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Greeter: Glenn Mulder

Invocation: Richard Skinner

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Bill Maher: Bob Nelson has advised us the Michigan District of Kiwanis Board voted unanimously to accept Lansing's bid to host the 2010 golf outing. Thanks to Bob Holden for submitting the application.

On a related note, the Michigan Kiwanis Foundation is hosting a golf outing on Wed, Aug. 5 at Concord Hills (near Hillsdale). The $50 per golfer fee can go to our Foundation contribution.

Dennis Churchill, co-chair of the Human and Spiritual Values Committee and Richard Skinner presented the $1,000 Julius Fishback Scholarship Award to Deacon Mathias Thelen.

Mr. Thelen is a graduate of Fowler High School and attended Grand Valley State University for two years, studying engineering and Mathematics Education. He then transferred to St. John Vianney Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota to study philosophy. Since the fall of 2006 he has been studying theology at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit. He is currently associated with MSU at the St John Student Parish and will be ordained into the priesthood in June of 2010.

Nicholas never runs out of interesting stories in the news, this week the story of a 4 year old who decided to give his puppy a bath by flushing him down the toilet. Miraculously he was rescued from the sewer. Nicholas also gave us the inside on the weather, strong storms tonight and also on Friday.

Roger Grove, without the support of Clyde at the piano, led the singing of "We’re Here for Fun" and "Smile."

Jim Dalton, although surpassing the attendance record of Harold Krauss is not likely my happy buck is for my current attendance streak of 2 weeks in a row.

Carla Johnston’s speaker for this week was Josh Hovey. Josh is an MSU graduate and is currently with The Rossman Group, a Lansing public relations firm. He spoke today on behalf of the Young Leaders Society, an organization sponsored by Capital Area United Way to promote the engagement of young people in the community through education, volunteering and philanthropy.

After holding our meetings in several locations in the past weeks survey sheets were provided to the members to indicate their preference for a permanent meeting location.

The survey indicated the location with the most member support was the Eagles Club.

The Eagles Club was approved by voice vote with no change in the $9.00 meal charge.

An embarrassed (well a little bit) Norm Miller won the Pot for the second week in a row. He drew a 6 of hearts.