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The Ute Pass Kiwanis Club meets every Wednesday morning

at Denny’s Restaurant at 6:45 a.m.

For information about membership, call (719) 315-5004

Jason Roshek, President Bill Flint, Secretary

Judy Drake, Immediate Past President Bob Campbell, Treasurer

Connie Sims, President Elect

Board Members, Matt McCracken, Pat Hyslop, Shari Carlson, Candy Mowery, Bill Flint, Sandy

Bridgewater, Kim Mauthe

Newsletter Editor: Rita Randolph, Program Notes: Candy Mowery

Birthdays & Anniversaries Jeff Smith says it is his brother-in-law, and son-in-law's birthdays! Morton Dickson former in-laws (Marta’s parents) are celebrating their 60-some-year anniversary! Chrissy Stapleford, is feeling guilty for not having mentioned her mom, Cindy’s, birth-day last week! Yikes! (Cindy is a former Kiwanis member.)

Happy Dollars Jean Rodeck had a ball at the parade! She was especially happy that no one fell off the float! She had so much fun on Satur-day, that it took her two days to recover! Bob Campbell is happy that Shari Carl-son did such an out-standing job on Breakfast with Santa. He said that there was about $900 in the donation cans and

with the donations from the community or-ganization that we may have made between $1400 and $1500. Lee Taylor was happy with the whole weekend. In addition to the Kiwanis activi-ties, his wife Karen played her harp for the

Christmas Home Tour. He is feeling

very proud of our little community and how we come together for such an amaz-ing weekend! Morton Dickson is happy about Breakfast with Santa and the Madri-gal Singers who are performing to-

day! Sandy Bridgewater is deliriously happy about Breakfast with Santa, chocolate milk, the float designer, Pat Hyslop, and the two largest entry in the parade—the septic trucks! Where else, but a small town! Renee Bunting is counting the days till her husband comes home, next weekend! Matt McCracken is proud of our club pull-ing off a fabulous job this weekend! Bill Miller congratulated Shari Carson for a job well done. And since he has a $14 credit [after having won and then lost the football pool last week] he could talk a lot longer, but only came up with his grandson winning [football??] around the country! Shari Carlson is happy that Breakfast with Santa is over! Just kidding, she is happy that it worked out, and about the parade, and that she is closing on her new house in 20 days! Kathy Bergin says enough about this week-end, let’s get to SPORTS! She is happy that Michigan won over Iowa, and the Broncos! She is happy for her favorite computer at the library, donated by Lee and Karen Taylor! Bert West was $20 happy for this weekend and that we got through Breakfast with San-ta with no inappropriate pancakes made! John Dougherty is happy that he’ll get to take off his back brace in another week! Yay! And, he is so happy to be here today to hear the Madrigals! Jeff Smith is $20 happy about the weekend, and he has float parts at Carrie’s house. If anyone has any use for the elephant canvas-es, please let him know! [I think we should save them for future floats?! What do you all think?]

Kim Mauthe missed the fabulous weekend, and celebrated her own with her skiing kids over in Beaver Creek, where they met many world athletes! Carl Anderson was really happy about the weekend, and is reminded why he loves this town! Tom Mar-tinez is also proud to part of our club and what we did this week-end. He is also proud of Kathy Bergin, who was given a really nice tribute at K-Kids for her work for the last 10 years! Con-grats, Kathy! Lee Taylor thanks Jeff Smith for plowing out the driveway of an elderly lady who was trying to move this last week. Connie Sims was $20 happy about the weekend and for our star players, Shari Carl-son and Pat Hyslop! She is also happy that her precious grandson, who had been on oxy-gen since he was born 2 months ago, is finally off of it!

Guests today: The Madrigals!

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Happy Dollars

UPCOMING

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Next week: Bert West, SURPRISE!!!!

Dec. 10 Bingo!!! 6:30, Shining Mountain. Dec. 14: Christmas Party Mucky Duck, 5:30-6:00, Buffet starts at 6:30. White elephant gifts (opt.) Dec. 23 and 30: No meet-ings! Feb. 19, 2016. Annual Wine Tasting!

Announcements Christmas Party Sandy Bridgewater The date is Monday, De-cember 14, at the Mucky Duck. Cost is $25 for a buffet dinner, but reservations are already made! White Elephant gift items to be exchanged if you want to participate! [Funny or fun gifts or regifts!]

Pajama Party Bingo tomorrow night! Who is working? Who is playing? Show up and find out! This is the last Bingo in 2015! Wine Tasting: first meeting tonight at Connie Sims office at 5:30. Short meeting! Event is scheduled for Feb. 19, 2016 Angel Tree: Kim Mauthe has a last minute fam-ily in need for Christmas. The family has 3 chil-dren. If you are interested in helping, contact Kim.

Program: The Madrigals!

We were so happy to have the Madrigal singers from the Woodland Park High School sing for us! Their conduc-tor, Connie Campbell said the group was bigger this year which allows them to do pieces that they may not have been able to do otherwise. She said the group as a whole is amazing with the number of activities and sports they are all involved in, as well as being scholars with off the charts GPAs! Kiwanis has had the Madrigal singers come to our meet-ing every year, for what seems like forever! Many of our members had children who were in the Madrigals, and one of our members, was it it—Jill Becker McCracken, AND one of our members started it—Morton Dickson.

Welcome to new member Diana Henris!

Lovely surprise this morning! The Pikes Peak Regional Hospital represented by Dr. Rick Malyzcek and Eric Riggle donated $2000 to our scholarship fund! Wow! Here, Cheryl Steen, head of the Scholarship committee, accepts the check! Again, our community SHINES! Thank you PPRH!

Kathy Bergin honored! Kathy Bergin was honored by the K-Kids at Gateway for her 10 long years of dedicated service to this group. Looks like they had a lot of fun, sending Kathy off!

Gracie McCracken loves Mrs. Claus, but is not exactly thrilled with Santa!

Lighter Side of Christmas Parade Grand Marshall, Bert West!

Shari Carlson, Breakfast with Santa Rock Star! Pat Hyslop, Parade Rock

Star!

Just a few of the cast of thousands that put on a grand Kiwanis-Woodland Park Weekend!

Breakfast with Santa & the Lighter Side of Christmas Parade!