Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
President’s
Message:
It was with great pleasure that we inducted two more
members into our club. Doug Evans, a
friend of Dave Thompson (but we
won’t hold that against him), was sponsored by Dave; and Jim Matheson,
a friend of and sponsored by Mark
Shelley, and also a co-worker. I don’t know what pins they are handing out
for multiple member sponsorship, but these guys have won it. Doug is a graduate of the
As
mentioned last week, we can expect a visit from our newly elected Lt. Governor
in about two weeks, 21 June to be exact. Let’s plan to have a large attendance,
and get a good belt line. Let’s do one with more twists and turns in it this
time. Rande hardly whimpered when he
went through the belt line on his first trip here. We definitely want to hear
some good sobs this time.
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
Guests: None this week, since we inducted them into the club.
You remember the TV show Where in the World is Carmen
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
John Thompson,
stepped to fill the speaking position and introduced the speaker, Troy Silhan, who discussed hurricane
preparedness, which is apropos to the season which kicked in the very next day.
THIS
WEEK: This being the first meeting of the month, and we will have our
committee meetings and Board of Directors meeting.
NEXT WEEK:
Human and Spiritual Aims meeting. Rene Morris, from
⅓-⅓-⅓ DRAWING WINNERS: The winning tickets were drawn and the winners were Jim Matheson & Paul Linser. Congrats to both. Remember to mix those tickets well
(put mine on top), and to buy your tickets early and often.
Late Breaking News:
Please note: Our Human and Spiritual Values speaker for next month
will be Rene Morris, the new
director at St. Francis House. Skeeter
suggested that we bring canned goods and perhaps take up a collection to give
to her after the presentation. Start bringing food items at any time, as the
Village Inn has room to store it for us.
We’ve had some good ideas for projects tossed about
lately. Now that the Calendar of Events has been depleted, we need to start to
work on some new fundraisers. Heck we need to start planning for next year’s
projects if we are smart. For instance, we need to start planning the next
Pancake Breakfast. We need to start looking into the dictionary project or some
other book plan for young kids. Also, if we are going to give a substantial
donation to The Boys and Girls Clubs Building Fund, we really need to put our
heads together to figure out some ways to make substantial sums of money. Are
we going to continue to give the scholarships as we have in the past, or are we
going to put that money into something else? Think about it, and get some ideas
down on paper so that at the next Committee/Board Meeting we can at least air
some ideas. I hope our President-Elect is working on his committee assignments
for next year so that the planning can get off the ground.
I’m leaving these last two paragraphs for a couple of
reasons. (1) We need to be reminded of some things that we have coming up and
which we need to think about. (B) It takes up room and I don’t have to work
real hard to come up with new material to fill the space. They will slowly
disappear over the next two weeks. (III) There is not enough football to write
about.
Maybe not enough football, but what
about basketball? The NBA Finals finally get
underway Thursday night. (Doesn’t the play-off to get here seem to last
forever?) The San Antonio Spurs will face the Cleveland Cavaliers. Interesting match up.
Then the Gators are back in the news. Billy Donovan wants out of his contract
with the Orlando Magic so he can stay with the Gators. Did they offer you that
much to come back Billy? Don’t forget, Billy, this is the Gators. If you do
stay and do not present them with another National Championship in January,
they will want your head on a platter. Hear me, Billy, this is the Gator Nation
and that is how they have always handled not getting what they want.
Quote(s) of the Week:
"For those who chose to
fight for it, life has a special flavor the protected will never know..." found written on a C ration carton in
"In the first
place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith
becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an
exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate
against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this
is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing
but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who
says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the
red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just
as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are
hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English
language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people." -- Theodore Roosevelt 1907