WHAT’S INSIDE:

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Assignments, Guests, Hospitality, Announce-ments

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Fines, Happy Dollars, Social Activities, Super-Interclubs

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Club Calendar and Weekly Numbers

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Event Info, News from the Sales Manager

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Club Info, Thanks to Our Advertisers

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KCW Thrift Sale Work Schedules

MEETINGS...

Membership will meet next Monday right after the regular club meet-ing.

Volume 9, Issue 27

TODAY’S PROGRAM…

Downsizing Made Easy Bob Carr and Deb Jones introduced Sharon McRill, President of The Betty Brigade. Her topic was Downsizing Made Easy. Sharon said that you can’t sell a ‘hoarder house’. Clients contact The Betty Brigade for help in downsizing or in preparing a house for sale. All of the ‘Bettys’, her employees, are trained extensive-ly on how to make any project easy. In addition to being bonded and insured, background checks are performed for every Betty Brigade employee. Sharon described the different types of hoarders and described how to answer the question clients have which is; where does stuff go?

The Betty Brigade is prepared to pack, clean, determine what is really important, and how to organize an estate sale. They know what to sell and what to donate. She said that garage sales take too long and don’t sell out; you also can’t give remnants away. The Betty Brigade knows the local consignment dealers, E-Bay sellers, and antique dealers. The Betty Brigade loves to help people simplify their lives. They are professionals in organizing, moving & relocation, as well as home staging. They cover a wide array of different services. They can also help clients with other services like carpet cleaning, painting, and general handyman services.

FAQs from the Betty Brigade website can be found here. You can also download a free mov-ing guide here.

NEW MEMBER INDUCTIONS…

President William changed the order of the meeting to give the floor to Lynne Lande at the beginning of the meeting. Lynne proceeded to welcome two new members to our club: Mark Lavin—introduced by his wife and spon-sor Eloise, and Harry Hawkins—introduced by Bud Rob-erts who is a co-sponsor with President William Hamp-ton.

NEXT WEEK’S PROGRAM...

April 9—State of the City. Speaker: City Administrator, Howard Lazarus. Introduction by: Zac Ackerman.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS.... April 16—The Unpredictable Adventures of Operating a Bed & Breakfast. Speaker: Pat

Maturka. Introduction by: Gary Elling.

April 23—Being Miss Michigan; Keeping the Arts in Education. Speaker: Heather Kendrick, Miss Michigan. Introduction by: Charlie Phibbs.

April 30—The Club’s Annual Highlight! Presentation of Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor and Cross Foundation Scholarships and Camperships. Master of Ceremonies: Past President Michael Dabbs.

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Sharon McRill

Mark Lavin Harry Hawkins

Officers and Directors

President: William V. Hampton

President-Elect: Vacant

Treasurer: Greg Meisner

Secretary: Kathie Wilder

Immediate Past-President: Alan Burg

Board Members: Marianne D’Angelo Deborah Jones Margaret Krasnoff Evan LeRoy Peter Schork Ellen Webb

Newsletter:

Editor Dave LaMoreaux

Photos Bob Gray

Publisher John Kidle

Do you have news for the newsletter, or are you in-terested in advertising? Contact Publisher, John Kidle, at jkidle@gmail.com.

GUESTS AT OUR CLUB...

Gary Donner introduced our guests: Cynthia Gezelok and Nancy Strong, both guests of Jane Talcott. Marilyn Drake, guest of Dave Drake and Sharon McRill who was later intro-duced by Bob Carr.

HOSPITALITY… Kathy Barden-Perlberg did not have any hospitality news to give us but Lynne Lande told us that Lloyd Kitchen’s cancer has returned in the form of a tumor pressing on his esophagus which prevents him from eating. He is at home with his family, cards would be welcome.

ANNOUNCEMENTS...

President William announced April Birthdays as follows: Burt Lamkin, April 1st, Ken Hillenburg, April 4th, John Bassett, April 5th, Sue Dailey, George Gilligan, Jean Robinson, and Peter Schork, April 6th, Jim Carey, April 10th, Deb Jones, April 23, Dennis Powers, April 24th and, had he lived: Jim Wheaton, April 29th.

The Kiwanis Spring Divisional will be held Saturday, April 7 from 1:00 to 4:30 P.M. at the Troy Community Center, Let Kathy Wilder know if you are interested in attending. The Kiwanis International Convention will begin June 28 in Las Vegas; anyone inter-ested should register by April 6. The Kiwanis Michigan Division Convention will be held September 6 through the 9.

Board of directors meeting April 17. If anyone has anything to share at the meeting please get it to President William as soon as possible. The agenda is still in the early planning stage.

We have only 28 more days, as of April 2, before our scholarships will be awarded on April 30. We are anticipating a full house so members are requested to park in the rear of our parking lot so that our guests may park in the front. There will be no Happy Dollars on that date.

