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Bulletin for September 8, 2022

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September 18, 2022


VP Marti Walker heralded in today’s meeting by asking Skip to lead us in prayer. We remembered Queen Elizabeth, who passed away today.


Kevin led us in the pledge.


Guests - Denny Butts was our guest and speaker today. More on him later.


Club Notes

 September 24th, we will be going to the last Switchback’s home game. Kody is making the arrangements. Please contact him if you haven’t signed up and want to go. Family and guests welcome.


September 27th, the board meets at Kody’s office, 5:30 pm.


Jeff needs any club related pictures (old and new) that can be put into our new website. Mike Verble supplied a club history today for the site


The web page should be done by the end of this month. We want to thank Dick Wilhelm for lining up our web designer.


Final note, John P. saw Sam Milan at the balloon fest. She says “hi, and hopes to make a meeting soon”.


Program

Denny Butts is the President of the Colorado Springs chapter of “Sleep in Heavenly Peace”. (SHP)  . He is also part of SHP’s Marketing Executive Team, working on their digital brand, and web design for all the chapters. Denny moved here from Orlando FL, 15 years ago to be closer to family He is the father of 2 children. He works with our all-volunteer chapter team which he started in 2018.


SHP manufactures and delivers beds to kids who have none. Their motto is “NO KID SLEEPS ON THE FLOOR IN OUR TOWN”.


Although our chapter was started in 2018, the organization was founded in 2012, in Kimberly, Idaho.

There are 300 chapters in the US alone.


All the beds built by volunteers in the Springs, stay in the Springs. The idea is to have the community come together, build the beds as a community, and deliver them. The operative words in this organization are: all volunteer driven, and community involvement.


2% to 3% of kids in Colorado Springs do not have a bed to sleep in. These families live in all parts of the city. Currently there are 57 kids between the ages of 3 to 17, waiting for a bed. Those who have benefited from a bed, show better socialization skills and are shown to do better in school.

Applications for beds are placed on the website and are vetted. The bed deliveries are scheduled and performed by volunteers. The mattresses, sheets and pillows are provided.

You can research and learn more about SHP; their needs and mission by logging into shpbeds.org denny,butts@shpbeds.org. Check them out at: facebook@SHPCOS. 

Denny is passionate about what he does and it shows in his presentation! Thanks for energizing us.

Drawings

Big $$ went to Kevin

Little $$ went to Dick W.

One more note …………..

Our club is in desperate need of bulletin writers. Frank Ulrich, who set the bar very high, has been out of commission and won’t make it back for maybe quite a while.

I, in turn, have tried to refresh my skills, but I am leaving for a couple of weeks. We need your help.

The bulletin is an important tool to keep our members up to date on what we as a club have accomplished, and what we plan to do in the future.

Believe me, if I can put out a few sentences, so can you!  Volunteer!

Drawings

Little $$ went to Eric

Big $$$$ went to Dick W.



A few facts about kangaroos and koalas.


They are originally from South America, not Australia.


There are 4 different species of kangaroos.


A group of kangaroos is called a mob.


Koalas are not bears, and actually closely resemble wombats.


Koalas and kangaroos are both marsupials, meaning they keep their young in a pouch until they mature. Their babies are born prematurely and exist in the pouch of the koala for about 6 months and in the kangaroo pouch for about 9 months.


Kangaroos can run as fast as 40 miles per hour, (faster than some race horses) can jump up to 10 feet in height and 25 feet in length with a single leap.


Koalas eat as much as 2.2 lbs. of eucalyptus leaves per day. Eucalyptus is toxic to most other animals. They eat only 50 of the 700 species of eucalyptus leaves and typically climb to the highest part of the tree to find those that have the most nutrition and liquid for them.


Finally, both koalas and kangaroos can be aggressive if provoked towards humans and other animals. They are wild animals after all. 

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