Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
13 August 2009
President’s
Message:
Look –a-there, I’m back in
the newsletter again. I’m just in time to let all of you know that we have our
big fund raiser, the pancake breakfast coming up in September, more
specifically on the 19th of September. Last week we handed out the
sheets to be used to get the ads for the placemats. Selling tickets is fine,
and pays for the costs we incur. However, the sale of the ads is where we make
the profit that allows us to do the various projects for the community. So
please, please, please, get out there and get your dry cleaner, your meat man,
your hair stylist, your whatever to put some bucks up to place an ad on the
placemats used at the breakfast. It is up to each and every member to help on
this. Do not expect just a few members to do it all. Seriously, all you have to
do is ask most of these people, and when they know it is for a good cause, they
are happy to do it. It is a write-off for a business.
Coming Events: [Advise the
editor of events of interest at 797-4332]
29 August 2009: Uptown Saturday Night, check
out the local galleries uptown on the last Saturday of each month, and taste
their food and wine.
4 September 2009: First Friday Art Walk, check out the local galleries
downtown and taste their food and wine.
19 September 2009: Annual Pancake Breakfast held at The Allegro
24 September 2009: Annual installation of Officers to be held at The
Allegro
Guests: Bill Cook
was a guest of our new member, Mitch
Hall. Also in attendance was our own Gary
Bernstein.
Programs:
(Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK:
Last week we held our monthly Board of Directors meeting. This being the
summer, there was not a lot of business to conduct. However, there was one
topic that was discussed, that being the Pancake Breakfast. See the President’s Message, supra, for more details and the prod to
get out there and sell those ads.
THIS WEEK:
This week we are scheduled to have our Human and Spiritual Values tweaked. I do
not know who the speaker will be, but Jean
has done well at finding speakers each month. (And we all know how much she
hates to get up early, so we really do appreciate it Jean,
NEXT WEEK: Charles Myers
is scheduled to have the speaker.
50/50 DRAWING WINNERS: The big winner last week was Richard Welty. Mix those tickets real good, and make sure mine is
on top. (Oops, I guess they did this time. Keep up the good work.)
NEWS OF NOTE:
Last week we inducted two new
members into our club. First, we met Brent
Hall, who is a friend of Mark
Shelley, which we won’t hold against him, because he is also known by
several others in the club. Second, we met Tom
Lawrence who was sponsored by Skeeter Key. Tom
is with First Tee at
Bob Braden was
absent last week, but we still talked about the need to get busy on membership.
Who have you invited to attend our meetings? We are making a good showing here
toward the end of the administrative year, but we still a few more new members
to make up to the attrition we have each year in membership.
Football is cranking up (or is it creaking up) for
the new season.
Quotes You Can Use (or Not):
"I don't know what the key to success is,
but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." ~ Bill Cosby
"National
defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --John Adams
"Barack Obama has made few
policy pronouncements since his November election. But he and his wife have
made a personal decision that is rich with policy ramifications: the choice of
a school for their daughters. During the campaign, Obama said he supports charter
schools, which are public schools that are free of some bureaucratic
constraints, but that he opposes private school choice, because it doesn't
work. Turns out it does work for the Obamas, who
determined that no public or charter school in the nation's capital would be
the 'best fit' for their daughters. Instead they chose Sidwell
Friends, an exclusive private school that counts Chelsea Clinton among its
alumni. No one should begrudge the Obamas for
choosing the best possible school for their children. But we should begrudge
Barack Obama for vowing to deny such choices to low-income parents. As Polly
Williams, the state representative who gave birth to
"There is no question that
we have failed to live up to the dreams of the Founding Fathers many times and
in many places. Sometimes we do better than others. But all in all, the one
thing we must be on guard against is thinking that because of this, the system
has failed. The system has not failed. Some human beings have failed the
system." --Ronald Reagan
"Most people on the Left
are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that
are incompatible with freedom. Freedom ultimately means the right of other
people to do things that you do not approve of. Nazis were free to be Nazis
under Hitler. It is only when you are able to do things that other people don't
approve that you are free. ...[P]eople on the Left
want the right to impose their idea of what is good for society on others -- a
right that they vehemently deny to those whose idea of what is good for society
differs from their own. The essence of bigotry is refusing to others the rights
that you demand for yourself. Such bigotry is inherently incompatible with
freedom, even though many on the Left would be shocked to be considered opposed
to freedom." --Hoover Institution economist Thomas Sowell