elly’s comments...

Happy Summer everyone! It finally hit Two Rivers the past few days

and looks like it will stick around.

Thank you recent guest speakers Lt Drew Raatz and Officer Briana

Propson from the Two Rivers Police Department who came to our May

night meeting and talked about the Police Explorer program. Hope you

were as enlightened and encouraged about our future youth as I was!

A big thank you is also extended to Deb Prokop and Kim Novak who

are stepping up to a leadership role next year. I am excited to announce

Deb as President-Elect for the 2017-2018 Optimist Year with Kim as her

secretary. Both are fairly new members with some great ideas and

outside perspective. I am looking forward to working with them on the

board next year. Please extend your congratulations to them next time

you see them.

Everyone should have received a personal invite to the Walk Against

Childhood Cancer event slated for June 20th. If you haven’t, please get

a hold of me immediately so we can make sure our roster reflects a

correct address for you. This is event will be our June night meeting

activity. Take a visible stand against this dreadful disease and meet us

in the Lighthouse Inn parking lot on June 20th at 6:00pm and support a

great cause. T-shirts will be available for a minimum $10 donation – but

are not required to walk. If you just want to walk in support– you are

very welcome to join us. Shirt orders are needed prior to the event so

watch the due date so you don’t miss out! All proceeds will be given to

the Manitowoc County Pink Heels Organization which help local children

battling cancer.

Lastly, the Bike Safety Rodeo will be held June 28th. This is one of

the oldest events we have, dating back to the first summer as a club in

1995! We used to run this at the Police Department parking lot. After

we outgrew their lot, we combined with the Recreation Department’s

Game Night to host it in a local park. Come and help out if you are free

that evening. It really is a great time to be around so many smiling kids.

Have a great summer everyone!

In Optimism,

Kelly Hilliker 2016-2017 President

KC

June 2017

Issue 9

Chartered 1995

Members meet:

Every 1st, 2nd

and 4thTuesday

Morning

at 6:30am

&

Every 3rd

Tuesday Evening

at 6:30pm

at the

Two Rivers Family

Restaurant

JOIN US!

Promise yourself…

Happy Birthday! June:

1st Sandy Greene

2nd Lisa Quistorf

4th Linda Kasper

5th Jennifer Yauger

7th Edward Plansky

8th Greg Goodchild

9th Katie Coenen

12th Guy Willman

15th Monty Greene

17th Sonya Wiegand

June 2nd

TRHS Variety Show – 7pm

Two Rivers High School Cafetorium

Local talent hamming it up for a GREAT cause!

Proceeds benefit the TRHS/Two Rivers

Optimist Club Assistance Fund. Support this

youth event! Tickets are $5 at the door /

children 7 and under are free.

June 16th

Camp Invention Showcase – 2:15pm

Two Rivers High School Cafetorium

As donors, all club members are invited to get an

up-close look at the creative inventions spawned

at this unique, local, science camp!

June 20th

Evening Meeting/Walk for Childhood Cancer

Meet in Lighthouse Inn parking lot – 6pm

Join in a Club Walk to bring awareness to

Childhood Cancer and those affected in our own

community! Remember to RSVP by June 11th for

the optional tee shirt order!!

June 28th

Annual Bike Safety Rodeo

Washington Park - set up 5pm/rodeo 6-8pm

Help is needed! Kids go thru a bicycle safety

check, learn riding rules & complete a skills

guided obstacle course. A great start for a safe

summer! Please plan to help at this well

attended event.

July 22nd

Annual Fish Parade & Great Bike Give Away!

Help will be needed to assist with lining up the

entries and walking the parade route (Zlatnik

Drive) to sell raffle tickets & distribute bike

entries… AND then in Walesh Field immediately

following the parade to unload bikes from the

parade trailers and assist winners select a bike

and then register it with the TRPD.

2016-2017 Two Rivers Optimist Club

Board of Directors President: Kelly Hilliker

Treasurer - Sandy Greene

Secretary – Ann Plansky

Directors: Terry Schneider, Colleen Sheahan,

Rachelle Berry, Linda Kasper,

Julie Schroeder, Bev Blaha,

Sonya Weigand, Becky Domnitz,

Jamie Glandt & Deb Prokop

WINUM Zone 8 Lt Governor:

Ann Sheahan, Two Rivers Optimist Club

WINUM Governor:

Sue Carlson, Chippewa Falls Optimist Club

Remember to join us for a

free breakfast or dessert at any meeting during your birthday

month!

2017 Bike Rodeo The 2017 Two Rivers Optimist Club Bike Safety Rodeo will be held on Wednesday, June 28th at Washington Park. Set-up help is needed at 5pm

and the rodeo will run from 6-8pm.

