HIGH NOON

Jackson Noon Optimist

P.O. Box 615

Jackson, MO 63755

Meetings held on Wednesday - 12:00 PM - Delmonico’s

Promise Yourself... To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Optimist International

November, 2012 Volume 2

President’s Message ...

Greetings during this beautiful fall season, as I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have. October has been extremely busy as my first month as President has flown by. We have had several great programs throughout the month as Cody Windbigler, Resource Officer for Cape Girardeau Coun-ty Sherriff’s Office, presented on school safety and the importance of in-forming our youth on what to do if an intruder enters their school. It was also a pleasure to have Mary Boner, Dr. Dwight Johnson and Tina Weber join us to provide information on November Ballot Topics. Fellowship for this past month was wonderful as we learned more about apples and how we can all reminisce to great memories and traditions with our families.

As Thanksgiving quickly approaches, I ask that you think about your tradi-tions and customs within your family. Many fond memories of past family gatherings come to mind for me, whether it’s napping after a huge dinner, playing pickup football in the back yard, or going through all the Black Fri-day ads to set your plan of attack for the next morning. It is on these oc-casions that we should reflect back and truly understand the history and past experiences of our ancestors that risked their lives to come to the “new world” to experience a better life. In those days, the challenges were enormous and of a type we can barely imagine.

Today we face entirely different challenges. Whether they are bigger or smaller, I can't say. But I believe God’s grace is always sufficient, and for every hardship there are many more blessings. We just need to pause and recognize them.

As you enjoy Thanksgiving with your own family this year, I hope that each of you take the time to reflect and acknowledge all that we have to be thankful for during this holiday season. Personally, I continue to be most thankful for my family, friends, health and freedom. As time continues to escape us, I know we are all guilty of getting caught up in the hustle and bustle and forget to really slow down and appreciate everything we have been granted. Please remember to hug the ones you love and enjoy the time of togetherness.

May God continue to bless your family and our Optimist family.

Yours in Optimism Kristin Daniel

MEETING SCHEDULE

November 05 Board Meeting 7 p.m.

November 07 Noon Meeting-Delmonico’s

Business Meeting

November 14 Noon Meeting-Delmonico’s

Program: LFCS Evelyn Beussink Martin

November 21 No Meeting

Happy Thanksgiving

November 28 Noon Meeting-Delmonico’s

Program: Don Sievers OI Foundation

NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS

11/5 Sandy Crites

11/8 Catherine Ring

11/17 Diane Diebold

11/26 Kelly Darby

Girls Basketball

Signups for Girls Basketball will be held November 17, 2012 from 8 a.m. –12 p.m. at the Jackson Chamber of Commerce. If you are interested in assisting with this project, whether serving on the committee or being available to serve as a host at one of the gyms on Saturday mornings, please let Kristen know.

Current committee members: Sandy Crites, Anita Sievers, Heidi Duck-worth and Kristen Daniel.

Mark Your Calendar

Club Christmas Party

Monday, December 10

6:30 p.m.

Home of Mary Kirn

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November 2012

BINGO

Noon Meeting Delmonico’s

Program

Noon Meeting Delmonico’s

Business

Sandy Crites

Catherine Ring

Diane Diebold

Board Meeting 7 p.m.

No

Meeting

Kelly Darby

Noon Meeting Delmonico’s

Program

Ladies, I have a thankless job. It is my duty to get people to commit to helping out with Bingo monthly. We make more money doing Bingo once a month than every single other opportunity we have to raise funds put together. Back before Bingo World opened, we'd work a couple months ahead of time to have a chili supper where we earned about the same amount of money we earn in one month hosting bingo. That was a once a year project. Since we starting hosting bingo, it has enabled us to buy many more items for the children of our community. Your Help is Needed!!! Once a month for 3 hours!!!!!!!!!

Setting up for Bingo begins at 2:00 p.m. Paper Sales and Pull Tab Sales begin at 4:30 p.m. Bingo Games officially begin at 6:30 p.m. (We finish about 9 p.m.)

Please find at least 3 hours one Friday a month that you can give of your time to help your club in this fundraising endeavor. This is a club project and all members need to pitch in and do their part. In return, you get credit for $10 towards your dues EACH time you work. It's a win-win situation for both the kids and our club. The funds raised from our work at Bingo World help us to continue to fulfill our mission as we “Bring Out the Best in Kids” through sponsorship of programs such as:

The problem is, however, many of you have caller ID and when you see that I'm calling you, you say to yourselves, "AWE, I don't want to go work bingo tomorrow", so you just don't answer the phone. This isn't fair to me AT ALL! At least have the decency to tell me you're not coming. I don't need to know the reason. I just need some cooperation if we're going to be able to keep Bingo going. It seems that the same 6 or 8 people work every month. Some other clubs or organizations make working mandatory or members are fined. This is not the case with our club, please help me out. Answer the phone. Show up three hours once a month. This helps out the club and it helps the kids of our community. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jodi Thompson Bingo Chairperson

Safety City Girls Basketball Kids Zone

Skateboard Park Essay Contest Respect for Law

New playground equipment Oratorical Contest Youth in Government

Youth Appreciation events Scholarships Backpack program and many other donations

East Missouri District First Quarter Conference Report

October 26-27

St. Louis, MO

Carol Rohlfs and I attended the executive board meeting on Friday night. Carol graciously offered to assist me at the registration table. Thanks Carol. Attending the Saturday meeting were: Carol, Debra, Emily, Pat, Anita, and Kristen.

