KIWANIS MEETING OF OCTOBER 1ST

WE HAD SEVERAL GUESTS TODAY INCLUDING :PAUL ELSY,KATIE AL-SHARIF,DAVID EDWARDS,BRIAN MERKLE,CONNER VEENSTRA (MONROE NEWS),LARRY MERKLE AND JOSEPH HERNANDEZ

THE BOWLING TEAM TOOK 1 POINT THIS WEEK

BECAUSE OF OUR SPECIAL PROGRAM THERE WERE NO BIRTHDAYS OR ANNIVERARY REPORTED THIS WEEK

PAUL ELSY SPOKE ABOUT THE BELIEVE IN THE MIRACLE OF CHRISTMAS THROUGH A DONATION TO THE KIWANIS OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION.IT WILL HELP WITH HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN

UP COMING DATES :

  1O/10-RIBBONS OF MONROE 

  10/14-BOARD MEETING AT NOON

  10/15-OUR WEEKLY MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE RIVER RAISIN BATTLEFIELD THAT WEEK AT NOON AND NOT AT THE CHURCH

THE HIGHLIGHT OF TODAYS MEETING WAS OUR ANNUAL FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR LUNCH. I TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN THIS EVENT THAT JUDGE JOE COSTELLO,JUDGE MIKE WEIPERT,JIM JACOBS,RICK REICHERD AND MYSELF STARTED BACK IN 2000.THIS MARKS 26 STRAIGHT YEARS THAT WE HAVE DONE THIS.LARRY MERKLE HAS BEEN PART OF THIS PROGRAM AS WELL

OUR FIREFIGHTERS SELECTED THIS YEAR WERE COREY BOMIA AND DAVID KAIL

COREY WAS FROM THE ERIE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR.HE WAS REPRESENTED BY HIS WIFE MELISSA,WHO ALSO INTRODUCED HER GUESTS. THEY WERE: STEVE MISHKA AND JEN MISHKA.SHE THANKED THE CLUB AND SAID IF COREY WERE HERE TODAY WE AS A CLUB WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT A GREAT GUY HE WAS

OUR SECOND FIREFIGHTER WAS DAVID KAIL FROM THE CITY OF MONROE.HE WAS REPRESENTED BY SCOTT SMILEY,CHAD TOSTEDT

DAVID GAVE A SHORT SPEECH THANKING GOD,THE KIWANIS CLUB THE CHURCH AND HIS CO-WORKERS FOR A JOB HE LOVES

EACH FIREFIGHTER WAS AWARDED A STATUETTE OF A FIREFIGHTER AND WAS GIVEN A CHECK TO BE GIVEN TO CHARITY OF THEIR CHOICE

AS A CLUB WE APPRECIATE ALL THAT THE 1ST RESPONDERS DO AND THEIR WORK THAT GOES INTO EACH AND EVERY DAY TO PROTECT US

I PERSONALLY HOPE WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THIS AGAIN