Please come help the kids get a safe start to summer! The kids will go through a bicycle safety check, learn riding rules & then complete a skills guided safety obstacle course. Help is needed at this popular event in many areas: registration, checking bikes and tire pressure, concession stand, and distributing door prizes to name a few!

As donors to Camp Invention,

an annual weeklong, science

enrichment experience led by

local educators, ALL MEMBERS

are invited to the 2017 Camp Invention

Inventors Showcase! The showcase is

slated for Friday, June 16th at 2:15pm in the

TRHS Cafetorium. Check out how Camp

Invention fosters creative thinking,

teamwork and problem-solving skills through

hands-on exploration and fun for youth in

our community in grades K – 6th!

FLOAT SPACE AVAILABLE!

Float spaces are still available for the upcoming

Two Rivers Optimist Club Fish Parade

to be held July 22nd! Contact Judy

Goodchild at 901-9284 for details and to

save your spot this year!!

Bike Donations Welcome!

Donations of bicycles of all sizes, types

and colors OR cash donations to purchase

bicycles are being sought for the 2017

Great Bike Give Away! Donations can be

dropped off at Domnitz Flowers located at

1714 – 11th Street during business hours or

by contacting Becky Domnitz at 920-323-

2542 for arrangements.

The Great Bike Give Away

allows our club to GIVE new

bicycles away to area youth,

ages 12 and under. How you

wonder?? Well, entry forms are handed out

along the parade route during the Optimist

Fish Parade scheduled for July 22nd and the

bikes are then distributed immediately

following the parade in Walsh Field. Entries

are randomly drawn until all the bikes are

given away!

Make someone’s summer special and

consider a donation this year to this

wonderful event!

TRHS / TR Optimist Assistance Fund!

For many years, TRHS has had a unique fund

available to them that was established by the Two

Rivers Optimist Octagon Club. This fund offers

assistance when student families experience a life

changing event such as fire, death, disability,

serious illness, etc. In the last five years,

$12,000.00 has passed through this fund to help

families in TR! Please support this much needed

fund by attending the TRHS Variety Show on June 2

at 7pm at TRHS! Local youth talent will amaze you!

Contact Chair Ed Plansky today at 920-374-0093 or

eaplansky@charter.net to say you will help!

TRHS Club: Hard to believe another school year has flown by! We have 4 graduating Seniors;

Allison Horner, Marlon Rezach, Alex Johnson, & Mindy Glaser, we wish them the best of luck on

the future endeavors. Special recognition goes to Allison who received the Senior Service Award

from Two Rivers High School! This award is presented to a senior

that has demonstrated the value of service to the community

during their high school years. Congrats Allison! May was a

whirlwind of a month, not a lot of service projects but a lot of

money coming in and going out! We supported post prom and

Senior Lock In with a $100 donation to each. We recently

purchased two Fit-Bits for the annual Variety Show coming up on

June 2nd. We had an outstanding Electronics Drive with a lot of

helpers and a lot of stuff collected

with an amazing profit to help

support all our projects. We just

voted to give the Robotics Team

STEMPunk 4531 a $300 donation

for all their help with the

electronics drive. We would like

to thank club members Ed Plansky, Colleen

Sheahan, Greg Goodchild & of course Ann & Judy for their help at

the electronics drive too! We also want to say thank you to the

Two Rivers Optimist Club for

supporting our youth club and

treating us to breakfast at the

Law Enforcement Breakfast on

May 9th. In April, during spring

break, we had 2 of our students

help with reading to Preschool children at two different day cares

and then we went and painted with some of the elderly at

Meadow View Assisted Living: thanks Haley Vanne and Emily

Duvall! The club plans to support the Cancer Walk, Bike Rodeo,

Bike Parade, & of course Kites Over Lake Michigan. We hope you

all have a wonderful summer and stay safe!

Advisors to the Club are Judy Goodchild and Ann Sheahan

Since the first known line-of-duty death in 1791, more than 20,000 U.S. law

enforcement officers have made the ultimate sacrifice. According to the National

Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Webpage (www.nleomf.org), a total

of 1,512 law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty during the past 10

years, an average of one death every 63 hours! There were a total of 143 law enforcement officers

killed in the line of duty in 2016. Officers from Wisconsin recently honored in May at the Washington

DC National Memorial Service were:

ADAM JOHN HARTWIG: Ozaukee County S.O. End of Watch: 03/18/2016 MICHAEL JOSUA VENTURA: Salem Dept. of Public Safety End of Watch: 07/08/2016

CHARLES WILLIAM GUDGELL: Milwaukee P.D. End of Watch: 08/22/1916 DAN THOMAS GLAZE, JR: Rusk County S.O. End of Watch: 10/29/2016

On May 9th, we took time to recognize members of the Two Rivers Police

Department. Also in attendance as our special guests were be members of the

Two Rivers High School Octagon Club. We had a great turn out and feel

confident the TRPD knows they have our support! We awarded Assistant Chief

Brian Kohlmeier our Officer of the Year Award. AC Kohlmeier is the second in

command of the department and responsible for the day to day operations

including patrol, investigations and special programs. We also presented

the TRPD with a $200 donation in support of local youth programs.