The Kiwanis International Convention begins June 28 in Las Vegas.

President William Hampton asked if anyone drives a red Lincoln. If you notice any small inconsistencies, small damage, that has been done to the car then let him know and he will let you know whom to see.

Dale Leslie announced that the celebration of Kiwanis 100 year anniversary needs planning help. It is planned for a Sunday afternoon. Next committee meeting is April 16 after the club meeting. See Dale for details.

Dale also announced that Ed and Doris Conlin have celebrat-ed their 65th wedding anniversary.

Larry Dittmar announced that there are free concerts every evening this week at the U of M’s School of Music. He also said that the Symphony Band will play on Friday at 8:00PM.

ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE COMING WEEK...

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KCW Cashiers & Sales

See Pages 8 and 9

KCW Sorting & Pricing

See Pages 6 and 7

Vouchers 4/5—Ellen Webb, Carla Summers, Jean Robinson, Sally Lamkin, Jim Carey, Bud Roberts, Bob Carr, and needs one more volunteer.

Invocation Kathy Barden-Perlberg

Greeters Ray Argyle (A), John Schenk (C), Gary Donner, and Dave Drake

Hospitality Kathy Barden-Perlberg

Newsletter Dave LaMoreaux

Cashier John Schenk

FINES...

There was a proposal to fine our two new members. Lynne Lande asked the member-ship to vote on it and it was passed by unanimous consent of the membership with the exception of Mark Lavin.

Fred Sanchez proposed a fine on anyone that was not wearing Maize and Blue in sup-port of U of M’s Basketball team which was to play in the National Championship game later that evening. President William noted, at this point that he had predicted that the U of M would make it to the Final Four, a point that was not noted in last week’s News-letter. This motion was passed unanimously with the exception of one, lone, ‘no’ vote.

HAPPY DOLLARS...

Ken Hillenburg said he was happy to have gone to the Arthur Miller Theater to see the production of Angels In America. He praised this performance and recommend-ed it to the club membership.

Dick Smit had a happy dollar for the Men’s Clothing Department and he encouraged members to go out there to browse.

Eloise Lavin had a happy dollar for her husband Mark joining the club. She said that with his background in banking and software that he will have much to offer our club.

Charlie Phibbs had a happy dollar for the success of this year’s Michigan Men’s basketball team.

Emily Allshouse had a happy dollar for the musical producer of the live, Easter Sunday evening, performance of Jesus Christ Superstar which Emily thoroughly en-joyed. She hoped that she wasn’t stealing Larry Dittmar’s thunder as his son was in charge of the sound production for the show.

Bob Carr had a ‘Cautionary Dollar’. He advised, when on Staebler Road going right onto west-bound Jackson Road, to not only to watch for cars traveling west but also to watch for vehicles that had been traveling on east-bound Jackson Road making a U-turn to travel west. In other words, when waiting at Jackson Road to turn west, watch for a car facing north also waiting to turn west. Be sure that you don’t turn at the same time with the possibility of a collision.

Dan Dever asked Peter Schork to join him at the podium to open a wrapped present. Peter did so and the present was a tall, ceramic mug with an artistically added mustache that looked just like Peter’s mustache.

Larry Dittmar had a happy dollar for his and his wife’s 52nd wedding anniversary.

Fred Sanchez had a happy dollar in anticipa-tion of the Michigan Men’s basketball team’s victory in the National Championship that was to be played later that night. .

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES...

The Ypsilanti Kiwanis Club’s annual pancake breakfast will be held at the Ypsilanti Methodist Church on Saturday, April 14th from 7:30 am until 1:00 pm. $8 for adults and $4 for kids.

Fred Sanchez said it’s time to think spring and baseball. The annual Tiger trip is Saturday, August 11th against Minnesota. The cost is only $70 including, game, bus ride, lunch. Fred guarantees a Cracker Jack time.

SUPER-INTERCLUBS…

Chelsea will be hosting a Super-interclub on Monday, April 16 at 6pm at the St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital (see flyer on page 5). Let Dave Drake and Dale Leslie know by April 11 if you plan to attend so the kitchen staff can be advised. There will also be a Super-interclub at South Lyon on June 11.

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Since 1921,

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community totals

over $6,300,000.

Our Sponsored Programs in Service to Youth:

Angell Elementary Huron High School

Pioneer High School U of M Circle K WISD Aktion Club

Peter Schork and “gift” mustache cup.

