Meeting summary 7/27/09
Jim Anderson did our Prayer, pledge, & 4-way test. Dan Laughner introduced our two guest. Keith Souza took the podium for his final fellowshp of the month.
The club presented a $400 check to clubmember, Alice Kirby from Project Success. It was a donation that the club made for the Fill-A-Buster fundraiser. They are gathering school supplies to be distributed to area school kids than need assistance.
Our speakers for today were Julius Coe and Randy Lillard from the Americorps VISTA program. They are working with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Vermilion County for the summer. They described the programs that they have been working on this summer while at BBBS. Young Men Aware is an outreach project of Provena United Samaritans Medical Center Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Vermilion County and Danville District #118. The program teaches young men to be more responsible and to learn to bring positive changes in their lives. The group has taken 2 field trips this summer. One was to the Indianapolis Art Museum and the other to the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield. Americorps was started in 1965 and to date over 180,000 people have served. Currently 6500 people work through this program. For more information on Big Brothers/Big Sisters, please click here. For more information about Americorps, visit: www.americorps.gov
