Kiwanis Club of Historic St. Augustine
Newsletter – 8 October 2009
President’s Message:
Well I made it through my first meeting as President of this wacky crew, and I appreciate all the help as well as the patience you all have shown. I want to have a superb year as we have had for the past few years. That will take the help of each and every one of you. I can not do it alone, or even in tandem with Bob Braden. Everyone needs to pitch in, and together we can make this club the doer of good things for this community. We just finished our big fund raiser, and I was impressed with the turnout of members to that. If you have any ideas for any other fundraisers that we can do this year, please let me or the Fund Raising Committee chair, Charles Myers, know so we can consider it. For example, parking cars for two hours and earning $300 - $400 was nice. Any way we can do that again? We like those fundraisers where we put in a lot of effort and it doesn’t take much time to raise a nice amount of money.
Also, I would like to see us get more involved with our Key Clubs. We need to take a more active role in these clubs, or we will lose them. We have put too much time and money into them to lose them. We can’t leave it all up to Paul and Donnie to do by themselves.
Coming Events:
29 October 2009: Lt. Gov. Skeeter will hold his first DCM, and we will be hosting same. The location is Zaharias Restaurant located at 3945 A1A South on St. Augustine Beach. This will start with a social time at 6:00pm and the meeting will begin at 6:45pm - cash bar. There will be no meeting in the morning and will be replaced by the DCM. (Our monthly dues will NOT cover the complete cost of this meeting.)
31 October 2009: Uptown Saturday Night, check out the local galleries uptown on the last Saturday of each month, and taste their food and wine.
6 November 2009: First Friday Art Walk, check out the local galleries downtown and taste their food and wine.
11 November 2009: Massing of the Colors in observance of Veterans Day. If you wish to participate, be at the Fort by 0900 hours. Put this on your calendar.
Guests: Jack Thompson, had, as a guest, Tom Pearrow, who also become a member of our club, and Anke Cacciola, who handed in her membership app. Mitch Hall had a prospective member, Harold Baugstat.
Programs: (Check the website for your speaker assignment date.)
LAST WEEK: Board of Directors meeting.
THIS WEEK: Human and Spiritual Values meeting. Don’t know who, but Jean usually does a super job. We will also honor our Student of the Month.
NEXT WEEK: We will hold our first Hi-Q Brain Brawl. Our own Ken Maass is the faculty advisor at SAHS and he will have his team here to challenge the Kiwanis team. Let me know if you want to be on the team. This is a lot of fun. If you think you are good at Jeopardy! come try the real thing.
50/50 DRAWING WINNERS: The big winner last week was, Otis Mason. (He told me he was going to buy gas with it when he left.) Mix those tickets real good, and make sure mine is on top. You failed at that last week.
NEWS OF NOTE:
We inducted Bill Cooke at the Installation Banquet, which gave us our plus one for the administrative year. Today, we inducted Louis Laguardia and Bill DeVos. This is great news as we need to keep bringing in new blood. Welcome one and all!
Bob announced that we had received a total of $630 in memorial gifts for our late member, Bart Bartol, and that he had sent thank you notes to all. BTW, Bart’s son, daughter, and at least one grandchild were at the Pancake Breakfast. Is it possible to get Tom or Valerie as a member?
Brad Davis was present to transfer the Lt.Gov. Home Club banner to Skeeter. We get to look at it for the next year.
We haven’t done it for some time, but it was announced that we will begin to do our quarterly road clean-up sometime in the next couple of weeks. He has been kidded so much, that I expect Art Runk to be out there on his hands and knees at this next clean-up.
Quotes You
Can Use (or Not):
According Yahoo News, "A New York senator
accused the drug giant Merck & Co. on Tuesday of conspiring to undercut a
cheaper generic alternative to its cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor just days
before it becomes available to patients. "Sen. Charles Schumer, a
Democrat, charged that Merck is quietly collaborating with health insurance
companies to create lower co-pays for customers buying Zocor than for those
buying the generic equivalent." Now this all makes sense if you view it
from the socialist perspective. The Senator apparently believes that you and I
are not able to make decisions on our own. We need the nurturing support of
hundreds of pages of Federal regulations to tell us what not to do and what to
do. Remember that President Clinton opposed tax cuts in his first term,
because, he said, people would spend the money on the wrong things.
As Ben Franklin said: “In
wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” In
a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if
we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have
absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in
feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop. However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine
& beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go
through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid,
than to drink water and be full of s**t