Kiwanis Club of Historic St

Kiwanis Club of Historic St. Augustine

News= letter – 15 December 2011

President&= #8217;s Message:

Today is the day!! Do not forget to bring your gifts for the children we are sponsoring at the schools TODAY!! Nuff said about that. Also, we have been asked to help in the Beach Blast-Off ag= ain this week. A flier requesting our help is attached with this newsletter. Don't forget that Michele Gill = was here last week to request our assistance in the Children's Race held this Saturday, 18 December, at the amphitheater. Help if you can. As the President of this club, I personally want to welcome our new member, Bob Wagner. We also appea= r to have a new transfer member, Bill McClure, who is transferring from t= he Keystone Heights Club. Great = to have both of you in our club.

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Coming Eve= nts:

31 December 2011: Uptown Saturday night is held the last Saturda= y of each month. Art galleries and stores stay open and welcome the public to dr= op in, enjoy a glass of wine, and mingle. This is the North part of town. (Probably not this month.)

7 January 2012: First Friday Art Walk is held on the first Fri= day of each month and this is when the downtown galleries and stores stay open and invite you to tour their facilities. Most serve a glass of wine also.<= /o:p>

4 February 2012: Kiwanis Education Day will be held in Jacksonv= ille, precise location TBA. This does away with the Zone Conferences and should m= ake it easier for more members to attend. Mark your calendar now and reserve the date, especially for those newer members who need to learn more about Kiwan= is.

7 February 2012: We are participating in the Celebrity Waitstaff festivities at Hurricane Grill & Wings from 5:00 to 8:00pm. Several of = us have done this over the years. It will aid Big Brothers-Big Sisters locally= . In order for the invitations to go out on time, they would like the names befo= re the holiday season. Skeeter is coordinating. Please sign up. This ye= ar we will have Hurricanes to ourselves.

Guests= : We had an Interclub from the Jacksonville club, = a/k/a the Downtown Club. They included Roger Godbee, Jim Richardson, Jim Banks, Bill Wilkins, and in spirit, Rande LeFevre. Great to have all of you here, and= we hope the meeting was rowdy enough for you.= Come again, real soon.

Programs: (Check the website for your speaker assignment da= te.)

LAST WEEK: Human and Spiritual Aims and Student of the Month. This month we honor a student from Pedro Menendez HS

THIS WEEK: Geoff Kee has the duty.

NEXT WEEK: The next two weeks are assigned to:Lloyd Small and Dale Handler in that order.

50/50 DRAWING WINNER: The cash was won by our own Ot= is Mason. We had a good crow= d, what with the Interclub and all, so the winner got a nice size pot. Almost enough to buy a tank of gas= . (Oh, to remember the good old days= in high school when we would pool 3 or 4 dollars and drive around all night) Mix those tickets real good, and m= ake sure mine is on top this time.

NEWS OF NOTE:

**>Remember the= paint can located beside our badge case. That is for cash donations to the campai= gn to eradicate tetanus in children and new moms, our major fundraiser for the foreseeable future.<**

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My son, Jason's Facebook page made mention of our Club's Christmas for the local children. A customer of his, Alex Landis, called and said that she and her sister would like to help. Their father had told them not to get him any gifts but= to help others. I put her in touch with Skeeter, who in turn got them in contact with the school, and they got involved and helped out in the Christ= mas spirit. It often does pay to open your mouth. Many thanks to them.

Last week we honored = our Student of the Month for December, Marissa Brea, from Pedro Menendez High School. She wants to be an engineer, and not the kind that drives the train. I am always in awe of most of these students we honor, because I can remember when I was in school, and don't see how they do what they do, beca= use they have as much time as we did. Just better time managers, I guess.<= /o:p>

It would appear that = the Jaguars will have a new owner very soon. He jumped the first hurdle last we= ek, and was interviewed briefly. He sounded like your typical entrepreneur, by saying that he was happy to be the first foreign born owner of an NFL team,= but said more that once that it was because he was in this country that he had = the opportunity to do such a thing. (Only in America!) Wednesday, the 14^th= was when the owners meet. Sounds like it will all go down.

After the board of di= rectors approved the membership application of Robert Wagner, who was brough= t in by Mark Shelley; we were pleased to induct him into the club last we= ek. Being a retired Air Force pilot, we know that he will add much to our club. Welcome, Bob!!

We also had a visit f= rom Bill McClure, who is transferring from the Keyhole Sights Club. From what he said he has moved aro= und as part of his job, but has always managed to find a Kiwanis Club to join. Welcome, Bill!!

Last week's program w= as Brad & Jessica Beech, who are part of an outreach program at Anastasia Baptist. They went on a mission in conjunction with Young Life (there you g= o, Pres) in Nicaragua. They worked on a coffee plantation with the youth of the area. Sounded like a lot of fun-work.

Quotes You Can Use (or Not):
"[W]hen all government, domestic = and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, 1821

"I think all the wor= ld would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty." --Thomas Jeffer= son