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Ft. Myers Metro-McGregor Kiwanis
PO Box 61104
Ft. Myers, FL 33906
(239) 940-3893 Club President
www.metro-mcgregor.com
6-18-19  Meeting 

Meeting called to order by President Rachel Toomey. Total attendance: 17, members-15, guests/speakers-2.





1st Karen Hurst

3rd Lindsey Lenhart

24th Kim Berghs
4th-Steve Hess

9th-Charlie Dodson

12th-Erin McNulty

16th-Sam Lewis

19th-Shana Del Castillo

27th-Harris Segel


Announcements:
  • Want to unload some old but clean T-shirts? Karen reports that Aktion Club is collecting them and making dog toys out of them. Bring them in and Karen will make the delivery.  
  • The Fort Myers Beach Chamber Bowling Social is July 18. Anyone interested? It's 4pm-9pm. Team entry for 5 is $75. Food, drinks and prizes. 
  • All the dining books we printed are out. Please bring back those you were unable to sell so we can offer them to others. 
  • DCON registration is open. Our state convention is August 15-18 in Orlando. Let Rachel know if you are interested in attending. We can also have up to 3 delegates represent our club.
                                                                           Service

                       Ronald McDonald House- "Cooks in the Kitchen"  June 12

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Thanks for preparing another fabulous meal for the families staying at the Ronald McDonald House.


Pictured L-R are: Barbara Segel, Linda Petrik, Karen Hurst and Connie Prevatt. 


The next meal prep is July 10th. See Cathy Smith for details. 

This is a service project our club does 4 times over the summer. 



MS Support Group - (Bill Grant), meets 3rd Thursday of each month at St. Hilary Episcopal Church. Please consider attending a meeting and learn about this project so we'll have more 
back up volunteers. See Liz Ross over the summer months. 
                                  

                                     SLP's (Service Leadership Programs)
                     
Aktion Club- (Karen Hurst) at LARC. Meets 2nd Tuesday at 8:30am, year-round.
 
CKI Club-  at  FGCU. (Stewart Ross) On summer break.

Key Club- ( Harris Segel) Collegiate High on FSW campus.  On summer break.

Builder's Club-( Barbara Hartman, Todd Adams, Ada Trapanese) Cypress Lake Middle School. On summer break. 

K-Kids-(Kim Berghs) Littleton Elementary.  On summer break. 
                 Today's Program: Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife

Today our speakers were Alison Hussey, Exec. Director and Rachel Rainbolt, Outreach Director. CROW is a teaching hospital and a visitor center dedicated to saving wildlife through state-of-the-art veterinary care, research, education and conservation medicine. They are a 501(c)(3) and open 365 days a year. They have public programs for kids, daily presentations, outreach programs and more. If you find an animal in need of help, please call CROW's wildlife hospital at 239-472-3644, ext 222. If you are unable to bring the animal to CROW on Sanibel, there are 9 drop off sites locally where injured wildlife can be dropped off and they will pick them up. For more information visit www.CrowClinic.org 

Pictured above from L-R are Alison, President Rachel and Rachel. Below is Gigi, a young possum that is one of their wildlife ambassadors and came to the meeting today. 

           Meetings

June 25-  K-Kids faculty
advisor Donna Michaelessi

June speaker chair
Lindsey Lenhart

July 2- Wear the Fund; Sam Lewis

July 9th-  Board meeting, 6pm at Ada's

July speaker chair
Paul Weinstein


Where/when we meet: 11:30am on Tuesdays at Shoeless Joe's in the Crowne Plaza, 13051 Bell Tower Drive, Fort Myers 33907 


 Delicious Dining 
 Discount Book


        Defining Statement

   "Kiwanis is a global
    organization of volunteers
    dedicated to improving the
    world, one child and one
     community at a time."


            Club Officers
President: Rachel Toomey
President-Elect: Lindsey Lenhart
Treasurer: Todd Adams
Secretary: Kim Berghs
Immediate Past President: Liz Ross 

       

         Florida Division 19
Lt. Governor - Mick Shelldrake
[email protected]

Foundation Trustee-Bruce Boyd 
[email protected]

          

            Florida District
      Governor Steve LeBlanc
          www.FLKiwanis.org

        Kiwanis International
  President Florencio "Poly" Lat
            www.Kiwanis.org
          Save the Date

ICON  (International Convention)
June 26-29 at 
Walt Disney World Resort

DCON  (District Convention)
August 15-18 in Orlando


Littleton Elementary 
Open House August 9th.

Annual Holiday Party
December  3rd.

Please save year-round...

Aluminum pull tabs for K-Kids  for Ronald McDonald House. To Kim during the school year.   To Cathy over the summer. 

Box Tops for Education
for Builder's Club, give to Barbara Hartman year-round.

Plastic bottle caps to Todd for Buddy Benches
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