Weekly Kiwanis News 5/20/15

Posted by Tim Buenz

on May 20, 2015

There were 31 members in attendance today with Les visiting from the Aktion Club. Many happy dollars were shared by members. Vern reported a can deposit of $47 for the last week. It was also reported that $180 in donations were made by members for Skip-A-Meal. Linda shared that the Aktion Club will be helping with the flag raising Saturday morning at 8am and she invited our club to join in the fun of putting up 500 flags. She also reported on the Aktion Club dance that will be held on June 14th at the Elks. Tickets are on sale for $2 each as a fundraiser for their convention trip to Indianapolis. There will also be a Genesis Picnic next Wednesday at Spring Lake with our club members grilling.

President Monthei reported that he and several members grilled 400 hot dogs for the GC Elementary Reading event. Other upcoming events that were discussed were a June Farmers Market event and helping setup chairs for Bell Tower Festival community barbeque on Friday, June 12th.

Everett Beebe had the program today. He introduced Dr. Jim Gerdes who spoke about the new McFarland Clinic office opening June 1st in Jefferson (on the east side of Hy-Vee). The current clinic location at Greene County Medical Center has been operational since 1994. Dr. Gerdes showed us a photo slide presentation of the new office complex and discussed some of the additional services that will be offered in the new clinic including Physical Therapy, more labs processed in-house, a larger Oncology treatment area, and some x-rays will be taken onsite also. They will host an open house on Sunday, June 14th from noon to 3pm. Thanks to Everett and Dr. Gerdes for the update on the new clinic!