule is available.
Reminders!
Garage Sale this weekend! Let your friends know.
11405 Old Maple Road
Thurs-Fri-Sat
7-2
AllPlay this Saturday – AllPlay.org to sign up
Summer picnic. Stu’s home. September 18. Details to follow.
Interclub – September 9. Joel has a sign up sheet.
Thanks to Rod as he transitions the Kiwanis board to John.
August Kiwanis Speaker Schedule
Speaker : August 17
Margaret R. Larson Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
Topic: Infectious disease and aging
Upcoming:
Bucky is working on a speaker from the Ebola unit at UNMC. More details to follow.
Business Notes for KCOGO
Kiwanis Business Notes
Highway Clean Up was a great success and lots of recyclables.
Sacred Heart reading was 4 readers last Friday. Sign up going on for November and December.
Bell Ringing is December 6. Indoors at Nebraska Furniture Mart and outdoors at Bakers. Slots will be from 10-6. Sign up next month.
Speaker months for 2 months coming up. Find 4 weeks of speakers. Need January and August 2015.
Fundraising is still Happy Bucks. Last year Happy Bucks was $2,000. But Jack is looking for a good cause and fundraising ideas.
Budget is set for next year.
Did you do your Friday Recruitment?
By now, you should have emailed 45 people and talked with 15. And – brought guests to multiple meetings!
If not, keep it simple! Try talking to:
- Coworkers
- Neighbors
- Professional associations
- Religious activities
- Your adult children friends
- Tips group or other business clubs
- Chamber
- People you buy professional services from – sales people, CPA, lawyer
Agenda for last Monday’s meeting
Kiwanis Agenda for 8/5
- Welcome
- Invocation and Pledge (Sally)
- Introduction
- Service Hours
- Special Announcements
- Sargent at Arms
- Introduce Speaker: Carrie Wiener
- Attendance 24
- Happy $’s $38.00