West Flint Optimist Club Event Calendar
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West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 10/27/19
Guest speakers Steve and Rose Schlott We had another lively meeting this morning. 13 members on hand with a number of fines paid by Steve and Art. Steve and Rose Schlott were our speakers this morning. If you remember, last year Steve told us of his saga with...
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 – 1/26/17
The meeting opened with our favorite jeweler, Mic (Goulet), suggesting that Pres. Peter (Venos) might want to get his watch checked as he was a little behind. Joe (Bushey) talked about the Oratorical and Essay contests that will be held through the Dragon Club at...
West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 1/19/17
A very good turnout for our first business meeting of 2017: Joe started out the pledge with "I would" and, of course, was appropriately fined for it. There was a short fine session so we could get down to business, including what projects the board already has...
West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 2/2/17
Jack Stock & Greg Miller, both representing Kettering University, were the guest speakers this morning, talking about the Atwood Stadium Archives project being carried forward by KU. Greg Miller grew up in this area and came back “home” from Toledo to...
West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 1/12/17
Perhaps feeding off the success of last week’s “in-house” speaker, President Peter Venos called on three of “our own” to share with the Club this morning: Steve Bentley, whose dual roles as Senior Pastor at The Bridge and construction contractor have interfered with...
West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 1/5/17
Phil HoImblade retired in '08 and responded to a media request for “volunteers” at Crossroads Village, not fully realizing that volunteering for “military” service can have costly and unexpected consequences. He has continued to “muster” with the “4th Michigan...