Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
President’s
Message:
As noted below we are going
to hold the committee meeting and the Board meeting as part of the regular
meeting time next week. I know that this is a change, and I know that most
people don’t like change. However, all I ask is that we give it a try and see
if knowing what is going on doesn’t make us a better club. Each one of us is a
member of the club, and some of us have been thrust into a leadership position.
That fact does not mean that we have all the ideas or that we will do all the
work.
Each one of you has ideas that could make this club
function better. All I ask is that you open your mouth and let us hear your
idea. Maybe you aren’t sure about something the club does or is thinking about
doing. Don’t sit around and get run over by the bus, open your mouth and ask
questions. The way this should work, and this goes for any club, is that each
person serves on a committee and gives his or her input to the chairman. The
committee then agrees on a direction for the committee to go, and the chairman
comes to the Board and presents that decision. The Board has the final word on
the subject, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t put forth your idea
because it might get shot down later. Many ideas get shot down the first time
out of the gate. Good ideas have a way of getting back to the front of the line
and making it at a later date.
Once again, I’m only asking that you give it a try.
This club works best when we focus on projects that are good for the community.
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
Guests: Mark Shelley brought
his son, the Coast Guardsman, (NOT Merchant Marine) and indicated that he was
being shipped out to the West coast. We wish him well and a safe return.
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
Richard Welty introduced a fellow
Toastmaster, Danny Pritchard. Danny
a home inspector by trade, and a very through one I might add, told of his
observations of people in supermarkets. Danny does all the shopping, and most
of the cooking in his family, and encounters the bottlenecks in the
supermarkets more often than the rest of us. A very entertaining presentation.
THIS WEEK:
Our hard working Prez has agreed to find the speaker for us
NEXT WEEK:
We will have our committee meetings and Board meeting.
⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: Winning last meeting were Skeeter Key, and Tom Pace. Mix
those tickets well. Buy your tickets early and often.
Late Breaking News:
I can’t say enough about the
Seminoles. I guess you have to go a season out of first place in the conference
once in a while, and, if that is the case, I hope that it is once in great
while. In other conferences, I hope that the Buckeyes and
Baseball did pick the second team to play in the
World Series, and it turned out to be the St. Louis Cardinals.
Skeeter announced that the paper’s description of his
departure sounded much more ominous than it was. It seems that he had so much
vacation time that he is taking the rest of the year off before his official
retirement. (Boy, those teachers sure have it rough.)
Quote(s) of the Week:
"The attitude of the state and culture
toward the value of human life is in constant flux. Like the Dow Jones
Industrial Averages, it is up one day and down the next. Some want to use
embryonic stem cells for research into all sorts of afflictions and diseases,
though no clinical tests have proved they are effective and stem cells from
placentas and other sources, which cause no harm to human life, are available.
Life in the womb—indeed life emerging from the womb—may be destroyed at any
time and for any reason. There is pressure at the other end of life to
euthanize the elderly and handicapped when they become 'burdensome' to family
members or 'too costly' to the state." —Cal Thomas
"The national debate about what to do in
the
"Because just as good morals, if they
are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be
observed, have need of good morals." —Niccolo
Machiavelli