​Kensington Valley Civitan Club Business Meeting Minutes
August 8, 2024
Present: Diana Bolton, Rich Roberts, Karissa & Elijah Canfield, Phil Crutchfield, Paulina Poplawska, Tim Root, Cheryl VanVliet, Hal Hultman, Maureen Posler, and Theresa Furget.
Thad called the meeting to order at 6:35 PM.

1. Additions & Corrections: Theresa added installation of new officers as 5a.
2. Minutes Approval July 11th, 2024: Phil made a motion and Rich seconded it to approve the July minutes. Motion passed.
3. Treasurer’s Report: Diana went over the August financial statement. Rich made a motion and Phil seconded it to accept the treasurer’s report. Motion passed.
4. Correspondence: Diana passed around a thank you card from Wendy Hatem, widow of Rashid for the donation in his memory to the Back Door Food Pantry.
5. Project Updates:
   1. Installation of New Officers-Theresa: Theresa indicated this could be done at the September 12th business meeting or the dinner meeting on September 26th. Elijah chose Vivian to do the installation and he’ll leave it up to her to chose the date. Diana stated she wouldn’t be available for the business meeting on September 12th. Officers to be installed are Elijah as president, Diana as treasurer, and Theresa as secretary. Theresa will contact Vivian to see if she’s available and which date works best for her. Details will be put in the August Newsletter.
   2. Youth Entrepreneur Market (YEM)-August 10th (10-3 PM)-Elijah:  So far, Elijah has 16 confirmed vendors and 12 that haven’t. The set up will be at 8:30 AM. Wear your club tee shirt, name badge, and bring a chair. Elijah has been in contact with Susan Hollady, the Executive Director of Leadership Oakland. One of the YEM youths told Elijah about a grant he received at the July market. She oversees two programs that support youth entrepreneurs. The first is Acorn to Oak which gives out grants to youth entrepreneurs ages 8-18. This is a four-year program sponsored by the State of MI. The focus is 1. Business Entrepreneur Development, 2. Community Impact, 3. Educational Achievement, and 4. Extracurricular Investment. The second program is Junior Leadership for Oakland County youths  (and the Metro Detroit area). A three-day workshop is held for high schoolers at Walsh College at no expense to the youth. Elijah has invited Susan Hollady to come to the next business meeting on September 12th to speak.
   3. Charity Poker: No report.
   4. August Music on the Grand-August 14th: Set up will be shortly after 5 PM. Theresa has the games and some prizes: bags of popcorn, bracelets, skeleton’s. Karissa will provide the candy (non-chocolate). The band will be Elton John Tribute Band-Captain Fantastic. The church will provide picnic style food. Club members are needed to help set up and run the games. Wear your club tee shirt, name badge, and bring a chair.
   5. Lightening Up the Grand-December 14th at 5:30 PM: Karissa doesn’t have any update to give.
   6. Adopt-a-Highway Clean up: Next cleanup is scheduled for September 21st with rain date of  22nd. Meet at the New Hudson Biggby at 10 AM.
   7. Desert Angels November 14th, 2024-Karissa: She’ll set collection boxes at the Biggby Stores, the senior center, and The Turtle Creek Subdivision. A story will be in the next edition of Lyon Today. Thad will contact Jennifer from Walmart concerning a donation. Karissa will send the list of needed items to Theresa for distribution. She’ll also set up the Amazon Wish List. Last year Paige facilitated a competition between the two elementary schools for which school could donate the most items. Maureen will reach out to Paige to see if she’s willing to do this again. Maureen will also contact Amazon’s ‘Good 360’ program for a donation.
   8. Pumpkinfest September 28th-29th: Cheryl reported that she has collected over 900 stuffed animals. 700 came from Stacey the Book Lady’s contacts who replenishes the area neighborhood libraries. Cheryl suggested that KVCC members collect used books to give to Stacy for her project. Paulina has six boxes to give to Cheryl tonight. The game ‘Wheel of Chance’ discussed how the prizes would be put on the wheel. Thad needs to check his inventory of LED rings in his basement and order more. Diana won’t be around for the Pumpkinfest, and the stuff animals will need to be housed elsewhere. Thad indicated that he could put them in his garage.
   9. Focus Hope October 12th-Theresa: The Plymouth-Canton Civitan Club is inviting KVCC members to join them for a food box build with lunch at Polonia’s afterwards. To carpool, meet at the Livonia Costco (Service drive of I-96 and Middle Belt Rd.) no later than 8:30 AM. Otherwise, meet down at Focus Hop at 9 AM, located at  1400 Oakman Blvd, Detroit 48238. Parking (surrounded by a black fence) will be across the street from the building. Wear your club tee shirt.
6. Dinner Meeting August 22nd at 6:30 PM at Teresita’s Mexican Grille.
7. Adjournment: Rich made a motion and Maureen seconded it to adjourn the meeting at 7:18 PM.

 
Minutes taken on August 8th and respectfully submitted on August 9th, 2024 by Theresa Furget.

                                                Kensington Valley Civitan Club Business Meeting Minutes
    July 11,2024
Present: Phil Crutchfield, Kris Krzyzanski, Karissa & Elijah Canfield, Carol Sienko, Thad Bogert, Tim Root, Maureen Posler, Cheryl VanVliet, Hal Hultman, and Theresa Furget. Special guest: Shaylin LeBlanc, scholarship recipient.
Thad called the meeting to order at 6:34 PM.

