BULLETIN

Mike Miller, Editor No. 7 November 17, 2017

November 17th Program

This week we will be back at the Country Club and the program is:

Pappajohn Center—Judy Eyles

Located in Iowa State University’s Research Park, the Pappajohn Center is the catalyst that

brings together the people and ideas necessary for launching and growing successful enterprises.

Whether the undertaking is a student initiated enterprise, a new small business, a high technology

start-up, or a corporate spin-off, the Pappajohn Center provides assistance and resources to aid

the development process and support the entire launch of a new venture.

Guests: Kurk Russell husband of Gift Wrap Chair Deb Russell

Project Reports

• Apple Sales. Apples, Dumplings and Cider were picked up after our meeting at the

Hort Farm. Please get your collected Apple funds to Larry Zwagerman or Kris Meinhard

as soon as possible.

• Gift Wrap. Gift wrap kicked off with the annual how to gift wrap program at the Hort

Farm. We will be setting up the gift Wrap Booth at the Mall in the courtyard outside of

J.C. Penneys Monday November 20th beginning at 5:00pm and hopfully getting done

before 8:00 pm. The more hands there the faster we will be set up. Sign up on the gift

wrap site on our Kiwanis website or just show up and you will have something to do.

• Please start saving (if you have not already) boxes that are suitable for wrapping. Please

no boxes that contained food or greasy items that were not seal in a plastic wrap so the

box is clean and grease free.

Announcements

• Ronnie Lindemann, chair of the Invocations Committee, is looking for a person to line up

the next two month of invocations. See her if you are interested or would even like to do

it later in the year.

• Festival of Trees is open at the Octagon Center for the Arts and we have a tree

promoting all of our yearly projects with the theme Kids Need Kiwanis. Open 10-5

Monday—Friday and 1-5 on the weekend. There are 70 trees to view in the Octagon’s

Main Gallery on the third floor.

KIWANIS CLUB OF AMES, IOWA ...SERVING THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

Announcements cont:

• Reiman Garden—Friday, November 17, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Join us for the Members Only RG Express holiday train opening! Doors for this event will open at 6:00 p.m. Enjoy desserts and coffee while exploring this year’s Hughes Conservatory landscape featuring icicles, snowflakes, white poinsettias and snow- flocked trees. The popular RG Express train returns for the holidays, and this year it chugs through a landscape of snow and ice! Shimmering icicles, beautiful snowflakes, white poinsettias and snow-flocked trees will create a frozen landscape for the whimsical train display. This year will feature a brand new building, the Marston Water Tower, which will become a permanent part of the annual display. Free for all members to attend.

• Veterans Day—Last Saturday November 11 ceremony at City Auditorium featured Retired Capt. Doug Ward a graduate of the ISU ROTC program who returned after 30 year in the navy ,one stint serving as the Commander of the USS James Madison a nuclear Submarine which carried nuclear missiles and was at the first line of defense for the United States, to lead the ISU ROTC program.

• Zeller Awards—Ted MacDonald presented our last two Zeller awards to Denny Jones and Maeann Unser. Denny also wore his Hickson Award Medallion which he received during our last international fundraising effort to end IDD (Iodine Deficiency Disease).

• Miracle Field Playground—We have taken up the challenge to assist our Kiwanis District 11 in raising $50,000 toward the new Miracle Field Playground and President Cynthia Gaunt has set the bar at $3,000 this year toward that goal.

• Younkers Coupon Books—We were not one of the top sellers but Younkers allowed us to sell the Community Coupon Book outside the store more from Maeann at a later date.

Past Announcements

• Yard Signs. Apples Sales are now done so please pull out your yard sign, clean the dirt off the legs and return to Jim Converse at 1519 Johnson Street. If he is not home leave it under the mailbox and be sure you let him know you returned it that way.

• Teen Maze. Plans for the 2018 event are underway. As usual, Teen Maze will be held during

the first week of April. The Town & Country Kiwanis Club has challenged us to raise $2,000 to

match their contribution to this worthwhile and popular project.

• Free Little Library. Our Little Free Library is popular. Maeann reports there is a new selection

of books every time she checks on it and notes quite a variety of titles. She will be collecting a

few books at meetings to help keep it stocked. Please bring books to our weekly meetings.

• Aluminum. Bud Everett reminds us to pull the tabs off our cans at the meetings and he will

collect them for Ronald McDonald House.

