Dragon Optimist Newsletter – 10/6/16

10/6/16 The Swartz Creek Dragon Optimists met this afternoon with 9 students/members present (names not given without explicit and appropriate permission) and 5 adults (school sponsor/teacher Jane Wensko, guest speaker Don Brose and Julie Forbush from the Grand Blanc...

West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 10/6/16

Liz Ruediger from Shelter of Flint, & Misty from its affiliate program, One Stop Housing Resource Center, spoke with us today about their work. Shelter of Flint relocated to its present Cedar Street location in 2013, expanding its main operation to over 20,000...

West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 9/29/16

Ted Valley, accused by Dave Crabill of blatant thespianism, came from Vertigo Productions to encourage each of our 16 members present to ‘Embrace Your Inner Child.” He suggested that many of us older folks need to remember how to play and to engage with...

West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter- 9/22/16

Steven Low, Executive Director of the Flint Jewish Federation, spoke to 14 of our members and 2 guests about his “non-sectarian, non-denominational” organization. Although the organization is invested in disaster relief, medical transport (the only...

West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 9/1/16

Our “Repeat” Guest Speaker Joe Farah, continuing his series of presentations on the use of the English language, shifted from his previous topic of “Trash Talk” to the new topic of “Sentence Completion”: Really, folks, these were...