1. Additions & Corrections: Thad added Shaylin/scholarship recipient under 5a. Karissa added KVCC Volunteer opportunity under 5h.
2. Minutes Approval -June 13th, 2024: Phil made a motion and Kris seconded it to approve the June minutes. Motion passed.
3. Treasurer’s Report: In Diana’s absence, Thad went over the July statement that Diana prepared. He indicated that Diana had a few questions about the June charity poker event with withdrawals and deposits. She also indicated that two scholarship checks haven’t been cashed yet. Hal made a motion and Phil seconded it to accept the July financial report. Motion passed.
4. Correspondence: None.
5. Project Updates:
   1. Scholarship Recipient-Shaylin LeBlanc: Shaylin thanked the club for the scholarship award and will cash the check. She was waiting until she could thank the club for it. She passed around a thank-you card to the club. She’ll be attending Concordia University in Ann Arbor this fall majoring in graphic design and digital multi-media. She’ll also be on the golf team. She stated she’s always enjoyed volunteering and will continue to do so. She gave a summary of areas that she’s been involved in within the community. The club enjoyed meeting her and hearing about her future. Wishing her the best.
   2. Officer Elections: These were held at the June meeting and are noted in the June minutes.
   3. YLDC: As noted at the June meeting, YLDC was canceled, due to the lack of delegates. Kris, who had 25 years’ experience with YLDC indicated  that this gave youths a tremendous learning experience and he’s sad to see the cancellation of it and expects this might be the end .  Kris gave some background on YLDC that had been going on for at least 52 years. It appears that once Civitan International started to restructure/reorganize around five years ago, YLDC lost the support of  CI unfortunately.
   4. Youth Entrepreneur Market YEM) July 13th (10-3 PM)-Elijah:  He has 17 confirmed vendors and another 11 from which he hasn’t heard. Thad indicated that he announced the event at the last city council meeting  and the mayor Steve Kennedy is in support of the event. Tim and his kids will hand out YEM flyers at the Farmer’s Market on the 13th. Thad will try to do a Facebook boost. Karissa indicated that YEM flyers were put in grab bags that are being handed out at The Touch a Truck event on July 17th from 12-3PM at Lowes .  This should help with the August and September YEM events. Theresa indicated that she wouldn’t be able to stay for the whole day and that members are needed at the end to help Elijah take the club’s tent down etc. Set up will be around 8:30 AM. Make sure to wear you name badges, club t-shirts and bring a chair.
   5. Charity Poker June Report: As mentioned under the treasurer’s report a profit was made. Thad thanked everyone that has worked the events. Elijah indicated that the club is done for the year, unless Krazy Kopz offers the club another event. If so, it’ll be a last-minute event and probably would have to be handled via email rather than a club meeting.
   6. July Music on the Grand-July 17th: Set up will be shortly after 5 PM. Theresa has the games and some prizes: bags of popcorn, bracelets, skeleton’s. Karissa will provide the candy (non-chocolate).Also,  Nazmiye will do the facepainting. The band will be Toppermost -Tribute to the Beatles. Karissa thinks the food truck will be the Grand Traverse Pie Co. More club members are needed to help as Carol, Cheryl and Hall will not be in town. Diana previously indicated she’d be there, Tim and Maureen also stated they’d be there too. Thad  also mentioned that S. Lyon has Music in the Park at the Gazebo in McHattie’s Park every Friday from 7-8:30 PM.
   7. Adopt-a-Highway Cleanup: Next cleanup is scheduled for September 21st-29th. The 21st-22nd is the same weekend as the Region 6 convention and the 28th-29th dates are the weekend of Pumpkinfest. The discussion was to tentatively schedule the cleanup for the 21st and 22nd as the rain date.
   8. KVCC Volunteer Opportunity-Karissa: Karissa indicated that the Lighting Up  of the Grand will be held on December 14th at 5:30 PM at the New Hudson United Methodist Church. Amy of the Lyon Twp. Downtown Development wanted to know if the club would run the first  Flashlight Mini Candy Cane Hunt. This would involve the club organizing and setting up the hunt. Basically, coning off the area, placing the candy canes around and then running the hunt.  Everything would be provided to the club: cones, flashlight, candy canes etc. Members felt this was a great opportunity and would like to do it.
   9. Pumpkinfest September 28th-29th: Cheryl has put the word out on Facebook seeking stuffed animal donations. She’s been unable to place anything on Market Place, as this is a selling site. It was suggested to check out a Facebook site for community charities. Thad indicated there’s a way around this, he’ll check it further. So far, a little over 100 animals have been obtained, need at least 800. Thad will inventory his LED rings  to see how many need to be purchased.
   10. Inspired Movement Project Update (Digital Play Scape)-Just Added by Maureen:  Thad indicated there’s been some technical issues concerning this and he unfortunately hasn’t stayed on top of it due to his busy schedule. .  It was suggested that other Civitan clubs that put on special needs events such as dances might find this beneficial to use. Theresa indicated that CI has not done any follow-ups on how the club is progressing with this project and probably won’t.
   11. Club Shirts-just added-Cheryl:  She wanted to know if members were interested in long sleeve shirts. The majority are interested. A couple are interested in sweatshirts. Cheryl’s not sure what her t-shirt guy can do. Thad indicated that he deals with Big Frog in Green Oaks Twp (they have the KVCC logo) and that anyone can order whatever they want and get within  a week or two. It’s located at the roundabout at Lee Rd and US 23 next to JC Penney’s. The actual address is 9690 Village Pl. Blvd. Brighton 48116.
6. Dinner Meeting July 25th at 6:30 PM at Teresita’s Mexican Grille.
7. Adjournment: Maureen made a motion and Phil seconded it to adjourn the meeting at 7:27 PM. Motion passed.

 
 
 
Minutes taken on July 11th and respectfully submitted on July 12th, 2024 by Theresa Furget.

Present: Julie Pelletier, Diana Bolton, Paulina Popowski, Phil Crutchfield, Cheryl VanVliet, Hal Hultman, Karissa & Elijah Canfield, Carol Sienko, and Theresa Furget. Guests: Travis Tomlinson & Tim Root.
Meeting called to order by Elijah Canfield (in Thad’s absence) at 6:33 PM.

1. Additions & Corrections: Elijah added Travis Tomlinson under 5a, and Theresa deleted Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce under 5h on the agenda.
2. Minutes Approval-May 9th, 2024: Phil made a motion and Karissa seconded it to accept the May minutes. Motion passed.
3. Treasurer’s Report-Diana:  Diana went over the general and MP financial statements for June. Hal made a motion and Phil seconded it to accept the treasurer’s report. Motion passed.
4. Correspondence: Diana received a thank-you card  from the Back Door Food Pantry for the donation the club made on behalf of Rachid Hatem.
5. Project Updates:
   1. Travis Tomlinson: Elijah introduced Travis as an area youth that has been very active within the community and has received many accolades that his school has nominated him for. Travis will be entering high school this fall. Travis went over all the recognition/certificates he’s received this year:

i.US House of Representatives 7th Congressional District-Elissa Slotkin for Recognition of Volunteerism.
ii.District 13 Board of Commissioners-Phil Weipert, certificate.
iii.52nd District Court  1st Division  Novi, certificate.
iv.6th Judicial Circuit Court Family Division, certificate.
v.Oakland Co. Executive-David Coulter, certificate.
vi.Oakland Co. Sherrif-Michael Bouchard, certificate.
vii.MI House of Representatives Kelly Breen, certificate.
viii.S. Lyon Area Youth and Assistance-2024 Outstanding Youth, certificate.
ix.MI US Senator-Gary Peters, Certificate of Senatorial  Recognition.
 
