Wisconsin Rapids Kiwanis Club – Youth Service Club

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. – The Plum Creek Foundation recently awarded $2,500 to the Wisconsin Rapids Kiwanis Club to help fund the Kiwanis Youth Outdoors Day.

Club President Keith Johnson and Senior Resource Forester Todd Watson

The Wisconsin Rapids Kiwanis Club has sponsored a Youth Outdoors Day the past two years in an effort to prevent childhood obesity and diabetes, while at the same time increasing interest in heritage sporting activities in the area.  Youth Outdoors Day is a free event for children to participate in different outdoor sports and activities including fly fishing, archery, canoeing, rock climbing and much more.  This year the event will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m on June 6. 

“Today’s children are spending less time outdoors and interacting with our natural world,” said Joshua Schoenick, secretary and past president of the Kiwanis Club.  “We are very appreciative of the Plum Creek Foundation for helping us sponsor activities like this that encourage children to lead active, healthy lifestyles and enjoy the natural beauty of their communities.”

The Wisconsin Rapids Kiwanis Club is part of the international Kiwanis volunteer organization, which works with children and communities to develop future generations of leaders.  Kiwanis works to sponsor youth leadership programs, organize youth-sports programs, tutor students, build playgrounds and perform countless other projects to help children and communities.

The mission of the Plum Creek Foundation is to provide philanthropic contributions to support and improve the general welfare of life in the communities that Plum Creek serves.  The Foundation board meets quarterly to review applications submitted from organizations in the company’s operating communities.  Visit the Community Involvement page on Plum Creek’s Web site at www.plumcreek.com to download an application.

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Plum Creek is the largest and most geographically diverse private landowner in the nation, with more than 7 million acres of timberlands in major timber producing regions of the United States and 9 wood products manufacturing facilities in the Northwest.  In Wisconsin, Plum Creek practices sustainable forestry on approximately 320,000 acres of forestland in 26 counties throughout the state.  For more information on Plum Creek in Wisconsin, visit www.plumcreek.com/wisconsin.

Congratulations to Gary Mancl our 2008-09 Ice-Out contest winner, guessing 5:23 PM on 3/23/2009.

The pallet sunk to the depths of Nepco Lake overnight between 6:30 PM Monday March 23rd and 6:30 AM Tuesday March 24th.  It had rained all day on that Monday and continued through then night.  The club had waited 10 days, anticipating a complete ice-out was close in order to retrieve the clock and determine our contest winner.

As Mother Nature would have it, the temperatures plunged below freezing again.  The boat began to float lower in the water and drew some concern from our members.  The ice was to think to remove the boat. However, we were still able to retrieve the pallet.

When the pallet was pulled to the surface, the clock was stopped and read 10:20:07.  As we know the pallet fell through over night; the official Ice-Out date and time is is 10:20:07 PM on March 23, 2009.

During the contest there were 983 tickets sold.  The club has decided to award a prize of $500 to this year’s contest winner. Two individuals submitted tickets with eligible guesses between 6:30PM and 6:30 AM. Gary Mancl of Wisconsin Rapids, with 5:23 PM on 3/23/09  and Maggie Muliski also of Wisconsin Rapids with 3:13 AM 3/24/09. 

The rules of the contest stated the winner would be the closest guess without going over.  Congratulations to Gary Mancl our 2008-09 Ice-Out contest winner.  The prize will be presented to Gary at an upcoming meeting.