Weekly Kiwanis News 1/8

Posted by Tim Buenz

on Jan 08, 2014

President-elect Randy Monthei opened the meeting in President Goshon's absence. There were 29 members in attendance with two visitors. Jack Fredrickson was Dan Benitz's guest and Jack is going to fill out a membership application. Les Reinhart was also visiting from the Aktion Club. Bob S. reported a can drop deposit of $21.60 in Vern's absence. It was reported that the Salvation Army Bell Ringing final total from Greene County is approximately $7.238.61. The goal was $9,000.00 for this year.

Dean Rogers had the program today. He introduced Cale Calder from Bee Mindful LLC in Scranton to speak to the club about the Bee Keeping industry. Beekeeping is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. A beekeeper keeps bees in order to collect honey and other products of the hive (including beeswax, pollen, and royal jelly), to pollinate crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers.There are between 70,000-100,000 bees in each hive. Cale has about 230 hives today with a goal of 1,000 by the end of the year. The bee industry in Iowa is around a 90 million dollar business. Thanks to Dean and Cale for a very interesting program!