Members congratulated Travis with applause for the recognition that he’s received                   Elijah stated that Travis would be a tremendous asset to the club , maybe under the family club plan. Theresa stated she wasn’t sure how Civitan Internation did this, but she’ll figure it out and members saw no problem to have Travis become a club member. Elijah made a motion and Paulina seconded it to have Travis become a member of the club, with the club paying his dues for him out of the general account for the first year. Motion passed.

​Present: Diana Bolton, Phil Crutchfield, Thad Bogert, Carol Sienko, Julie Pelletier, Paulina Poplawski, and Theresa Furget. Guest: Tim Root, he has participated in Desert Angels packing party and his children participate in the Youth Entrepreneur Market.
Thad called the meeting to order at 6:30 PM.

1. Additions & Corrections: None.
2. Minutes Approval-April 11th, 2024: Phil made a motion and Carol seconded it to accept the April minutes. Motion passed.
3. Treasurer’s Report: Diana went over the general and MP accounts for May. Phil made a motion and Carol seconded it to accept the treasure’s report. Motion passed.
4. Correspondence: None.
5. Project Updates:
   1. Officer Election for 2024-2025: Need a member to run for president elect. Diana Bolton will continue as treasurer if no one else is interested in taking over this position. Theresa Furget will remain as secretary and Elijah Canfield  is the incoming president.
   2. CI Convention: Will be held in Albuquerque, NM August 4th-7th, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton with room rates at $159 plus tax. This includes breakfast and the manager’s afternoon reception. Further details can be found at: https://civitan.org/convention/.
   3. Youth Leadership and Diversity Conference (YLDC) July 7th-12th: The cost is $375 per delegate. Vivian’s great granddaughter Alyssa Gall will be attending on a KVCC scholarship. Diana has submitted the payment to YLDC.
   4. Camp Civitan June 6th-9th: Theresa reported that Cheryl has about 62 campers attending. She’s all set with counselors, nurse and has enough bingo prizes.
   5. 20th Annual S. Lyon Area Creek Cleanup Report: Thad reported that it was a cold day, still had over 100 participants, which included a large group of high schoolers getting their community service hours in. They ran out of hot chocolate and just had a few granola bars and banana’s left over. A lot of trash was hauled out of the creek.
   6. Adopt-a-Rd Cleanup Report: A large group participated which made it go faster. There wasn’t a lot of trash as would be expected after winter. It was the normal trash, except Diana had an interesting item-a skeleton. She showed the picture of the skeleton which was a small plastic size that probably went on a key chain.
   7. Essay Scholarships: Thad read the note from Maureen indicating the committee chose four winners (two from each school) that were all deserving of a scholarship. Julie made a motion and Paulina seconded it to give each winner a $1000 scholarship (for a total of $4000) from the MP account. Motion passed. The winners are JD Burch, Shaylin LeBlanc, Ravneet Minhas, and Kylie Rumberger. Theresa gave the letters to the winners for Thad to sign, and she’ll deliver them to Cheryl on Friday so they can be mailed. Paulina stated the S. Lyon High School winners will be awarded on June 5th; she doesn’t know when S. Lyon East will have their event.
   8. Charity Poker: This is currently ongoing. Theresa indicated that Hal was able to get two of the Plymouth-Canton Civitan Club members (Mary Stewart and Gary Turnquist) to fill in as the runners for Saturday and Sunday’s event from 10 AM-6 PM.
   9. Youth Entrepreneur Market (YEM) May 11th: Thad indicated that Mary of the Farmer’s Market will be posting on their website about the YEM. Theresa indicated that the Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce will be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony at 9:45 AM. Theresa has the cookies and Thad will buy some water. Karissa will be supplying the hot chocolate from Biggby. Members need to arrive at 9 AM to help set up the tent. Bring your own chair.
   10. Music on the Grand June 12th:  This goes from 6-8 PM. Members need to arrive around 5 PM to help set up the tent and organize the craft for the kids. Not sure if Nazmiye will do facepainting . Bring your own chair.
   11. Focus Hope May 18th: Theresa explained this is a food box build for low-income families and senior citizens. Gary contacted her requesting the help of KVCC members. Diana stated she’s going as is one of her kids. If interested, meet at the Costco parking lot located at I-96 and Middle Belt Rd at 8:15 AM to carpool down to Focus Hope. Otherwise, you can drive directly to Focus Hope (by 9 AM) located at  1400 Oakman Blvd, Detroit 48238. Parking (surrounded by a black fence) will be across the street from the building. Afterwards the group will go to lunch at Polonia’s and make a visit to the New Palace Bakery.
   12. Pumpkinfest September 28th-29th: Theresa reported that Cheryl and Hal have a game; Wheel of Chance that’ll be used as there are already two charities with a duck pond game. The application was submitted, and the fee has been paid. She requested  a Lake St. location, will just have to wait, and see where they put us.
6. Dinner Meeting May 23rd at 6:30 PM at Teresita’s Mexican Grill.
7. Adjournment Diana made a motion and Phil seconded it to adjourn the meeting at 7:15 PM. Motion passed.

Minutes taken on May 9th and respectfully submitted on May 10th, 2024 by Theresa Furget.

​Kensington Valley Civitan Club Business Meeting Minutes
April 11th, 2024
Present:  Maureen Posler, Cheryl VanVliet, Hal Hultman, Thad Bogert, Diana Bolton, Paulina Poplawski, Karissa & Elijah Canfield, Carol Sienko, and Theresa Furget.
Thad called the meeting to order at: 6:30 PM.

