Greeter: Gary Brya

Invocation: Gary Brya

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His wife Bonnie, daughter Jennifer and son Mike were guests of Gary Brya.

Guest of Harry Kost today was his Phyllis Kost, his wife for the last 58 ½ years.

Guests of Jim McCartney, Tim and Marion Chapman.

Also an inter-club from Eaton Rapids and members from South Lansing were visiting today.

Clarence Smith: Last week I passed out shift assignment sheets so our members could sign up to participate in the Lansing 150 LaborFest activities on Sept 5. Thank you to those who signed up. These are only 3 hour shifts and I have the sheets on the tables again today, if you haven’t signed up, please do. As I have mentioned before this is an excellent opportunity to get our name before several thousands of people at no expense to our Club. We had a very good meeting yesterday with South Lansing, we know what activities will be in each of the tents for the various age groups. We need everyone to participate, sign up for the shift of your choice. Nothing will be difficult, I am sure it will be a fun day.

Dick Skinner: You may remember a few weeks ago Mathius Thelen was presented with the Fishback Scholarship Award to continue his education. I received a very nice thank you letter from him. He is currently with the St Johns parish in East Lansing.

More stories you didn’t find in the Lansing State Journal like the lady who had her wallet stolen at the New York City Marathon 27 years ago. A worker found the wallet under 5 feet of compost with only a $20 bill missing, her credit cards and ID cards were still intact. The weather for the weekend (don’t blame the messenger) … rainy.

Roger Grove did it again, this week "Take Me Down to Kiwanis" and don’t forget to "Smile."

Bob Nelson, I have my annual birthday check for the endowment fund… 21 + 21 + 21 (63).

I played Hazeltine last week and felt like 63, but after seeing Tom Watson I felt like 21.

Gary Brya. I have 3 happy bucks, one for my speaker, the second one for my guests Bonnie, Jennifer and Mike. The 3^rd one is for my wife Bonnie, we said our "I do’s" 43 years ago.

Larry Pingel, a happy buck to be here, I wasn’t here last week as we married off our third and last daughter last Friday. Everything went well.

Roger Grove, a happy buck for the lovely wives Bonnie and Phyllis who are with us today.

Harry Kost, a happy buck to have my wife Phyllis here and a chance to tell my story of the gentleman who was looking for polish sausage in a Home Depot.

Dick Skinner, today is my birthday and I have a happy buck to remind everyone I made it one more year.

Clarence Smith, a happy buck to see Phyllis again, another for our speaker and a 3^rd for the Eaton Rapids inter-club.

Eaton Rapids Kiwanian, a happy buck to be here and another for the speaker, a survivor.

Another Eaton Rapids Kiwanian, I also have a happy buck to be here and to see such a good crowd.

Bob Holden, a happy buck for Carla who gave me 5 CD’s for my wife to play. She played them for the next 2 ½ days, she is in a wheelchair and I can’t tell you how much she appreciated them.

Jim McCartney, this happy buck is for our speaker and another for the memories he brings of another dedicated serviceman and Marine, WWII hero Jack Polack.

Gary Brya, July program chairman, introduced his speaker today Richard Thelen, one of the most interesting speakers I have heard since I have been a Kiwanian. He related his story… joining the navy at 17, being on the USS Indianapolis when it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, sank in 12 minutes and then surviving five harrowing days in the Pacific.

Harry Kost was the winner of the Pot today. He promptly gave it to his wife Phyllis and drew a 2 of hearts.

Support you President, sign up for a shift at the Lansing 150 LaborFest on Sept. 5.