It was a quiet Thursday meeting this week; there seemed to be a few missing members, may be due to the 4^th of July travelers but all in all it was a great meeting.  We were greeted by Greg Schaefer and Scott Hayduk at the front door with a warm smile and a handshake.  President Wes opened our meeting with the focused object of “To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business and professional standards”.  We were led in song by Rich Emerson as we sang Yankee Doodle and our invocation was delivered by Bruce Isaacson.  Scott Hayduk did a great job when he recited our Defining Statement.  Thank you all for your contributions to our meeting.   

We had a couple of guests this week.  Wes D’Aponti introduced his son-in-law, Randy Craig who was visiting from Odessa, Texas and Paul Miller brought his grandson, Taylor Snyder. 

Wes spoke about the financial goal set for this year under his leadership as President.  The fiscal year runs from October 1^st through September 30^th and the goal set is $100,000.00.  Due to an outstanding year we have raised $102,000.00 to date and we still have three months left in our fiscal year.  Hats off to all of us for all we have done!!

 Larry Becker spoke about Rich Emerson’s campaign for Governor and asked for our financial support. In about five minutes and with about 50 members present; we raised almost $800.00 for Rich!! We send a huge THANK YOU to all of those that donated to Rich’s campaign. Larry will talk again next week on this subject and this will give other members a chance to participate.  A $20.00 donation is a good round number to help Rich in his goal.  

J Bucks were flowing this week and they were paid by Orville Boge, Sandy Barger, Rick Nisley, Gordon Harbert, Marilee Langfitt-Wood, Bob Burger, Stephanie Tuin, Lynne Sorlye, Bill Byers and Randy Kirschbaum.  Paul Miller played the movie trivia game with us this week.  He delivered several lines from a 1958 classic movie and finally one of our Kiwanians came up with “The Vikings” as the correct answer.   

Rich Emerson reported on his campaign for Governor and where that trail would lead him over the next few months.  He will be in Denver and will meet with several Kiwanis Clubs; then it is on to Cheyenne Wyoming for Frontier Days and last but definitely not least in Pueblo Colorado for the convention. Rich is still in need of someone to keep him on track with his schedule while he is in Pueblo and someone to help with nominating speeches.  

Fine Master Ron Sherman did a great job in handing out the fines this week.  The list had the ever infamous Randy Kirschbaum, Rick Tuma, Greg Schaefer, Bill Byers, Vern Grey, and Board Members Lynn Sorlye, Barbara Hinze, Joe Breman, Dennis Durmas and Ken Willard.  

Rick Adleman introduced Miffie Blozvich and Zebulon Miracle from the Museum of Western Colorado as our program speakers his week.  Miffie spoke about the upcoming events at the Museum and invited all of us to attend.  The museum’s web site is www.wcmuseum.org so check it out and see what’s happening there.  Zebulon is the curator for the museum and he talked about all of the great exhibits that are on display at the museum.  The slides that he brought were very interesting and gave an overview of what can be seen at the museum.  

Greg Schaefer delivered our “Thought for the Day” and with that President Wes adjourned our meeting. 

Until next week…..Roxie Denning, Bulletin Editor