1. Additions & Corrections: Thad added American Brain Tumor Association under 5n.
2. Minutes Approval-March 14th, 2024Hal made a motion and Maureen seconded it to approve the minutes. Motion passed.
3. Treasurer’s Report :Diana went over the April  financial report. Hal made a motion and Carol seconded it to accept the treasurer’s report. Motion passed.
4. Correspondence: Theresa passed around the Christmas card from Doug Powell with pictures of himself and his granddaughter Gail.
5. Project Updates:
   1. North Central Meeting: Cancelled.
   2. CI Convention:  Will be held in Albuquerque, NM August 4th-7th, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton with room rates at $159 plus tax. This includes breakfast and the manager’s afternoon reception. Further details can be found at: https://civitan.org/convention/.
   3. Youth Leadership and Diversity Conference (YLDC) July 7th-12th:  Theresa handed out packets concerning the conference. The cost is $375 per delegate. Elijah has some nieces/nephews he’ll contact along with contacting the YEM parents. Vivian’s great granddaughter Alyssa Gale has completed an application and she’s requesting that Alyssa be given a KVCC scholarship to attend. Paulina made a motion and Hal seconded it  that the club give Alyssa a scholarship of $375 out of the MP account to attend YLDC for 2024. Motion passed. It’s stipulated that delegates sponsored by the club come and give the club a presentation of their experiences.
   4. Camp Civitan June 6th -9th: Cheryl stated that she has 35 campers so far. She had to raise the cost to $230 this year. She’s looking for the club to provide a scholarship to a Lansing camper as there’s no longer a Civitan club in Lansing. She still needs bingo prizes, but no jewelry. Camp theme is Halloween. Carol has raffle tickets to sell as a fundraiser for the camp. Thad made a motion and Carol seconded it to provide a scholarship to a Lansing delegate (Cheryl will determine who receives the scholarship) at the cost of $230 to come out of the MP account. Motion passed.
   5. Essay Scholarships: Maureen reported five essays have been received so far. The deadline is April 17th, and she expects this is when the rest of the entries will be received. After this time, the committee will meet and decide the winners for each high school in S. Lyon.
   6. Charity Poker May 9th-12th:  Elijah reported that 14 members are signed up to work the event, there are 16 slots. Only two slots need to be covered: Runners  for 05/11 and 05/12. He went over the procedures for working the event and a copy of the document will be available at the event for guidance. To sign up to work the event:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C4DAEA62CA6FC1-48965957-kvcivitan

1. 20th Annual S. Lyon Area Creek Cleanup April 21st: Diana indicated the donation check to be a sponsor ($500) has been sent. The club is the only sponsor that’s providing refreshments before the cleanup starts. Karissa is donating the coffee  and she’ll also provide hot chocolate ($60). This will also include the cups, condiments, and napkins. Thad will pick up two boxes of granola bars ( about 100 bars) and bananas from Costco. Paulina made a motion and Karissa seconded it to spend up to $125 from the MP account to cover the hot chocolate, granola bars and banana’s. Motion passed. Members (Thad, Hal, Cheryl, Diana, and Theresa) will set up around 8 AM .  Hal will bring the tent and tablecloth; Thad will bring the table and chairs. Diana will pick up the beverages from Biggby. The event is located behind McHattie’s Park at MI Seamless Tube & Pipe (MST) located at  400 McMunn  St. S. Lyon, 48178.
2. Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce: See below-YEM.
3. Youth Entrepreneur Market (YEM) May 11th: The Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce will be doing a ribbon cutting ceremony at 9:45 AM to welcome the club into the chamber  and opening the start of the YEM for 2024. Elijah is asking the youth (has about nine vendors so far) to start setting up at 9 AM and for members to come at 8:45 AM to set up. The club will provide refreshments of water, hot chocolate, and cookies. The discussion was to obtain magnets with YEM info along with the club’s logo. About 200 magnets (left over’s can be used at other events to  promote the club and YEM. The magnets and club brochures will be handed out in cellophane bags (Karissa has these) at the ribbon cutting event. Also, a basket with the products from each vendor will be raffled off. Karissa made a motion and Cheryl seconded it that the club spend up to $350 out of the general account to obtain the refreshments (hot chocolate, water, and cookies), promotional items (magnets), and about $10 item from each youth vendor  for the raffle basket. Motion passed. Elijah passed around flyers of the YEM for members to take and post wherever they can. Also, the YLDC packets will be passed out to the youth vendors. There was discussion of Facebook advertising via boost. Thad made a motion and Paulina seconded it that the club spend $10 per YEM event (5 events at a cost of $100 in total) to come out of the general account to boost the event on the club’s Facebook page. Motion passed.
4. Music on the Grand June12th: Karissa has kite kits for the June event. Will do the carnival games for the July and August events. Will see if Nazmiye will do facepainting.
5.  Focus Hope May 18th: The Plymouth-Canton Civitan club needs help (especially younger individuals to lift the boxes) in building food boxes for seniors and lower income individuals. If interested, meet at the Costco parking lot located at I-96 and Middle Belt Rd at 8:15 AM to carpool down to Focus Hope. Otherwise, you can drive directly to Focus Hope (by 9 AM) located at  1400 Oakman Blvd, Detroit 48238. Parking (surrounded by a black fence) will be across the street from the building. Afterwards the group will go to lunch at Polonia’s and make a visit to the New Palace Bakery.
6. Adopt-a-Rd Cleanup April 14th: Meet at the New Hudson Biggby located on Milford Rd. at 10 AM.
7. Inspired Movement Project (Digital Play Space): No update.
8. American Brain Tumor Association 5K Run:  Elijah went over the info about the May 18th 5K run which also includes a Brews & Chews event to be held at the Kensington Metro Park. Members decided to pass on this.
9. Pumpkinfest September 28th-29th : Theresa indicated that she received the 2024 application for the event. She’ll complete it and let Diana know when the fee must be paid. The booth fee for the year has increased from $50 to $60. Thad made a motion and Carol seconded it that $60 be spent out of the general account to pay for the booth fee. Motion passed.
10.  Facebook Page Content-Cheryl questioned what’s been appearing on the club’s page as she’s not really seeing what the club has already posted. Karissa suggested she needs to click on Search and select prior to starting  the scroll process.

1. Dinner Meeting April 25th  at 6:30 PM at Teresita’s Mexican Grill.

Adjournment: Carol made a motion and Karissa seconded it to adjourn the meeting at 7:50 PM. Motion passed.
Minutes taken on April 11th and respectfully submitted on April 12th, 2024 by Theresa Furget.

Present: Thad Bogert, Phil Crutchfield, Diana Bolton, Karissa Canfield, Carol Sienko,
Cheryl VanVliet, Hal Hultman, Paulina Poplawska, Julie Pelletier, Maureen Posler
 
Meeting called to order:  6:30 PM
 
Additions: 2 additions were made to Project Updates.
 
Minutes: Maureen passed out copies of the minutes from last month that Theresa provided.  There was one correction on the date for Charity Poker in May.  Once the correction was noted, Phil made a motion to accept the minutes and Cheryl seconded the motion.  All were in favor and motion was passed.  
 
Treasurer Report: Diana provided a report for both the general account and the MP Account.  Please see Treasurer Report for details and balances. Phil made a motion to accept the Treasurer’s report and Cheryl seconded.  All present were in favor and the motion passed.
 
