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The Salvation Army’s Ring the Town Red Campaign

2015: Vince reported back that we raised $690.14 ringing bells this year.

2016: Our Bell Ringing efforts raised $1,715.90. Awesome effort!

Dear Vince,

 

Thank you for your support of The Salvation Army’s Ring the Town Red Campaign which is part of the total Tree of Lights Campaign for Omaha.  You may have already heard that, through the generosity of our community, The Salvation Army in Omaha exceeded its $2.5 million Tree of Lights goal.  More than $150,000 was also raised in Council Bluffs.
 
We could not reach our fundraising goal without volunteer bell ringers, like the Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha, who graciously give of their time.  100% of every dollar you helped collect goes directly to our Human Needs Fund.  The fund supports year round social service programs including: housing, food, youth development, behavioral health, older adult services, material assistance and anti-human trafficking.   For more information on any of these programs visit www.salarmyomaha.org.  
 
Your group efforts assisted in raising $ 1715.9 during your 24 hours of volunteerism.  Thank you again for your gift of time during the 2016 Tree of Lights Campaign!
 
Ramona D. Arthur
Divisional Director of Volunteer Services
The Salvation Army Western Division



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NOTICE: MEETING LOCATION FOR MONDAY OCTOBER 10

Field Trip! Bob has invited us to the Elkridge Independent Living community for lunch on Monday, October 10. Directions are above. Lunch is our normal $5 payable to the Kiwanis Club – but be there at 11:30! Lunch is served at Elkridge Independent Living with a salad starting at 11:30.
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Speaker: Special Olympics

Thank you Maggie Stryson and David Demyan for the information about the Special Olympics.

We appreciate the opportunity to participate every year in this worthy event.

Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha

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2016 Innvocation Schedule


Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha
2016 Invocation Assignments

Jan 4    J Christensen
Jan 11  S Cohen
Jan 18  J Coleman
Jan 25  S Ellison
Feb 1   B Farris
Feb 8   C Farris
Feb 15 J Frost
Feb 22 – B “Bucky” Greenberg
Feb 29 – J Grier
Mar 7  A Hart
Mar 14 – J Hartwell
Mar 21 – D Kaisershot
Mar 28 – J Kendall
Apr 4   D Kluthe
Apr 11 M Knauss
Apr 18 – S Linehan
Apr 25 R Muench
May 2  J Pagel
May 9  – V PIlle
May 16 –  B Reid

May 23 – B Reisser
May 30 –  Memorial Day
June 6  – D Rost
June 13 – D Sattem
June 20 – B Spiecker
June 27 – K Squire
July 4th Holiday
July 11 – J Stalnaker
July 18 – E Biwer
July 25 – A Bruening
Aug 1 – G Carlson
Aug 8 – J Christensen
Aug 15 – S Cohen
Aug 22 – J Coleman
Aug 29 – S Ellison
Sept 5 – B Farris
Sept 12 – C Farris
Sept 19 – J Frost
Sept 26 – Bucky
Oct 3 – J Grier
Oct 10 – A Hardt
Oct 17 – J Hartwell

Oct 24 – D Kaisershot
Oct 31 – J Kendall
Nov 7 –D Kluthe
Nov 14 –M Knauss
Nov 21 – S Linehan
Nov 28 – R Muench
Dec 5 – J Pagel
Dec 12 – V Pille
Dec 19 – B Reid
Dec 26 – B Reisser

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December Meeting Calendar


December 7 will be the Sacred Heart 2nd grade class Holiday Lunch

December 14 will be Paul Woodward with the Papio-Missouri River NRD.  He will talk about Integrated Management Planning for water resources in the Platte River basin.  The title of his talk will be:  “Nebraska Water Management:  Conflict or Cooperation?”
December 21 will be Jason Skold from The Nature Conservancy.  Jason and Joel have been involved in a committee that is working towards environmental recovery of the Missouri River but his talk will be more about The Nature Conservancy.  The title of his talk is “The Nature Conservancy”.
December 28 Informal meeting at Boystown Café.  
January 18 will be Rose Hargrave from the Corps of Engineers.  Her topic will be the Missouri River Recovery Program.

