Blackhawk Golden ‘K’ General Meeting
Minutes
December 4th, 2024
Roger Willeford presiding, called the meeting to order with a ring of the bell at 9:30AM.
37 members were in attendance today.
The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of America, the National Anthem.
Invocation: Carl Cramer, mentioning the children.
Raffle: Maury Frey oversaw the ticket sales and drawing this week.
The weekly pot was $15 and the big (Joker) pot was $534.
Nancy Tarco drew a ticket from the bucket, ticket number 2753. Congratulations to the winner, Jerry Burhans.
The deck of cards has 16/53 cards remaining. Jerry drew the Q♣.
A check presentation occurred, $3000 to representatives of the Craig and Parker Community Closets.
Happy Box: Luci Cramer is happy about their trip to Seattle, Washington to visit family.
Mel Lemirande is happy to be leaving us for Tucson, AZ. He will be back in April.
Steve Skelly is appreciative he has joined the Golden K.
Ron Shuler is happy to be decorating a Christmas tree at the Hedberg Public Library.
Glenn Disrude is happy to be back from hunting ~10 days up North.
Jokes: Steve Skelly had a good joke via the Prairie Home Companion joke book he donated to the club.
Member Health: Mel Lemirande had a status update on John Sarnow in Madison. John may have a pacemaker installed on Monday.
Dick Fay saw Ed Timmer yesterday. Ed is doing well.
Jerry Burhans and Hamish Martin have birthdays in the coming month, and a song was sung.
Other Announcements: Richard Johnson spoke about the Christmas party. It is on the 18th, at the Elks’, at 5PM. Dessert is the Elks women’s bake sale, pies. Richard Johnson and Ray Szczepaniak will assist the Quartet for entertainment.
Committee Reports: John Janes announced another check arrived for Truck on Ice, from Home Town Pharmacy. The truck is being cleaned and prepared. It will be decorated by members 10AM Friday for the parade Saturday evening. The banner is made. A signups sheet for ticket sales around the community was passed around.
Gregg Dickinson said the Rotary raffle is nearing completion.
Luci Cramer said the Janesville Business Academy students are coming next week.
Ron Shuler spoke upon the Kandu Christmas trees. They are decorated, and will show Saturday from 11-2. A raffle drawing is occurring there, and tickets can be purchased to used as votes for ‘best trees.’ Our Kiwanis tree, which Ron themed and organized, and Linda Bontly and Nancy Tarco contributed to and worked on, is themed ‘flowers.’
Glenn Disrude says a meeting will occur next week at 8:45AM for the 7+ members to discuss and investigate insurance and the value that Kiwanis international provides.
Jim Farrell introduced the day’s speaker, Dave Botts. Dave is the Janesville city water and wastewater department director. He has 35 employees.
Janesville’s water is ground water, not river. The utility was started in 1887. Some of the tanks have existed since the 1930s, made of concrete (now rare). The older storage tanks are inspected and cleaned by divers every five years, a job that is difficult to hire for. Dave relayed that Janesville won a national award for best tasting water.
Jim thanked Dave for speaking and presented him with a Kiwanis Parker pen.
Roger Willeford adjourned the meeting with a ring of the bell at 10:57AM.
Minutes by Ryan Lewis.
Credit: Dave Figi, photographs.
rev. 12-11-2024
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.