Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
6 March 2008
President’s
Message:
Hello again thrill seekers. We are up
and running again. The last issue was 6 December, so we have been gone for
three months.
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
7 March 2008: First Friday Art Walk, check out the local galleries
downtown and taste their food and wine.
8 March 2008: Kiwanis training to be held at JU. Registration
begins at 0800 hours and classes begin at 0830. The classes should be over by
1230 hours. The cost is $7.00 which includes a continental breakfast. Let Doug
know if you are going.
26 March 2008: The annual Ag Day will be held at the Ag Building
off I-95 and SR 16. We have to advise them in advance how many are coming, and
we must pay for that many whether the bodies show up or not. Let our Prez know
if you are going.
29 March 2008: Uptown Saturday Night, check out the local galleries
uptown on the last Saturday of each month, and taste their food and wine.
5 April 2008: Our First Annual Volleyball Tournament to be held on
the beach at the Pavilion. Details as they come in. Just mark your calendar.
Guests: Paul Martin,
guest of Frank Nemec; and Tom Pomar, a guest of Doug Hernandez. Both are, I trust,
prospective members.
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
John Thompson introduced Alex Silverman, who is associated with
a sports website that I heard to be www.TheSportsRooster.com.
(If that is not correct, I hope that John will let me know.) At any rate, this
is for high school student athletes, who are not in the top high school and
holding all-state records, or for those that excel in sports that are not
recruited very much, such as Lacrosse. The admirable part is that they are
attempting to do this at no cost to the student. They are getting corporate
sponsors and hope to do it that way.
THIS WEEK:
This is our regular meeting for committees and the Board Meeting. Make sure to
be here, as we have much business to take care of.
NEXT WEEK:
The second meeting of the month is our Human & Spiritual Aims program along
with honoring our Student of the Month.
50/50 DRAWING WINNERS: Last week’s winner was Dr. Frank. Mix those tickets up real good this time, and get mine
on top. (This was two weeks in a row for the good doctor.)
Late Breaking News:
Sorry for the delay in
getting this out to all of you, but I moved off the island. It took an
inordinate amount of time to get the internet connected, and then it took even
longer to get the computers networked. (We went wireless this time.) We are
back at it, and I hope that I can get this out to you, as I have not attempted
to do the mass e-mail so I wll keep my
fingers crossed.
The only football news of any note is that Bret Favre
retired. Well, not the ONLY news, but it certainly was the big story. The old
order changes yielding place to the new.
Basketball is not my sport, and neither U of F nor
FSU are doing real well in the standings. Sounds a little crass to hear the
Baseball will be cranking up soon, and it sounds as
if the Red Sox have kept a good team together and have added to it.
Quote(s) of the Week:
Here are some Ronald Regan quotes worth
remembering:
Here’s my
strategy on war: We win, they lose.
The most
terrifying words in the English language are: I’m here from the government and
I’m here to help.
The trouble with
our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant: It’s just that they know so
much that isn’t so.
Of the four wars
in my lifetime none came about because the
I have wondered at
times about what the ten commandments would have looked like if Moses ran them
through the U.S. Congress.
The taxpayer:
Someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil
service examination.
Government is
like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
The nearest thing
to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.
I’ve laid down
the law to everyone: from now on about anything that happens, no matter what
time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a cabinet meeting.
It has been said
that politics is the second oldest profession: I have learned that it bears a
striking resemblance to the first.
Government’s view
of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it,
if it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Politics is not a
bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself
you can always write a book.
No arsenal, or no
weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral
courage of free men and women