Kiwanis Club of Historic St. Augustine

Newsletter – 2 February 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 on 18 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. Attention: Tim needs help with this. He has a goodly amount of stuff now, and could use some help in moving it around. See me or I can just assign a committee to help with this. It would be nice if you would volunteer, however.

Evidently the family in Hastings is doing OK. Skeeter reported that he still had some monies and we got a nice note from the family. Thanks to the club for stepping forward on this one.

Last week we inducted Rudy Xue into the club. His sponsor, Tim Chiu, was very proud of his accomplishment. He stayed after him through busy time until he could arrange for Rudy to get to the club. Rudy is the Director of the mosquito control board. Very important job, especially with all the diseases that can be spread by the mosquito. Seems to me that we are discovering more of them lately.

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: Ray Quinn (it was certainly good to see him at the meeting, wish his job would let him attend more of them) introduced the speaker, Col. Lisa Craig, who is assigned to the finance group here. She told of her tour at Gitmo when they first took in prisoners there. I didn’t realize that they were shutting down so much of that base before the fighting started. Later she was deployed to Kuwait where she was with the finance group there and was in charge of the funds going into Iraq after our troops got there. The amazing thing is that she had to pay everyone in cash at that time. She explained how much $132 million weighed. With the coin involved, they couldn’t take the whole amount on one C-130. (Having flown aboard C-130’s in my day, I was amazed at the weight that must have been involved.)

THIS WEEK: Sharon Outland has the program, and has advised that she will be presenting Circuit Judge John Alexander. He’s been here before, so he can tell us all the juicy cases in the county since his last appearance.

NEXT WEEK: Human & Spiritual Values meeting, along with our monthly Student of the Month award.

Guests: Tom Fonner had a guest, for a change. Actually, it was his son Brent who recently retired from the Coast Guard and is now living in our fair city and has opened his own real estate firm. (I think I saw a membership app floating around that table too. Am I right, Tom?) Skeeter also had a guest, Larry Mowbry, who hails from Pinehurst, NC.

⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: The winners last week were Bob (Show Me the Money) Braden and Jim Dale. (Jim really needed to win, as he is going to be on the road for a couple of weeks and his portion should get him to Bainbridge.) 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.

Don’t forget the Board meeting next Monday. Haven’t heard anything to the contrary, so I assume we will once again meet at The Allegro.

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.

Another “Atta Boy” to Steve Fricke for getting the story and the picture of our last Student of the Month in the paper again. Keep up the good work!

One other thing that our speaker mentioned last week, those gold bars that we saw being loaded onto trucks weren’t really gold. What is it with the folks in that neck of the woods? They are not noted for their veracity!

This had been a very busy week. We had a filibuster; we had a vote to end the filibuster; we had a new associate justice to the Supreme Court confirmed; we had Alan Greenspan retire and his replacement, Ben Bernake, appointed; and we had a State of the Union speech. That was all by Tuesday, so a lot of history squeezed in there this week.

Quote(s) of the Week:
Newspulper Headlines... That's No Man, It's 111 Cats!: "US Governor Reprieves Man Facing 1,000th Execution" —Guardian (London)

What Would Adolescent Brains Do Without Studies, Man?: "Heavy Marijuana Use Damages Adolescent Brains—Study" —Reuters

Doesn't the 22nd Amendment Require That Anyway?: "Americans Want Next President to Be Different in Poll" —Bloomberg News

It's Surprising Iran Would Offer Them: "Israel Will Not Accept Iran Nuclear Weapons: Sharon" —Associated Press

Kim Jong Il Dresses for Success: "N. Korea Ready to Scrap Nuclear Plans for Better Ties: Envoy" —Reuters

You Don't Say: "Sunburns Less Common During Winter" —Arizona Republic