GUESTS: Candace Bridgess with Kansas Legal Services, our guest speaker. Dale Snell with Ameirprise Financial Services, a guest of Fred Conner. Colby Davis, Wards son.
FINES: Eric Steinle and Stan Macgirvin were our acting Sergeants-At-Arms since it was Big Hat Friday. Ward Davis was fined first since he is the regular, kinder and gentler Sergeant. Dane Power was fined an incoming President tax. Jerry Regier was fined for trying not to be noticed. It didnt work! Reta Joy Campbell a missed ya fine. Colby Davis was even fined for his comment You dont know how to do this. The Big Hats were exempt from fines except for Duke Wiggins since he called Eric Thursday night to be Sergeant. They finished off their tour of duty with a little game of Know your Big Hat member. Regular members either had to come up with the Big Hat members middle name or birthday. I think all the regular members lost. In honor of Memorial Day you could pay $1 to honor a veteran for their military service. Needless to say the pot runeth over.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Jay Pitzer received a star for his Big Hat for new member Andrew Parr. Jay sold 35 Dillons Gift Cards before breakfast and he will have more next week for our newest ongoing club fund raiser. A vote was held for our new club officers for next year. They were listed in last weeks newsletter. The vote was unanimous and they will be installed June 7.
PROGRAM: Duke Wiggins introduced Candace Bridgess, Managing Attorney for Kansas Legal Services legal assistance office. This office serves Reno, Rice, Stafford and Kingman counties. Their administrative office is in Topeka with thirteen legal services field offices and two mediation offices located across the state. Kansas was the second state in the nation to become a single, statewide entity. Their mission is to provide equal access to justice for persons unable to paying for legal and other essential services. Kansas has progressively focused on special needs individuals, victims of domestic violence, the homeless, children in foster care, the elderly, farmers, those with disabling conditions, individuals seeking access to health care, those seeking mediation services and persons needing basic life skills and employment training. There are some types of cases that they do not handle such as: Criminal and Traffic cases unless by court appointment or government contract, accident claims, personal injury or wrongful death suits and representation of prisoners. KLS served over 250,000 individuals from all 105 counties in Kansas last year. The Hutchinson office received over 40,000 telephone calls. KLS receives some Federal funds and they are also a United Way partner agency. To find out if you qualify contact them at 1-800-723-6953 or apply online at http://www.kansaslegalservices.org/ .
50/50 Drawing: Bob Bush won $20.
Newsletter Drawing: Reta Joy Campbell knew the answer Shrek winning $55.
Newsletter question: For $5, how many counties are there in Kansas?
Next Weeks Program: Beth Carlton with Child Care Links.
Editor: Steve Conard