Vegas Raffle Winners!

On September 12th, we had our annual Vegas Raffle drawing. Becky Price won the grand prize and Jeannie Hall received a $100 savings bond from Citizens.

Thanks to everyone who worked hard at selling tickets. It all goes to the youth of the community!

President Angela

September 13, 2005

My next-to-last club meetings as president was quite an exciting one. We welcomed Jack Spangler, who just transferred to be an Optimist club member. He has been president of the club in the past, and we are pleased to have him back. Also, Josephine Kaiser from the New Castle-Henry County Library has just joined our club as well! It is a great time to be an Optimist.

Janet Modjeski was the guest speaker from the Pregnancy Life Center. The organization had a successful Walk for Life fundraiser this year, which is annually on the Saturday after Labor Day.

Jack Blum won the 50/50 drawing and received 10 dollars! Shelia Newland and Jan Preusz donated items for additional drawings, and Wilburne Stamper and Jack Spangler won a homemade apple pie and an original Broadway cast recording of THE LION KING respectively.

REMEMBER: September 26th is our next Youth Center visit at 6:30 pm. And please RSVP soon for the Annual Initiation Banquet on September 27th, 6 pm at the Ratliffe Tree Farm!

President Angela

Kudos - Youth Center, Part 1

Thanks, Winnie, for making this Optimist Blog a reality and making the club very technically savvy to boot! This online journal is a wonderful new tool to get our club activites out here on the web, and to create a new form of newsletter for our group.

Also, thanks to Ruth C., Francis, and Melissa for coming to the Youth Center for games last night. We had a wonderful time getting to know the kids and spending time with them. Duretta from the New Castle Breakfast Club, and Youth Center staff, always has some creative games up her sleeve and we played a great icebreaker to kick it all off. Thanks again!

See you all at the next Youth Center Optimist night, September 26th at 6:30 pm.

-President Angela