Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
President’s
Message:
We inducted another member to our conspiracy plotters.
Wayne Howell brought in a friend, Paul Linser,
and I have it on good authority that he is not his only friend. Paul is employed at The Whitney Lab
(there is a much longer official name that your Editor does not know) which is
located at Marineland. The Lab is associated with the
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
4 May 2007: First Friday Art Walk, check out the local galleries
downtown and taste their food and wine.
May 4 -6, 2007: The annual Gamble Rogers Folk Festival.
The newly renovated amphitheatre on the island on A1A is the venue. For details
see: www.gamblefest.com
19 May 2007: Another yard sale will be had by our
club. Tim and Jolande Chiu have generously agreed to allow us to hold the sale at their
hardware store parking lot as we did last time. Proceeds will go toward our
pledge of assistance to the Boys and Girls Club Building Fund. Please call Tim at 471- 9685 to arrange delivery of
your items to the site for storage.
22 May 2007: The annual Ag Day at the Ag Center. The
service clubs started this some years ago, and the Farmer of the Year is named
and honored along with agriculture in the county, of which there is less each
year. This will be a luncheon at the Ag Center, and we usually cancel our
regular meeting for that week.
Guests: Doug Evans
was the guest of Dave Thompson for a
return visit. That usually means that he is contemplating becoming a member. Mark Shelley had as his guest, Jim Matheson. I do believe that this is
a repeat performance also.
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
Human and Spiritual Values monthly program was handled by the aforementioned Mark Shelley, who introduced the youth
pastor at Turning Point Baptist Church, Kevin
Taylor. Kevin also serves as the
SAHS football team chaplain. He gave us a very good presentation. He is
obviously very dedicated to his work. He told us how his father had been such
an example to him, and how he hoped to pass this on to the student athletes.
(He looked like a good candidate for membership. Did anyone ask him?)
THIS WEEK:
Barney Salzberg,
will introduce Tom & Iwona Pietrucha,
who are the owners of the Rockin’ Bean Coffee Shop.
After they get through teaching us how to pronounce their name, I’m hoping they
will fill us in on my favorite beverage, bourbon. No, coffee.
I think we also have the Student of the Month this week.
NEXT WEEK:
Wayne Howell has informed me that he
has lined up Katie Prevatt,
from the Red Cross.
⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: The winning tickets were drawn and the winners were Jake Thompson and Frank Nemec. Congrats to both. Remember
to mix those tickets well (put mine on top), and to buy your tickets early and
often.
Late Breaking News:
Mark Shelley advised
that the athletic department at SAHS was holding a fund raiser on 5 May to
raise funds to refurbish the weight room at the school, see Mark for the details.
Not much news this week, all we have heard about for
days is the shooting at Virginia Tech. I don’t know about the other news
networks, but Fox News must be spending several hundred thousand dollars a day
to report rumors. Come on guys, does every talking head have to be on campus?
On Wednesday, the school was closed, no classes for the rest of the week, so
there were very few residents to interview. The talking heads were forced to
interview another talking head from their own network. Is there any surprise
that there was some sort of bomb scare? Someone wanted to have the national TV
reporting on something he did, and he could watch the emergency response teams spring to life again. Brit Hume hasn’t even had the Panel on for two days. Surely there
is more to talk about than this. Talk about it when you KNOW something. Passing on rumor and innuendo is as bad as the
tabloid newspapers at the supermarket checkout lines.
Also be prepared to fight the new demand for gun
control that is already starting. Part of the problem is gun control. If folks
were permitted to carry concealed on campus, the death toll would probably have
been smaller. We have developed these “gun free” zones, which is just an
invitation to some nut to come and start shooting. He can go in and start
shooting and he knows there will be no opposition. From what has been reported,
a lot of people knew this kid was a “nut” and still nothing could be done. That
is the area we need to start to looking at.
Quote(s) of the
Week:
“We should never despair, our Situation before
has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again.
If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion
our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” —George
Washington
“Let each man resolve to be victorious, and
that the right of self-government, liberty, and peace shall find him a
defender.” —Robert E. Lee
“I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable,
restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry’s planners believe.”
—Edward R. Murrow