The Prez sez . . .
CARL CHRISTENSEN opened his first meeting as President and the
entire membership walked out! CARL immediately went to
entertaining himself on the piano. As the membership returned,
CARL continued to entertain us with great piano playing.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
DIANNE DELLAVALLE - Call Dianne for info on how to attend the
Challenge Air event Saturday, October 18th. More
info also on
www.challengeair.com.
JEB LONG – Updated member roster is available. It was sent out
via email and is also available in print upon request.
DARYAL GANT – Daryal brought a lovely Victoria Secret bag with
him to the meeting. Inside, he carried his pet duck to remind
everyone of the Glendale Kiwanis Duck race. Sales of
Quack-Packs will be next meeting. One half of the money we
raise goes back to our club.
HOWARD BACKER – Reminded everyone to contribute to the Doctors
Program through the buckets on the tables.
LINDA MAGARIAN - Talked about the Literacy Program and the
opportunities to participate.
PAT ANDERSEN – Chamber of Commerce announcements: The next Mixer
is October 16th at 5:30 at Union Bank. They promise
high end deserts.
The Home Goods store in the Town Center
will open October 12th, Chipotle will open December 1st,
My-Mobile (AT&T) will follow soon after. The corner, round
building will be occupied by
Sakura Japanese
Steak & Seafood House & Sushi Bar. General Partners are Marc Ha
& Charles Wee. This up-scale dining establishment is similar to
the more familiar Benihana Restaurant featuring teppanyaki style
cooking. The anticipated start date is February 2009
THE PROGRAM
Bob Coleman
BOB COLEMAN was introduced as our featured speaker. Bob is a
long-time Kiwanian and a member of the Presbyterian Church for
over 38 years. He was born in Chicago and came to the Los
Angeles area at an early age. He worked as a financial planner
for Merrill Lynch for many years and then started his own
financial planning firm 28 years ago. He is now retired. He
and his wife have 8 children. His program was on the Prison
Fellowship Program.
Bob has been involved in the Prison Fellowship Program for 15
years. It all started with a 4 day training program. He talked
about the type of people in prison. He found them to be of all
walks of life. One day, he found himself speaking to a
financial advisor who was “in” for 15 years. He also found that
the vast majority of prisoners were abused and lacked love as
they grew up. He said “The world goes around on love. When
raised on anger, the world gets messed up.” He urged the
audience how important it is to show love to your children and
grandchildren. He talked about the high recidivism rate in
prisons (this is the percentage of prisoners who return to
prison after being released). California has the highest rate,
at over 70%. The cost to house a prisoner is around $32,000 per
year. This rate is higher for juveniles, around $70,000. It is
also higher for women and prisoners with medical needs.
California spends $8 billion dollars per year. There is a
misconception that prisoner cannot be rehabilitated. However,
the recidivism or prisoners who complete job rehabilitation
programs drops as low as 3%. There are 400 volunteers in the
Prison Fellowship Program nationwide. This is a worldwide
organization. When they work with prisoners, they follow some
rules and guidelines. First, they never ask a prisoner why they
are in. It is ok to ask how long they have been inside and when
they expect to get out. They always start their programs with
letting the prisoners know they are important people. They
provide presentations and interactive workshops on a number of
subjects, including how to get and keep a job and parenting
skills. For many prisoners, job skills are basic. Two of the
most important things are showing up and cleaning up (ex:
shaving). The make-up of prisons is 38% latino, 34% black and
the rest of other ethnicities. Asians make up the smallest per
capita segment of the prison population. Bob was asked why
Asians make up such a small percentage of prisoners. His theory
is that they have a strong family unit. He spoke of the
importance of the father in parenting. While mothering comes
natural to most women, it is often the relationship that
children have with their father that is critical to their
future. If they have a loving relationship, they have a much
better chance than if they have a relationship with hostility
and lacking love. Bob was asked to comment about the
criminality of illegal immigrants. He responded that the
percentage of illegal immigrants in prisons is much lower than
that of the legal population. He theorized that this was
because it takes a certain amount of “get up and go” to get to
this country and most illegal immigrants are looking for work,
not trouble.
HAPPY & SAD
BUCKS
NICK BERKUTA for the catching of two burglars,
PAUL WESTMORELAND for USC loss
MARY GANT for the success of Wine and Gourmet Food
Tasting event
Dinuba Report
DAVE SPENCE for the lady with the nice
peaches from Dinuba at the farmer’s market.
DARYAL GANT for taking two children and 4 grand-children to
Dinuba for thanksgiving
CAPTAIN SILVERSPARRE for the capture of the two
burglars and thousands of stolen items.
Capt. Dave Silversparre
KARL JOHNSON for Carl’s piano paying and a suggestion to
increase his pay by 50% and only increase his fines by 25%.
ELLIE WILDERMUTH for Ohio
State’s one loss but two wins
GIGI SCHLUETER for a recent
wedding.
JEB LONG for Univ of Texas win over Arkansas, HOWARD
BACKER for USC’s loss and University of Missouri’s win,
MARK ALEXANDER for USC’s loss but they they only fell to
number 9.
FACTS AND
FICTION
Music: piano tunes by Tom Burrows and
leading us in Grand Old Flag, Welcome Back, Hi
Neighbor, and On Kiwanis
Opening:
flag salute by
ROLANDO MORALEZ
and the inspiration by
SKIP LINDEMAN
Guests: MARY GANT brought
ART FERNANDEZ,
DIANE DELLAVALLE
brought MARGARET PANCRATZ.
DR MARK ANTHONY. DR SARKIS MARABIAN,
and DR KELVIN DE WOLF.
ROLANDO MORALEZ brought BRIAN SCHWARTZ.
AL RESTIVO brought DR ROMOLA MASCARENHAS, DDS.
PAT ANDERSEN
brought REV SKIP LINDEMAN and CAPT. SILVERSPARRE.
Anniversaries:
Birthdays:
Fines:
Secret Greeter: Tom Slaughter
Secret Greeter, Tom
Fifty-Fifty Drawing: Bill Scherkey
Master of the Cash Box: Dave Spence
This Week's Editor: Karl Johnson
This Week's Photographers: Paul Westmoreland
Webmaster and Coordinator: Jeb Long
