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The
La Kawañian
Guest
Editors, Melinda Thompson
July
9, 2004
melinda@ctssolutions.com
OPENING:
It
was a beautiful day at Descanso and seemed totally appropriate for
Ed Moulton to lead us in God Bless America.
Martha Crockett and Shirley DeGrey must have been
vacationing, so Ed asked Marie Hyland to provide the
rousing piano accompaniment. (More
about Marie later.) Chuck
Gulick led the flag salute and Glen Petit gave the
invocation. Pres.
Jim Ackland then announced a change in the order of business and
asked Mark Alexander give his Craft Talk.
CRAFT
TALK: Mark Alexander
is our City Manager and has been involved in city government most of
his life. He grew up in
San Dimas
and graduated from
San Dimas
High School
. When he was fourteen Mark’s
curiosity led him to the
San Dimas
City Hall
where he discovered the city’s bulletin board.
A notice on the board listed an opening for a youth position
on the city’s Juvenile Justice Commission.
Mark inquired about the opening – and his career
started. He served on
the commission from his freshman through senior year in high school
and was also active in student government.
As soon as he graduated from high school, Mark was
asked to be an intern for the assistant city manager and served in
that capacity while he earned his degree at Cal Poly Pomona.
He majored in Political Science and had a minor in Public
Administration. At USC Mark
earned his Masters in Public Administration, and it was during that
period he spent some time working for Gabby Pryor in
San Dimas
and was later hired as an administrative assistant by our City of
La Cañada Flintridge
. Mark said he
found it tough to keep up with all the attorneys in La
Canada
, so after a few years here he went to law school and passed the
Bar. He has been
working for our city for 16 years and has been our City Manager for
the past year. When he
is not working Mark plays piano and the keyboard, and –
since he is single – he is occasionally able to travel with a
group of friends who have a band.
Mark – we are glad you are one of us!!!
And don’t be surprised if Ed corners you, now that
your musical secret is out!
Mark Alexander
GUESTS
& MEMBERS WE HAVE MISSED: Daryl
Gant introduced
Stephen Hagerty, who
really isn’t a guest any more because he is now a member of our
club. (Darayl
– you are one of our
best recruiters. Are
you up to “10” yet?)
A welcome back to Mary Gant
who has been absent for three weeks due to a trip (over a hose) and
subsequent hip operation; she looked beautiful as always and only
her wheels gave her away. The
liaison officer from the AM club was introduced on the far side of
the room; unfortunately I couldn’t hear his name.
Ed Moulton introduced
Margaret Pankratz,
whose name is a household word in LCF.
Among many other volunteer activities, Margaret
is the “mother” of
Glenola
Park
and whips our club members into
shape every Christmas getting the lights up on the trees.
Patsy Christenson missed
us while she has been wandering around doing “angelic” things,
and we were glad to see her after an extended absence.
Jim Reynolds and
Mel Wilson introduced Jack
Edwards as a possible new
member. Jack
is an architect, and
Pres. Jim used to sell a
product which had something to do with Jack’s business.
Once Jack sent
Jim to make a product
presentation to Ike and Tina Turner.
Jim said in sales
you are always told to make eye contact, but found it extremely
difficult on this sales call.
Jim was ushered
into the Turner kitchen,
and in walked Ike
in his birthday suit!
Joe Thompson, our
Kiwanis Lieutenant Governor and AM Kiwanis Club member, just
returned from the annual Kiwanis International Convention and was
happy to announce our local Nelson Tucker
is the new Kiwanis International Vice President.
Joe
also encouraged us to attend the Kiwanis CALNEVHA (CALifornia NEVada
HAwaii) convention in
Las Vegas
in August.
Marie and Bill Hyland,
from the AM Club, were guests and also part of the program –
accompanying the singer on the piano.
Harriet Hammon joined
us for lunch, and we hope she’ll join our club one of these days.
It was good to see Rick Lazarre and
Paul Bobzin; we miss you
when you aren’t here!
