Kiwanis Club of Historic St. Augustine
Newsletter –
25 January 2007
President’s
Message:
We are all thrilled that, our
super treasurer, Jim Dale, has
recuperated from heart surgery and was present at the meeting last week. He
will no longer be eating bacon, sausage, or any other pork products, because it
would be tantamount to cannibalism.
Bob Braden
announced that Privett-Niles &
Associates had donated $300 dollars to help co-sponsor our annual Geography
Bee again this year. This is the fourth or fifth year in a row that they have
helped to sponsor the Bee. We can’t seem to get them to come to a meeting to
accept our thanks, so if any of you know anyone that works there, or if you are
going by their office, stop and let them know that their support is appreciated.
The high schools have been divided into two groups
and we will give scholarships to St. Joe, Nease, and Pedro. The noon club will provide them for the
other high schools. We started last year making financial need a big priority
in the awarding of these scholarships. That is what we are doing again this
year.
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
2 February 2007: First Friday Art Walk, check out the local galleries
downtown and taste their food and wine.
3 February 2007: Uptown Saturday Night, check out the local galleries
uptown on the first Saturday of each month, and taste their food and wine.
16 February
2007:
Division Council Meeting at Westside Club. This will also be the official
Governor's visit to our division. Let’s at least have an interclub. I’ll bet
this new governor isn’t as long winded as last year’s, and we probably won’t
have to learn a new song either.
22 March 2007: Our annual Geography Bee. Again this
year it will be held at Sebastian
Middle School. Always a
great time had by all. Plan to spend the early evening with your fellow
members, and Bob will be getting us
to fill jobs too.
March 30 - April 1, 2007: The North Midyear Conference for divisions 1-15 to be held in Lake City in conjunction with the Hog Wild Pig Crazy Barbeque festival. See our website for details.
Guests: Mark Shelley
had as his guest, Jim Matheson. Richard Welty had as his guest his
daughter, Lenore, who is the new
director of St. Augustine
Village Museum.
Both are prospective members, I believe.
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
Mark Shelley introduced Wink Cherry, founder of the Coaches Honor Ministry in Jacksonville. This is a group that goes
around and counsels coaches so that they can be better role models to their
players. His point was well taken that a high school coach is a tremendous
influence on the kids they coach. We wish him continued success.
THIS WEEK:
Dave Thompson had lined up the
director of Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs to come give us a presentation. That may
have fallen through, so come see what we have.
NEXT WEEK:
Committee meetings and Board Meeting.
⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: The winning tickets were drawn and the winners were Otis Mason for both. This is the first
time that the same member got both tickets on two separate occasions. Buy your
tickets early and often.
Late Breaking News:
Well, well, well, I really
did get the teams I wanted in the Super Bowl. I really didn’t care too much who
won the NFC match-up, I really don’t think either could beat the AFC champs
this year. I am just so glad that New
Orleans did not win, because now we won’t hear any thing
about the great comeback from Katrina. Did people talk about hurricane Hugo as
much as they did about this one?
On the AFC side, I am so glad to see the Colts
finally put it together and will now advance to the Super Bowl. They have been
so near and yet so far in the past. Both teams have superior quarterbacks, and,
of course, the Patriots have beaten the Colts in the past. I think that first
of all the Colts have better receivers this time out, and the Colts defense has
finally come to play the whole game and not just a quarter or two.
For you baseball fans, I hope you noticed that the
spring training schedule was in the paper this week. Starts on or about 1
March.
Quote(s) of the Week:
“As of this writing 2,802 young Americans have
been killed during three and a half years of war in Iraq. That’s roughly the same
number killed at Iwo Jima during the first
three and a half days of fighting against the Japanese. Every life lost was
precious and every loss grievous to those who loved them. Unfortunately, our
media intends to use every one of those killed to make their point. It’s a
lesson they learned in Vietnam.
On Feb. 27, 1968,
after a month of brutal fighting and daily images of U.S. casualties on American
television, Walter Cronkite, then the host of the CBS Evening News, proclaimed
that the Tet Offensive had proven to him that the Vietnam War was no longer
winnable... It didn’t matter that Tet had been a decisive victory for the United States
and South Vietnam.
Today’s potentates of the press are trying to deliver the same message: that Iraq, like Vietnam, is
un-winnable. One television network has gone so far as to broadcast images of U.S. troops
being killed by terrorists—making Iraq the first war where Americans
get their news from the enemy. The war in Vietnam wasn’t lost during ‘Tet 68’
no matter what Cronkite said. Rather, it was lost in the pages of America’s
newspapers, on our televisions, our college campuses—and eventually in the
corridors of power in Washington.
We need to pray that this war isn’t lost the same way.” —Oliver North
“We were told our campaign wasn’t
sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.” —Margaret Thatcher
“[I]t is not religion but atheism that
requires a Darwinian explanation. It seems perplexing why nature would breed a
group of people who see no purpose to life or the universe, indeed whose only
moral drive seems to be sneering at their fellow human beings who do have a
sense of purpose.” —Dinesh D’Souza
“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions
voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation
understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure
freedom.” —Fredrich August von Hayek