Help With Our Fundraiser!

The other big announcement is that our ROSE DAY fundraiser is upon us! This is our biggest fundraiser for the club, and we need your help to make it a success! Sell to your friends and coworkers, certainly buy for your spouse or partner, or sponsor roses to be given to our local nursing home residents!

CLICK HERE for a flyer you can attach to an email or post on your facebook page.

Announcements

After a week off, we're back on Monday! Join us for our lunch meeting at the Botanical Center.
Our guest program will be representatives from Argrow's House in Davenport, to discuss their new cafe and all that is going on with this great organization. Hope to see you there!

Orders Due Tomorrow!!!

Hello Kiwanis Club of Rock Island Members,
This is your last call for Roses. The final order (count) will be submitted tomorrow. Notify Jeff Condit immediately, if you haven’t already, with the quantity of roses you’ll buy, sell, or sponsor. Details can be worked out in the weeks to come before Rose Day on 4/23.
Thank you for your support of children of the world, and in our own backyard!
Jeff’s Contact info is jeff.condit@friendshipmanor.org or desk: 309-794-4104 or cell 309-230-9144.

Happy Friday everyone! After a week off for our Board meeting we are back on Monday, and have another great meeting in store.

Craig Hignight, local gardening/florist celebrity, will be our guest to talk about Spring gardening tips and tricks!

At our last meeting on the 10th, we had another nice turnout to hear from Dr. Andrea Talentino, President of Augustana College (see recap below). We had 18 members, and our fellow Kiwanians from Bettendorf join us for the day.

ROSE Day is fast approaching, so get your final orders in to Jeff! We are inching close to our goal of 700 dozen, but still have a ways to go. Sell to your friends and coworkers, certainly buy for your spouse or partner, or sponsor roses to be given to our local nursing home residents! CLICK HERE for a flyer you can attach to an email or post on your facebook page. Let's set a record and raise money for the club!

Our grants and scholarship application deadline has passed and now the committee is reviewing the selections. We will be awarding these on Monday, April 28th, so please mark this date on your calendar!

Members had a great time at the District Bowlathon to raise money for KNRF. We had 4 club members, and our friends from The AKTION Club join us, and had a blast.

Speaking of The AKTION Club, they also helped stuff Easter Eggs for the Rock Island Parks Annual Easter Egg Hunt. It is great to see the Club helping support activities in our community, and we are so proud to sponsor them!

Our guests for our last meeting was Augustana College President Dr. Andrea Talentino. Dr. Talentino will celebrate her 3rd anniversary on July 1st. She discussed the three major initiatives from their strategic plan, which includes:

1. Engaged Learning
2. Maximizing Student Potential
3. Working with Rock Island to Improve our Community

She then went more in-depth into some of these plans, including a focus on 14th Avenue redevelopment, and a facilities master plan, to perhaps include student villages. Augustana currently owns over 50 houses for upper-classmen housing, and they recognize the need to reduce this, while still creating independence. She also discussed plans for a new Welcome Center that they hope to create across from Sorensen, and are planning long-term for a new fieldhouse, to include a turf field, volleyball, basketball, and a full size track. This may 8 to 10 years down the road.

Upcoming Programs:

Monday, April 7th Argrow's House and Cafe, Autistic and Loved
Monday, April 14th Aaron Baker, German American Heritage Center
Monday, April 21st Board Meeting
Monday, April 28th Grants and Scholarships Awards
Monday, May 5th Andrew Lehman, John Deere Classic