St Stephens Kiddie College

On Tuesday June 9th Mike Roth from St Stephens Kiddie College was our speaker. The Kiddie College is a preschool for 3 and 4 year olds. It provides early education to prepare kids for the requirements of Kindergarten and improve language, social and motor skills. For more info you can contact St Stephens at:

St. Stephen United Church of Christ 905 East Perkins Avenue Sandusky, Ohio 44870
Phone 419.626.1612 Fax 419.626.1617 or visit their website at http://www.ststephenucc.org.

Firelands Chapter of American Red Cross

On Tuesday June 2nd Ron Rude the director of Firelands American Red Cross was our speaker. They recently auctioned off the first rides of the 2oth anniversary of the Magnum at Cedar Point. We also watched a few videos of local disaster events that the Red Cross has helped with. To get more info or be a volunteer visit http://www.firelandsredcross.org/ Or you can contact them at : American Red Cross Firelands Chapter 300 Central Ave.Sandusky, OH 44870 or (419) 626 -1641 or 1-800-589-228.

Firelands Regional Medical Center

On Tuesday May 19th our club had Connie Lamb from the Firelands Regional Medical Center as our speaker. She spoke about all the improvements and changes to our local hospital. Our club in the past has been a big supporter of programs and the pediatric ward at our hospital. It was nice to see the continuing improvements to care our residents can receive. For more information visit www.firelands.com.

Golf Outing Sleepy Hollow May 20, 2009

Lots of updates to make and limited time. Our golf outing on May 20th was a success. The weather was perfect. Several photos from this years event:

SMCC Key Club

On Tuesday May 12th our club meeting was run by our Key Club. They did a FANTASTIC job. I cannot say enough about how proud our club is to be associated with kids who will be successful in the future because of their hard work and I hope some of their experiences in Key Club. They brought along with them as their speaker John May a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the US Marine Corps. He spoke of his experiences in Tibet and China as well as some of his experiences in the Pentagon. His speech was very motivational and solidified why we are members of Kiwanis as well. Once again a job well done by our Key Club and I am looking forward to next years officers running a meeting as well.

DON'T FORGET our golf outing is next Wednesday at Sleepy Hollow in Clyde.

The Culinary Vegetable Institute

On Tuesday may 5th our club toured the Culinary Vegetable Institute. The Culinary Vegetable Institute was started by the Jones family after being approached about growing specialty produce for top chefs all over the country. The CVI has designed their facility to provide a retreat atmosphere for their executive chefs and teams by providing them an escape from their busy lifestyles. The sleeping areas are without tv’s and overlook the fantastic wooded scenery. The facility has great craftsmanship of maple woodwork throughout the facility for a lodge like décor. The CVI has a greenhouse on their property that allows chef’s to pick herbs and vegetables for food to table preparation. The CVI provides a wide variety of events that are open to the public including their well known Food and Wine show that is approaching in July. This event typically features a well known celebrity chef and in the past years Paula Dean was the celebrity chef.

The CVI is company that is also affiliated with Veggie U, a youth educational program and Chefs garden that is known for their produce.

For more information visit http://www.culinaryvegetableinstitute.com/cvi_cms/

JM/TC

Adventures in Friendship

Here is the promised video for our Adventures in Friendship program. Thanks to everyone who was a part of this.!!!! The file will also be available for download on our main site www.sanduskykiwanis.org sometime in the next few days. Its a rather large file so be patient if you do wish to download it.