{"id":1411,"date":"2025-03-09T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:57:49","slug":"aloha-luau-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krmidwest.com\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Aloha Luau April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We thank all the members, including the many new members, for attending our luau. Although the weather moved us inside, it didn&#8217;t dampen the warm and welcoming spirit of our club members or the event!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>A huge &#8220;thank you&#8221; to our hostesses, Brenda &#8220;BC&#8221; Czech, Brenda Fryers, and also Brenda Stitch, who helped with decorating.&nbsp; Yes, three &#8220;Brendas&#8221; working together!&nbsp; BC Czech and Brenda Fryers, and their significant others, Dave Czech and Tom Bellehumear, who also hosted the luau last year, prepared their delicious sweet &amp; sour chicken and baked ham.&nbsp; With all the members&#8217; potluck dishes, I don&#8217;t believe anyone went home hungry.&nbsp; Your four hosts for the evening put in many hours of planning, shopping, cooking, setting up, and cleaning up after.&nbsp; They deserve a big hand for all their hard work!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Thanks to our photographer, Marian Knorr, again for taking our photos. Marian helps us create &#8220;forever memories&#8221; of our events, not only on our website &#8220;KRMidwest.com&#8221; but you might see your photo in the Royal Times &#8211; last year&#8217;s group of ladies dressed in a Hawaiian theme were even on the cover!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Karen DeFontes, who sweetly presented each participant with a lei, also opened the luau with a prayer, and Deb and Dave led us in singing &#8220;<i>God Bless the U.S.A<\/i>.&#8221; as we closed our fun event. Thanks to all of you who jumped in when you could see an area where we needed a little help, such as Larry Davis, who was in the clubhouse for another meeting and hopped in to help decorate.&nbsp; Or the ladies who, when it appeared we might have run out of plates, ran out to get some from their other club&#8217;s closet.&nbsp; Winnie Metz helped make temporary badges and as always, our trusty Treasurer, Pam Alvord, was on hand to accept 2025 and New Member dues. As we&#8217;ve always said, this is a &#8220;high member participation&#8221;&nbsp;club.&nbsp; Helping out and wearing your&nbsp;Name Badges is what helps to bring our&nbsp;members closer together.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Mark your calendar for the May 13th luncheon in the East Wing of the clubhouse.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll receive an email invitation later this month.&nbsp; Please plan to attend as it will be our last get-together before our summer break.&nbsp; Your host for May will be Forrest Coleman, whose&nbsp; luncheon theme encourages us to share and celebrate our family Heritage.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thank all the members, including the many new members, for attending our luau. 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