Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
23 October 2008
President’s
Message:
If all youse guys have sent
in your money, perhaps we can get a final report on our very successful Pancake
Breakfast. It was very successful, we just don’t know how successful to the
penny. We will start publishing names on the website if you don’t hurry up and
get the money in.
FYI,
the members that manned the booth Saturday week included
FYI
the Jeep was won by Katrina Pruitt
of Ponte Vedra. Evidently her husband had just
purchased a Jeep a week or so before the drawing. (Them that has gets, I
suppose.)
Several
of us attended the DCM in
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
25 October 2008: Uptown Saturday Night, check out the local galleries
uptown on the last Saturday of each month, and taste their food and wine.
7 November 2008: First Friday Art Walk, check out the local galleries
downtown and taste their food and wine.
26 February 2009: Florida District President will visit
Guests: No guests, except for the speakers.
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
Last week Becky Yanni
of the Council on Aging was here to tell us about the new things going on
there. She also had with her Bill
Kiernan, who gave an overview of the new building in the works for the
Council. They have a very nice building in the planning stages, and it will
serve more than one function. The Council actually has three locations, and the
new building will be across the street from the present building. It will be a
desirable site for banquets and other activities which they hope to get when
they rent the facility. They anticipate the numbers of seniors to increase by
130% in the next decade. They are the only licensed agency to handle dementia
in the county. They are looking for subscriptions to the building effort. Check
with the Council if you are interested.
THIS WEEK:
We will hear from another worthwhile group in the community, EPIC. Wayne Howell is on the Board of
Directors, but he will not be here this week. However he did fulfill his
speaker obligation and the speaker will be introduced. The speaker will be Nickie Gorce, who works at
EPIC.
NEXT WEEK:
Bob Corson traded around so that he
could get Congressman John Mica to
speak. You might want to invite some friends to breakfast next week so that we
could have a good crowd.
50/50 DRAWING WINNERS: Last week’s winner was one of our own, Charles Myers. That should help to keep
his attendance up. Mix those tickets real good, and make sure mine is on top.
NEWS OF NOTE:
Skeeter is
coordinating the canned food drive for St. Garrard House. This is an annual
event, and we have helped ‘most every year. More details as they happen. In the
same vein, we need to be getting our Thanksgiving basket ready and also working
on the Christmas help for a family. Again, details to follow.
In
sports, my Bosox put up a great battle right up until the last out. However,
they will NOT be in the World Series this year. Instead the Tampa Bay Rays will
do the honors for the American League. In the National League, the Phillies
closed out the NLCS and moved on to the World Series for the first time in
years. The first game is tonight. (I’m writing this the day before our
meeting.) The first game is in
The Jags are expecting three easy games to come their
way. I wouldn’t get too complacent if I were them. You know that old wheeze: “On
any given Sunday ...
The big news, of course, is the election that occurs
on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of this year. Hey,
that’s right around the corner! No predictions on my part, but one would think
that ANY Democrat would be up in the polls by 15 or 20% with the world turning
on the Republicans as it has. Instead, the AP today reported their poll showed
a dead heat. I can tell you I am NOT looking forward to the post election if
the Democrats hold the Congress and the White House. That’s not what our
Forefathers had in mind, in my opinion. (And just like David Brinkley, I think
everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
Quotes You Can Use
(or Not):
“In this age, when it is
considered the height of sophistication to be ‘non-judgmental,’ one of the
corollaries is that ‘personal’ failings have no relevance to the performance of
official duties. What that amounts to, ultimately, is that character doesn’t
matter. In reality, character matters enormously, more so than most things that
can be seen, measured or documented. Character is what we have to depend on
when we entrust power over ourselves, our children, and our society to
government officials. We cannot risk all that for the sake of the fashionable
affectation of being more non-judgmental than thou. Currently, various facts
are belatedly beginning to leak out that give us clues to the character of
Barack Obama. But to report these facts is being characterized as a ‘personal’
attack. Barack Obama’s personal and financial association with a man under
criminal indictment in
“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