Future Dates
01/27 & 28 District Meeting @ Marion
02/01 Octagon SupperBowl of Care food drive
02/01 Dave Wolkins – Statehouse news
02/04 Tri-Star Basketball
02/08 Jim Reeve – Roy Rogers
02/08 Valentine’s Banquet
02/11 Tri-Star Basketball regional
02/15 Joe Thallemer – State of the City
02/24 Oratorical contest
05/20 Car Show
06/07 Golf Outing at Stonehenge
06/23 Triathlon
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
75 Optimists & 6 guests attended our meeting. Noel Hoke was the guest of Luke Becknell; Clark Ingram was the guest of Alan Grossnickle; Mike Metzger was the guest of Dan Metzger; JoElla Smyth was the guest of Tracy Horrell; Delane & Nancy Jackson were the guests of Bob Jackson.
Door Greeters: Fred Nieter & Pete Gano.
Prayer was offered by Dave Turner.
Pledge was given to the American Flag. Promise yourself was said in unison.
Birthday Honorees: Steve McGlothin & Lilli Hertel. Dr. David Haines led us in the birthday song with our usual results.
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Membership: Lt. Gov. Sam Whitaker read Richard King’s, Dan Kolbe’s, & Noel Hoke’s applications. Past Presidents Ron Henry & Jeff Owensinducted Past President Ron Henry after a skit by Doug Ogle, Merl Heckaman, Harry Gigous, Past Presidents John Elliott & Jim Nesbitt, & Past Lt. Gov. Denny Andrews. Sam Whitaker sponsored Ron & Dan,Rick Kerlin sponsored Richard, & Luke Becknell sponsored Noel.
Sheriff of Attendance, Harry Gigous greeted Greg Kralis & Dr. Jenny Lucht.
May 20th Car Show: Past Pres. John Elliott reminded us that we were going to each buy a $25 plaque for participants instead of selling Christmas Trees.
Everett Nifong announced that our Golf Outing will be June 7th.
Doug Jones has the Triathlon posters Allegra printed for us. See Doug if you can post one. Also we need new sponsors. Some of our prior sources are unable to donate this year. Our event is June 23rd.
Chris Wiggins announced Tri-Star Basketball will be at Baker Youth Club. Our event is Feb. 4th from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. & we are hosting the regional on Feb. 11th.
Pres.-Elect Tracy Furnivall announced our Valentine’s Banquet will be 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8th at the Shrine Building. Cost is $20 per person.
Past Lt. Gov. Ot Schroeder asked us to bring food items for Octagon to collect at next week’s meeting for their SupperBowl of Care.
Tracy Horrell introduced JoElla Smyth who introduced us to our Students of the Week from Edgewood: Jonathan Beres, Grace Garrett, Lilli Hertel, Henry Howard, Joseph Jackson, Clara Kois, Kyle Mangas, Krista Metzger, Austin Ritenour, Athena Schlitt, Emily Thrasher. Merl Heckaman served as our usher for our students.
Pres. John Sullivan announced our District meeting will be Jan. 27 & 28 in Marion. Tell Jennifer Dorman or John if you are going.
Pres. John Sullivan agreed we WILL meet the morning of Feb. 8th at our usual time. Several of us thought, we are up anyway, why not eat & have fun.
Past Pres. Jeff Owens reminded us of our Feb. 24th Oratorical Contest.
Jim Hayes announced our Club Directories are out. Thanks go to Dr.Jason Rich, Jim Hayes, Trina Hoy, & Allegra.
Please pray for our Troops and Families:
Nick Walz – Marines
Sergeants-at-Arms: Bob Jackson & Jim Nesbitt entertained us. Tracy Furnivall is thankful Baker Youth Club has their new bus. They have about 50 new kids because of the transportation. Fred Nieter reminded us of the cab driver’s 1st day after years of driving a hearse. Tom Klinesays the state’s new grading system will help us out. Those who gave toRight To Life were recognized. The beardless people at theNesbitt/Turner/Ibach table were noticed.
50/50: Past Lt. Gov. Dr. David Haines won $29.
Program: David Floyd, CEO of OrthoWorx educated us on OrthoWorx important work.
The Warsaw based orthopedic industry represents 1/3 of the worldwide orthopedic industry. The Warsaw based reconstructive industry represents ½ of the worldwide orthopedic reconstructive industry. There are 6800 jobs in Kosciusko County that are directly in orthopedics & 6200 indirect jobs. Overall 13,000 jobs in our county are orthopedics based. 43% of the jobs in our county are orthopedics based. As we know these jobs pay very well.
The challenges in Warsaw are: talent attraction, non-diversified economic base (what jobs are available for the trailing spouse), geographic isolation, limited workforce pool, good but limited educational offerings, lack of a regional innovation pipeline between our universities & our orthopedic industry.
OrthoWorx works strategically & collaboratively with the orthopedic industry & other stakeholders to build on community strengths to ensure that Warsaw continues to be the Orthopedic Capital of the World.
