by Greg Hilliker | Jan 12, 2026 | Newsletters
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....
by Greg Hilliker | Dec 24, 2025 | Newsletters
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...
by Greg Hilliker | Dec 4, 2025 | Newsletters
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...
by Greg Hilliker | Dec 3, 2025 | Newsletters
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...
by Greg Hilliker | Nov 17, 2025 | Newsletters
Fourteen of us came to share breakfast at today’s normal gathering of members. We did not have a scheduled speaker but had a lot of discussion – Greg Hilliker announced that the Flint School of Performing Arts big “Seeing Stars” event is February 6 and he will...
