Future Dates
03/23 War. Ed. Found. Com. Quiz Bowl
04/5-9 Spring Break Skate
04/17 Safe Assured @ YMCA
05/22 Car Show Fundraiser
06/17 Golf Outing fundraiser
06/26 Triathlon
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70 Optimists & 7 guests attended our meeting: Amanda Fleming guest of Angie Tom; Rick Kerlin guest of Lyle Enyeart; Cathy Mullett & Beth McHaffie guests of Trina Hoy; Tony Ciriello, Kerry & Tracey Rose guests of Sam Whitaker. Door Greeter: Ed Nordstrom. Prayer was offered by Doug Ogle. Pledge was given to the American Flag. Promise yourself was said in unison. Mystery Person Henry Church reported 15 people shook his hand.
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Prayer List: Daniel Elliott’s continued recovery.
Membership: Everett Nifong read Beth McHaffie’s, Cathy Mullett’s & Amanda Fleming’s 3rd readings; Ben Garden’s 2nd reading; & Tony Ciriello’s & Rick Kerlin’s 1st reading. Trina Hoy sponsored Cathy & Beth, Angie Tom sponsored Amanda, Sam Whitaker sponsored Tony, Mitch Goon sponsored Ben, & Lyle Enyeart sponsored Rick.
Sherriff Bill Landrigan thanked all who came today.
Board Member Art Gakstatter presented a checks to Kerry & Tracey Rose of the Kosciusko County Soc-cer League & Erica Jansen & Audrey Findlay of the Warsaw School Closet Program.
Email Trace Hansen at Tracesk8s@yahoo.com to vol-unteer for our Safe Assured ID 4/17 from 9am to 2pm at the YMCA. Shifts are available.
Spring Break Skate: Trace Hansen pays the admis-sion & our club covers the skate rental for local ele-mentary kids during spring break. Call Trace Hansen to help hand out tickets after next week’s meeting.
Stacey Cox saluted: David Meier, who joined in 2005 & is our Marketing chair, chairs our Big Wheel Race, works our Triathlon, is past board member, & is a fisherman. David Taylor, who joined in 2003, works our Triathlon & Christmas Tree sales. is active in the Pierceton Chamber of Commerce, & is a historic re-enactor. Next Week Stacey will salute George Bren-nan & Steve Albertson.
Sergeant-at-Arms: Lyle Enyeart collected from those who did not wear green. Fred Nieter is happy Warsaw won it’s regional. Coach Doug Ogle thanked the community & H.S. administrators for their support. Warsaw plays Carroll at New Castle at 3:30pm Saturday. John Elliott remembered when our club started Warsaw Soccer. Chris Kehler com-mended Kerry & Tracey Rose for their logistical work for area soccer. Jim Hayes entertained us with an interrogation video. 50/50: This week Don Kenipe continued his winning tradition of buying a car show trophy with his winnings.
Please pray for our Troops and Families:
Sgt Major James Houvener – Army – Iraq
Program: John Elliott & Art Gakstatter brought us up to speed on our new car show fundraiser. We hope to make Christmas Tree sales go the way of the fish fry. We have 3 goals: 1) Have Fun! 2) Publi-cize our club. 3) Make money. If people who bring cars have fun, they will come back in future years. We can build our clientele. Fun components are: DJ playing music, over 100 cars, downtown merchants, BBQ contest with award winning Mad Anthony Brew-ing’s BBQ, ML Motorsports car, Bob Fuson’s antique fire truck, escorted cruise at 5pm from downtown to the Village & back, 6:15pm Martin Becker’s band, 7pm prizes. Clint Marsh from WRSW & Brian Walsh from WIOE along with the Times-Union are publiciz-ing our show. Trina did a great graphic for our ad in the Cruizin magazine. Car entrants will get a list of what we do. The money comes from our buying 150 $25 trophies, 100 car entrants paying $12, 15 BBQ teams paying $20, 2 $500 gold, 2 $200 silver, & 5 $100 bronze sponsorships. Mad Anthony’s will do-nate 20% of their proceeds. Lyle Enyeart is calling auto related businesses for donations. The work teams are: Registration with Sam Whitaker, Jane Greene, Rich Haddad, & Fred Nieter. BBQ contest with Jim Kessler needs 4 more helpers. 4 people are needed for the Cruise to Winona Lake. Art Gakstat-ter & Jim Hayes need 10 people to help them work the show. Ed Nordstrom is working with downtown merchants on getting the drivers to visit the stores.