Correspondence:  Karissa reported that there was an article in “Lyon Today” that referenced Youth Entrepreneur Market (YEM). Karissa also reported about a chamber event and the founders of Beautiful Harvest Food Pantry.  The pantry is run by a Mother/Daughter team. Karissa passed around two pamphlets that describe the pantry activities. 
 
Carol Sienko talked about a grant she received for $230. She also reported about a donation for Camp Civitan from her investment firm.
 
Thad report that a KVCC member Rashid passed away.  Rashid did not attend many meetings and was ill recently.  He left a wife and a 17 year old son.  The family requested donations to a food pantry in the St. Clair Episcopal Church.  There was discussion about a memorial donation when a club member passes away.  Thad made a motion to donate $500, from the MP account to the food pantry.  Maureen seconded the motion.  All present were in favor and motion passed.
 
North Central Meeting: The North Central meeting will be held April 12 & 13, 2024 in
Benton Harbor.  Rooms are available for $99.00 plus taxes.
 
International Meeting:   The Civitan International meeting will be held from 8/4 to 8/7/2024 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. No additional details have been published as yet.
 
Essay Scholarship: One essay has been submitted to date.  Paige was going to ask the two high schools to repost the essay contest and Cheryl VanVliet was going to contact Sue Meisner about posting on different community sites.  Elijah was going to repost the essay contest on our Facebook page.  April 17 is the deadline for high school seniors to submit an essay. If any member knows a  high school senior attending the South Lyon or South Lyon East  high schools, and are going to be attending a college, community college, trade school or certificate school, perhaps suggest they look at the contest details.
 
Charity Poker: Our next Charity Poker will be on May 9th – 12th.  Several members, who always volunteer for several shifts, will be unavailable to volunteer for the May poker nights, leaving us very short.  We need all members to volunteer for this session.  Remember you are not playing poker, just working administrative roles.  If we fail to get enough volunteers, Krazy Kops will not want to give us poker nights again.  This is a significant fund raiser.  Without it, we would have to struggle to get money for our various events. Elijah will send out a sign up genius to sign up for shifts next month. Elijah has also submitted our applications for the charity poker dates.
 
20th Annual South Lyon Area Creek Clean-up: KVCC will be a sponsor this event and after a lot of discussion, it was decided that the club will purchase Biggby Coffee and fruit or granola bars for people cleaning up. Vests and grabbers will be provided, however KVCC will loan our grabbers and vests to volunteers as well.  Toarmina’s will be providing pizza for the event. It was suggested that someone being a trash can for our tent area.
 
Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce: The club joined the Brighton Chamber of Commerce.  Paulina is one of the ambassadors.  Joining the chamber has a lot of benefits to KVCC. For example, we can post our events of their calendar which provides added visibility.
 
Youth Entrepreneur Market (YEM): The YEM starts on 5/11/2024 and on 5/11, there will be a ribbon cutting event.  We can use the DDA website to publicize our market. Cheryl will handle insurance for the club & Paulina will be the ambassador to the Greater Brighton Chamber of Commerce. Karissa passed around a newspaper, “Lyon Today” with an article that mentions the YEM program and had a picture of Thad and his exercise class. 
 
Road Clean-up: The next road clean-up will be on April 13 with April 14 as a rain date.  Club members participating should meet at the New Hudson Biggby at 10:00 AM.
 
Music on the Grand: Music on the Grand will begin on June 12 and is held on the lawn in front of the Methodist Church on Grand River. The club will have a tent on June 12, July 1 and August 14. We will decide what crafts at a later meeting.  The musical acts for the dates we decided on are:
June 12:  Weekend Come Back
July 17:  Tribute to the Beatles
August 14: Captain Fantastic (Elton John)
 
Cheryl gave updates on Vivien & Theresa’s health.
 
Our next meeting is a dinner meeting at Teresita’s Mexican Restaurant at 6:30 PM on March 28th.
 
7:33 – Motion to Adjourn:  Hal made a motion to adjourn and Julie seconded.  Motion passed.
 
 
Minutes respectfully submitted by:  Maureen Posler, March 17, 2024
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Present: Phil Crutchfield, Julie Pelletier, Maureen Posler, Thad Bogert, Diana Bolton, Paige George, Karissa & Elijah Canfield, Paulina Poplawski, and Theresa Furget.
Meeting called to order by Thad at 6:30 PM.