FROSTY’S
CHALLENGE: Bill Watts and
Clyde Hemphill did their best to outshine Frosty’s story
about
North Carolina
men and chickens. Bill’s
tale about a dizzy blond took the honors, and we’re not sure if
Clyde
’s joke about starting a flood was better or worse than Frosty’s
story.
50/50
DRAWING: Hal Thomas had
the lucky number, but Julia was at his side and was probably
the real winner.
CONFESSIONS
AND FINES: Hal Thomas gave
back $21 of his 50/50 winnings for having a July 9th birthday.
Frosty said he would join the Century Club (if he
hadn’t already) since his birthday was July 5th.
Ed led us in the Happy Birthday song.
HAPPY/SAD
BUCKS: Harriet Hammon gave
$44 bucks for being “deployed” after 44 years of employment; she
has retired from teaching. Pat
Anderson gave a Happy Buck because Paul Bobzin’s store
was the first business Carol Liu visited in her walk through
the La Cañada business community, and Paul did a fine job.
Mark gave $5 Happy Bucks because his Craft Talk was over.
Patsy gave some bucks because she was so glad to be back.
Bob Martin gave $10 as Happy/Sad bucks.
His daughter and son-in-law both landed good jobs in
Colorado Springs
(good), but they will be moving from here to
Colorado
with his three grandsons (bad).
As an aside, Bob told us that the expression
“hubahuba” derives from a similar sounding Chinese word which
means “good/bad” or “so so.” Dave
Spence gave a Happy Buck because he hopes Margaret Pankratz will
join the club, and if she does she will be president within thirty
days. (Joan Peters earlier
testified that Margaret’s feet hit the floor running every
day. How else could she
accomplish so much in our community?)
Ken Lowe gave a Happy Buck because there was good
publicity in the paper for our two Key Club members who were
recipients of scholarships from our Kiwanis Club.
Daryal Gant gave some Happy Bucks because Mary can
get out and about; he just thinks her red wheel chair should have
racing stripes. Clyde
Hemphill was also happy Mary was back and gave a Happy
Buck because she isn’t spending all her time at the computer
making “to-do” lists for him.
(They are co-chairs of the Wine and Gourmet Food Tasting
event/fundraiser – coming up in September.)
Paul Bobzin contributed a Happy Buck because his good
neighbor, Nellie Lockman, arrived with her daughter
Kimberly. (See the
program notes below.) Ed
Moulton threw in a Sad Buck because we had so many Happy Bucks
we used up five minutes of our program time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None.
We ran out of time.
PROGRAM:
Lovely
Kimberly Lockman was introduced by Ed Moulton.
She didn’t really need an introduction.
Kim has performed for us for seven years.
She was a soloist with the Foothill Summer Theatre for six
years and last year she performed as part of the Brass and Sass duo.
We knew it was going to be a most enjoyable program even
before Kim started singing from her repertoire of musical
hits. In addition to
simultaneously attending four different colleges (to get the classes
she needs), Kim has been singing as a volunteer at
Huntington
Hospital
. She was asked to do
this after she sang at the hospital to a dying friend and the staff
noticed how helpful this was to her friend.
Kim has been singing at Penelope’s Café in La
Canada
and is available for weddings, parties, and other occasions.
CLOSING:
We
all sang Come On Kiwanis directed by Ed.
UPCOMING
WEDNESDAY PROGRAMS:
-
July
14 -
Foothill Summer Theatre – Excerpts from Kiss Me Kate
-
July
21
-
Bill Locklier – State of California Attorney General
-
July
28 -
Paul Wineman – speaking on Iraq-Iran (where he used to
live)
-
August
4 -
Craig Van Sickle – TV Producer (The
Pretender)
-
August
11
- Cole Speer –
Deputy Sheriff
-
August
18 -
? open
-
August
25 -
Apple for a Teacher
-
Sept.
1 -
Harry Jacobs –
California
Election Board
OTHER
SPECIAL KIWANIS DATES:
-
Thur-Sun
- August
5-8 Kiwanis
CalNevHa Convention in
Las Vegas
-
Sunday
- August
22
Summer Social
-
Sunday
- Sept.
12
Wine and
Gourmet Food Tasting
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