Matins Kiwanis met recently at the Salvation Army building and were greeted by Joe Robertson. After the Pledge of Allegiance, Clyde Evers gave the Invocation. Then Token Fines were paid by Don Feld, Joe Ludley, Loren Fisher, Fred Bayer, Joe Robertson and Frank Moran and Happy Dollars donated by Ludley, Evers and Otto Welfring who has returned from his winter stay down south. Free breakfasts were won by Fisher and Andy Schwandt

Feld updated the Matins on the progress of building three “Home Libraries” at MCC with material from the shelving of the former Ewers Shoe Store.

Bayer has offered his house for one of the sites of the Libraries that will furnish a place for the public to donate and retrieve books at no cost. Skip-a-Meal donations will be collected at the next meeting. Twenty-four students have applied for one of the two Kiwanis scholarships that will be awarded later this spring and a reminder of the funnel cake trailer action items remaining was presented by Schwandt.

The Guest Speakers were New Hope Christian Church Senior Pastor, Kerry Jech and his wife, Jane. They shared information on the tour of the Holy Land that they and 37 other individuals enjoyed a few weeks ago. The group landed in Tel Aviv, Israel where surprisingly 40 percent of the population is Arab. The city is the “Silicon Valley” of the Middle East where some of the world’s best medical technology is born. The group visited many of the ancient sites that are found in the Bible including temples, Herod’s ports and fortress at Masada, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the Sea of Galilee and many of the mosques and roads that Jesus traveled. The weather was ideal and off-season tourist numbers added to making it a very inspiring and life-changing adventure.

Questions were raised and answered and President Tammie Frederick adjourned the meeting.