Optimist International

Well, 95.1 The Peak is very proud to be associated with an event that is coming up.

It is a landmark anniversary for the Optimist Club of Collingwood in South Georgian Bay.

Hard to believe it's their 40th anniversary.

So cool.

It's

amazing when you think of all the things that optimists have touched and brought to us.

We have on the line the first vice president of the Optimist Club of Collingwood, South Georgian Bay, Cathi Gooch Blackett.

And Kathy, congratulations on your club's 40th anniversary.

You don't have to say a thing.

I think they lost their supernatural faith, these cardinals and bishops who have compromised to think the church is just like the Optimist Club.

All right, I'm done.

You're my guest, and I just gave you what I really think.

And I really saw community feeding.

That's where it wasn't necessarily live fire, but it was big pots of chili or it was maybe a bison burger feed for the Kiwanis or the, you know, maybe it was the Optimist Club.

but it was community feeding.

And that's where I got my love for just really understanding that food brings people together, not only raising money or just making sure that the kids have items that they need in the town.

I was also, years ago, I was also on the WCRF Riverboat Foundation Board when it was formulated years ago.

I was also various members of different community organizations, the Optimist Club, Was noon optimist, now it's the morning optimist.

I was on the PTA for Washington High School when my boys went there.

We did open enroll them from Highland School District just because we work and live here.

A grand opening is planned for Wednesday.

The Optimist Club of Arlington honored local police, sheriff's office, and court personnel at its annual Respect for Law luncheon this week and remembered the late circuit court judge James Almond, who long championed the program.

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And in the best burger contest, Elevation Burger took first place.

And it was great because these very same people, yes, they run a youth center, but they are also community leaders.

I don't know in Australia if Optimist International is out there.

Have you heard of the Optimist Club?

I've heard of Sir Optimist.

Uh, what made you run? What you got you fired up to get out there and put your name on the ballot?

Well, my why I think has finally coalesced in a single sentence that I gave when I was at the Optimist Club just a week or two ago.

You know, I...

Uh, a month before the election, I finally have my, my coalescence, right?

Yeah, it's crazy.

Yeah, and, you know, those two guys, you talk about highlighting people, but, you know, Max obviously has handled the spotlight really well, but, you know, I said it yesterday at the Optimist Club lunch, you know, how proud I was of him from a kid who, when I got here, was kind of broken and beaten down and come off a really tough sophomore year to now.

He's getting to see the other side of that.

The hard work pays off, you know, and he's handling it really well, you know, from a kid, like I said, that could handle it completely different.