1. Additions & Corrections: None.
2. Business Meeting Minutes of 01/11/24 and Dinner Meeting Minutes of 01/25/24 were reviewed by members. Maureen made a motion and Phil seconded it to accept the minutes. Motion passed.
3. Treasurer’s Report: Diana went over the general and MP financial statements for February. She also reminds members that the second quarter dues (January-March) are now due and need to be paid. Phil made a motion and Maureen seconded it to accept the financial report. Motion passed.
4. Correspondence: Karissa indicated that the Lyon Twp. Today Magazine will list the club’s business and dinner meeting dates and it’ll also list the Youth Entrepreneur Market information.
5. Project Updates:
   1. Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce: Theresa indicated that this was previously discussed about joining the chamber. It costs $200 per year and the year runs from the month of joining to the following year. Karissa indicated the Chamber covers five cities and is very active. There’s both ticketed (fee involved) and non-ticketed (no fee) events that all members can take part in. A lot of times events are tied into a charity/non-profit. So, there’s a possibility that the club could benefit from this. Also, it’s a great way to network. Theresa will be the point person on this and share upcoming events with members. Karissa made a motion and Julie seconded it that the club join the Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce by paying the $200 membership fee out of the general account. Motion passed.
   2. S. Lyon High School Scholarships: Maureen stated the applications are ready to go and the deadline will be April 17th for submission of the applications. Karissa will create a graphic to be used for advertising the scholarship to be used on the club’s website and on Face Book too.
   3. Desert Angels: Karissa indicated that 200 Miracle boxes were mailed out.  Cheryl received an email from a service person thanking the club for the Miracle box. She’ll bring it to the next meeting to share with members. Theresa indicated that she’s made a separate contact list for the Desert Angel group which currently has 20 names/e-mails. Maureen stated she has a list from the night of the packing party that she’ll give to Theresa, so, these contacts can be added to the list. Discussion was whether to send the monthly newsletters to these individuals. Theresa will do so and then monitor what responses she receives from this group, since there’s no upcoming packing party until probably sometime in November.
   4. Youth Entrepreneur Market (YEM): Elijah read a letter from Callie, a young girl that participated last year by making totes out of feed bags. She was very thankful for the opportunity to participate last year and looks forward to participating this year. This will be the third year and Elijah already has four applicants. This will continue to be held on the second Saturday of the month starting in May and going until September from 10 AM to 3 PM. ( May 11th, June 8th, July 13th, August 10th, and September 14th). Discussion was how to advertise the event to get more customers. Elijah discussed doing a video of the youth at the market explaining why they want to be an entrepreneur and then posting it on Face Book and elsewhere for marketing purposes. Elijah can make posters/flyers, but would need others to post them in various areas of the community such as the schools and at Abby Park etc. There was additional discussion about having the YEM at the Farmer’s Market. However, this isn’t a viable option as they would be subjected to a $50 vendor fee. The club could have a table there and try to steer customers down the road to the YEM. Thad will contact Nate (who runs the Farmers Market) and discuss putting up signs there about the YEM to attract additional customers. Face Book boost was also discussed and the need for this to be done more than several days prior to the YEM event. Thad will investigate this and see how much it might cost and then the club can come up with an advertising budget for YEM. Once the club joins the Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce, this will be another place to advertise YEM. In addition, the Chamber does a Welcome Coffee event, and it was suggested that this could be held at the first market in May.
   5. Charity Poker May 19th-12th & June 20th-23rd: Elijah states the application fee is $200 for each event (for a total of $400) which can come out of the MP account like it always has. He also stated that he received an email from Mike (Krazy Kopz) that they have an opening for March 28th-31st and whether the club wanted to add a third event. Maureen brought up that we have a hard time getting members to work these events as it is. It’s always the same people working the events, plus, the club’s snowbirds will not be back in MI at this time and Easter is the 31st. The club will pass on this. Elijah made a motion and Diana seconded it to pay the application fee’s for the two events for a total of $400 out of the MP account. Motion passed.
   6. 20th Annual S. Lyon Area Creek Clean-Up Sunday April 21st, 9 AM-1 PM (Volunteer and / or Sponsor): Thad stated the club has an opportunity to volunteer and help with the cleanup, and to be a sponsor at three different levels-$100, $200 and $500. At all levels, the club gets recognition, however, at the $500 level of sponsorship the club can have a booth and pass out info about the club and Civitans. There was much discussion about what level to sponsor and then what items to pass out in addition to club brochures.  Karissa stated Biggby could donate coffee for the table. This led to discussion about handing out work gloves with the Club’s name/logo on it grabbers etc. In addition to coffee, could hand out food items such as donuts etc. Thad indicated that about 30-40 volunteers participate and after cleanup is completed, they come back for pizza. So, the club would have an opportunity to network before and after the event. Julie made a motion and Maureen seconded it , that the club would do a $500 level of sponsorship to be taken out of the MP account and could brainstorm later as to what promotion items would be handed out at the table. Motion passed. This is held at the Yerkes drain/creek by McHattie’s Park.
   7. Inspired Movement Project (Digital Play Space):Thad stated it hasn’t moved forward. He needs to get with ECC administration and produce a plan.
   8. Donation in Memory of Teresa Misner to The S. Lyon Historical Society: Diana wrote out the $500 donation check that was voted on at the dinner meeting and Thad will take it  to the S. Lyon Historical Society meeting on February 14th at 10:30 AM and present it on behalf of Sue’s mom-Teresa. He’ll let Sue know in case she wishes to be present  for the presentation. Other members are welcome to attend the meeting.
6. Next Meetings:
   1. Dinner Meeting Thursday, February 22nd at 6:30 PM at Teresita’s Mexican Grill.
   2. March 14th Business Meeting.
7. Karissa made a motion and Phil seconded it to adjourn the meeting at 7:25 PM. Motion passed.

Minutes taken by Theresa Furget on 02/08/24 and respectfully submitted on 02/10/24.

Present: Thad Bogert, Hal Hultman, Cheryl Van Vliet, Phil Crutchfield, Paige George, Diana Bolton & Maureen Posler
 
Meeting called to order: 6:35 PM
 
Additions & Corrections:  Thad added Adopt – A - Family & Adopt - A-Highway under Project Updates.  Paige added SLCC under Project Updates (to be explained later).
 
Minutes from November Meeting: Minutes from our last business meeting were passed out for review.  Hal made a motion to accept the minutes.  Cheryl seconded to motion.  All were in favor and motion passed.
 
Treasurer’s Report:   Diana reviewed the Treasurer’s report for both the general account and the MP account. Diana mentioned that since we had a credit at the post office, we were able to mail additional boxes from the packing party and stay within the amount approved for mailing.
 
Correspondence:  Only correspondence was an email that Cheryl received from a solider that received a package from out most recent Desert Angels packing party. Cheryl will being email to next meeting.
 
Project Updates:

1. Desert Angels: Thad suggested deferring this project until the next meeting when Elijah & Karissa should be present.  Maureen advised the group that she had entered all the participants that registered at the packing party on a spreadsheet.  Not all participants registered, either due to the line or just not wanting to give out their information. Including members from both the KVCC club and the Plymouth Canton club that showed up to support us, a total of 67 people registered. 

 

1. Scholarship Contest: Maureen and Paige reported that they are conferencing on January 19th to finalize the revisions to the applications and revise the blurb to the schools about the new requirements for the essay.  Maureen passed out suggested revisions at our November 2023 meeting. At that meeting, the club members approved the suggested revisions.

 

1. Youth Entrepreneur Market:  No report

 

1. Charity Poker: Dates for the two charity poker nights are May 9-12, & June 20-23, 2024.  As we get closer to the event, a sign-up genius will be sent.  Please block these dates on your calendars.  Keep in mind that you will not be playing poker; it’s simply doing the administrative portion of the night.  You do not need to know anything about poker.

 

1. Inspired Movement Project (Digital Play Space): Thad had nothing new to report.
2. Adopt-A-Family: Thad reported that he delivered to one family.  Carol Sienko delivered the other. There was a question raised about how Active Faith vets the families they recommend. Thad had a question since the family he delivered to were sitting in a luxury brand vehicle. Discussion was that we don’t know who the vehicle belonged to, however perhaps we could ask Active Faith about the criteria.

 

1. Adopt-A-Highway:  Diana reported that dates for 2024 have not been posted yet.

 

1. SLCC: Paige made a request for the South Lyon Community Coalition.  Paige asked for KVCC to be listed as their civic sector rep. This rep is needed for SLCC grant proposals.  No funding is being asked for.  The club discussed the request and agreed this was something that we       could do.  Maureen agreed to be the contact since no one else wanted to.  Paige indicated that a rep may never get called, however she needed a name.

 
Coming Events:

1. Charity Poker 2024:  See dates above.

 
Health & Wellness Report:  Cheryl gave an update on Theresa Furget’s health and also of Vivian VanVliet’s health.
 