Tags: Car Show, Fundraiser, general meetings, Projects, quiz bowl, safeassured, TriStar
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Future Dates
03/15 Golf Outing meeting
03/17 more news on Car Show
03/23 War. Ed. Found. Com. Quiz Bowl
04/17 Safe Assured @ YMCA
05/22 Car Show Fundraiser
06/17 Golf Outing fundraiser
06/26 Triathlon
>>>>OPENING
71 Optimists & 12 guests attended our meeting: Seth Ray, Billy & Maria Hutchinson guests of Everett Nifong; Amanda Fleming guest of Angie Tom; Rick Kerlin guest of Lyle Enyeart; Mark Dobson guest of Trina Hoy; David Mann, Jan & Ken Houin guests of Mary Ellen Jordan; Tony Ciriello guest of Sam Whitaker; Ben Garden guest of Mitch Goon. Door Greeters: George Paton & Tracy Horrell. Prayer was offered by Merl Heckaman. Pledge was given to the American Flag. Promise yourself was said in unison. Mystery Person Lyle Enyeart reported 25 people shook his hand.
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Prayer List: Bill Hilliard’s family. Daniel Elliott’s continued recovery.
Membership: Everett Nifong read Cathy Mullett’s & Amanda Fleming’s 2nd readings. Past Pres. Mary Ellen Jordan inducted Joy Lavender. Dr. David Haines sponsored Joy, Trina Hoy sponsored Cathy, & Angie Tom sponsored Amanda. Past Pres. Jeff Owens is looking for candidates for our election of board members, VPs, & president-elect.
Everett Nifong is looking for members to support our 6/17 golf outing by working the Tee Sponsorship or Door Prize committees. The initial meeting is at 5:30pm on March 15 at Clevenger Insurance.
Sherriff Bill Landrigan thanked all who came today.
President Sam Whitaker reported our board donated money to our scholarship in honor of Bill Hilliard; Kos-ciusko Literacy Services; Winona Lake Park Depart-ment’s summer program; & Kosciusko County Soccer League. Pres. Sam also asked us not to write on the tablecloths at our meetings.
Email Trace Hansen at Tracesk8s@yahoo.com to vol-unteer for our Safe Assured ID 4/17 from 9am to 2pm at the YMCA. Shifts are available.
Spring Break Skate: Call Trace Hansen to help hand out tickets.
New Car Show Fundraiser: Next week bring your trophy form & $25 check to turn in as we learn more about this inaugural event. If enough trophies are sponsored, we might be able to stop selling Christ-mas Trees. Art reminded us lots of help will be needed on the day of the event, May 22.
Stacey Cox saluted: Martin Becker, who joined in 1991 & has 18 years perfect attendance, is our Song Leader, chairs our Triathlon Parking. Martin is a Mu-sic Education professor at Grace, was the high school band director at Marion and Warsaw. He has led Music Ambassadors to Europe for many years. Next Sunday Martin will be inducted into the Band Directors Hall of Fame at Purdue. Craig Nayrocker, who joined in 2003, has 6 years perfect attendance, chairs our Triathlon Water Stations, writes our news-letters, is past Optimist of the Year & past Rookie of the Year. Next Week Stacey will salute Dave Meier & Dave Taylor.
Jennifer Dorman is passing a sign up sheet for proc-tors for the Warsaw Education Foundation Com-munity Quiz Bowl from 6pm to 10pm on 3/23/10. Merl Heckaman put our team of George Brennan, Dr. Jason Rich, Jennifer Dorman, Luke Becknell, & Denny Andrews through some brain practice.
Sergeant-at-Arms: Merl Heckaman & Lyle Enyeart collected money from us. John Teevan announced Optibullette Editor Emeritus, Wayne Snider spon-sored a trophy. Grace VP David Plaster passed. Fred Nieter is happy Warsaw won it’s sectional. Susan McHenry is an expectant grandmother. Jim Hayes entertained us with some transportation vid-eos. 50/50: This week Lyle Enyeart won $32.
Please pray for our Troops and Families:
2nd Lt Evan Bradley – Army – Iraq
Program: Jan Houin from Operation Quiet Comfort (www.operationquietcomfort.com) showed us how we can honor & comfort our wounded troops. Two main projects are Four Freedom Gratitude Quilts & Go Bags. Call Jan at 574-936-1424 to see how easy it can be to help.
Tags: Car Show, Donation, Fundraiser, general meetings, Golf Outing, Meeting, membership, Operation Quiet Comfort, Optibullete, Projects, quiz bowl, safeassured, Triathlon, TriStar
Future Dates
03/08 Board Meeting
03/15 Golf Outing meeting
03/17 more news on Car Show
03/23 War. Ed. Found. Com. Quiz Bowl
05/22 Car Show Fundraiser
06/26 Triathlon
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72 Optimists & 12 guests attended our meeting: Tim Mundinger guest of Henry Church; Cathy Mullett guest of Trina Hoy; Joy Lavender guest of Dr. David Haines; Amanda Fleming guest of Angie Tom; Jason Arnett, Brandon Bibler, Caitlin Julian, Katrina Lowe, Tim Perkey, Skyler Shenefield, Kelsey Sponseller, Tiffany Tat guests of Tracy Horrell & Troy Akers. Door Greeters: Bob Jackson & John Elliott. Prayer was offered by Henry Church. Pledge was given to the American Flag. Promise yourself was said in uni-son. Birthday Honorees: Jon Lippe. Martin Becker led us with our usual results. Mystery Person Ken Anderson reported 12 people shook his hand.
