FOOTHILL VOCATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES for Disabled Adults - Tim Hacket
Wednesday – Lunch Meeting at Descanso
TRAVEL ADVENTURE -
Sailing Down to Rio on the Queen Mary 2
Saturday – 7:10 p.m. at Flintridge Prep
THE INTERNET & YOU, POWER
POINT, ETC. - Vic Legerton
Wednesday – Lunch Meeting at
Descanso
BOARD MEETING - Kiwanis
Club and Foundation
Thursday at
7:00 p.m., La Cañada CitiBank
The Prez sez . . .
Many thanks to the club members who arranged the change of
meeting location (and food) with just a day’s notice. Clyde
Hemphill, Chuck Gulick, and Mel Wilson led the
effort.
Watch the local papers the next few weeks. There should be a
very nice article about the 90th birthday of Kiwanis,
our Club and the AM Club.
Ten club members have already signed up for the Kiwanis Mid
Year Conference in Riverside on February 12. Not that it’s
a contest, but the AM Club has 17 people going. Contact
Daryal for more info or to sign up. Our Club will pay the
registration.
If you are interested in our board meetings but can’t attend,
check the back table for extra copies of the Minutes of the
December meeting for both the Club and the Foundation.
The newsletter editor needs some volunteers to write a
newsletter or two during February, March and the first two weeks
of April. Immediate volunteers include Joel Smith,
Bob Martin, Ed Moulton, Bill Watts, Mary
Gant, and Bob Wallace. If anyone else would be
willing to write just one newsletter, please contact Melinda.
Our Kiwanis Club Foundation has designated a $5,000 contribution
for tsunami relief in South East Asia. In addition, $2,100 has
been received from club members. The $7,100 will be sent to
Kiwanis International. The Kiwanis Clubs in the devastated
areas will present Kiwanis International with proposals for
relief projects that specifically benefit children, and
International will evaluate the proposals and provide the
funds. An additional $400 has been contributed by our club
members who purchased Kiwanis hats from the club in Sri Lanka.
You may remember three hats were auctioned off last week. Ed
Moulton bought one of the hats last week, but turned it back in
this week and Karl Johnson won the bidding war today for $100.
The total $400 will be held until our club determines whether we
will make any direct contribution to the Sri Lanka Club.
Jack Dawson suggested we also contribute to help the
people who lost their homes in La Conchita and offered $100 for
that fund. Ed Moulton will contact the Kiwanis club(s)
in Ventura to see if they have a relief project already
started.
“Happiness consists more
in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in
great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in
the course of his life.”
-
by Benjamin Franklin
TERRIFIC KIDS
We realllllly
had a terrific group of kids from Palm Crest. Lovely
Judy Healy acted as MC and did such a terrific job! Judy
is a 6th grade teacher at Palm Crest and is also the
Administrative Designee. Her love for the children was so
apparent, and her graciousness in mentioning something personal
about each student made the presentation very interesting and
heart warming for all of us. Judy told us the 6th
grade teachers decided this year to pick a Terrific Kid theme
each month. The theme this month was Kindness and the teachers
picked the most thoughtful children in the 6th
grade. Judy had each child introduce themselves and
their parents. There was Nick, Emily, Alex, Karem, Christy,
Nate, Rachel and Shirley. The parents (and Shirley’s
grandparents – Shirley and Don Hingst) and their Terrific Kids
almost outnumbered Kiwanians.
Terrific Kids and their Parents
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Don
Corbett thanked everyone who has already completed the
surveys regarding the continuation of the Wine and Gourmet
Food Tasting event. Don and Joan Peterson
will make a report next week.
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Ed
Moulton encouraged all to deliver their newspapers to his
house, since we haven’t been able to collect them at the last
two meetings.
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Bachy
encouraged our spare change contributions to Children’s
Hospital.
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Pat
Anderson put in another plug for the LCF Chamber Awards and
Installation dinner at Brookside on January 20th.
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Ken Lowe
announced a Key Club fundraiser at Round Table Pizza this
evening.
FROSTY’S SLA REPORT
Mary Gant filled in
for Frosty. Dick DeGrey lost two oak trees during
the storm but he and Shirley weren’t hurt.
THE PROGRAM
Rhody Stephenson
spent 36 years at JPL, but that didn’t keep him from being an
opera fan. Last year he presented a program on Madame Butterfly
and today he talked about Romeo and Juliet. Rhody has a
knack for describing the entire opera in a short period of time
and focusing on some of the most interesting and humorous facets
of the story. Rhody had film clips of several scenes
from the L.A. Opera’s upcoming production; the music and singing
were beautiful. This opera was written by Gounod and is sung in
French. Almost all of Shakespeare’s plays have been turned into
operas. There are two opera versions of Romeo and Juliet as
well as several movies. Too bad the Terrific Kids couldn’t stay
to hear this program!
