February 23, 2007

» Bo Bossaller rang the bell at 12:15 pm.        » Rick McKernan gave the Invocation.
» Max Miller led the Pledge of Allegiance.       » Our greeter today was missing. There were more than 56 members and guests today.
GUESTS: Mattie joined Christine White; Tim Murphy was a guest of Rick McKernan.

MYSTERY PERSON: This week’s mystery guest was…Val Goodin! Val told us the number 9 had been stuck in her mind for a while so she awarded next week’s free lunch to Larry Fick for being the 9th Optimist to shake her hand. Val I hope that gets the number nine off of your mind.

TAIL TWISTER: Next Monday! Buy (Donation) of $1 and perhaps you win this Opus One Wine! (2002) Perfect for the Special Occasion! You might get lucky in this night!! March 5th…March 5th…One ticket…One dollar…Five tickets…Three dollars! My friends, FYI, this is no joke! Perhaps you will win a $190.00 bottle of wine for a buck or three. Wow other prizes tooooooooooo!!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: The 40 under 40-membership drive is off to an impressive start. This week Jim Yankee announced that the 40 under 40-membership drive has sponsored 8 new members and has commitments from 3 more. Great job Jim and Mike Messer. For more info contact Jim Yankee or Mike Messer. 
The Oratorical Contest has been postponed until March 10th, it will be held at the Sunrise Optimist Building.
Jack Cruise is in need of help for the golf tourney to be held June 13th –14th.
The Safety Poster Contest is rapidly approaching see Connie Howe for details.
Big Brothers and Big Sisters is having Bowl for Kid’s Sake on the 9th, 10th and 11th of March 2007. You can register by phone at 573 874 3677 ext. 2 or online at WWW.BIGSOFCENTRALMO.ORG
Day with Wildlife will be April 1st this year. Please contact Spence Turner or Al Buchanan for more info.
Is your spouse a member? If not now is a great time to join dues for spouses have dramatically dropped, but you must hurry!!!!! Contact President Bossaller for more info. 
The Voluntary Action Committee (VAC) is gearing up for their annual computer re-distribution March 9th and 10th, and the Downtown Optimist Club needs a few members to help out. Please see Rick McKernan if you can lend a hand.
Rock Bridge Memorial Park will have an anniversary luncheon April 4th around 12:30pm at Bennigans.
This Thursday is Downtown Optimist Club night at the Food Bank.
We had three new member join us today; Stella Johnson (Mrs. J’s), Stacey McCleraen and Melissa Blackwell.

Birthdays and Anniversaries: Happy Birthday to Wes Brown and John Fabsits. 

PROGRAM: Today Al Buchanan talked about The Boone County Relay for Life. This group raises money for cancer research, advocacy and patient services. Last year the relay raised $167,000. This year’s relay will be June 8th and 9th and they would like to have a Downtown Optimist Club team. Please contact Al or Carl Scott for more information.
We also had a new member installation today. Christine White sponsored Kathryne Ober-Roberts. Welcome, we are glad you joined us.

Adjourned with the creed: 1pm. 

February 19, 2007

» Larry Bossaller rang the bell at 12:15 pm.   » Connie Howe gave the Invocation.
» Wes Brown led the Pledge of Allegiance.    » Our greeter today was missing. There were more than 60 members and guests today.
GUESTS: Scott from Plaza Real estate joined Jim Yankee today and we had a new member with us, Robin Williams. Robin is a grad student and he is developing a program to help kids get involved in media related work. Welcome Robin we are glad you joined!! 

MYSTERY PERSON: We had more of Spence Turner’s creative math. This week Spence added 1 and 9 (19th of Feb.) to get 10; he then awarded next week’s free lunch to Jim Yankee for being the 10th person to shake his hand.

TAIL TWISTER: Steve Henderson told us of a new bumper sticker, it says ‘Run Hillary Run’, Democrats put it on the back of their car and Republicans put it on the front. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
The 40 under 40-membership drive is off to an impressive start. For more info contact Jim Yankee or Mike Messer. 
The Oratorical Contest has been postponed until March 10th, it will be held at the Sunrise Optimist Building.
Jack Cruise is in need of help for the golf tourney to be held June 13th –14th.
The Safety Poster Contest is rapidly approaching see Connie Howe for details.
Big Brothers and Big Sisters is having Bowl for Kid’s Sake on the 9th, 10th and 11th of March 2007. You can register by phone at 573 874 3677 ext. 2 or online at WWW.BIGSOFCENTRALMO.ORG
Day with Wildlife will be April 1st this year. Please contact Spence Turner or Al Buchanan for more info.
Is your spouse a member? If not now is a great time to join dues for spouses have dramatically dropped, but you must hurry!!!!! Contact President Bossaller for more info. 
The Great Pork Chili Cook-Off will be held this Wednesday the 21st at 6:00pm at the Holiday Inn Select. Our own Steve Henderson will be competing. If he wins the People’s Choice Prize he will donate $200 of the $250 prize money to the club. All you have to do is show up; pay the $10 admission and vote for Steve. 
The 40 Under 40 Mixer will be held this Wednesday the 21st at Kliks Bar and Grill, 205 North Tenth Street from 4:30-6:30.
The Voluntary Action Committee (VAC) is gearing up for their annual computer re-distribution March 9th and 10th, and the DownTown Optimist Club needs a few members to help out. Please see Rick McKernan if you can lend a hand.
Birthdays and Anniversaries: Happy Birthday to Ellis Havard!! 
PROGRAM: Marianne Catanho presented this week’s program. Marianne is a sophomore at Mizzou and a friend of Valerie Goodin. Marianne spoke about the work she is involved in back in her home of Brazil. Marianne is part of group that works to eliminate some of the poor conditions that many in Brazil are subjected to. Specifically the group has worked to improve the sanitation system as well as working to improve the lives and futures of Brazil’s children. Keep up the good work, Marianne; the Downtown Optimists are behind you!

