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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
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The editor thanks Rachel, Todd and Harris for the following information while I was out of town.
Meeting called to order by President Rachel Toomey. Total attendance: 16, members-15. Other Kiwanis member-Denny Sharma from the Fort Myers Club. Our speaker today was Sam Lewis, also a club member.
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4th-Steve Hess
9th-Charlie Dodson
12th-Erin McNulty
16th-Sam Lewis
19th-Shana Del Castillo
27th-Harris Segel |
Announcements:
- Received an email from Dick Arndt hoping everyone is having a good summer.
- 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 have 4 signed up so far.
- July 30 is a "Fifth Tuesday" Social. We'll be reserving an air conditioned box to sit in and enjoy a Miracle Baseball game. We will have a lunch meeting and use the time for committees to gather. Details coming soon. Need 28 to get the price we've been offered.
Interclub update:
We have 3 more clubs to visit by September and we'll have completed a round-robin with every club in our division (this is a BIG feat). We need a minimum of 4 members to attend in order to count. There will be a sign up sheet at the meeting and going around by email.
- LaBelle-This club meets at 5:30pm at Beef O'Brady's. Date options; July 16, Aug 6, Aug 20, or Sept 3 we have 3 members that indicated that the Aug 6 date is good for them (need one more member).
- Pine Island-Mangomania is July 13-14. We can help sell the "fish drop" tickets. We have 2 members that can help on the 13th (need 2 more members)
- Sanibel-Meeting is 1st or 4th Tuesday. 7am breakfast, 8am meeting at the Dunes. Date options; July 23, Aug 6, Aug 27, Sept 3, Sept 24. We have one club member that is up for any of the dates (we need 2 more members).
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Service
School Supply Drive-We'll be collecting school supplies again for Littleton Elementary. We have a list of specific items that are the most needed:
#2 pencils (any brand but Ticonderoga is the best), pencil cape erasers, glue sticks, dry erase markers, highlighters (any color), pens-blue, black or red (any brand), wide-rule loose leaf paper and colored pencils. Bring them to a meeting on or before August 6th. They will be delivered to the K-Kids faculty advisors on August 8. Don't want to shop? Others would be happy to do it for you, just make your donation to another volunteer. Thanks Dick for sending a check.
MS Support Group
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(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-
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Harris Segel) Collegiate High on FSW campus.
On summer break. A few members will be joining us at our July 16th meeting. They are doing a clean up on FMB after the July 4th fireworks display.
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.
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Today's Program: Wear the Fund LLC.
Today our speaker was Sam Lewis of 'Wear the Fund.' He is also a member of our club. His company: does 100K shirts per year, has 4 employees, runs company with Triple Bottom Line in mind: social, environmental and financial, customers choose what charity will receive 5% of their order, has 61 non-profits they support -501 (c) 3s and their company is 6 years old.
Sam and his team made our Kiwanis club T-shirts.
Want to learn more?
239-313-3907
Pictured is Sam and President Rachel.
Thanks Sam!
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Meetings
July 9th-
Quality Life Center, Abdul Haq Muhammed
July 9th-
Board meeting, 6pm at Ada's
July 23rd-
Love A Child, Raquel Baugh
July 30th-
5th Tuesday Social
July speaker chair
Paul Weinstein
August 6th-
Human Trafficking Awareness, Nicole
August speaker chair
Shana del Castillo
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
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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 District
Governor Steve LeBlanc
Kiwanis International
President Florencio "Poly" Lat
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DCON (District Convention)
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.
for Builder's Club, give to Barbara Hartman year-round.
Plastic bottle caps to Todd for Buddy Benches
Our club charter date:
July 23, 1980
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