Kiwanis Club of Historic St. Augustine

Newsletter –19 January 2006

President’s Message:

Still meeting with Debbie at Capt. Jack’s. Come on down.

Still need you all to 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.

Last week we were alerted to a family in Hastings that had fallen on hard times. Skeeter, who knows the family, indicated that he had a $100 gift certificate that had been donated to the basketball tourney and moved that we give it to this needy family. On motion made and duly passed, the Club voted to give an additional $200 and requested that Skeeter be in charge of doling out the money so that it would not be spent on crap.

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: Richard Welty presented 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. He did a good job of explaining the museum’s history and its place in the community. He also gave the club a couple of pairs of tickets to be awarded during the drawing.

THIS 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!

NEXT WEEK: Sharon Outland has the program. She e-mailed me to see if we were still meeting at Capt. Jack’s, so I’m sure she will be here with a great speaker.

Guests: Our speaker brought his right hand helper, Lenore Welty, the daughter of your editor, and sister of your immediate past president. She has been living in Europe for several years, and is very happy to be back and working at the museum that she has walked past since she was a child.

⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: Wayne Howell and Richard Welty each won a pair of tickets to the museum. As far as the money was concerned the winners last week were Richard Welty and Dennis Hollingsworth. Congrats, and mix those tickets up better next time. Buy your tickets early and often.

Late Breaking News:

This is one more reminder that the garage sale is coming up, and we need some stuff to sell. Don’t wait until the night before to bring it in.

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.

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.

We inducted two of our new members last week, Lance Conner and Art May. Sorry it took so long for Lance, but the fault lies with Kiwanis International, or at least their order fulfillment crowd.

Cynthia Williams, newly appointed Asst. Principal at Pedro Menendez, introduced our Student of the Month, Caitlin McManus. I won’t run the entire litany of her accomplishments, but they include Senior Class President, National Honor Society, and Homecoming Queen. Another case of young folks doing so much more than the ones we read about in the papers. The bad apples always make the news. (Did anyone else notice Skeeter talking to Cynthia? It appeared to me that he was attempting to get her to come back to his school. Probably to no avail.)

Quote(s) of the Week:
"It's just about acceptable in polite society to disagree with [Rep. John] Murtha, but only if you do it after a big 20-minute tongue bath about what 'a fine man' he is... Nobody says that about [Sen. Joe] Lieberman, especially on his own side. And, while the media were eager to promote Murtha as the most incisively insightful military expert on the planet, this guy Lieberman's evidently some nobody no one need pay any attention to." —Mark Steyn

"To be responsible, one needs to stop defining success in Iraq as the absence of terrorist attacks... [There is a] jarring contrast between what the American people are reading and hearing about Iraq and the views of the Iraqi people." —Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

"Words without action, of course, are empty and foolish...Just as small dreams have no power to inspire men, no soldier will follow the leader who sounds the call to battle with a sigh into an uncertain trumpet." —Wesley Pruden

“If the current tone of debate in Washington wins out, future generations will wonder how the United States collapsed upon its war effort. They will ask: Where did the defeatism arise? Was it a crisis of will? Was it a political game? They will compare it unfavorably to the relative resilience of World War II, Korea and possibly even Vietnam. We don't yet know whether Washington is in the process of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. But certainly the jaws of defeat are not agape, except among Washington naysayers." —The Washington Times