‘2015 Officers Of The Year’ Honored By Downtown Flint Optimist Club
Eleven area police officers will be recognized by the Downtown Flint Optimist Club at the Officer of the Year & “Respect for Law” Luncheon 2015. This year’s event is set for Monday, May 4, 2015 at the Genesee Career Institute, 5081 Torrey Road in Flint. Sonitrol...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/23/15
Meeting Notes Speaker Chair Steve Schlott (also known as “Father-in-law” and/or “Your Eminence” to Joe Bushey) talked about how he took money from the bank and began fixing up his “getaway cars”: After retiring from banking, he has spent time refurbishing old cars and...
We Wear BLUE For Child Abuse Prevention
Dear Optimist Clubs, April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Whaley’s Children Center would be very grateful for your help in spreading awareness to other local businesses through email. Specifically, April 24th is “Wear Blue Day” where we hope to get as many...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/16/15
Meeting Notes Speaker Chair Steve Schlott eventually calmed things down by introducing Deb Freeman (Trauma Program Manager) and her able assistant Janelle (Clinical Data Analyst) from McLaren Hospital to speak on the topic of “Distracted Driving”. In addition to...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/9/15
Meeting Notes Speaker Chair Steve Schlott introduced Craig Williams, Director at Bishop International Airport, as the morning speaker. Craig came up from Fort Wayne’s airport (to replace Jim Rice) in August of 2014 to manage the 3rd largest airport in the state so as...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/2/15
Meeting Notes The morning agenda --to sort out some of the options for relocation of our regular breakfast meetings (because of Valley Coney Island’s planned sale/closing in June) – spurred vigorous discussion, with several contributors (including Joe Bushey, John...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 3/26/15
Meeting Notes There were 8 speakers at the Oratorical Contest at the Boys and Girls Club. The first and second place winners were unavailable to attend the next competition in Clarkston so the third place winner was offered the opportunity. Pete Venos made a...
Boys & Girls Clubs of America Campaign for America’s Kids on National Day of Advocacy
Club leaders meet with members of Congress to champion needs of our nation's youth WASHINGTON, March 20, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) convened top executives from hundreds of Boys & Girls Clubs during National Day of...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 3/19/15
Meeting Notes Our guest speaker was Terri Stangl from Great Lakes Flotation. Terri started out her career as a lawyer and felt under stress all the time as many of us do as we do our jobs. She was one who could not face confrontation and was overwhelmed by her job as...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 3/12/15
Meeting Notes Our speaker this morning was Tom Wyatt from Kettering University representing the University Avenue Corridor Coalition. Tom has a passion for revitalizing Flint and has had a career of making moves to get involved in community. The Coalition is helping...