Kiwanis Club of Historic St. Augustine

Newsletter – 19 October 2006

President’s Message:

Hello my fellow Kiwanians. Catching our breath after the successful Pancake Breakfast, let us not forget that there are things to do for the rest of the year. I am hoping that you will be supportive of getting the committees functioning again. To me it’s very much like not voting. If you don’t vote, I think you have no right to complain about what goes on. If you do not get busy with your committee, you have no right to complain that we are doing something you don’t like. Believe me, properly functioning committees make certain that a club moves forward, gets more accomplished, and spreads the work around so that three or four members are not out there doing it all. You should have received the list of the committees and who is serving on which one. If not, check the website, or call me.

As noted in the “Coming Events” section, the Division Council meeting date has been changed and is now 28 November. Here is a good opportunity for you to become more active in the club and the Division. The normal situation is that the “usual suspects” go to the meeting. Usually this is four members and we at least get an Interclub out it. Now is a good time for more members to become active and start going to these meetings and learning what other clubs are doing. We have been known to “steal” an idea from another club, which is part of what the meeting is about. It is really an exchange of ideas, and it can be a source of help to attempt to figure out a problem. Similar to a Mastermind Group and this can be very beneficial to the entire Division.

Coming Events: [Advise the editor of events of interest at 797-4332]

28 October 2006: Kiwanis University Day, location and time TBA

3 November 2006: First Friday Art Walk, check out the local galleries downtown and taste the food and wine.

4 November 2006: Uptown Saturday Night, check out the local galleries uptown and taste their food and wine.

11 November 2006: Veterans Day celebration and Massing of the Colors on the grounds of the Castillo de San Marcos at 1100 hours. No ceremony at the cemetery this year. There will be festivities at the Fort from 0930 to 1500 hours, so go and have a look at the displays, etc. that are planned.

28 November 2006: Division 5 Council Meeting sponsored by the Downtown Club. To be held at Deercreek CC, with social hour beginning at 1800 hours and dinner served at 1900 hours.

Guests: None last meeting

Programs: (Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)

LAST WEEK: We honored our Student of the Month, this month from SAHS, Anna Cain, she was introduced by Tyrone Ramsey and the guidance counselor, Ms Freeman. The student was also accompanied by her father. Your editor is always amazed at how much these kids get done and she is academically rated #1 in the senior class. In addition, Skeeter introduced our speaker for the Human & Spiritual Values week, Raymond Randolph. He is a teacher and a very active member of the First Baptist Church of Armstrong. Boy, talk about doing things in the community, this group appears to be tireless, and does so much for the young people. They set an excellent example and they should be congratulated and encouraged to continue.

THIS WEEK: Richard Welty has the speaker for this week

NEXT WEEK: Come see what is in store

⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: Winning last meeting were Art Runk, Jr., and Rudi Xue. Mix those tickets well. Buy your tickets early and often.

Late Breaking News:

The Gators are no longer undefeated, and they dropped down in the polls. Someone I know well said, “Typical Gators,” and he is a Gator fan. And what has happened to the Seminoles? They looked pretty tough against Duke, but then who wouldn’t. After all, Miami is going to suspend some players because of the brawl last week and they are going to have to miss the Duke game. Let’s talk tough sanctions against the school with such a clean reputation. I just hope Wetherall begins to show some consistency.

Baseball is about to pick the second team to play in the World Series. Detroit is able to rest up and the Mets and the Cards are playing some good baseball in order to decide who will play Detroit. It may be decided by the time we meet Thursday morning, in which case the Cards will be in, or it will go to the deciding game if the Mets win.

Last week we voted NOT to participate in selling pie coupons for The Village Inn. Because of the Kiwanis connection, the membership decided to give a try at selling the lighthouse ornaments.

Nick gave out the awards to those members that missed awards night, including Tom Pace, Wayne Howell, and Lou Nester. Thanks guys for all your good work.

Quote(s) of the Week:
"The Iranian support for Hamas and Hezbollah has...prompted leaders of other Arab nations to respond differently than they have in Middle East crises in the past. Then, they were content to give verbal support to the likes of Arafat, to please the 'Arab street' and the intellectuals in their own countries. Arafat and his ilk posed no real threat to them. But they have responded very differently to this crisis, which appears to be an attempt by the Iranian mullahs to project their influence throughout the region. Iran, with its missiles and its nuclear program, with its non-Arab ethnicity and militant Shi'ite Islam, is a threat to the rulers of countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. Hence their denunciations of the Hezbollah attacks." —Michael Barone

Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another." —Alexander Hamilton and James Madison

"The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy." —John Quincy Adams