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...

West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 8/25/16

WEST FLINT OPTIMIST CLUB 8/25/16 Newsletter Former West Flint Club Member and President-Designate Stephanie Eastman, now residing and working in Naples, Florida, and serving as President to their Optimist Club, returned to our Club wearing a tiara and identified...

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...

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...