KiwaNews, Thursday May 1, 2008

By: Bob Carpenter, Secretary 941/ 629-5238 carp 813 @ comcast.net

¨ DONATIONS : Pres. Sheryl passed the basket to help a Hospice client who is 39 and has 4 children. Monies are to help pay for funeral expenses when needed. Members put in $306, H&SV gave $100 and Pres. Sheryl's discretionary fund put in $300 for a total of $706 . Also, last week a check was given to Harvey Goldberg for the Leadership Class 2008 fund raiser May 3 at Vivante to benefit homeless children in our county.

¨ KIWANIS DAY WITH THE RAYS : Sunday, June 1 at 1:40pm, The Rays play the Chicago White Sox in St. Petersburg. Tickets are $14 and includes the Party Deck ticket along with a food voucher for hot dog, Pepsi and snack. $2 from each ticket supports the Florida District Kiwanis Foundation. All kids get to go on the field after the game and take a lap around the bases. A Rays Baseball Glove will be given away to the first 7,500 kids 14 and under. If anyone wants to get tickets, contact Dan Newhart at 727-825-3293 or e-mail dnewhart@raysbaseball.com for ticket info. Maybe we can caravan to the game if there is enough interest. President Sheryl will ask today.

¨ ANNUAL BOY SCOUT F.O.S. FUND RAISER: Our annual BSA Friends of Scouting fund raiser started Feb. 7 and ends today . Members donated or pledged $4,710 towards our goal. Please bring your donation to the meeting or mail to my home if you'd still like to donate. Thanks to all who donated this year.

¨ P.G. EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH : Mike Rooney presented the monthly Community Service Award to city employee Lisa Hannon of the Zoning Department.

¨ PG Kiwanis KALENDAR:

May 17 : Div-18S Prayer Breakfast.

June 1: Kiwanis Day with the Rays, St. Pete, 1:40pm.

June 14 : CLE Training for 2008-09 Presidents & Secretaries.

June 26-28: K.I. Convention in Orlando.

Aug. 22-24: Florida District Convention in Jacksonville.

¨ NEXT PNM LUNCHEON MAY 6 : Prospective new Members and their sponsor meet at River City Grille at 11:45 a.m. We have 3 PNM's who members brought to meetings, they are: Darrin Metz (Diehl); Ed Miller (Hicks), and Randy Spence (Klossner) . Please turn in application ASAP. For Kiwanis to do more community service, we need more members.

¨ LAST WEEK : Brian Presley, the REAL state of the City and County!

¨ TODAY's PROGRAM : Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission on “What's the limit?”

¨ SPEAKERS : Mike Rooney is May Chair: May 8, Forest Management; May 15, TBA; May 22, The Academy, Gem of CCPS; May 29, TBA. June, Debra Scott.

¨ DOOR GREETER : May is Bill Kopp; June is Eddie Webb.

¨ BIRTHDAYS LAST WEEK : Rodney Taylor & Donna Hale.

¨ ANNIVERSARY LAST WEEK : None.

¨ WELCOME BACK LAST WEEK : John Fersner, Donna Hale, Rodney Taylor, Bill Klossner, Sue Craig, Bill Cameron.

¨ GUESTS : ???

¨ 50/50 WINNER : $85, Bob Naylor.

¨ ALUMINUM CANS : Please bring your aluminum cans for The Peace River Wildlife Center. Please double-bag the cans and then put in Ben Scott or Dan Garrett's car.

¨ TAKE YOUR SON TO WORK DAY ((PHOTO))  Rodney Taylor brought son Chas to work last Thursday which incidentally included Kiwanis. Great!

¨ CELL PHONES : Community Service collects used cell phones and gives 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 they need it. Please bring your phone and charger; give to Roger Enger.

¨ CLUB POLICY ON CANDIDATES: Please feel free to bring a candidate to lunch, but, no politicking in the building. Introduce your guest by the office they seek, but no speeches. Literature and petitions must be distributed OUTSIDE the building. No announced candidate will be considered for membership until after the election. Candidates in the Aug. 26 Primary will be invited Aug. 14 to a “Candidates Day” program. Those in the Nov. 4 General Elections, will be invited to speak Oct. 30. Kiwanis International forbids politicking at club meetings. Please abide by the Kiwanis International and club policy.

¨ P.G. KIWANIS POSTER : Bill Martin is Chairman of our color poster project, a great gift; $5 each, or framed/signed by artist Ron Bates for $25, or Special Framed Poster “Personalized” by the artist for $50. Please see Bill, Joan Greene's Accurate Accounting, Dr. Rick Fox's dentist office, Peace River Wildlife Center, Nolan Insurance, Bobbie Diehl's CC MotorSports Park.

¨ What we are … Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time!”