Blackhawk Golden ‘K’ General Meeting
Minutes
December 18th, 2024
Roger Willeford presiding, called the meeting to order with a ring of the bell at 9:30AM.
An Executive Board meeting occurred today.
35 members were in attendance today.
The meeting was lead with the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of America, the National Anthem.
Invocation: Ron Shuler, mentioning the children.
Raffle: Bob Knudson oversaw the ticket sales and drawing this week.
The weekly pot was $14 and the big (Joker) pot was $556.
Ray Szczepaniak drew a ticket from the bucket, ticket number 2886. Congratulations to the winner, Steve Johnson.
The deck of cards has 14/53 cards remaining. Steve drew the 5♣.
Roger Willeford thanks greeters Tom Neumann and Bruce Jorenby, Ron Shuler for the invocation, raffle master Bob Knudson and server Glenn Disrude.
Maury Frey briefly introduced the new Rotary Botanical Gardens director, Michelle Ryan.
Happy Box: Ron Shuler was happy to receive a Christmas card from his son and grandson (see photo).
Richard Johnson is happy about the Elks’ dinner (44 will attend).
Thanks to Steve Johnson, who donated his raffle winnings to the Truck on Ice.
Jim Farrell was happy the Rotary Lights show has seen 15,000 people. He hopes for more (far lower than last year).
Luci Cramer is happy Ron Shuler, Linda Bontly and Nancy Tarco did well with the Kandu Christmas tree.
Linda Bontly is happy to be leaving for Christmas in Alabama.
Jokes: Luci Cramer had a good joke, as did Richard Johnson, Glenn Disrude and Ryan Lewis.
Member Health: Dave Peterson talked to John Sarnow’s wife. The plan is a pace maker Friday, home Saturday.
Other Announcements: Linda Bontly announced Kiwanis received a ‘thank you’ from Kandu.
Everyone should see Ron Shuler’s nativity scenes at the Hedberg Public Library.
Thanks to all who ran bells for Salvation Army. Richard Johnson said he and Ray Szczepaniak had a good time.
John Janes shared the top 10 reasons for blood donation.
A word was made about the recent shootings in the Madison school.
Committee Reports: John Janes reported the Truck on Ice has a $1,000 sponsorship. He mentioned personally he has already sold 35 tickets.
Jim Farrell introduced the day’s speaker, Yuri Rashkin. Among his accomplishments, Yuri is a composer and pianist, and a Rock County board supervisor. Yuri was board in Moscow, during the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In his life he sold mortgages in Utah. He later moved to Wisconsin, where he took to being a personality on public radio and YouTube (the Rashkin Report does well). He enjoys American politics.
Recently, Yuri visited Ukraine for around 10 days. He is involved with a non-profit that resettles refugees there.
Ukraine was discussed, in photos, including a snap of the non-profit’s team and some of the architecture for which the Ukrainians have for centuries taken pride (ornate doorways are frequent). The talk was enjoyable.
Jim thanked Yuri for speaking and presented him with a Kiwanis coffee mug.
Roger Willeford adjourned the meeting with a ring of the bell at 10:57AM.
Reminders: The next executive board meeting is January 22nd.
Minutes by Ryan Lewis.
Credit: Ryan Lewis and (Kiwanian’s name here), photographs.
rev. 12-11-2024
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