Snack Pack Donations

Inside this issue:

Programs 2,4

business & PLEASURE 3

Birthdays & Anniversaries 5

Treasure Hunt 5

Gift Cards 5

Dixon Golf 6

Teen Court 6

Upcoming Events 7

Spirits of Spring 7

Snack Pack Service 7

Service Mission 8

Gleneagle Sertoma News February 2016 Volume 30 Issue 8

www.gleneaglesertoma.org

We are again collecting items for the

Tri-Lakes Cares snack packs for

schoolchildren. Donations can be

brought to regular meetings

February 17 and March 2. See the

list of suggested items on page 7.

For Those who Cannot Hear, There is Sertoma!

business & PLEASURE

Good attendance the evening of

January 13!

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January Programs

6 Jan.: President Duane Gritzmaker presents

a Gleneagle Sertoma Mini-Orientation.

20 Jan.: Rodger and Marje Erickson spoke about their experience

as volunteer lighthouse keepers.

Rodger and Marje with Todd Sherman, VP

for Programs.

Marje and Rodger with friend Beverly Carlson,

who also has a lighthouse sweatshirt.

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business & PLEASURE

President Duane Gritzmaker with Ted Robertson

Members and guests gathered January 13 at Southern Hospitality

to greet and mingle and to listen to Ted Robertson of RCN Group

speak about Marketing Trends. Attending were 46 Sertomans and

guests. One guest signed up as a member, Dr. Vickie Wynn, DVM,

of Timberview Animal Hospital. Welcome to her! We hope to see

her and greet her at a regular meeting soon.

75 Years Ago

Birth of the USO.

Discovery of Plutonium by

Glenn T. Seaborg (USA)

4

February 3 Meeting Cancelled due to Snow

National Heritage Students

postponed until March 2.

February 17 Laurel Prud’homme, Downtown

Partnership of Colorado Springs

March 2 National Heritage Students

March 16 How to Make Murals with

representatives from Interior Art

Designs

April 6 To be announced

April 20 Doris Baker on Emily Griffith and

Adult Education

May 4 John Stansfield, Author: Enos Mills,

Naturalist and Advocate of Rocky

Mountain National Park

Upcoming Programs

Snack items for schoolchildren supported by Tri-Lakes Cares can be brought to meetings on February 17 and March 2. Healthy choices preferred! Suggested items: 100% juice boxes Fruit cups Granola bars Cracker sandwiches Individual serving cereal boxes Fruit snacks (some of these - such as applesauce- are now being packaged in “pouches”) Individual serving packages of nuts/trail mix Individual serving packages of pretzels or goldfish crackers Pudding cups

Snack Pack Drive

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Happy Birthday! Dick Witzig February 8

Paul Dickard February 14

Dan O’Bryant February 21

John Coyle February 25

Happy Anniversary!

January Treasure Hunt Jim Evans found the correct snowflake and wins the King Soopers Gift Card!

February Treasure Hunt

See Rae Berg to purchase King Soopers Gift Cards

You pay face value and the Club earns 5%.

A painless way to support our causes!

No current members have a wedding anniversary in

February.

Find this red heart with curlicues by

noon Friday & enter the drawing to

win a $25 King Soopers gift card.

The heart can be any size and on

any page, except this one.

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Pete Peterson, VP of Ways & Means, shown with 3rd and 2nd place winners

Bill Parent and Ken Schmitt. Not present was 1st place winner Marcia Parent.

Dixon Golf awards

presented at last!

Winners of the Dixon

Driver Challenge at the

2015 Patriot Golf

Tournament received

their prizes at the

business & PLEASURE

gala January 13.

Promise Kept

Volunteers Solicited

Colorado Springs Teen Court would love to have volunteers from Sertoma! They use adult volunteers on two Tuesday nights a month as case managers. It's come when you can, no obligation to sign up ahead of time. The case managers supervise the students at peer panels just to be "the adult in the room" and make sure everyone is on track. They train you on the job! The next opportunity to see how it works is 2/23 at 3:30 at Municipal Court, 224 E. Kiowa. Contact Debbie English at debbie@springsteencourt.org

25 Years Ago Gulf War

Operation Desert Storm

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Upcoming Events

Spirits of Spring is coming soon. What are you

doing to help? See Eric Emde or Todd Sherman

to find out what you can do!

Mat-Su Plunge February 6

District National Heritage February 17 Hotel Elegante’

Blood Drive March 24 Bill Nance

Voting for National Officers March 30 - April 10 Online

Sertoma National Convention April 21-23 St. Louis, MO

Spirits of Spring May 21 Eric Emde

Soap Box Derby June 5 & 12

Blood Drive August 4 Bill Nance

HEARS 5K August 6 Bear Creek Park East

District Awards Banquet August 19 Hotel Elegante’

Patriot Golf Tournament September 16 John Coyle

200 Years Ago

Premiere of Rossini’s

The Barber of Seville

Don’t Ever Forget…Our first name is SERVICE

SERvice TO MAnkind is perhaps the best ever nam e for a civic service

organization. Since our early beginnings in Kansas City, Missouri, our organization

has been made up of groups of dedicated citizens who identified community needs and

worked to meet them. Early collaboration among business leaders sharing their

mutual support and profits made their communities better through generous

contributions to parks, hospitals and innumerable service projects. Their communities

were better places to live, work and raise families. Hence the Sertoma Motto, “Make

Life Worthwhile”, is a fitting expression for our service endeavors.

During the early 1960’s it was felt that a central service focus should be adopted and

that is when “Speech Hearing and Language” was chosen as our service identity. This

identity, in more recent years, has been generalized to be “Hearing Health”. The

mission focus on hearing health in no way minimizes our ongoing emphasis on

community service. To the extent possible it is nice to integrate a service project along

the lines of hearing health.

We are fortunate as an organization that our national leadership does not force us into

a corner of only providing one type of community service. It is for that reason that

Sertomans across the country have a lot of individual identity and a large degree of

autonomy. In addition to general community service, the national organization

continues to support volunteer service promoting youth activities especially as they

might relate to fostering a culture of community service. The final main emphasis of

Sertoma service relates to acknowledging and celebrating our national heritage of

“Freedom and Democracy”. This is in no way any kind of political affirmation but

rather it acknowledges our freedoms fought for and won by generations of patriots so

that we can continue to serve in this great land.

Our Gleneagle Mission encompasses these tenets…”Promote quality of life by

conducting community service projects, promoting hearing health

programs, supporting youth activities and celebrating our national

heritage.”

Duane Gritzmaker, President, Gleneagle Sertoma