Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
President’s
Message:
Last week we passed the hat
to help fund the District Governor and her husband’s annual project, which is
to have each Kiwanis member raise/donate a roll of dimes to the March of Dimes.
(For those of you in Rio Linda, a roll of dimes is $10.) For our club that
would be $400 total, which is 40 times $10 (again for Rio Linda). We collected
some funds and we will pass the hat one more time this week, so bring your
rolls of dimes to donate.
Sam Dee
Thomas’ wife died last Wednesday evening just before our meeting on
Thursday. This has been a rather bad year for our former member, and our
prayers go out to Sammy and his family. We passed a condolence card around and
everyone present signed it. If you were not present, you might want to try to
contact Sammy on your own.
We are also planning a Peanut Day or two in the
future, but that shouldn’t take as much of your time as the Pancake Breakfast,
and will be after that event, so just keep your eyes peeled here for word about
that fund raiser.
We were pleased to see an interclub contingent from
the
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
Guests: Judy Mazes
from The Allegro was present with her boss, Judi Robinson. They are doing a lot of the leg work for the Pancake
Breakfast. Still haven’t seen Gary B.
He must be avoiding the belt line.
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
Lance Conner was not present and
e-mailed me this week that he had been out of town. Our thanks to Steve Fricke for giving us a synopsis
of the goings and comings of crime in the city. The traffic on the bridge has
improved since the DOT added a lane at the foot of the bridge so that those
turning left could have their own lane.
THIS WEEK:
Tim Chiu will introduce Carol Gospodarski (would you like to
buy a vowel?) who is associated with a charity known as Because I Care.
NEXT WEEK:
Bob Corson is on my list for being
responsible for the program.
⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: Bob Corson
did NOT win for an unprecedented third week in a row, but Art Liepold won and indicated he really needed it since he got back
from one of his gambling junkets, and our guest, Judy Mazes, were the big winners. Congrats and mix those tickets up
better next time. Buy your tickets early and often.
Late Breaking News:
In
Sports: What is it about those British
golf courses? Tiger Woods doesn’t
use his wood on a single shot and wins going away! Wow, that guy is good,
probably the best ever. Landis wins
the Tour de France, and what a come back. Another American right on the heels
of Lance, but, of course, he wasn’t
riding for the American team. And this guy is now going in for a hip
replacement. Of course, some of the stiffest competition was disqualified and
went home early, but that comeback in one day when all had ruled him out was
spectacular.
Speaking of the
Quote(s) of the Week:
"One reason Bush is down in the polls is
that he's giving the impression that he's trying to change the subject from
'our mistaken invasion' to 'building democracy in
"Perhaps the most
fundamentally flawed idea [of the NEA] is this all-too-common one: 'Public
schools were created to provide a "public good": education for all,
regardless of a family's ability to pay... By contrast, under a voucher system
that gives public dollars to completely unmonitored private schools, there is
no such right to expect or demand accountability for student performance or how
tax dollars are spent.' They don't get it. Competition brings accountability.
Private schools may be 'unmonitored' by bureaucrats, but they face the most
demanding kind of supervision our society provides: a market full of freely
choosing individuals. Parents' desire for a good education for their children
is a much more powerful check on schools than any politician's law or union
rule. The people who want to control every young American's education like to
talk about accountability, but what they want is to make schools accountable to
anointed bureaucrats who think they know what's best for all of us. They evade
real accountability—the kind of accountability where if a student or parent
realizes a school isn't doing its job, he can find another one... If public
schools are good, they have nothing to fear from school choice. Students and
parents will choose them." —John
Stossel