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Ft. Myers Metro-McGregor Kiwanis
PO Box 61104
Ft. Myers, FL 33906
(814) 573-1251 Club President
www.metro-mcgregor.com
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6-16-2020 Annual Club Meeting
Our weekly Face-to Face meetings and activities are suspended and potentially will be through July as well. Until further notice, meetings will be held online. Weekly updates will be sent via E-Newsletters and by email as necessary.
Upcoming club meeting dates/times:
June 23rd-no meeting
June 30th-5th Tuesday,
club social
Links will be sent out each week and if you don't want to participate on screen you can just dial in and be part of it. Speakers and other activities will be incorporated into the meetings.
Here is a recap of the online board meeting from this past week and other announcements/reminders;
- Dining books are on sale!! Please let Todd know how many you want. Thank you to the Fort Myers Beach Chamber for continuing to sell and promote these books!
- Welcome new members Dawn Heitl and Joshua Heitl Colon. Thank you Linda Petrik for recruiting them!
- Thank you all for your attendance for our annual meeting. 17 members were online including our 2 newest members. Everyone should have received a recap of our year by email. She discussed our elections, membership, 2 major fundraisers, Interclubs, Service Projects, Atlas program, Sensory Rooms, SLP programs and more. What a year!!
- Thanks to Rachel Toomey for the press release on our club; "Metro-McGregor Kiwanis Continues Service and Waives New Member Dues." This was picked up by several local news media as well and was featured int eh June Edition of the Florida Kiwanis Governor's E-Newsletter. All club members should have received that on June 16th by email as well.
- Continue to save your aluminum pull tabs from beverage and food cans. We are turning them it to Ronald McDonald House.
Our work as Kiwanians is valuable to our community! As our county and state begin the transition to reopen in phases please continue to monitor,use good judgement and take
extra proactive measures to ensure the safety of everyone yet help meet the needs of our community.
For those that want to join the online meetings:
Zoom is a reputable and safe online program. It is endorsed by businesses and organizations such as Kiwanis International. You can use your computer, tablet, or mobile device. Steve Hess has volunteered to help talk you through it, just give him a ring.
Dining book fundraiser;
Dining books are back on for sale. If you know of any restaurants in the book that are not re-opening or what their status is, please let Todd know. We need to get books sold to help us with projects for the upcoming year. Thank you to Ft. Myers Beach Chamber for promoting and selling them.
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"One Friend Can Change Your Whole Life"
L-R Karen Hurst, Aktion Club Advisor, Barbara Hartman, Builder's Club advisor and Cathy Smith, President-Elect with Mary Pelo, LARC employee and Aktion Club Advior with the colorful new bench designed for making friends.
It will only include our group as LARC has not fully opened and are very conscious of maintaining social distancing.
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1st- Karen Hurst
3rd- Brianne Lenhart
3rd- Lindsey Lenhart
19th- Sarah Kuehner
24th- Kim Berghs |
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Service & Partnerships
Volunteering:
From the United Way Volunteer Center: we closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation. We understand there are many individuals in our community that may want to help. We will post here https://www.unitedwaylee.org/volunteer/ and in our Volunteer Center Facebook Group
MS Support Group-
(Bill Grant),
meets 3rd Thursday of each month at St. Hilary Episcopal Church.
Suspended
SLP's (Service Leadership Programs)
Schools closed
Aktion Club
-(Karen Hurst) at LARC. They meet 2nd Tuesday at 8:30am, year-round.
(Agency temporarily closed).
CKI Club- at FGCU. (Stewart Ross).
Key Club-(Harris Segel) Collegiate High on FSW campus.
Builder's Club-(Barbara Hartman, Todd Adams, Ada Trapanese) Cypress Lake Middle.
K-Kids-(Kim Berghs) Littleton Elementary.
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Meetings
June & July meetings
will be held online. We will let you know of any changes. Meetings now
at 6pm so others can join that can't login to meetings during work time at the office.
Board meeting July 14th at 6pm online.
Where/when we meet once traditional meetings resume: 11:30am on Tuesdays at Shoeless Joe's in the Crowne Plaza, 13051 Bell Tower Drive, Fort Myers 33907
*Todd has been in contact with our server Vicki to monitor the situation.
Delicious Dining Discount Book Fundraiser
Todd Adams, Chair
Youth Protection Helpline
1-866-607-SAFE (7233)
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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."
Fort Myers Metro-McGregor
Club Officers
President:
Lindsey Lenhart
President-Elect: Cathy Smith
Treasurer: Todd Adams
Secretary: Kim Berghs
Immediate Past President: Rachel Toomey
Florida Division 19
Lt. Governor -
Tina Pegler.
Florida District
Governor is Allen Yergovich
Governor-Elect is Mary-Lynn Desjariais.
The Florida District, comprised of the more than 240 clubs and over 7,500 Kiwanians within Florida. Florida is one of the largest and most successful districts in Kiwanis International.
Kiwanis International
President is Daniel Vignerom
from Luxembourg.
President-Elect is Arthur Riley, Westminster, Maryland.
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June 24th- Children's Advocacy Center of SWFL, Bling & Bags Bingo. Is now a live event auction on Facebook at 5:30pm.
DCON-August 13-16, Orlando. Cancelled due to the pandemic.
Stay tuned for details on a modified virtual conference.
Our club charter date:
July 23, 1980
Please save year-round...
Your old Kiwanis magazine to recycle in our member recruitment folders.
Aluminum pull tabs for K-Kids for Ronald McDonald House. To Kim during the school year. Cathy in summer.
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