OrthoWorx’ 6 strategic areas are: enhancing education, workforce development, community enhancement, innovation & research pipeline between area universities & the orthopedic industry, transportation & logistics, & branding & awareness of Warsaw.
For more information go to www.orthoworxindiana.com.
Tags: 50/50 drawing, Baker youth club, Club Director, Oratorical Contest, Orthoworx, Student of the week, TriStar
Future Dates
01/25 David Floyd – CEO Orthoworx
01/27 & 28 District Meeting @ Marion
02/01 Dave Wolkins – Statehouse news
02/04 Tri-Star Basketball
02/08 Jim Reeve – Roy Rogers
02/08 Valentine’s Banquet
02/11 Tri-Star Basketball regional
02/15 Joe Thallemer – State of the City
02/24 Oratorical contest
05/20 Car Show
06/07 Golf Outing at Stonehenge
06/23 Triathlon
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
85 Optimists & 5 guests attended our meeting. Ron Henry was the guest of Sam Whitaker; Noel Hoke was the guest of Luke Becknell; Alan Soskin was the guest of Rick Kerlin; Lt. Gov. Elect Jim Burk & Dianne Burk were the guests of our club.
Prayer was offered by Merl Heckaman after he led us in singing “How Great Thou Art”.
Pledge was given to the American Flag.
Promise yourself was said in unison.
Birthday Honorees: Ken Anderson & John Teevan. Dr. David Haines led us in the birthday song with our usual results.
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Prayer Request: Jim Hayes’ family at the passing of his mother, Norma. Lecia Derrossett’s uncle’s recovery from a heart attack.
Membership: Lyle Enyeart read Ron Henry’s, Richard King’s & Dan Kolbe’s applications. Sam Whitaker sponsored Ron & Dan, & Rick Kerlin sponsored Richard.
Sheriff of Attendance, After buying his hat back, Bill Landrigan greeted Aaron Rovenstine & George Paton. He reported we have had 85 in attendance for several weeks!
Car Show: Past Pres. John Elliott announced the department heads for our May 20th Car Show. He reminded us that we were going to each buy a $25 plaque for participants instead of selling Christmas Trees. We all need to see if our employers can donate at the $100 or higher level. Please tell John about any Car Clubs that you know of within 100 miles of Warsaw.
Everett Nifong announced that our Golf Outing will be June 7th.
Doug Jones has the Triathlon posters Allegra printed for us. See Doug if you can post one. Also we need new sponsors. Some of our prior sources are unable to donate this year. Our event is June 23rd.
Chris Wiggins announced Tri-Star Basketball will be at Baker Youth Club. Our event is Feb. 4th from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. & we are hosting the regional on Feb. 11th. Help is needed for both Saturdays, but especially on Feb. 11.
Pres. John Sullivan announced our District meeting will be Jan. 27 & 28 in Marion. Tell Jennifer Dormanor John if you are going.
Pres.-Elect Tracy Furnivall announced our Valentine’s Banquet will be 7 p.m. Feb. 8th at the Shrine Building.
Pres. John Sullivan agreed we WILL meet the morning of Feb. 8th at our usual time. Several of us thought, we are up anyway, why not eat & have fun.
Past Pres. Jeff Owens thanked our Oratorical Contest sponsors, Past Pres. George Brennan, Past Pres. John Elliott, Nick Deeter, Zimmer, & Allegra Printing. Also thanks go to Joe Sutton & Trace Hansen for their offers of sponsorships. Our event will be Feb. 24.
Video Editor, Jim Hayes, showed us 2 videos. One showed why kids’ school pictures are so bad. The other one showed the non-Ot version of the State Farm guy. We are glad we have Ot Schroeder.
Please pray for our Troops and Families:
Dillon Ritter – Army – Iraq
Sergeants-at-Arms: Bob Jackson & Jim Nesbitt entertained us.
Angie & Kyle Tom are expecting in 3 weeks. In addition their son is on honor role.
Trace Hansen is expecting a girl in May & his son was Student of the Month & is moving back to Warsaw. Jim Nesbitt gave us a linguistics lesson.
Troy Akers has confessed to being a Buckeye fan.
Bill Katip had no reason for Grace’s loss last night.
Rick Kerlin was in the Times-Union for a generous donation to families of Riley kids.
Merl Heckaman was in The Paper for his expertise as an official.
Program: Our own Carol Ousley gave us an update on KREMC’s new Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). The new meters will not need anyone to read them, saving homeowners the need to remember to read them & saving the labor of paid readers. The new meters will also communicate more effectively when your power is out. The new meters use radio frequency to report our usage. As a Not-For-Profit cooperative, KREMC will not sell any data from the meters. KREMC has the lowest residential rates among all 39 Indiana electric co-ops. For more information go to www.kremc.com.
Tags: Car Show, Golf Outing, Oratorical Contest, remc, Tri-Star, Triathlon
