Laura Kann from the Cedar Falls Club will come to speak to our membership briefly about their service project coming up. They are hosting a fundraiser for their Nigeria Well Project on Saturday, April 14th. It’s going to be a traditional Hungarian dinner as well as a reverse raffle to win $5,000. They are selling 100 tickets only for this event, and all proceeds will go towards helping us build wells in Nigeria. Our featured speaker Monday will be The American Cancer Society. Tammy Schoonover will be providing an overview of the American Cancer Society and their local community events and Kelly Angell will be present a priority of ACS this year, HPV vaccination. Kelly has been with the American Cancer Society for 7 years and works with the ACS Mission Programs of the Road To Recovery and Hotel Partners Programs for all of Iowa and South Dakota to help remove transportation or lodging as a barrier to a cancer patients treatment options. Kelly oversees all of the volunteers in these programs and works in various communities to share the impact of ACS programs and services. Kelly and her husband live here in waterloo with her husband and 2 children. Tammy has been with the American Cancer Society for 6 years and serves as the community development manager for UNI, Black Hawk, Grundy and Tama Counties. Tammy is also responsible for the golf fundraising event and the daffodil sales. Tammy and her husband reside in Cedar Falls and she has two college age students attending UNI. |