Next Meeting:  Dinner Meeting on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 6:30 PM at Teresita Mexican Grill.
 
 
Minutes respectfully submitted by:  Maureen Posler, January 12, 2024

​Present: Diana Bolton, Julie Pelletier, Karissa & Elijah Canfield, Paige George, Maureen Posler, Cheryl VanVliet, Hal Hultman, Carol Sienko, and Theresa Furget.
Elijah conducted the meeting in Thad’s absence and  called the meeting to order at 6:30 PM.

1. Additions & Corrections: Maureen added Scholarship/Essay Contest under 6h.
2. Approval of October 12th, 2023 Minutes: Paige made a motion and Maureen seconded it to approve the minutes.  Motion passed.
3. Treasurer’s Report-Diana: Diana went over the November financial report.  Hal made a motion and Carol seconded it.  Motion passed.
4. Correspondence: None.
5. Project Updates:
   1. Inspired Movement Project (Digital Playscape): No Report.
   2. Focus Hope October 14th-Cheryl: While no KVCC members were in attendance, Cheryl reported that about 660 food boxes were built .  A sorority of about six ladies helped the Plymouth-Canton Civitan Club.
6. Upcoming Projects:
   1. Desert Angels November 16th Packing Party:

i.Centennial Middle School finished with a count of 553 items, and Millennium Middle School finished with a count of over 800 items.  Theresa passed around a picture of the kids at Centennial Middle School. A thank-you letter needs to be sent to the two schools.  Maureen will prepare it and they will be sent after the packing party so pictures can also be sent to the schools showing what they helped to accomplish.
ii.Volunteer Forms:  Kids can bring their own, or Cheryl has some generic forms that can be completed and signed that night by Thad as club president.  This allows the kids to get recognition/credit for their volunteer work.
iii.Donations: Elijah stated the number of donations collected so far is down from last years collection. Paulina has over 250 books that she’ll bring to the packing party. He’s planning on having 150 preprinted labels and will bring 175 boxes. Here’s the Amazon Wish link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3TY8GQIFCXY75?ref_=wl_share
iv.Trailer: Elijah will use Diana’s trailer (which is all enclosed) to pick up and take items to the Lyon Twp. Municipal Center located at 58000 Grand River in New Hudson, 48165.
v.Food: Pizza, dessert, and drinks: Karissa will oversee Pizza.  She’ll plan for about 75 attendees.  Diana will bring the general account debit card to order additional pizza if needed.  Since Theresa will not be in attendance, she’s given Diana the plates, napkins , cups, and tablecloths.  Maureen will also bring additional plates and napkins.  Cheryl and Hal will bring the 2-liter beverages and additional cups.  Any beverages left over will be used at the club’s Christmas party. Diana will bring the cookies.
vi.iPad: Volunteer Database: Diana passed around a QR code for members to see the log that’s going to be used to get a database of the attendee’s.  Discussion was what needed to be added/revised: club upcoming activities and club membership.
vii.Civitan Info Table: Cheryl will bring a table and the club’s tablecloth.  She’ll have Civitan/KVCC brochures that attendee’s can pick up.  Vivian and Maureen will man the table. 
viii.Set-up planning, arriving at 5 PM: Plan to arrive at 5 PM to help unload the trailer and setting up.  The public will start to arrive at 5:30 PM.  The discussion was about having a coloring/card station for individuals to color.  Cheryl will bring the crayons and both she and Karissa will provide pictures to color.

1. Holiday Fair November 18th-Cheryl: This is being held at United Methodist Church/Inspiration Park located at 56870 Grand River Ave, New Hudson, 48165 from 10 AM-3 PM.  Cheryl and Maureen will man the club’s table to hand out Civitan/KVCC info. Since Theresa is unable to attend, someone needs to take her place.  
2. Giving on the Grand November 25th-Karissa: This will be held at the United Methodist Church/Inspiration Park located at 56870 Grand River Ave, New Hudson, 48165.  The pancake breakfast (donation) will start at 9 AM with the setting up of the holiday inflatables and lighting to follow.  Sue has the club’s two inflatables and will be on hand with helping to set them up. Additional members are needed to help.
3. Adopt-A-Family Planning/Shopping Date-Cheryl: Vivian contacted Active Faith today and they will have the kids names (5-6) by the 16th. Paige will pick up the names from Active Faith and organize the gift list for each kid. Members will meet at the Wixom Target on Sunday December 3rd at 9:30 AM (front of the store) to do the shopping.  Last year the budget was $600, and the actual spending was about $620.  Diana made a motion and Maureen seconded it,  to spend up to $650 ($100 per kid) out of the MP account.  Motion passed.
4. Festival of Trees at Abbey Park at Mill River-Cheryl: Members will meet on Sunday November 26th at 11 AM to decorate a tree. Cheryl has the ornaments and this year’s theme will be poinsettia’s. Diana and Carol will help, and any others are welcome to join in the decorating. The facility is located at Abbey Park at Mill River, 28413 Abbey Lane, NH, 48165.  The festival runs from November 26th to January 8th, 2024.
5. Club Christmas & Wrapping Party December 14th at 6PM: Diana volunteered to host the party at her house and to obtain a spiral ham (members will contribute towards the purchase of the ham. Members will bring a dish to pass and BYOB. She’ll set up Sign-up Genius  online.  Her address is 27965 Pontiac Trail, S. Lyon 48178.  She indicated that GPS doesn’t like her address, so try putting it in New Hudson instead. For the wrapping party, bring wrapping paper, tape, and scissors.  Theresa has already bought six large gift bags, 100 gift tags, and six festive tablecloths that she’ll give to Diana after the meeting.
6. Charity Poker 2024 Save the Dates: May 9th-12th, 2024, and June 20th-23rd, 2024. Also, Theresa indicated that the State of MI (SOM) issued new MP rules that took effect on October 23rd, 2023.  Elijah didn’t receive this email from the SOM.  She’ll forward the email to him, and Hal asked to be included.  Anyone else that wants a copy, contact Theresa.
7. Scholarship/Essay Contest 2024-Maureen: She put together a document that she passed around to members  concerning the 2024 scholarships. Committee members will include Paige, Paulina, Cheryl, and herself.  Anyone else that wants to join the committee is welcome to do so. Just let Maureen know. She’ll also send an email out to members  asking for interested members. Revisions to include: 1. Removing GPA from the application; 2. Revise volunteer activities to read: “List volunteer and/or school activities and highlight any leadership roles”; 3. Describe how your experience in a specific volunteer activity has impacted you personally or your future career goals.  Please be specific. Members liked the revisions.  Paige will revise the application to reflect the changes.  Maureen also put together a schedule of tentative dates for when the essays are announced (January 15th), due (March 15th), evaluated (April 1st-19th), winners given to the schools (May 20th) and award nights (June 5th-7th). She’ll check with the schools for the actual dates that the schools determine and then make revisions as needed.  Last year four scholarships were given out (two to each school) and the previous year only two were given out (one to each school).  Discussion was whether to continue this or not.  The MP account is healthy and would support four scholarships of $1,000 each. Members decided that the quality of the essay’s would determine how many scholarships would be handed out.

