KiwaNews: Jan 25, 2007

By: Bob Carpenter, Secretary     941/629-5238    carp813@comcast.net 

 

¨  KIWANIS EDUCATION DAY: Last Saturday Div-18S had a special education day for club Officers, Board and Committee Chairs/Members. We had 11 members attending who were Perez, Flavin, Naylor, Greene, Carpenter, Lindecamp, Gerow, Kopp, Ben Scott, Garrett and K. Miller.

¨  GOVERNORS ANNUAL DIV-18 VISIT: Governor Phil Yorston made his official visit Saturday at the PC Elks Club. Those who attended were Perez, Flavin, Naylor, Greene, Rooney, Clark, R.Taylor (2), V.Desguin, Bolton, Garner and Carpenter (2). We had a great time and entertainment by a real American Indian, in honor of Gov. Phil who is part Indian.

¨  KIWANIS KAR SHOW COMING: Please plan to work at our 2nd annual Kiwanis Kar Show on Sat., Feb. 17. This family fun event is located at the corner of Jones Loop Road and Piper Road. Please see Chairman Sam Harris to volunteer for a job. Signup sheets will be out soon. Sam said there’ll be 60 trophies presented.

¨  WINE FEST: Last weekend the PGCC held it’s 2nd annual Wine Festival in Gilchrist Park. They asked our club again to put up crowd control fence (aka snow fence). Bob Naylor coordinated the setup Friday and take down last Sunday. They gave our club a donation for the fence.

¨  PNM LIST: Here’s a list of proposed PNM’s brought to lunch in the past few months. Membership needs to know their status. Chairman Robin Lindecamp said the next PNM Education Lunch is Feb. 6 at 11:30a.m. and their application is needed ASAP. On the list Bobby Diehl (Harris); Sharon Reynard (Johnson); Harvey Goldberg (Ginter); Bibi Ullah (Boehm); David Friedman (D.Scott), and Mark Geach (Ginter).

¨  SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGING: Brian Birch gave me the list of those who worked Dec. 15 at Publix. They collected around $850.They were: Birch, Bottorf, Jordan, Lindecamp, Bill Martin, Pence, Ben Scott, Shaw, Vollmer and Winters.

¨  MEMBERS OFFERED OPTIONS FOR SCOUT DONATIONS: The Board discussed various options for donating to scouting in 2007. February is “Boy Scout Month” and we’ll kick off our annual Friends of Scouting fund raising campaign program on Feb. 1. This is the start of the FOS fund raiser and pledge cards will be issued for members to donate as usual. FOS funds are used to further Boy Scouts in the SW Florida Council and provides for the Boy Scout Camp, pay for executives to coordinate all Boy Scout, Cub Scout and Explorer activity in our area, including the scout office. FOS picks up expenses above what they receive from United Way, scouting fees, fund raisers, and various other activities. Last year members donated $7,800 to the FOS campaign. Some members said they wanted the option to donate funds directly to Charlotte County Boy Scout troops, Cub packs, Explorers, Girl Scouts, Brownies, etc. The board approved creating a special reserve account within our Youth Services Committee. Those funds would be allocated by YS upon request by local scout organizations.

¨  TODAY’s PROGRAM: Andrea Messina, CCPS Board member.

¨  LAST WEEK: Mac Horton, CC Supervisor of Elections.

¨  SPEAKERS: January Chair is Lee Swift. February chair is Brad Walden. Feb. 1, Boy Scout Day, FOS Kickoff, Paul Penttila; Feb. 8, TBA; Feb. 15, Daniel Noah, meteorologist; Feb. 22, Stamp Collecting.

¨  CHS KEY CLUB: Last week Sponsored Youth Chair JJ Gerow  reported that the Key Club has 18 paid members including 4 officers. Congrats to JJ and the SY Committee. Four Key Clubbers attended a Zone Rally in Tampa along with JJ and the CHS advisor.

¨  MEMBERSHIP REPORT: Please help us continue rebuilding our club; bring a PNM! Robin Lindecamp is the new Membership Chairwoman; Cindy Milburn is Co-Chair. PNM Education Lunch is Feb. 6, 11:45am at River City Grille.

¨  BIRTHDAYS LAST WEEK: None

¨  ANNIVERSARY’S LAST WEEK: Jeff & Cheryl Winters.

¨  WELCOME BACK LAST WEEK: Harris, Gilreath, K.Miller, Craig, Henson.

¨  GUESTS: Judi Harris, Paul Beight, Michael Cairns, Debra Bell.

¨  50/50 WINNER: $64, Degroot.

¨  CELL PHONES: Community Service is still collecting used cell phones then given to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. They are deprogrammed and can only call directly to 9-1-1. They are given to groups like CARE and distributed to abused women to get help if the need help. Please bring your phone and charger; give to Roger Enger.

¨  ALUMINUM CANS: Members are asked by Community Service to bring aluminum cans for The Peace River Wildlife Center. Please double-bagged cans and put in Dan Garrett’s car.

¨  PUNTA GORDA POSTER: Ralph Jordan is chair and has a great gift idea. You can get one at Nolan Family Insurance, Cayo Costa Dental, SunTrust (318 Tamiami Tr./Emily’s office), The Welcome Center (I-75/Exit-161), Bill Martin State Farm Insurance, Peace River Wildlife Center, C.C. Chamber (Punta Gorda Office), P.G. Chamber, Caruso Bay Gifts and Accurate Accounting (Joan Greene’s office). Local artist Ron Bates donated his 16x24 color poster artwork to our Club as a fund raiser.

 ¨  CHARLOTTE WARRIORS POP WARNER FUND: Youth Services Committee Chairman Sam Summers presented a check for $500 to John Day, to rebuild the Charlotte Warriors Pop Warner building on Carmalita St. in Punta Gorda. It was destroyed by Hurricane Charlie. Pres. Pedro donated another $500 from the Discretionary Fund for a total donation of $1,000.