Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
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
Speaking if Board meeting, we
approved Brent Fonner for
membership. He is related to someone around here. Welcome, Brent.
We have looked at The Village Inn as a place to hold
our meetings, and it appears that this can be arranged. As most of you know,
they are in the throes of expanding. Our crew of intrepid searchers think is
will work very well for us. Looks like it will be 2 March before we can make
the change. They need to finish their remodeling.
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
THIS WEEK: Skeeter tells me that for our Human & Spiritual Values meeting Keith Cronwell, the new football coach at Pedro Menendez High, will be the speaker. We will also honor our Student of the Month, Brian Taylor, from FSDB
NEXT WEEK: Our own resident Boy Scout, Lou Nester, has the duty. Bring it on, because we know that you are
prepared.
Guests: Tom Fonner had
as his guest 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. We just approved his membership app, so no
more guest status here.
⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: The winners last week were Otis Mason and
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. Sign up to help when the sign up sheet comes
to a table you are sitting at.
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. Sign up to help at this one too.
Well, Super Bowl XL is over and in the books. Some
controversy about that one touchdown by Big Ben, but a) they would have made it
on the next play; or 2) take it off the board, and the Steelers still win. I
thought it was one of the better games as far as Super Bowl games go. And I’m
saying that when I’m not a big fan of either team. I just think I should
support a team from this side of the Rockies, as opposed to one on the
New rosters are available today. There are some holes
in the roster, and you newer members need to get with me and help me get those
holes filled. Actually, if you see any corrections that should be made, let me
know ASAP
Quote(s) of the Week:
"It is a singular advantage of
taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a
security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be
exceeded without defeating the end purposed—that is, an extension of the
revenue." —Alexander Hamilton
"Terrorists are...winning the
psychological warfare, partly because the jihadists are unified behind a goal
and we often are not. They want territory and they want to kill 'infidels.' American leftists want 'peace,' without realizing
that peace is a byproduct of defeating evil. The left also wants to use the war
for partisan political gain and will seek to deprive President Bush of any
credit for victory because it could benefit him politically. How sick is
that?" —Cal Thomas
On the frontiers of junk science... Meanwhile,
"global warming" is being trumpeted by the usual suspects at the 11th
annual UN Climate Change Conference held in
"Once conform, once do what others do
because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of
the soul." —Michel De Montaigne