2017 Two Rivers Optimist Club

Officer of Year:

Assistant Chief Brian Kohlmeier

June is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

PUT YOUR WALKING SHOES ON AND COME OUT

AND WALK AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER!

TUESDAY JUNE 20th 2017, 6:00 PM

For our June night meeting we will get out and walk! Bring your families,

friends, coworkers… everyone who wants to join us to show how much we care about

the kids in our community that are fighting for their lives.

The club will meet at 6:00 pm in the far corner of the Lighthouse Inn parking lot.

We will walk approximately 1.5 miles – to the 2nd wayside. If you cannot walk with us,

meet us at the 2nd wayside! We will have drinks and snacks available there

with time to socialize before heading back.

** T-shirts will be available for a minimum donation of $10.00 ** Feel free to donate or collect additional dollars if you choose to.

Everything collected will be donated to Childhood Cancer Research.

If you would like T-shirts, (you can purchase them for all participants, not just Optimist

Members), please RSVP to Monty and Sandy Greene no later than Sunday, June 11th.

Email msgreene3@yahoo.com, or call 794-7115 and include # of shirts and sizes

*shirts will be unisex: adult, small – XXL for sizing

Shirts will be ordered June 12th, and available the night of the walk.

Even if you don’t RSVP or cannot donate, PLEASE COME JOIN US! We are hoping to have 100% participation from the club for awareness

of this worthwhile cause.

SEE YOU THERE!

In Optimism,

Monty and Sandy Greene, Co-chairs

Upcoming Night Meeting Activities:

June: Childhood Cancer Walk July: Miracle League Baseball game

August: Rogers St. Tour & Family Picnic

PLAN TO JOIN US!

MAY NIGHT MEETING SUMMARY Submitted by Kelly Hilliker

Lt. Drew Raatz and Officer

Briana Propson, Advisors of

the Two Rivers Police

Explorer Post, were our May

guest speakers.

Law Enforcement

Exploring also known as Police

Explorers, is a career-oriented program that

gives young adults the opportunity to

explore a career in law enforcement by

working with local enforcement agencies.

Founded in 1963, it is a non-Scouting

subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America.

The Two Rivers Police Explorer Post is

available to qualified young adults between

the ages of 14 to 21. Members get hands on

instruction in tactical training, traffic stops,

building searches, report

writing and more. They

interact regularly in our

community by providing an

additional uniformed

presence at special events

like parades, festivals and special events like

the fireworks. They also take time to

compete the skills they have learned at

state and national conferences. Officer

Propson shared her view as a former TRPD

Explorer who pursued her education and

ultimately was hired as a TRPD Officer!

I was impressed with the structure and

discipline needed to be included in this

unique group. What a great program that

allows those under 21 to get some hands on

training and experience to see if law

enforcement is a career for them.

ZONE MEETING WRAP UP Submitted by Lt Gov Ann Sheahan

Thank you to all who attended our 3rd Qtr

Zone Meeting on April 26th at Mr. Lucky’s in

Valders. We had 33 Optimist gather from 6

different clubs to hear about “Project Hope

for Haiti”. Amber LaChapelle gave a

presentation about her passion for the

people of Haiti. She was there in December

with her brother and Mom to help the people

of Haiti recover from Hurricane Matthew

which was preceded by an earthquake a few

years prior. The people were so grateful for

the food, shelter, and hope they

provided. They have another trip planned for

the end of May and are going to help them

with gardening skills and supplies. We had

raffle baskets available at the meeting and

the profit of $238.00 was given to Amber’s

project; little did we know that she needed

$200.00 for seeds for this trip by the end of

April and we were able to help her fulfill this

portion of her mission trip! We can take

pride in knowing that we made a difference

in the lives of the people of Haiti. We also

had Optimist Governor Elect Tony Yaggie &

his wife Kathy inspire us with words of

encouragement and hope for the future of

the WINUM Optimist. It was a great night of

sharing Optimism and fellowship. Thank you

again to all that attended.

Amber sharing her Haiti experience