http://moriverrecovery.usace.army.mil/mrrp/f?p=136:1:0

Respectfully submitted by Joel and Kip, December and January Kiwanis Speaker Chairs


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Speaker: Special Olympics

Special Olympics – Sports, Health, Education 

Sports – we know but this helps the athletes with their health. Providing tools and help with their health. This includes health screenings and check ups. The other aspect is Healthy Habits. 
Special Olympics also help educators understand special ed kids. 
Serve 5,000 athletes. Goal is 10,000. That is still only 20% of potential participants in Nebraska. 
Special Olympics is a community of parents who help each other. 
Thanks Carolyn, Dave and Sandi for all the interesting information about Special Olympics. 
– Kiwanis Club of greater Omaha (KCOGO)

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2015-2016 Program Volunteers

Vince, our program coordinator, is looking for volunteers to take a month. Commit to finding speakers for the Monday meetings that month at our Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha.

Vince has a cheat sheet of speakers he keeps to help out!

Be an Eddie – and volunteer often!

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KCOGO Officer Installation Picnic

Officer installation was held for the new Kiwanis Club of Greater Omaha. 
Rod Muench – President
John Hartwell – President Elect
Jack Pagel – Immediate Past President
Kip Squire – Secretary
Jerry Coleman – Treasurer 
Thank you to Marcia and Stu Ellison for hosting the Kiwanis picnic. 

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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).

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May Meeting Notes

Zoo trip is this Thursday. Bus leaves at 9:45 from Sacred Heart. 10:00 at the zoo front gate. 

All Play – this weekend is our Kiwanis group responsibility. Rockies play at 9:30.   AllPlay.org to sign up or weather check. 
Special Olympic is Friday, May 22 at 6:00. Chris Farris is the contact.  Northwest High School. Standing Lobg Jump is our event. 
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Speaker: Officer Charlie Moffitt

Officer Charlie Moffitt gave an enjoyable presentation of the Omaha Police Department’s Canine
Unit.  Raised in California and studying marine biology he gravitated to Omaha around 2002 to join the canine unit.  OPD uses German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois and Labs.  
There are over 60 dog teams in the area.  The dogs are 18-24 months when they are brought for training.  The dogs are “green”, meaning not trained when they join the OPD.  The dogs can sniff out over 1000 different odors and are particularly adept at detecting drugs.  The dogs are trained to meet guidelines of the International Police Conference so can be outsourced anywhere in the world if needed.  
The dogs cost about $10,000.  The service life of the dogs is about 8 years at which time they are retired; in some cases then domesticated.  Officer Mollitt is responsible for training dogs both for OPD as well as for agencies in states surrounding Nebraska.  He presented interesting videos showing drugs and cash captured by OPD as part of the drug interdiction program.  
Thanks to Kip Squire for bring Officer Mollitt to our Kiwanis Club.  
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December Speaker Calendar

December 22nd: 

Taylor Wilson, UNMC Med Center
– He will talk about Ebola virus and other diseases that the Med Center deals with daily.  
      
December 29th:  
TBD

See you all for these excellent speakers!
Bill Spiecker
CBSHOME

402-677-4437
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Key Leader Sponsorship

To my follow Kiwanians, 

Below is a letter I received yesterday from Matt – a teenage that I sponsored for Key Leader last weekend.  It is a testimony to the impact that Kiwanis can have on kids.  It is my hope that Key Leader is something our club can get behind and sponsor at least 2 kids next year.  

Jack Pagel


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Speaker: OWH Reporter Todd Cooper

Omaha World Herald court reported Todd Cooper gave a behind-the-scenes story of Quentin Jackson and Nikko Jenkins and how his discovery of the early release of Jackson led to a full scale investigation of the parole and early release scandal that continues to make headlines today.  Todd’s story began in May when a prosecuting attorney was dismayed that Jackson was out on a pre-parole parole; before the terms of his incarceration had concluded.  Todd followed the trail discovering over 800 cases of similar inmates; over 300 of whom had already been released.  

Check out Todd’s stories in the world Herald.