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This Week’s Numbers

Attendance: 67

Fines: $19.96

Happy $: $15

Mott Pot: $0 Today

$1,122.15 YTD

Vouchers: $1,482

7 Families $41,369 YTD

205 Families YTD

Thrift Sale:

Friday: $6,432

Saturday: $8,076

Other: $158

TOTAL: $14,666

$303,132 YTD

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1 2 Downsizing 3 4 5 Kiwanis Young Professionals

6 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

7 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

8 9 State of City 10 11 12 13 Sale & Do-nations: TKC 9-1

14 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

15 16 Running a B&B

17

6:30pm Board Meeting

18 19 20 Sale & Do-nations: TKC 9-1

21 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

22 23 Miss Michi-gan

24 25 26 27 Sale & Do-nations: TKC 9-1

28 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

29 30 Scholarships

April 2018

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 Kiwanis Young Professionals

4 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

5 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

6 7 Cancer Center 8 9 10 11 Sale & Do-nations: TKC 9-1

12 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

13

Mother’s Day

14 UM Mott Hospital Update

15

6:30pm Board Meeting

16 17 18 Sale & Do-nations: TKC 9-1

19 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

20 21 Fracking 22 23 24 25 Sale & Do-nations: TKC 9-1

26 Sale & Dona-tions: TKC 9-1

27 28

Memorial Day

29 First Re-sponders

30 31

May 2018

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Our Sponsored Programs in Service to Youth:

“Serving the Children of the World…our motto, our mission” Angell Elementary

Huron High School Pioneer High School U of M Circle K WISD Aktion Club

2018 Changes in Thrift Sale Job Tasks & Elimination of the Officer of the Day

1. OUTDOOR SALE SIGNS: Will be put out and picked up by paid staff, except on holidays where paid staff is off and task will then be assigned by Frontend Team

Leader Bob Gray or when he is not available Ellen Webb.

2. ISSUES REGARDING VOLUNTEER APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS, MEDI-CAL EMERGENCY INFORMATION (MEI) FORMS, VOLUNTEER LOGIN/OUT,

SCHEDULING, MEMBERSHIP, ETC.: Will be handled by the Frontend Team Leader (FTL)—Bob Gray and when he is not available Ellen Webb and Sales Manager Mario

Gasbarro.

3. ISSUES REGARDING SALE VOLUNTEER ASSIGNMENTS, REFUNDS, STORE CREDITS, RETURNS, CASHERING, REGISTERS, ETC.: Will be handled by the

FTL—Bob Gray or when he is not available Ellen Webb and Sales Manager Mario Gasbarro.

4. ISSUES INVOLVING DONATIONS, SORTING, ASSIGNMENT OF SORTERS, INTAKE AND QUALITY OF DROP-OFF DONATIONS, DELIVERIES, SETTING

OR REDUCING PRICES, PICKUPS, HIRING, INVENTORY, ETC.: Will be handled by the Sales Manager Mario Gasbarro or his assistant Ralph Kennedy.

5. BUILDING ISSUES: Will be handled by the Building Coordinator Tanya Salamin.

Mario Gasbarro, Sales Manager Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation, Inc.

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KIWANIS CLUB OF ANN ARBOR

Meetings: Noon on Mondays at

The Kiwanis Center 100 N. Staebler, Suite C

Ann Arbor, MI 48103-9755

www.a2kiwanis.org

Building Phone: 734-665-2211

RE/MAX Platinum Realtors, Doug Ziesemer 734-769-8111, dfziesemer@aol.com

Betty Jean Harper, Visiting Vet Veterinary Visits in YOUR Home 734-475-9474

Andrea Kotch Duda, CFP®, Raymond James and Associates, Inc. www.RaymondJames.com/andreakotchduda, 734-930-0555

Clarity Financial Advisors, Mark S. Wishka, ChFC, CFP, CLU, CRPC, CASL, REBC, RHU, CDFA, CLTC—734-995-3996, markwishka.com

Gardner & Associates, P.C., Attorneys Ron@GardnerLawAA.com

Jim Carey Realtor®, Charles Reinhart Realtors 734-717-5591, jcarey@provide.net

Thanks to Our Advertising Supporters...

"Serving the Children of the World"

Other Links:

Michigan District Kiwanis Click here to read the latest Michigan Builder.

Kiwanis International

Kiwanis Young Professionals of Washtenaw County Meets 6pm first Thurs. of Month

U of M Circle K Meets 7pm Thursdays at UM Union or League (Check Calendar on Website)

Kiwanis Club of Ypsilanti Meets Noon Wednesdays at EMU Student Center

Ann Arbor Western, Meets Noon Tues. at Quarter Bistro

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Interested in becoming a member? Please send an e-mail to MembershipGrowth@a2kiwanis.org or visit the website www.a2kiwanis.org.

Sale and Donation Hours The Kiwanis Thrift Sale At The Kiwanis Center

100 N. Staebler at Jackson Fridays and Saturdays

9am-1pm

Saleable Donation Drop Off:

Fridays and Saturdays 9am-12:30pm

Call for Donation Pickup:

734-665-0450

The Kiwanis Center

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