Rhody
HAPPY & SAD BUCKS
Bob Martin …
Happy for a healthy grandson born on Christmas Eve -
Elijah Robert McKensy.
Don Corbett …
Sad Prez Daryal forgot his 16th anniversary on
January 28. Prez retorted that Don was too
anxious and ahead of himself.
FACTS AND FICTION
Music: piano tunes
by Martha Crockett, Ed Moulton lead God Bless
American and Hail Kiwanis and Jack Dawson lead
Hi Neighbor
Opening:
flag salute by
Mike Leininger
and inspiration by
Al Restivo
Guests:
Kiwanis spouses
Rhoda Backer
and Irene Christensen
Master of the Cash
Box: Bob Martin (who
started “Happy Bucks” before Prez Daryal
could pick up the microphone)
Anniversaries &
Birthdays:
Prez Daryal
finally caught Rick Lazarre
who had his birthday on
November 23 and his anniversary on December 12.
Rick joined the
Century Club.
Fines: No one was
sitting in the same seat as last week, but some weren’t wearing
their Kiwanis pins.
Jelly Roll Revelation:
Pat Anderson,
Executive Director of the LCF Chamber of Commerce, is so
important and influential in the city, she must be the cause of
the bad weather. Another $20 for the Children of the World.
Pat Anderson fined
Frosty’s Challenge:
Frosty is still taking care of Fran and her new
knee, so Bill Watts, George Lutes, Frank
Ragazzi, and Don Corbett all had great jokes that
were Terrific Kids appropriate, and they all got plenty
of laughs.
Knock Knock Joke:
Howard Backer had us howling and his own face turned
beet red. He started out great …. Knock, Knock - Who’s There?
– I Am – I Am Who? – I Am Still Waiting ……….. and then Howard
couldn’t remember what he was waiting for ………..but it
finally came to him – Century Club donations!
Fifty-Fifty Drawing:
Melinda Thompson
OFFICERS for 2004-2005
Daryal Gant, President
Paul Westmoreland, President-Elect Frank Ragazzi, Vice
President
Bill Scherkey,
Secretary Howard Backer, Treasurer Jim Ackland,
Immediate Past President
DIRECTORS for
2004-2005
Carl Christensen, Diane
DellaValle, Clyde Hemphill, Jeb Long, George Lutes, Bob Martin,
Melinda Thompson, Bill
Watts, Lloyd Welch
CLUB COMMITTEE
CHAIRMEN for 2004-2005
Attendance – George
Lutes, Finance & Investment – Open, Hospitality & Welfare –
Frosty Boyd, House – Mel Wilson, Interclubs – Paul
Westmoreland, Membership – Bob Wallace, Music – Ed Moulton,
Newsletter – Melinda Thompson, Parliamentarian – Clyde
Hemphill, Programs – Frank Ragazzi, Publicity – Diane DellaValle, Social – Harriet Hammons, Web-site – Jeb Long
FOUNDATION COMMITTEE
CHAIRMEN for 2004-2005
Community Services – Carl
Christensen and Mike Leininger, Fund Raising – Sylvia Kirkorian,
Human and Spiritual Values
– Al Restivo, International Understanding – Hal Crockett,
Soap Box Derby – Joel
Smith, Sponsored Youth: LCHS Key Club – Ken Lowe, Flintridge
Prep Key Club – Joan Peters, Builders Club – Open, K-Kids –
George Lutes, Terrific Kids – Open, Travel Adventures – Frank
& Vi Ragazzi, Wine and Gourmet Food Tasting – Don Corbett and
Joan Peters, Youth Services – Bachy Bachmayer
The Kiwanis Club of La Cañada meets every Wednesday at Noon
Van de Kamp Hall in
Descanso Gardens – 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada, CA 91011
P.O. Box 33, La Cañada,
CA 91012
Website:
http://lacanadakiwanis.org
LONG-TERM CALENDAR
Jan. 19 Wed. Lunch Meeting – Foothill Vocational
Opportunities – Tim Hacket
Jan. 22
Travel Adventure – Sailing Down to Rio on the Queen Mary 2
Jan. 26 Wed. Lunch Meeting – The Internet & You, Power
Point, etc. – Vic Legerton
Feb. 2 Wed. Lunch Meeting -
Feb. 3 Board Meeting
Feb. 9 Wed. Lunch Meeting -
Feb. 12 Travel Adventure – Exploring the Ancient Southwest
Feb. 16 Wed. Lunch Meeting –
Feb. 23 Wed. Lunch Meeting –
Mar. 2 Wed. Lunch Meeting -
Mar. 3
Board Meeting
Mar. 9
Wed. Lunch Meeting
Mar. 16
Wed. Lunch Meeting – The River Project
-
Melanie Winter
Note: A current roster of members is attached.
