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 Club Newsletter – 2/18/16
Crystal Pepperdine, one of our Club’s University of Michigan scholarship recipients and now the Manager of Development and Communication for Priority Children, spoke with us this morning about her and the organization’s roles in county-wide advocacy for children. Two...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 2/11/16
President Jeff Dennings rang the bell to open this morning’s meeting just as just as Joe Bushey was changing positions: He had volunteered to sell tickets for last week’s 50/50 winner, Floyd Olmstead, who showed up just as the ringing died down. He also volunteered to...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 2/4/16
Lisa Cornell, from BLC Enterprises, spoke as this morning’s guest. She noted that she has played matchmaker for natural gas customers and natural gas deliverers, beating out the “Bigs” prices for the last 10 years by locking down contracts (usually annual) at...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 1/28/16
In the absence of a guest speaker this morning, we had an interesting discussion about a possible role in assisting our community in the context of the nationally publicized water crisis. Members generated and considered several options and Dave Crabill even brought...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 1/21/16
Paul Rozycki spoke to us this morning after an introduction by colorfully attired Speaker Chair Dave Crabill. Paul has been a frequent and engaging speaker to our Club as Political Science Professor at Mott Community College, and he continues his interest and he...