West Flint Optimist Club Event Calendar
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About Us
This is the official website of the West Flint Optimist Club which was founded in 1963. We raise money to support several local charities that support children. A few of our benefactors are Whaley Children’s Center, CANUSA Games, Old Newsboys of Flint, YMCA of Greater Flint, University of Michigan – Flint Scholarships and many others.
Our best fund raising event is $5000 Raffle. The raffle is actually a reverse raffle, meaning that the last ticket drawn is the winner of the $5000. The first ticket drawn and every tenth ticket win the cost of the raffle ticket. A separate ticket which includes dinner for two with drinks at our event held at the Atlas Valley Country Club.
Greg Hilliker is our current President.
Breakfast Thursdays @ 7:30AM
Club Newsletters
West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 11/29/18
Salvation Army's Director of Development Joy Martinbianco returned to the Club this morning to introduce Major Randy Hellstrom as our guest speaker for our meeting. Major Randy has served the Salvation Army throughout the midwest (including Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois,...
West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 11/22/18
Pam Bailey from the YMCA of Greater Flint joined us for breakfast this morning. Pam has been working at the downtown Y for 4 years now. Besides her employment at the YMCA, Pam serves the community by her membership as a Sunrise Rotarian. She thanked our club for our...
West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 11/08/18
Guest Speaker Rebecca Fedewa came to us from the Flint River Watershed Coalition (http://flintriver.org/blog/) to talk about the 1300 square miles in t his remarkable resource and her role in maintaining it for the area population. In addition to the well-publicized...
West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 11/1/18
"Our Airstream Adventure", given by our own Steve Schlott (with visual aids and props!), was the interesting (and at times very humorous) morning presentation to the 15 members present. Rather than being a recounting of "How I spent my summer vacation", Steve talked...
West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 10/25/18
Final preparation for the 32nd Annual $5,000 Raffle and Dinner this evening at Atlas Valley Country Club provided the primary focus for the 19 members in attendance at today's meeting. John "J-Lo" Losinski verified the availability and assignments of volunteers for...