Kiwanis Club of Historic
Newsletter –
20 August 2009
President’s
Message:
I’m back to remind you that
our big fund raiser, the pancake breakfast, is coming up in September, more
specifically on the 19th of September. I’ll be reminding you of this
until the event is over. We have 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. If you need any help, call me or Chief Hedges. We can show you how
to place the ad in the placemat and explain anything to a prospect that you
can’t explain. 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]
26 August 2009: The ARC of the
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 had the privilege of hearing from yet another Thompson, more
specifically, Dr. Jack Thompson. (My
questions are two: First, how many more Thompsons are there out there? 2. Is he going to join the club?) He is a
Chiropractor, and one with an engineering degree. I felt he gave a very good
presentation on the subject of chiropractic care and its differences with
regular medical care. To introduce his practice, he is offering an initial
consult for a $20 donation to the
THIS WEEK:
This week we are scheduled to have Mark
Bailey, local billboard star, who will discuss the ever changing health
care situation which President Obama wants to place the federal government in
charge of. Good luck with that, and thanks to Charlie Meyers for getting the speaker.
NEXT WEEK: Your editor is stepping in to fill the spot of Grant Neilson, who left the club before
he even had a chance to get a speaker. (Tough reason to leave
the club.) At any rate, for you golfers in the crowd (I’m not one) I
have found a guy Alex Ortega, who
will explain golf made simple, and how the company he works for can help you
think that is true.
50/50 DRAWING WINNERS: The big winner last week was Charlie Stevens. Mix those tickets real good, and make sure mine is
on top. You failed at that last week.
NEWS OF NOTE:
The Jags worked hard down in
Brett Favre
is back playing in the NFL after his fifth or sixth retirement party. (He loves
getting those gold watches. He has a large collection of them.) He has retired
and come back more times than Frank
Sinatra.
Speaking of “Look Who’s Back,” the return of Michael Vick was in the news this week.. He is now an Eagle. There is little doubt that PETA will
boycott all of his games, but I think it is clear that he has paid his debt to
society. The only thing is that there are many, many jobs out there that once
you have a felony conviction, you can’t go back to your old job.
Bob Braden will
be talking 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.
Quotes You Can Use (or Not):
"How can the economy
straighten itself out if it is being systematically skewed by government
inference with prices? We are in the mess we're in precisely because of earlier
government interference. Easy mortgage terms and guarantees contrived a housing
boom and irresponsible lending that could not be sustained. The consequences
have shaken the foundation of the financial industry. But instead of freeing
the market and allowing the errors to be corrected, the government is seducing
the economy into a whole new set of errors. That will lead to the next bust.
'But doesn't the government have to act?' people ask. 'We can't just let
financial companies fail!' I say, Why not? Jim Rogers, the successful investor
and author, puts it well: 'Why are we bailing out Citibank? Why are 300 million Americans having to pay for Citibank's
mistakes? The way the system is supposed to work [is this]: People fail. And
then the competent people take over the assets from the failed people, and then
you start again with a new stronger base. What we're doing this time is ...
taking the assets from the competent people, giving them to the incompetent
people, and saying, 'OK, now you can compete with the competent people.' So
everybody's weakened: The whole nation is weakened, the whole economy is
weakened. That's not the way it's supposed to work." --ABC
"20/20" co-anchor John Stossel