Happy Friday everyone! It's the start of a new administrative year for our club, and the first message from New President David Levin is below. We hope everyone can turn our Monday to hear Rachel Evans from the Scott County Waste Commission as our presenter.

With October here, that means our annual Holiday Cheese Sale is also upon us! Please consider purchasing as a gift or for yourself, to support the club and grants and scholarships program. CLICK HERE for the order form. Please turn in to Jeff Condit, who is again heading up this year's sale.

Now on to this week's President's Message!

"To all of our Kiwanis members, Welcome to the new Rock Island Kiwanis year that will prove to be outstanding. I am so honored to now be your 2026-2027 President, and I hope to continue the wonderful job that Joan Kranovich did this past year. We have a wonderful group of officers and Board Members, who will bring many informational and dedicated work to our Club.

"As we finished the year aiming to Invite, Inspire, Inform and make an Impact, I really believe we accomplished many of those ideals. However, as I said last week at the installation, our next Goals are to Participate, Purpose and to Partner, for if we do all three of these things, we have no better outcome than to achieve our goals.

"I’m going to be speaking with all of you on an individual basis to learn more about you and learn about what you see as the positives, negatives and things we should try. If I don’t call you, please reach out to me and let’s have time to meet and talk.

"This Monday, our speaker will be Rachel Evans, from the Scott County Waste Commission.

"Please try to come and welcome her to our Club. If we can get one or two additional people to come and attend, we will do more than we can imagine.

"Call me anytime. See you on Monday."

President Joan

Announcements

Upcoming Programs:

Monday, October 12th Rachel Evans, Scott County Waste Commission
Monday, October 19th Board Meeting