SMC Newsletter 7-07/08 – February 13 to March 5

CALENDAR SNAPSHOT:

reservations REQUIRED unless noted otherwise - call 332-5999

CALENDAR DETAIL:

February 13 – Valentine’s Day Party

Quick!  Get a date and make your reservation right away.  Valentine’s Day is coming up fast.

February 16 – SMC Community Blood Drive

This will be our tenth drive.  We have collected over 300 units to date.  Please help boost that number to over 350 this coming Saturday.  The drive will run from 8:00 to 1:00 at the Village Center.

February 20 – History of the Shorewood School System

Karen de Hartog of the district staff will join us and explain how Shorewood’s one-room schoolhouse has grown to be one of the best school systems in the country (according to US News and World Report - http://www.usnews.com/listings/high-schools/wisconsin/shorewood_high

February 27 – Photojournalist

Michael Kienitz has been a photographer for over 35 years and his photography has appeared in Life, Time, and Newsweek, and other major publications worldwide. He is presently an electronic imaging instructor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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March 5 – History of the East Side (re-scheduled)

Milwaukee native Pieter Godfrey reclaims history by salvaging materials from buildings slated to be gutted or razed.  Tonight he will share some of his experiences with this great trade.

GRANTS GRANTED:

At the January meeting, the SMC Board approved the following grant requests:

$300 to sponsor the Memorial Day Ceremony

$105 to help the High School Photography club purchase supplies

NOTICES:

Have a shovel and/or a blower, a little free time, and the desire for a bit more exercise?  Elizabeth Price with the Senior Resource Center keeps a list of volunteers who she can call upon from time to time to help clear walks and drives for residents that have a particularly difficult time doing this themselves.  Please contact Elizabeth at 847-2727 if you would be willing to be on this list.

Not necessarily on an annual basis, but when the SMC Board decides to, it has a “Man of the Year” dinner to thank a special member of the community for all that they have done.  This year, the board has decided to honor Barbara Genzler, head of the Shorewood High School Drama Department, and a teacher with 40 years of outstanding service to SHS and the Shorewood community.  More about this event will come in the future.