Blackhawk Golden ‘K’ General Meeting
Minutes
May 7th, 2025
Roger Willeford presiding, called the meeting to order with a ring of the bell at 9:30AM.
30 members were in attendance today.
The meeting was led with the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of America, the National Anthem.
Invocation: Richard Johnson, mentioning the children.
Raffle: Linda Bontly oversaw the ticket sales and drawing this week.
The weekly pot was $11 and the big (Joker) pot was $190.
Richard Johnson drew a ticket from the bucket, ticket number 510. Congratulations to the winner, Roger Willeford.
The deck of cards has 38/53 cards remaining. Roger Willeford drew the 9♠.
Roger Willeford thanks greeters Dave Thill and Steve Skelly, invocator Richard Johnson, rafflemaster Linda Bontly and Maury Frey.
A vote was held for officers. Three positions were available. They were two Directors, and the Vice President. A secret ballot was collected, and the results announced. The new Vice President will be Jim Farrell. The new directors will be Steve Skelly and Ryan Lewis.
Happy Box: Luci Cramer announced she is happy because five people attended Whitewater’s meeting for inter-club yesterday. Whitewater’s Kiwanis are active! Some of the things they do include Pancake Day, for which a banner is extended across a city street, and they sell Lillies. They have a woman that has provided great jokes for a long time. The program was good. They have three clubs, a Builders Club, A Key Club and a Circle K!
Maury Frey announced he is happy by proxy for Jerry Langdok, who is celebrating his 61st wedding anniversary Friday (Jerry couldn’t be here).
Roger Willeford is happy because we received a ‘Thank you’ card from the Boy Scouts of America local troop.
Roger Willeford is again happy because his daughter visited.
Roger Willeford announced that our favorite guest Lorraine is in attendance.
Jokes: Steve Skelly had a good joke about a man going to the doctor. The man waited in the examination room after some tests, and knew the prognosis was not good. The doctor entered, and he immediately asked, “Doctor, how long do I have?” The doctor replied, “ten.” The man then excited and perplexed, exclaimed, “ten what?!” The doctor replied, “nine” (eight, seven, six).
Member Health: Maury Frey had a status update on Jerry Langdok. Jerry’s wife Vicky was home Sunday. She is diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension on the side of her heart. She is okay.
Dick Fay, Ron Anderson, Don Anderson, Ron Shuler, Linda Bontly and Mel Lemirande have birthdays in the coming week, and a song was sung.
Other Announcements: Ray Szczepaniak spoke upon Rock University. They now have a Key Club! He was happy to report the kids saw the truck on ice sign and many knew to what it was in reference.
John Janes spoke upon Jan Reck having donated several checks from the funeral to Blackhawk Golden Kiwanis.
John Janes spoke upon the upcoming Renaissance Fair. It is in little over one week! A signup is being passed around.
John mentioned that the Tree Sale is concluded!
While the results were subpar, a new strategy will be planned for next year.
Maury Frey spoke upon the retirement of Mark Steinke, Rotary’s staff many members get along with. It occurs in two weeks.
Committee Reports: Luci Cramer announced the Whitewater Kiwanis are collecting pill and etc. bottle caps (see flier).
Steve Skelly announced the Buddy Bench now comes in a (heavy) concrete supports version, and showed a photo.
Luci Cramer introduced the day’s speaker, Angie Hoium. Angie is an employee of Blackhawk Community Credit Union. She has risen in the company from teller, to another role, to ultimately land in her current title, Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism (Director).
Angie presented upon fraud.
The first slide presented data about who in society are scammed. Surprisingly, ages 20-29 have a large share of the graphs. The difference is, older victims have a much greater loss.
Angie spoke upon a tool scammers have to reach into blue post office boxes. It circumvents the omni-directional design. The fraudsters then take any checks they find in the mail, and use an ink eraser to rewrite their names in the payee field. Angie recommends only using 100% gel pens with financial matters, to avoid the problem.
Angie covered many other scams and the difficulties she and others have had convincing clients they are in fact giving funds to disreputable sources (some, repeatedly). Ultimately, some members’ accounts had to be closed because they refuse to believe their Nigerian prince (editor’s phrasing) are indeed untrue.
A selection of “Trusted Contact” phone stickers, 100% gel pens, phone charging mounts with trusted contacts attached and other helpful items were distributed. The presentation was informative and well received.
Luci Cramer thanked Angie Hoium for speaking and presented her with a Kiwanis yellow thermos.
Roger Willeford adjourned the meeting with a ring of the bell at 10:58AM.
Minutes by Ryan Lewis.
Credit: Dave Figi, and Ryan Lewis, photographs.
Note: Kiwanis and its members are not responsible for errors or omissions. We are open to discussion if you would like to request an alteration.
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