April 29 meeting

Since Joan B went to the Care Givers program today, instead of the Kiwanis meeting, I will attempt to blog about today's Kiwanis meeting.
There were a lot of Happy Basket people today. Dave Kempf was happy that Ashley attended. However he was quite sad that his cousin's 8 year old daughter was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Patrick Crawford reported on the Community Theatre performance this coming weekend. Ashley Hajney was happy her brother is going to church. Mike Howie was happy about going on a scout camp this coming weekend. Dan Rutt reported about the Prayer Breakfast being held next Thursday am. Margaret Shaw told about the Open Table Bowl. She also announced about the pep rally for the Special Olympics participants being held at Hastings College this evening. Linda Stark passed along greetings from Kevin Cunningham.
Father Benton's name was drawn for Atta Kiwanian! He was recognized for last October's winterization program.
Dave Kempf passed the sign up sheets and encouraged us to sign up. He has really organized those sign up sheets as good as possible! However, I still prefer to sign up on the web site. He has made that very convenient, also. Volunteers are still needed for the book fair this Sunday.
Group singing was led by Don Goodrich with Mary Plock at the piano.
Darrel Nelson was the Kiwanian of the Day, introducing today's speaker, Kerry Winterer, CEO of the Nebr Dept of Health and Human Services. It was really a good informative program! For those who missed the program, you should be able get a copy of the hand-out material. Does our Kiwanis club have good programs? Yes!! You better believe it!
Doug N closed the meeting with the final thought, "Everything has it's own beauty, but everyone does not see it."