Adjourned with the creed: 1pm.
February 12, 2007

» Larry Bossaller rang the bell at 12:15 pm. 
» Kerry Bramon gave the Invocation.
» Chuck Boots led the Pledge of Allegiance.
» Our greeter today was Lisa Eimers. There were more than 56 members and guests today.

GUESTS: Rick McKernan was joined by a small detail today Karen Boyajy from the Journalism School, Ben Warner from MBS Textbooks and Dr Tom Berger who helps veterans adjust from life in the military to life as a civilian. 
Greg Schneider was joined by his wife Colleen. 

MYSTERY PERSON: Bo Bossaller was our mystery guest he awarded next weeks free lunch to Carl Scott because he is such a swell guy and he was the second member to shake hands with Bo.

TAIL TWISTER: Rick Guilford stepped in for the tail twister this week and did a fine job.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
The 40 under 40-membership drive is off to an impressive start. For more info contact Jim Yankee or Mike Messer. 
The Essay Contest is in need of judges to grade/evaluate submitted essays. Preferably these judges shouldn’t be Optimist members or spouses of members. 
The Oratorical Contest is to be held Feb 17th at the Sunrise Optimist Building.
Jack Cruise is in need of help for the golf tourney to be held June 13th –14th.
The Safety Poster Contest is rapidly approaching see Connie Howe for details.
Big Brothers and Big Sisters is having Bowl for Kid’s Sake on the 9th, 10th and 11th of March 2007. You can register by phone at 573 874 3677 ext. 2 or online at WWW.BIGSOFCENTRALMO.ORG
Day with Wildlife will be April 1st this year. Please contact Spence Turner or Al Buchanan for more info.
For those members who cooked chili for the chili cook off last week the club will by your lunch the week of 2/19/2007. Thanks for the chili!! Is your spouse a member? If not now is a great time to join dues for spouses have dramatically dropped, but you must hurry!!!!! Contact President Bossaller for more info. 

Birthdays and Anniversaries: Dottie reports that Susan Scott and Ustan Matthews both have birthdays this week. Happy Birthday to the two of you!!

GREETER: Lisa Eimers was our greeter today; Lisa is originally from up State New York. Lisa has two children and works as the development director for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri. 

PROGRAM: Today’s program was presented by Chris Gervino of KOMU TV. Appropriately Chris spoke about what’s going on with local sports. Chris spoke highly of Mizzou Head Basketball Coach Mike Anderson and the great things to come from the Mizzou men’s basketball team in the years to come.

In addition to Chris Gervino we had new member installations today. Greg Schneider sponsored his son Nick Schneider, Kerry Bramon sponsored Scott Duncan and Christine White sponsored Lisa Eimers. Welcome to the club!!!!!!

Adjourned with the creed: 1pm.

February 5, 2007

» Larry Bossaller rang the bell at 12:15 pm. 
» Rick Guilford gave the Invocation.
» Al Buchanan led the Pledge of Allegiance.
» Our greeter today was absent. There were more than 59 members and guests today.

GUESTS: Valerie Goodin brought Marianne Catanho, a transfer student in engineering at Mizzou. Marianne has just arrived from Olinda, Brazil. Marianne will give the program on Feb. 19th at our Club.

MYSTERY PERSON: After a very creative and less than accurate way of counting the letters in the word ‘Bears’ Spence awarded next week’s free lunch to Al Jones.

TAIL TWISTER: Steve Henderson is back from Argentina. He brought his jokes back, too. We are anxious to hear when he will be taking another trip.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: The club will have a chili cook off Feb. 7th 6pm at the clubhouse. The theme for this chili cook off is “Let’s beat Steve”. 
The 40 under 40-membership drive is off to an impressive start. For more info contact Jim Yankee or Mike Messer. 
The Essay Contest is in need of judges to grade/evaluate submitted essays. Preferably these judges shouldn’t be Optimist members or spouses of members. 
The Oratorical Contest is to be held Feb 17th at the Sunrise Optimist Building.
Jack Cruise is in need of help for the golf tourney to be held June 13th –14th.
The Safety Poster Contest is rapidly approaching see Connie Howe for details.
Big Brothers and Big Sisters is having Bowl for Kid’s Sake on the 9th, 10th and 11th of March 2007. You can register by phone at 573 874 3677 ext. 2 or online at WWW.BIGSOFCENTRALMO.ORG 
The Kid’s First Optimist Club of Columbia is having the 1st Annual Valentine’s Day Dance at the Stoney Creek Inn this Saturday night 7pm-11mp. For ticket info please call 573 449-4167 day or 573 445-0632 eve and weekends. 

Birthdays and Anniversaries: Last week both Greg Schneider and Steve Baumgartner had birthdays. This week Brent Sappington, Kevin Roberson and Don Copenhaver celebrate birthdays. Happy Birthday to all!
Greeter: Absent

Program: Christine White introduced today’s speaker, Officer John Warner of the Columbia Police Department. Officer Warner is the School Resource Officer (SRO) for West Junior High School. Officer Warner shared many valuable ideas with regards to helping kids avoid poor choices in life. Officer Warner pointed out that teenagers do not listen; they do not do as parents tell them. They do what their parents do. They follow the examples set by their parents. For more info on DARE and other community policing efforts go to http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/Police/Programs/dare.php . 


Adjourned with The Creed: 1pm.