Newsletter – January 15, 2026

Newsletter – January 15, 2026

  Fifteen members and one guest  gathered for breakfast this Thursday at our usual site, Liberty Family Dining. We missed our usual server but enjoyed our substitute server and our meal. We also missed our scheduled speaker, from Madison’s on Main and Renovation...
Newsletter – January 8, 2026

Newsletter – January 8, 2026

For this first official breakfast gathering of 2026, “Yours truly” slept in until 7:07 a.m. after missing a whole night of sleep on Tuesday (prep for a videotaped and anesthetized “body invasion”) and was fined by Jeff Dennings for a late arrival at today’s breakfast....
Newsletter – December 11 and 18, 2025

Newsletter – December 11 and 18, 2025

On December 11, “Signing” Santa came to the Club meeting, presenting each of the elementary students from Michigan School for the Deaf with a personalized wrapped gift after the families all shared our Annual Pancake Breakfast with Santa. We did not have a regular...
Newsletter – December 4, 2025

Newsletter – December 4, 2025

Today saw a good turnout of 16 members, many of whom brought in Christmas gifts for MSD kids in anticipation of next week’s Breakfast with Santa, here at Liberty after our normal breakfast gathering on December 11 at 7:30, with kids and families arriving at about 8:15...
Newsletter – November 20, 2025

Newsletter – November 20, 2025

Sixteen Optimist Club members and our 2 guests shared breakfast this morning and listened to Joy Peterman and Randy Helmstrom (seen in photo above with Jeff Dennings) from Salvation Army speak about their ongoing work in the face of 4 times their monthly calls for...