Adventures in Friendship 2009

Its the time of year again when many foreign students come to the area to work at Cedar Point and other area business's which means the Adventures in friendship program is kicking off. This year the program has its own website visit http://www.adventuresinfriendship.org/. Information will still be available on this website as well and you can also find adventures in friendship on Facebook!

Monthly committee meeting for February

Here is the report for our monthly committee day. We had roughly 177 hours of community service hours and our committees donated $100 to the Firelands Symphony & $450 to the Sandusky Library for the Big Read Erie County Reads programs. Here is info directly from the Sandusky library website www.sandusky.lib.oh.us :

THE BIG READ: ERIE COUNTY READS To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMarch 14, 2009 - April 22, 2009"read it - watch it - experience it"

Sandusky Library was one of 208 to receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host The Big Read in Erie County. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. The Big Read is an initiative designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. Sandusky Library, along with its Castalia and Kelleys Island branches, will join with the other four libraries in Erie County - Bellevue, Huron, Vermilion (Ritter), and Milan-Berlin - to present a second county-wide reading project. The Big Read: Erie County Reads To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee will kick-off on March 14, at 1:00 p.m. at the Sandusky Mall (near Borders). For more information about The Big Read go to www.neabigread.org. For more information about Erie County Reads and programs being held at each of the five Erie County libraries, go to www.eriecountyreads.org.

BIG READ EVENTS
The Big Read: Erie County Reads Kick-Off will be held in Sandusky Mall (near Borders) on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. Receive a FREE copy of To Kill a Mockingbird when you join us for our Kick-Off event! Mona Rutger of Back to the Wild will be on hand with local wildlife to awe and inspire. Find out what your Erie County libraries have in store for you and your family during this special county-wide reading project!

We bowled in the Divison 12 outing and all we got was a T-Shirt.

On Saturday the 21st our club attended the annual Division 12 bowling tournament to defend our 2008 title. We came, we saw and we were conquered! The Tiffin club took home this years title. Thanks to Larry Windau with games of 132, 151, and 130 ,Jim Sennish with games of 149,142, and 148, Marty Hippler with games of 104,192, 148 and myself with games of 161,161, 202, and our capable alternate who happened to be waiting for a team that was short handed Bill, with games of 171, 145 and 138, our team finished with 2274 pins beating the Port Clinton team with a team score of 2106 on the opposite lane. Larry Windau left with a fine Kiwanis T-shirt for being left handed. (No kidding) And our team won the most serious bowling team award. As always the bowling brought many of our clubs from the area together for a fun day. Thanks to Tiffin for hosting this years event.

Website malfunctions

For some unknown reason the pdfs on our main site are not working. So if you need a copy of anything in our download section let me know and I will email it to you ASAP.

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Thank You from the Sandusky Library

Just want to share a recent letter from the Sandusky Library.

February 24, 2009


Ms. Jody Meisler
Kiwanis Club of Sandusky
Sandusky, OH 44870

Dear Ms. Meisler and Kiwanis Members:

On behalf of the five libraries in Erie County (Bellevue, Huron, Milan-Berlin, Sandusky, and Vermilion) that are joining together for The Big Read: Erie County Reads 2009 project, we would like to thank the Kiwanis Club of Sandusky for its generous financial support of $450.00.

Our hope is that this first-ever The Big Read: Erie County Reads event (but our second community read), will promote widespread reading and intergenerational book-centered discussions. Our first-ever community-wide event was held in 2007 (with Marley & Me) and was very successful!

This year’s event kicks-off on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at the Sandusky Mall. We have a variety of programs planned to enhance The Big Read. You can view all of the events (both county-wide events and ones being offered at each library) at www.eriecountyreads.org.

Generous people, organizations and foundations such as yours allow all of us to bring this project to Erie County. Again, thank you for your generous contribution to this project and your support of Erie County’s libraries. We hope you are proud to be a part of this county-wide reading project.

Sincerely,



Lori Esposito, Public Relations Specialist
SANDUSKY LIBRARY

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Enclosures

7th Annual Sandusky Kiwanis Golf Outing

A flyer is available on our main site www.sanduskykiwanis.org on the golf page as well as the download tab. (If it does not work now it will shortly as I exorcise the gremlins from my pdf creator this evening or first thing in the morning) The outing is being held at Sleepy Hollow Golf Course in Clyde. Please visit http://www.sleepyhollowclyde.com/ for more info on the course and directions. If you are interested in being a sponsor, donating a door prize, playing or being involved let us know!!! More details on the event will follow.

Applebee's Dining to Donate

On Wednesday March 25th our club will recieve a 15% donation of your bill if you dine at the Sandusky Applebee's from 11am to 9pm. Please print the flyer below and bring it with you when you eat. Our club will not receive the donation without this flyer. Please eat an appetizer or three with your meal, invite your friends, take a business lunch or eat lunch and dinner. You can even get a to go order! Our next fundraiser will be a donation on your Gym membership. Flyers will also be available and our weekly meetings at Noon on Tuesday's at Castaway Bay.

Erie County Save Our Homes Task Force

The Erie County Save Our Homes Task force has asked us to post the 2 hour WBGU video on Foreclosure Intervention. As foreclosures effect everyone in the community its important to get as much information out to the public as possible. Below are the 12 parts that are also available on YouTube.


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Part 12

Junior Achievement

Today, Tuesday February 17th, our guest speakers were Jeffrey D Bosch and Shawn Armstrong from Junior Achievement of Northwestern Ohio. The program is dedicated to educating students in local k-12 classrooms financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and work readiness.

Volunteers go into the classroom and teach 5-7 presentations on the topics. If you want to be a volunteer or want more information please contact Shawn Armstrong at 419-621-1794 or visit http://toledo.ja.org. A flyer will also be available on our main site www.sanduskykiwanis.org

A very appropriate topic considering money is the most discussed current event. Personally I have always felt the need for more of what Junior Achievement does. I may be a little biased since I work in the financial industry but too many of our kids enter the workforce with little or no financial background. Financial education is the most important thing no matter what field the student enters. Money is always involved both professionally and personally. Junior Achievement can help create the solid financial foundation for students to build a successful career and family.

Membership, Membership, Membership

At Tuesdays (Feb 10th) meeting our club discussed various options for club membership, fundraising and general club ideas. It was a great way for members of our club an non board members to discuss things that they would like see change and things that are working for the club and need to be expanded. The discussion brought up many topics that carried over to our clubs Board meeting on Feb 11th.

Division 12 & 13 Ohio District Governor Kip Crain and Becky

On Thursday February 5th our club hosted Governor Kip Crain and First Lady Becky's visit to our division and 13. Members from Clubs in Bellevue, Berlin Heights, Clyde, Fremont, Norwalk, Port Clinton, Sandusky, Tiffin, Willard, Wellington, Avon Lake, Lorain, Elyria, and East Elyria attended. Many members were honored for their service to Kiwanis and their communities including two of our own. Pat Scheid and Ed Shelly received their Legion of Honor certificates for 45 and 30 years respectively. Please take the time to congratulate them!