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Prayer List: Bill Hilliard’s family. Daniel Elliott’s continued recovery.
Membership: Everett Nifong read Joy Lavender’s & Beth McHaffie’s 3rd readings & Cathy Mullett’s & Amanda Fleming’s 1st readings. Dr. David Haines sponsored Joy, Trina Hoy sponsored Beth & Cathy, Angie Tom sponsored Amanda. Lt. Gov. Jim Reeve is looking for candidates for our election of board members, VPs, & president-elect.
Everett Nifong is looking for members to support our golf outing by working the Tee Sponsorship or Door Prize committees. Sign up or email Everett at Everett.Nifong@lakecitybank.com. The initial meeting is at 6pm on March 15.
Troy Akers introduced us to Jason Arnett, Brandon Bibler, Caitlin Julian, Katrina Lowe, Tim Perkey, Skyler Shenefield, Kelsey Sponseller, & Tiffany Tat who were our Students of the Week from Warsaw Com. H.S. Susan McHenry & Tracy Horrell are coor-dinating our awards.
Sherriff Bill Landrigan thanked all who came today. It was good to see John Sullivan, Joe Sutton, David Tinsley, Juergen Voss, Jim Walmer, & Chris Wiggins.
Pres. Sam Whitaker reminded us of our board meeting 3/8.
New Car Show Fundraiser: We have received let-ters showing us how we can each sponsor a trophy for $25 or more. The trophies will cost less than $25, so we will make a profit on them. March 17 we will find out about other levels of sponsorship. The tro-phies help encourage more people to pay the $12 entrance fee to bring their cars. If enough trophies are sponsored, we might be able to stop selling Christmas Trees. Art reminded us lots of help will be needed on the day of the event, May 22. President Sam Whitaker thanked Art Gakstatter, John Elliott, Jim Hayes, & Trina Hoy for their hard work to get this new project started.
Rich Haddad presented a $500 gift from the K21 Health Foundation to our Safe Assured / Golf Outing in honor of Dr. David Haines.
George Brennan is passing a sign up sheet for proc-tors for the Warsaw Education Foundation Com-munity Quiz Bowl from 6pm to 10pm on 3/23/10. Our team is George, Dr. Jason Rich, Jennifer Dorman, Luke Becknell, & Denny Andrews.
Sergeant-at-Arms: Merl Heckaman & Lyle Enyeart led us in congratulating our Optimist Singer director, Martin Becker, for being inducted into the Indiana Band Director Hall of Fame. Only one director is inducted each year. Marty said the important thing is what music does for the student. Chris Wiggins made his half court shot at TriStar. Bill Landrigan is happy to eat fish every Friday this month instead of just the 1st Friday of most months at the Knights of Columbus from 4:30pm to 7pm for $8. Owen Dona-hue wrote us a note thanking us for putting on our Oratorical Contest. Jim Hayes entertained us with the Mountain Dew karate commercial video. Merl sponsored a ―hockey game‖ in honor of the Olym-pics. 50/50: This week Lt. Gov. Jim Reeve won $39.
Please pray for our Troops and Families:
2nd Lt Evan Bradley – Army – Iraq
Program: Tim Mundinger from Warsaw Custom Cabinets (www.warsawcustomcabinets.com) builds cabinets based on your space & your taste locally.
Tags: Car Show, fundrasiers, general meetings, Optibullete, Projects, quiz bowl, Triathlon, whitaker
Local Picture
The local Tri-Star Basketball winners from the local competition competed February 6th, 2010 at the Baker Youth Club to test their, dribbling, passing, and shooting skills against other local competitors ages 8-13. Many Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club members were on hand to volunteer their time as judges, scorekeepers, and organizers. 72 participants competed, with all of them receiving a t-shirt for participating and first, second, and third place finishers received trophies. The first place winners advanced to represent our club at the Regional competition.
Regional Picture
The Regional Tri-Star basketball competition was held at the Baker Youth Club on February 13, 2010. Participants from Warsaw, Mishawaka, Huntington, Plymouth, Columbia City, and Rochester all competed in the same skills test as at the local competition. Many Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club members graciously donated their time to make the competition a success. Six kids from the Warsaw Optimist club advanced at the regional competition to the Finals to be held in New Castle later in March.
Tags: Basketball, Indiana, Projects, TriStar
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