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...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 5/5/16
West Flint Optimist Club 5-5-16 Newsletter Mr. & Mrs. Glen Wilson spoke with the Club this morning about their organization, Communities First, Incorporated, a 5 ½-year-old non-profit “real estate redevelopment” venture. Its four-fold focus consists of: (A)...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/28/16
West Flint Optimist Club 4-28-16 Newsletter Michael Murphy, 2nd –term Lieutenant Governor for Michigan District Optimists, spoke with our Club this morning regarding a number of matters, but high on his agenda is the upcoming “Blues & BBQ/$5K Raffle” being...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/21/16
West Flint Optimist Club 4-21-16 Newsletter Karyn Miller, Flint Township Supervisor and frequent guest speaker, talked with us today about her role in the community. One of three full-time personnel (the other two being Clerk and Treasurer), in conjunction with four...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/14/16
West Flint Optimist Club 4-14-16 Newsletter Ann Kellley, from the Davison Optimist Club and the Whaley Childrens Center Board returned to speak with our club about our interest in Whaley and the Optimist House. Regular birthday celebrations, monthly dinners, Christmas...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 4/7/16
West Flint Optimist Club 4-7-16 Newsletter Phil Davis, his wife Elise, and his father-in-law Sixto Olivo were introduced as guests by Speaker Chair Mic Goulet. Phil talked about his “post-retirement” respite care work for Michigan Community Services and GISD, where he...
West Flint Optimist Club Newsletter – 3/31/16
West Flint Optimist Club 3-31-16 Newsletter Sean Croudy, a Behavior Specialist at Northwestern High School and spokesperson for CANUSA (http://canusagames.com/), spoke to us this morning about the changing arrangements for this year’s CANUSA competition. For the first...