March 2011

March 25 Meeting: Sheriff John Merchant presented a slide show on the S.A.F.E. (Seatbelts Are For Everyone) program that the Hiawatha Kiwanis Foundation donated funds for. Harold Wolgast, a member of the Downtown Topeka Kiwanis Club was a guest.

March 18 Meeting: Beckham Smith introduced Hiawatha Middle School instructor, Julie Splichal, who presented a program with the assistance of her 16 Science Olympiad students. They graciously thanked Hiawatha Kiwanis Foundation for the donation that not only provided them with funds to participate, but to qualify to compete at the state level in Wichita on April 2nd. Guest Troy Kolb also told our group that he and other members of the community have worked on a weekly basis with this group of students since school started and has since a huge growth in their reasoning skills that has been necessary to be able to achieve their 6th place win at Regionals.

March 11 Meeting: Today's speaker was Kiwanian John Severin, Superintendent of schools for Hiawatha. He explained to the club how the school did their budget planning for the coming year and how members of the community could participate. Again toady, there were now visitors at the meeting.

March 4 Meeting: There were no visitors at today's meeting. Club Secretary, Janice Smith, gave the report from the board meeting. Mike Schmitt introduced today's speaker, David Elsbury, from KANZA Mental Health. David explained the current state funding situation and how that would impact mental health services in Brown County.