West Flint Optimist Club Event Calendar
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West Flint Optimist Newsletter – 9/5/19
"People, Pigs, Planet: Sustainable Farming" is an excellent slide presentation offered to us by Mary Kelpinski , CEO of the Michigan Pork Producers Association. In addition to passing out recipes and cooking suggestions, Mary pointed out that pork production has...
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 – 11/19/15
Our meeting opened with 19 in attendance with John Farah just squeaking in under the wire. John, being the last one in, was appointed Tail Twister by President Jeff. The crown was won by Jack P for a mere $1.10. After a short round of fines, President Jeff moved on to...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 11/12/15
President Jeff called the meeting to order with 13 in attendance. After the Pledge of Allegiance, Ken Cullen led the invocation giving Greg Hilliker’s voice a well deserved rest. The crown was auctioned off and went to Bill Hentgen for a mere $1.50. After a rousing...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 10/22/15
President Jeff opened our meeting this morning and invited Joe Bushey to lead us in the pledge of allegiance to our flag and country. Greg Hilliker provided the subdued invocation. We had nineteen members in attendance this morning. In lieu of a program, we had a...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 10/15/15
Dave Crabill was our speaker chair for this week and introduced Michael J. Thorpe and Gary Lane as our speakers for this morning. Michael gave a brief overview regarding the organization they were here representing today. The organization is the Daniel Pearl...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 9/10/15
Steve Schlott provide the program speaker for our meeting who was non-other than Dan Brezani retired from the Flint Community School System and still very involved with the CANUSA Games. This was the 58th year of the CANUSA Games and for the first time the games did...