• Amazon.Smile. When you purchase through Amazon, login through smile.amazon.com ,

designate the Kiwanis Club of Ames Foundation as your benefit organization, and purchase as

usual with no extra charges. Part of your purchase price (.5%) goes to our club!

Kiwanis Foundation

The Kiwanis Foundation serves the children of Ames by providing college scholarships to high

school seniors who excel in serving our community and who require financial assistance to further

their education. Please return your pledge card with a generous donation. Contact President

Cynthia or Club Treasurer Kris Meinhard for details.

Makeup Attendance

Kiwanis International has expanded their definition of a make up for missing a regular meeting:

Contact Geri Derner for details.

Committees

• AKtion Club. Next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 7th at 3:30pm at First

United Methodist Church. The program will be given by the ISU Wildlife Rescue

Team. Next few programs: November 21st To be Announced, December 5th

Golden K Singers, December 19 Holiday Party and they will need volumteers to

assist.

• Circle K Club. They will be raking leaves on November 12 so if you would like to be on the list

contact Ted.

Contact Information

• Web Site: Club Webmaster Bud Everett, in coordination with our Board of Directors, has

built a new club web site, using a new internet service. The page looks great and will serve

us well as an updated version of our old system. Type into the browser address bar:

www.amesnoonkiwanis.org.

• To all you cell phone affecionados, I have redesigned our Kiwanis Club website to be cell phone friendly. At least it works great on my Samsung Galaxy F7; you just have to get used to how to move around and find everything.

• To you computer heads like me, it works exactly how it did before, it just has a different look.

• Hope you all like the new look - it had to change to accommodate cell phones, tablets, etc. (Ah! Always trying to catch up with new technology).

• Roster: Go to “Member Login” on our web site. Login with your email address & your

password. Click on “Members” in the left-side navigation column if you have trouble signing

in as I have had this past week contact our Webmaster Bud Everett and he can get you

straightened out.

• Facebook. Maeann Unser and Doug Meinhard have redesigned our page on Facebook.

The address is: Ames Noon Kiwanis. Please visit it and BOTH Like it and Friend it. Send

photographs of our events to either Maeann or Doug to post.

https://www.facebook.com/amesnoonkiwanisclub/

Program was Gift Wrap 401: Fun and Unusual by Mike Miller, Geri Derner and volunteers

Before the meeting started Mike had Cynthia open a large long package which was built from many

smaller boxes and it contained an United States Flag so we could have one at our meeting.

Cynthia then lead the business meeting and Bill Boon had us sing a redition of Shoo Fly Pie and

Apple Pan Dowdy.

The program started with Mike handing out head dresses to the committee members in attendance

as chair Deb Russell was Santa, Geri Deri received the Top Elf, Mike And Maeann Unser received

Deer Antlers and Lynell Dougherty was the Snow Queen.

Program Cont:

Being Anne Schmidt’s actual birthday. She got the “honor” of opening what she discovered was a 12

layer “Onion Package” Mike calls it this because there are many layers to open like an onion and

each layer is another package for us to wrap and charge for so the one package in a mini worked it

was up to a extra large with 10 other packages inside.

As she worked on the Onion Package, Neal Dietz was volunteered by the members to open another

large box which contained a pair of hiking sticks in another what Mike calls a “Frankenbox” - a box

made up of a lot of other interconnected boxes.

As she still worked on the Onion Package, Tom Randall was volunteered to open the “Broken Down”

gift set which consisted of a Light bulb good to go into a stocking, a lamp shade which the light bulb

connected to and a box containing the lamp base which was in a two box Frankenbox. So this one

gift broke down into 3 packages for us to wrap.

Once she got to the center Anne found a Twenty dollar bill surrounded by 5 One dollar bills which

she donated to the gift wrap committee. She said it was worth all the time it took to open.

Always try to get the item into a square or rectangular box so it is easy to wrap. Always use tissue

paper to protect the item from damage inside the box and it makes the opening of the box more of a

surprise to then have to take out the tissue paper which if a lot is needed then there is an upcharge

for materials.

Mike then gave a demonstration on choose the right width of paper (the one that come closest to

reaching a little over 1/2 the distance around the package), how to measure the paper length

(measure one and a little less than 1/4 around the package) so you have good overlap and can fold

to make a nice seam on the bottom of the package. A ribbon and a nametage are also included in

the package but any special use of ribbon going all the way around the package is an upcharge for

materials.

