Volume 23                                                       April 4, 2006                                                    Issue 11

 

We Need You!!!  Officer elections are held at the end of April.  Your Optimist Club has many openings, and needs YOU to help fill the jobs listed below:

 

            President – term of office Oct. 2006 – Sept. 2007    Requirements: Club Member with a pulse.

Minimal organizational skills needed.  We provide excellent training and a superior staff of volunteers who do 95% of the work.  Easiest job on the list.

 

Director  -- term of office NOW – Sept. 2007 Fill out remainder of Doug White’s term.  See additional requirements below.

 

(3) Directors  -- term of office Oct. 2006 – Sept. 2008 Requirements:  Attend monthly board meetings, provide input on programs, keep club strong, and support youth activities.

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Please give some serious consideration to filling one of these positions.  Our Minden Optimist Club is struggling to find members who will serve.  We are all busy people, but we need to take time to volunteer to provide quality programs for our youth.  Don’t get trapped into thinking that if you don’t do it someone else will.  WE NEED YOU!!!!    Please call Terry Christensen if you are willing to fill one of these spots.

 

SOCCER We have 220 kids signed up for soccer as of now.  We will be using the Micro-Soccer format like we did last year. Uniform check out is scheduled for this Friday April 7^th from 5:00 to 6:30 @ the Fire Hall for both kids and coaches.  We need help with check out so please try to attend.  Jerry Blazer & Cindy Duffy is in the process of setting up teams and getting coach/helpers.  There will be a coaching seminar on Tuesday April 11^th from 5:30 until 6:30 at Minden Exchange Bank.  Phil Gill will be the guest speaker.  Field set up day is tentatively set for Tuesday the 18^th   at 6pm. This process takes a lot of time if there are only two people, but with fifteen or twenty it only takes an hour.  Soccer practices will start on Saturday April 22^nd.  More details will be available in future newsletters, but please try to help out on the 7^th, 11^th, and especially on the 18^th.

 

Board of Directors Meeting Monday, April 10^th 8:00 pm. @ Terry C.’s house.  328 W. Campbell St.

 

March Program Speakers Brent Lewis did an outstanding job last month of lining up some good quality programs for out Thursday noon meetings.  We had a presentation by Arlen Osterbuhr on the election issues that will go before the residents of Minden, Amy Elwood from Two Rivers Heath Dept. spoke about pandemic influenza (Bird Flu), Marshall Nelson talked to us about Pioneer Village and Cassandra Pfeil talked to us about her recent trip to the Philippines sponsored by Rotary International.

 

April Program Speakers On April 6^th, Mike Gokie will be speaking to us about the summer baseball & softball programs.  On the 13^th we will have a presentation from the Pork Board.  Glenvil farmer Erwyn Fitzke will be here on that day to talk about the promotions that the Pork Board does.  The lunch special that day will be, you guessed it. Pork Chops.  Please try to attend on Thursday, April 13^th, at noon.  Ted Griess will be with us on the 20^th to talk about lawn care.

 

A little Humor:

A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush restaurant, and the husband keeps staring at an old drunken lady swigging her gin as she sits alone at a nearby table, until the wife asks,  "Do you know her?"     "Yes," sighs the husband, "She's my ex-wife. She took to drinking right after we divorced seven years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since."       "My God!" says the wife, "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?"