Pilot Club of Manhattan Receives Funds to Support Autism Workshop
Pilot Club of Manhattan has received $1,500 in funds from the Greater Manhattan Community Foundation that will support our ongoing workshop geared toward families and friends of autistic children.
The fourth annual workshop was held June 26 and 27 in Manhattan and saw more than 300 attendees. "This workshop was very current and helpful, teaching what can and should be used to work with spectrum students! This was a quality workshop!" Sharon Wanklyn, a teacher attending the 2009 workshop from Frankfort said.
The 2010 workshop is tentatively scheduled for June 5 at the K-State Student Union in Manhattan.
"We
recognize the important service this well-run program is to our
community," says Sarah Saueressig, Executive Director of the Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation.
Click here to read the full press release.
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Pilot Club of Manhattan hosts another successful autism workshop
The Pilot Club of Manhattan's 5th annual Autism Spectrum Disorders Workshop is complete for 2010 and was a major success. The workshop saw more than 250 parents, caregivers
and educators of children on the autism spectrum at the June 5 workshop hosted at
the K-State Student Union..
The workshop
is becoming well-known throughout the
"Many families in the area are beginning to look forward to this workshop every year," said Helen Miller, Autism coordinator for USD 383. "We are grateful for the work of the Pilot Club of Manhattan in sponsoring this workshop."
Check out the write up printed in the Manhattan's Chamber of Commerce newsletter.
Check out the area sponsors that so generously gave this year and helped us host another successful workshop.
Three local Pilot Clubs featured in Manhattan Magazine
All three Pilot
Clubs -- Pilot Club of Manhattan, Little Apple Pilot Club and Sunflower
Pilot Club -- are featured in the Winter 2011 issue of Manhattan Magazine.
The article focuses on Pilot's commitment to helping those with brain
related disorders and the activities the three clubs are involved in
that work toward that goal.
To read the article and the full magazine, click here.
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New member project to help United Through Reading
Our new members have gotten together to organize a book drive for USO at Ft. Riley and their United Through Reading program. This program offers parents who are being deployed an opportunity to video tape themselves reading a book. The CD and book are then given to their children so they can enjoy reading time with their parent(s) even while they’re deployed.
Members can bring books to the meetings and given them to Betty
Mattingly. Children’s books for all age children are especially valuable
for soldiers for this project, but books for any age group (even adult)
are accepted as well. Used books in good condition are welcome.
