Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
President’s
Message:
Pancake
Breakfast, Pancake Breakfast, Pancake
Breakfast! Let’s not forget that it is coming sooner than you
may think. Get the tickets sold and, more importantly, get some sponsors. We
have received a few sponsors to date, but we can always use more. If you can’t
get your friend, neighbor, or whatever, to be a sponsor, at least get a
placemat ad. Ask your dry cleaner, ask your butcher, ask your candlestick
maker, the worst that they will say is “No.” They are not rejecting you, they
are simply saying “No” to a request and you need not take it personally. The
sponsors and the ads are where the profit comes from, ticket sales will make us
money, but that will be peanuts compared to what we make with the sponsors and
the ads. Let’s all pull together and make this our largest money making
project. It can be done with just a little effort on the part of each one of us, and should not be left up to just a few
people. Off your face and on your feet, get out there and talk it up!
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.
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
Guests:. None present. (
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
Brent Fonner introduced
a city commissioner, Joe Bolles, who is also running for Mayor this election.
Joe told us about some of the things that the city is up to. The parking garage
is the big thing he wanted to sell. As much as that puppy cost, they better
sell it. He explained that
THIS WEEK:
Ned Ross is slated to have the
speaker. Haven’t seen Ned, and his e-mail box is full and has been for at least
two months.
NEXT WEEK:
Rudy Xue
has the speaker for the last meeting of the month.
⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: Winning last week were Art Liepold, and Dave
Thompson. (I only had to change one name from the week before. Let’s put a
stop to that.) Mix those tickets well to keep Art from winning again. Buy your
tickets early and often.
Late Breaking News:
Get accustomed to it, you are
going to be hearing a lot about the pancake breakfast in this column until it
is over. Chief Hedges, our soon to
be fearless leader, has handed out the tickets to those of us who were present.
Show up and pick your set up so that we won’t have to waste postage mailing
yours to you. Let’s get cracking on those sponsors – that is where the gravy in
this project lies. Get one business that you know to be a sponsor and get their
name on the placemat. If we put forth the effort this time, then we won’t have
to worry about as many fundraising events in the future. Do your part, and get
your tickets now and get at least one sponsor. If we all did that, we would
make some money on this project. This is the type of project a club like ours
wants to have. You concentrate your efforts in a relatively short period of
time, and the rewards are more than 10 other projects that are labor intensive
and cash poor.
We inducted two new members into the club, Barney Salzberg,
and Cheryle Newman, (note the spelling of Cheryle’s name. It is not a misprint.) These two new
members transferred in from clubs in
This will be my last newsletter for about three
weeks. We leave for a much needed vacation on Saturday. If anyone would like to
fill in during my absence, please let me know, and I will be glad to give you
some pointers. When I first started my tenure here I got a complaint every once
in a while about the conservative leaning of the material contained in this
missive. When I went on my first vacation after that I offered to let Sammy Dee take over, but he declined.
He also stopped complaining. He told me once that he wasn’t thrilled about the
material, but he thought I did a good job. That meant a lot to me. That is the
way it should be.
Quote(s) of the Week:
"A welfare state is frightened of every
poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get
out." —Harry Browne
"Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving
device which enables ten men to do the work of one." —John Maynard Keynes
"By not 'disturbing' us with the visual horror of 9/11, the media made
it too easy to forget the nature of the enemy that started this war. Maybe the
moral clarity of 9/11 wouldn't have dissipated quite so quickly...if Americans
had been confronted with those 'disturbing' images more often. What the jihadis did to 3,000 innocent human beings that morning
they would willingly do the rest of us. We will not defeat them by averting our
gaze from the truth." —Jeff Jacoby