LUNCH: Pig, mashed spuds, beans of wax and green, salad, and cookies.
SONG: America the Beautiful, (for the spacious skies) led by Jerry S. INVOCATION: Jack G.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS
and OPPORTUNITITES
Peanut Day.
Feed My Starving Children is holding a raffle. $20 tickets, grand prize is $10,000. Our club gets $8 for every ticket we sell. Mike Mooney is selling them. We’ve also requested a slot for packaging.
AKtion club is putting on a winter coat sale. They’re also selling Pumpkinfest t-shirts ($15) and sweatshirts ($20). Proceeds to Eliminate. (See end of newsletter for more info.)
October 10 is the Governor’s Visit. The Alpine Club is hosting Governor Jim Dooley’svisit at Sam’s Ristorante (6075 E. Riverside Blvd., Rockford, IL 61111) at 6:00 p.m. Sign-up is going around. Contact Dick Dowen to sign up.
The next Interclub is October 22. Tri-State is passing the gavel to us. The program that day is Therapy Dogs. Don’t miss it! Dick is causing trouble, changing the sign-up routine. Keep your eyes open for something new (a binder with sign-ups and the complete schedule.
Eliminate raffle winner ($16) - Dean Quarnstrom!
Sycamore Prayer Breakfast is Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 a.m. at the Sycamore United Methodist Church. Always a GREAT event! See Jerry S for tickets. This year’s speaker: Jim Dambeck from the Sycamore NB&T.
YMCA Halloween Party is October 24 at 4:00 p.m. at the Convo Center. Volunteers are needed all day for stuffing bags, setting up the games, building the haunted house, and more.
Check out the Yearbook info Amy sent you. Let her know if there are any changes to be made.
Oh, and dues are due!
PROGRAM
Edith Craig, Samantha Hathaway, and Josh McCarthy from the DeKalb Library talked to us about the library expansion and the Big Read. This year’s book – Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea: A Wizard of Earthsea. The construction is a $25.3 million. ($11.6 million Illinois state library grant, also some from the city of DeKalb. Castle, NB&T, and Resource banks came through with loans for the remaining $3 million.) The library has been around for 120 years, pushed by Annie Glidden in the late 1800s. Jacob Haish donated money for the current building (meant to serve a community of 8,000) in 1930. But after more than 80 years, the library has outgrown the building. There’s no room for more books, or for archives. Being an old building, it has many areas that are not accessible to the elderly or wheelchair-bound. Better integration to the internet is needed, as is a major upgrade to the physical infrastructure. The solution: a 46,000 ft2 extension to the 19,500 ft2 current building. Construction has begun, and all the final details are being worked out. The move out to the new building (for refurbishing of the Haish building) and the move back to the Haish building will mean things will temporarily be in different places. dkpl.org has more information about the project and donations (click on the “From Barbed Wire to Fully Wired” link). The tentative completion rate (for everything) is June, 2016.
Just a reminder – this year’s officers and board members:
President: Abby ChemersTreasurer:Lisa Small
President Elect: Dick DowenAsst. Treasurer:Sue Doubler
Vice President: Joe GastigerSecretary:Ken Doubler
Asst. SecretaryJerry Wahlstrom
Immediate Past President: Greg Spears
Board of Directors:
Class of October 2013 – September 2015: Bob Higgerson, Diana King, Mark Sawyer, Beryl Smith
Class of October 2014 – September 2016: Kendra Chaplin, Steve Cichy, Bill Finucane, Svetlana Henrikson, Joe Jarocki
Heard around the tables:
Apparently Jack’s afraid of being put into the newsletter. Oops!
Quotes for the day
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
- Rene Descartes
October Birthdays
1 Ken Doubler17 Kevin Breuer
3 Dick Dowen (one that ends in zero)18 Joe Jarocki
4 Michelle Graham21 Bill Finucane
10 Bob Higgerson28 Mike Mooney
UPCOMING PROGRAMS: (Why not invite a guest? – that could also mean a prospective member!)
Oct. 15 Kish Awards @ DeKalb County Community Foundation Building
Oct. 22 Therapy Dogs Eileen Balcom (this is also an Interclub)
Oct. 29 T’ai Chi Tim Griffin
Nov. 5Board Meeting @ the Lincoln Inn
Today’s Attendance:
33 / Kish Kiwanians1 / Guests: Prospective Member, Aaron
3 / Speakers: Edith, Samantha, and Josh
37 / TOTAL
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