This year we would like to take pictures of large or unusual items or just a person with a lot of items

wrapped sowe can put them on facebook and try to get more buzz on our girt wrapping at the mall.

Remember to get permission and the persons name so we can put them on the

facebook site.

Anne Schmitt at the beginning of a

multi-layered project.

Mike Miller, showing a gift wrap

demo for the members.

Photo from Apple Delivery Day

Wally Schloerke loading his apple sales

into the van for delivery, his daughter-in –

law Cheryl Schloerke is assisting him this

year in deliveries.

Photos from Zeller & Legion of Honor Presentations

New Zeller winners Bub Everett and Kris Mein-

hard with Gary Wade (past MNT Chair and past

Zeller and Century winner)

New Zeller winners Maeann Unser and Denny

Jones with Ted MacDonald (present Chair of MNT ,

and past Zeller award winner)

Zeller award winners (at least $1250 contri-

bution to MNT project) Front row: Ted Mac-

Donald, Gary Wade, Cynthia Gaunt, Lynell

Dougherty. Middle row: Sue Converse, Kris

Meinhard, Carl Anderson, Anne Schmitt, Geri

Derner (Back row) Mike Miller, Jim Con-

verse, Bob Currie, Bill Bossenberger, Shirley

Bossenberger, Bud Everett, Jack Cleas-

by. MNT project seeks to eradicate Maternal

Neonatal Tetanus worldwide, protecting 61

million mothers and babies.

"The whole club" award (Model Club), those in attend-ance at this meeting.

Kiwanis Legion of Honor members (at least 25 years of continuous mem-bership) Left to right: Paul Domoto (30 years), Tom Ran-dall (35 years), Bob Watson (45 years), Bill Bossenberger (50 years), Ken Larson (50 years)

KIWANIS CLUB COMMITTEE CHAIRS FOR 2017-2018

Standing Committees Please contact President Cynthia or the committee chair and volunteer for at least one Committee. The more on a committee the better we can serve so serving on two or three would be great.

Membership – Stephen Sapp Flowers and Remembrance – Lynell Dougherty, Jack Cleasby, Co-Chairs Grants – Marla Miller

History – Gary Wade, Chair Interclub – Larry Zwagerman, Chair Invocations – Ronnie Lindeman, Chair Music – Carl Anderson, Don Wishart, Co-Chairs Bulletin – Mike Miller Programs – Sarah Mowery, Chair Publicity – Chair? Reception and House – Ted McDonald, Jack Cleasby Social – Cathy Krebs, Chair Election – Immediate Past President Bill Bossenburger Website – Bud Everett, Chair Food Shelf – Bernie White, Chair

Service Projects Major Emphasis and Worldwide Service Project – Ted McDonald, Chair Food at First – Bernie White Scholarship – Tim Tryon, Chair Teen Maze – Ronnie Lindemann, Bob Currie, Co-Chairs Bike Rodeo – Jim Converse, John Core Fundraising Projects

Apples – Paul Domoto/Carl Anderson, co-chairs

Gift Wrap – Deb Russell

Pancakes – Ed Gillott and Ted MacDonald, Co-Chairs Knickles for Kids – Gary Osweller Sponsored Programs Aktion Club – Ed Gillott, Chair ISU Circle K Club – Ted MacDonald, Steve Sapp

Editors note : Sorry to say I am not used to checking my email every day and I am missing some an-

nouncements that chairs are sending to me to send to the membership. As chairs of committees listed above you can send a group email to your committee’s members or the entire Noon Kiwanis membership as I do every week with this bulletin. Just go to the Kiwanis website, log into our members only portion, scroll down to the email tab and you will find the place were you can put in and email to All Members or make your own committee list save it as your 2017 ____ Committee and you can compose a message to just them in the compose area. Finish the email and hit send. It’s really easy since I can do it and it will cut out a middle man to go through to contact the membership.

Thanks to everyone who has told me they like the bulletin and I am doing a good job since I have taken over as editor. Even though I don’t say it, it is good to hear because I have never done this much writing in my life and my typing has gotten up to two fingers on each hand instead of one so I have gotten twice as fast!!!!!!!!!!

If you have problems Bud Everett is a great help he taught me so I am sure he can teach you.