1. Next Business Meeting, January 11th, 2024.
2. Adjournment: Maureen made a motion and Paige seconded to adjourn at 7:32 PM. Motion passed.
3. Carol gave Diana a check from Jeri Psyz (sp) for Desert Angels.

Minutes respectfully taken by Theresa Furget on November 9th and submitted on November 10th, 2023.

​Present: Maureen Posler, Chery VanVliet, Thad Bogert, Paige George, Julie Pelletier, Phil Crutchfield, Kris Krzyzanski, Karissa & Elijah Canfield, Paulina Poplawska, and Theresa Furget.
Thad called the meeting to order at 6:30 PM.

1. Additions & Corrections: Cheryl added Holiday Fair under 5h.
2. Approval of September 14th, 2023 Minutes: Diana made a motion and Kris seconded it to accept the minutes.  Motion passed.
3. Treasurer’s Report-Diana: Diana went over the October financial report.  Karissa made a motion and Phil seconded it to accept the treasurer’s report.  Motion passed.
4. Correspondence-Theresa: The club received the Navigator pin for the banner for the 2021-2022 year. This is for the club’s contribution to Civitans at the Helm which goes to the Civitan International Research Center (CIRC).  This brought up the discussion as to who has the banner.  Sue Miesner might have it. (I contacted Sue, and she doesn’t have it).
5. Project Updates:
   1. Installation of 2023-2024 Club Officers Kris:  Kris installed Theresa as secretary, Diana as treasurer, Elijah as president-elect and Thad as president.
   2. Youth Entrepreneur Market/Participant Recognition-Maureen: Maureen mailed out the certificates and letters to this year’s participants with an invitation to participate in the 2024 YEM.
   3. Desert Angels-Karissa: Karissa stated the collection is going well.  Marta contacted Theresa and gave her a few more items that are needed.  Karissa will add these to the list.  Still in need of entertainment items.  Paige stated the two middle schools are in competition as to which school will collect the most items.  Theresa will send the video that Paige shared with her when she sends out the business meeting minutes.  Theresa stated she has the paper products (plates, napkins, and cups) for the packing party.  Maureen stated she’ll bring additional plates, napkins and cups that weren’t used at the Plymouth-Canton Civitan Club event yesterday.  Just a reminder that Karissa oversees the pizza, Cheryl & Hal the beverages and ice, and Theresa the cookies.
   4. Scarecrows on the Grand/Goodies on the Grand: Theresa: indicated that the club’s scarecrow is up at Inspiration Park.  On Sunday, Cheryl, Hal, Maureen, Toprak, Nazmiye, Tolga, and Theresa met at Karissa’s and Elijah’s house to assemble the military scarecrow representing Desert Angels Miracle Box. Everyone had a great time, especially Tolga who loved dancing with the scarecrow! There are pictures on Facebook.  Goodies on the Grand: This will be held on October 28th at Inspiration Park from 4:30-6:30 PM to hand out goodies to the kids. Thad indicated there are 400-500 LED rings left over from Pumpkinfest that could be handed out.  Members that have worked this in the past are going to Region 6 District convention that weekend.  The club will not participate this year, however, would like to participate in 2024.  Theresa will let Amy Allen know.
   5. 2023 Pumpkinfest Recap: Thad stated this was a record year as the committee had to resort to previous years tickets as they sold out for this year.  The club took in about 1,605 tickets, which is the best since we’ve been participating.
   6. Inspired Movement Project (Digital Play Scape)-Thad: Sue Toth the Special Ed. director is going to reach out to the principal at the Early Childhood Center to see if they’re interested in having the program.
   7. Focus Hope October 14th, 9 AM-Cheryl:  Join the Plymouth-Canton Civitan Club with food box building at Focus Hope located at 1400 Oakman Blvd. Detroit 48238.  Afterward members will go to lunch at Polonia’s.
   8. Holiday Fair November 18th-Cheryl: Cheryl, Maureen and Theresa will be attending and will have a table to hand out KVCC info.  This will be at the United Methodist Church located at 56870 Grand River Ave, New Hudson, 48165. Hours are 8 AM-4 PM according to the church’s website.
   9. Active Faith Christmas Adopt-a-Family (just added)-Theresa: Discussion was whether to adopt a family for Christmas.  Everyone was in agreement to do this.  Cheryl will have Vivian contact Active Faith to get a family or two for 5-five to six kids to buy for.
   10. Lunch at the Sr. Center for Active Adults (Just added)-Karissa:  Karissa asked whether the club wanted to sponsor another lunch at the center. Everyone agreed this was a good idea. Thad will check into this further.
   11. Abby Park  at Mill River-Festival of Trees (just added)-Cheryl: The discussion was whether to sponsor a tree this year.  Everyone is in agreement to participate.  Cheryl will check this out further.
   12. First Quarter Dues (just added)-Diana: Just a reminder that Diana will be sending out the dues notice to members.

m.Brighton Greater Chamber of Commerce (just added)-Elijah: Discussion was whether the club wanted to join since the Kensington Valley Chamber of Commerce folded in April of this year.  Karissa stated that this is a very active chamber with lots of events/activities that covers a wide area.  She’s not sure how much it costs for a non-profit to join. (I contacted the Greater Brighton Chamber of Commerce and spoke to Michelle Tokan, it will cost $200 for a non-profit to join and the year goes from the month of joining to the following year. Once the club joins, then all members can attend any activity/event.  Most are free, unless food is involved, then there will be a fee to attend. I told her we would probably decide sometime in November.)

1. Dinner Meeting October 26th, 2023 at 6:30 PM at Teresita’s Mexican Grill.
2. Next Business Meeting November 9th, 2023.
3. Adjournment: Kris made a motion and Maureen seconded it to adjourn the meeting at 7:32 PM.

Minutes respectfully taken by Theresa Furget on October 12th and submitted on October 13th, 2023.