Blackhawk Golden ‘K’ General Meeting
Minutes
February 19th, 2025
Roger Willeford presiding, called the meeting to order with a ring of the bell at 9:30AM.
A Programs Committee meeting occurred today.
31 members were in attendance today.
The meeting was led by the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of America, the National Anthem.
Invocation: Carl Cramer, mentioning snow, sunshine and the children.
Raffle: Linda Bontly and then Ryan Lewis oversaw (and filled in) the ticket sales and drawing this week.
The weekly pot was $8 and the big (Joker) pot was $53.
Maury Frey drew a ticket from the bucket, ticket number 7157. Congratulations to the winner, Dick Fay.
The deck of cards has 48/53 cards remaining. Dick drew the 2♣. A second drawing for a Bucky Book donated by Mac’s Pizza Shack occurred. Luci Cramer drew ticket number 7168, and Bob Knudson won the book.
Roger Willeford thanked greeters Carl Cramer and Dave Figi, invocator Carl Cramer, rafflemaster Linda Bontly and Ryan Lewis and server Linda Bontly.
Happy Box: Linda Bontly announced she is happy because she accepted an offer to sell her house!
Roger Willeford announced that Jenny Turco is a guest today.
Jokes: Steve Skelly had a few good jokes.
Other Announcements: John Janes spoke about upcoming Blood Drives. They are at Faith Lutheran, Monday and Tuesday. Monday’s is 1-6pm, and Tuesday’s, 10:30-3:30pm. See the pamphlet photo for additional information.
Committee Reports: John Janes reported the Truck on Ice has now received $31,600 for children. After the $5,000 in prizes, $26,500 will be given away. The upcoming first meeting of March (5th) will start with re-counters moving quickly, at 9am, to prepare everything, and then the first part of the meeting will include the fifteen and two alternates winners’ drawings.
Jim Farrell introduced the day’s speaker, Duane Jorgenson, Highway Commissioner of the Department of Public Works for Rock County. Duane oversees many transportation projects in our area, including several villages’ roads, on up to work on the interstate. His area of expertise includes 96 staff, around 35,000 federally regulated signage, and 2,640 lane-miles.
Duane shared a great deal of information about the county’s goals for bridge construction, renegotiating federal contracts (our county is one of the lowest paid for servicing federal contracts, only receiving 37% of the average), and maintaining its fleet of 700+ pieces of large equipment. Videos were shared with recent accidents on county highways and the interstate that included plow drivers. The presentation was well received.
Jim Farrell thanked Duane Jorgenson for speaking and presented him with a Kiwanis coffee mug.
Roger Willeford adjourned the meeting with a ring of the bell at 11:02AM.
Reminders: There is an executive board meeting next week. Minutes by Ryan Lewis.
Credit: Dave Figi, and Ryan Lewis (various slides), photographs.
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