Kiwanis Club of Historic St. Augustine

Newsletter –19 January 2006

 

President’s Message:

First off, let me report that the meeting will continue to be held at Capt. Jack’s for another week or two, possibly a whole month. We need to look for new digs, but this week we will meet back with Debbie.

                Bring us your junque!! Yes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and I have misspelled junk to let you know that it may be better in someone else’s digs. The garage sale is coming up in February, as you can see in a couple of places in this newsletter. Get your stuff to Tim Chiu so that we can get it ready to sell. Follow directions set forth or call Tim and he will help you out.

                Speaking of Tim, he got it done. I don’t know how many times we have tried to get the Club’s meeting info in The Record. Well, Tim got it done, and we appreciate your work, Tim.

 

Coming Events: [Advise the editor of events of interest at 797-4332]

1 & 2 February 2006: Basketball Tourney at Sebastian Middle School.

6 February 2006: Regular monthly board meeting to be held at The Allegro. The meeting will start at 1700 hours. There is much to discuss, so be prompt and be prepared to share some ideas.

18 February 2006: The date is set for the Kiwanis Garage Sale. Bring your items to Tim’s, mark the price if you don’t want to sell it for something less, and plan to come and help. (We need at least one person with a “carry permit” to stand guard over the coffee and doughnuts so that we don’t have a recurrence of the last sale.)

 

Programs: (Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)

LAST WEEK: Skeeter introduced Danielle Jones, the Director of Child Care at the local YMCA, and Whitney Linn, the Director of Membership. They gave a good history of the organization. The YMCA has been in our fair city for 99 years. There are plans to add two other locations in the country. Some of us were able to enlighten them as to what The Y was doing when we were young.

THIS WEEK: We will honor our Student of the Month from Pedro Menendez. Also, Richard Welty, covering for John Regan, will present Art Lillquist, Administrator of Old St. Augustine Village Museum, the property that was donated by the late Kenneth Dow, and which depicts the city’s history at various stages of its life. For those of you who are not familiar with this, check out this link http://www.old-staug-village.com

NEXT WEEK: Ray Quinn has the program. Perhaps he can fill us in on his latest group that he has taken in and helped. He has taken in some orphan Mexican immigrants, he has started a take someone fishing program, and he is now championing the No Net Fishing group. A true humanitarian, that’s our Ray!

 

Guests: The attendance was much better last week, so we must be over the bout of TMF (Too Much Football.) We did have one guest, Tyler Key, who has been visiting this club for many years. Now he is grown up, graduated from college, and is looking for a job. His dad, Skeeter, and mom, Diane, hope he finds one soooon, if they are anything like the rest of us and want their home back.

 

⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: The winners last week were Richard Welty and Art May. Congrats, and mix those tickets up better next time. Buy your tickets early and often.

 

Late Breaking News:

Here are just a few things to keep in mind, so that our projects will go smoothly this year. We are planning a garage sale, and need some of you to donate a garage that you don’t mind selling. Actually, we need for you guys to get together your “junque” (that’s classy junk) so that we can make it someone else’s “treasure.” The date is now set, so get your items to Tim so that we know how much we have to sell. Tim requests that you mark your price on the item so that no one can come back later and gripe that we sold it too low. If you could care less, then don’t bother marking a price on it.

Our basketball tourney is coming February 1 and 2, and we will need to sell the sponsorships again, and we need to get that done ASAP. The shirts have gone to the printers, but we can still use some money.

                Can you believe the playoffs? The Colts are out after their first game?? What’s that all about? Manning better get busy or he will go down in history as Marino Jr. – a great quarterback who never won the Super Bowl. He will have fewer excuses, because Marino never had the running game that Manning has.

                The annual Geography Bee is coming up soon and Bob will keep us posted as to when it will be held. New members, this is a MUST attend! You will enjoy it as much as the kids.

Quote(s) of the Week:
"The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it." —James Wilson

"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous." —Margaret Fontey

"Where there are no good works, there is no faith. If works and love do not blossom forth, it is not genuine faith, the Gospel has not yet gained a foothold, and Christ is not yet rightly known." —Martin Luther

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." —Robert E. Lee

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." —Helen Keller

 

"Some people think the government must decide everything. But when government decides, minorities, even large minorities, lose rights." —John Stossel

 

"One place there is not total cooperation is in reality. More than a language barrier separates the Western and Islamic definitions of terrorism, and no amount of happy talk about 'inclusion' or conferences about 'cooperation' changes that." —Diana West