West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/11/16
Kayla Bright, Swartz Creek Middle School special education teacher, spoke with the 22 Club members today about her work in the “cognitively impaired” program and how she has put our prior contributions to good use. Working with students who generally have IQ scores...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/4/16
MTA General Manager Ed Benning and Mike Messer, who manages Swartz Creek “YourRide”, spoke to our 24 members and guests today about their development and coordination of a “state-of-the-art” public transit operation emulated by other areas of the country. The local...
Walt Widder Inaugural Memorial Golf Scramble
Walk Widder was an important part of the West Flint Optimist Club. He became active with the club soon after joining and served as our treasurer the last few years before his sudden passing. Walt is greatly missed and his sons along with Security First Benefits...
Free $5000 Dinner Ticket Up For Grabs
You may ask how such a thing is possible. Starting August 4th and continuing each Thursday through September 29th a playing card will be handed out each week for attending the Thursday morning breakfast meeting. On Thursday, October 6th at the breakfast meeting, a...
31 Day Raffle Winners – July 2016
West Flint Optimist Club thanks everyone that helped make our 2nd Annual 31 Day Raffle a success. A few things to remember: There is a winner everyday of July We use the straight match for the Michigan 3-Digit Evening Drawing to determine our winner If the winning...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 6/23/16
Speaker Chair Joe Bushey had the honor of introducing one of our own, Roxanne Caine, was here to represent McLaren, giving a report on the status of the Proton Therapy venture and to introduce Julie Snyder, our main speaker for the morning. Julie spoke about the...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 6/16/16
Amy Rouleau spoke with us today about her work with Restoration Place, a project to address the issue of sex trafficking in this area. Although most of us may not see this as a visible and significant problem, 300,000 children are caught up in this nationally, and...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 5/5/16
West Flint Optimist Club 5-5-16 Newsletter Mr. & Mrs. Glen Wilson spoke with the Club this morning about their organization, Communities First, Incorporated, a 5 ½-year-old non-profit “real estate redevelopment” venture. Its four-fold focus consists of: (A)...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/28/16
West Flint Optimist Club 4-28-16 Newsletter Michael Murphy, 2nd –term Lieutenant Governor for Michigan District Optimists, spoke with our Club this morning regarding a number of matters, but high on his agenda is the upcoming “Blues & BBQ/$5K Raffle” being...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/21/16
West Flint Optimist Club 4-21-16 Newsletter Karyn Miller, Flint Township Supervisor and frequent guest speaker, talked with us today about her role in the community. One of three full-time personnel (the other two being Clerk and Treasurer), in conjunction with four...