Meeting Highlights: Andy Hudson, Junior Golf Chair

Two junior golfers were in attendance. Each of them participated in the EMO district golf tournament this summer and qualified for the tournament in Florida. Andy thanked the clubs that donated money or volunteered at the district tournament. Our club sponsored a tee hole.

Don Sievers, OI Foundation Chair Don explained the purpose of the foundation and how the two entities work together.

He discussed the various types of giving available through the foundation and ex-plained how the money is used for such things as Essay and Oratorical scholarships. EMO goal this year is about $20,400.

Loretta Kelly, New Club Building Chairs Loretta informed us that there have been commitments made to build new clubs in

the district this year. The Optimist Club of Jackson will be building a club in Dexter. Work is ongoing in Herman with help from Dennis Desmond from West Missouri. Oth-er areas that are targeted are: Hannibal, Rolla and the St. Louis area. She challenged everyone to get “out of the box”, and “put your eyes on” to find areas that need new Optimist clubs.

Cyndy Schwab, Essay Contest Chair Club winning essays must be submitted by February 15. Winner will be recognized at

the 3rd quarter district meeting on April 27. Lou Rohlfs, Oratorical Contest Chair

District contest will be held at the 3rd quarter district meeting. Optimist International Representative—Debbie Hill

Deb gave an informative presentation on membership recruitment and retention Highlights for the Jackson Noon Club included: Club received a banner patch for contributing at least $365 to the OI Foundation in 2011-12. Debra, Anita, Emily, Pat and Carol Rohlfs received their Dime-a-Day pin for a donation of

$36.50 each to the OI Foundation. Our club won First Place for the fourth quarter district Achievements & Awards competition

with 19,550 points. We received a check for $25. In second place was The Optimist Club of Jackson with 14,700 points. Overall winners for the year will be announced at the next district meeting.

The Jackson Noon table consisting of Kristen, Emily, Pat, Anita, and Carol won the prize for dec-orating the most Optimistic pumpkin centerpiece.

Debra Hoffmann

St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital

1962-2012 (Celebrating 50 years)

St. Jude was founded by entertainer Danny Thomas, with help from Dr. Lemuel Diggs and close friend, Miami Florida auto magnate An-thony Abraham, on the premise that "no child should die in the dawn of life". This idea resulted from a promise that Danny Thom-as had made to a saint years before the hospital was founded.

This is just a small piece of information we (Pat Abernathy, Emily Collins, Esther Bohnert and Sandy Graham) received while visiting St. Jude Children’s Hospital Monday, October 22, 2012. We were filled with excitement and yet sadness for the sick children we observed.

This was the perfect ending to our yearlong campaign to raise money for these precious children. With all your help our club was able to raise $2,643.22. Many thanks for everyone’s hard work selling raffle tickets, eating at Gordonville Grille, working at Wal-Mart, placing cans around the area and just getting donations.

What a wonderful facility one man’s dream created.

We left at 8:15 a.m., stopped at Cracker Barrel in West Memphis to eat. On the return trip, we broke

bread (and our diets!) at Lambert’s in Sikeston, arriving home around 6:30 p.m. Regretfully two other

key members of our committee were unable to

attend, Donna Rushing and Ann Fields. We were

also sorry that Anita Branscum was not able to

accompany us on the trip as originally planned. It

was a fun trip for all of us and we hope to do

something like that again soon.

Sandy Graham and Esther Bohnert

JACKSON NOON OPTIMIST CLUB

2012-2013 OFFICERS

PRESIDENT

Kristen Daniel—579-4238

VICE PRESIDENT/President Elect

Lori Fowler—651-3161

Cindy Propst—334-0638

PAST PRESIDENT

Esther Bohnert—243-7014

SECRETARY

Anita Sievers—243-5489

TREASURER

Patty Turner—243-8273

DIRECTORS:

Pat Abernathy—243-2525

Nancy Collier—243-2562

Mary Kirn—243-7094

Kathy Roth—243-3486

Donna Rushing—243-4995

Lesa Weiss—243-8339

OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL

O.I. PRESIDENT - J. C. St.-Onge

GOVERNOR EAST MO DISTRICT

Larry Ream

LT. GOVERNOR-ZONE 11

Paul Hoffmann Newsletter deadline will be on the 25th of each

month. Send Reports to Debra Hoffmann:

dhoffmannr2@yahoo.com.

Jackson Noon Optimist

P.O. Box 615

Jackson, MO 63755