April 1 Meeting: At today's meeting, we had several guests. Susan Bryant was visiting today and we had 4 Sabetha Kiwanians joining us today also. Bea opened the meeting by sharing several April Fools jokes. Terry Smith introduced today's speaker, Mike Grimm from the City of Hiawatha. Mike explained the current city sewer problems and the steps that the city is taking to solve those problems. He also stated that all houses in the city of Hiawatha will be getting inspected during the next several months.
April 8 Meeting:
April 15 Meeting:
April 22 Meeting: Today we had 2 visitors from the Sabetha Kiwanis Club. Rev. Randy Quinn was in charge of spiritual aims for today's program. Instead of a sermon, he introduced Debi Farnen who is the Youth Director at the Methodist Church and the Young Adult Librarian at Morrill Public Library. She spoke about the work that she is doing with the youth of the community.
April 29 Meeting: For today's meeting, we had a membership day. Roger Aberle attended as a prospective new member. Lt. Governor Doug Clark spoke today about what it means to be a Kiwanian and explained the projects and groups that Kiwanis supports. We also had a guest from Sabetha here for an interclub.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Kiwanis Recognizes Kids
Eric Oldham, Kiwanis Member, presents Isabella Eppens, 4th grader, the Teriffic Kid Award for the month of March. 
Terry Smith, Kiwanis Member, presents Brenden Steele with the Student of the Month Award at the middle school.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
April Featured Kiwanian
Joe Koechner, owner of and pharmacist at KexRx is April's featured Kiwanian. Joe and his wife Chanda live in Hiawatha and have 4 children. Joe enjoys running and playing with his children in his spare time.
Joe enjoys the fellowship during the weekly Kiwanis meetings and the opportunities Kiwanis offers to serve the community.
Friday, March 25, 2011
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.
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.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Pat Loyd is March's Featured Kiwanian. Pat has been a member of the Hiawatha Kiwanis Club since the 1980s. Her and her husband Don live in Hiawatha. They have 3 children, 5 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. Pat is very active in the community as a member of the Hiawatha Music Club, 4 bridge clubs and of the 1st United Methodist Church. Pat has been a choir member for 54 years.
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