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NEWSLETTER

Cedar Rapids Downtown Kiwanis Club

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The meeting was called to order by President Kelly Moore.  22 Members in attendance.

Guests:  Bob McAvoy 

Birthdays:   none

Anniversaries:  Fran Brown 7/17/96  

Announcements:  1. District convention is Aug. 9.  The Club will pay the registration fee. Let Kelly Moore know immediately.

2. The DeKalb Kiwanis Club is bringing 8 people to help with flood relief this Saturday-Sunday.  Lodging is being provided by Coe College.  The Marion and Hiawatha clubs are joining us as well.  Meeting at 9:30 at the Cherry Building on 3^rd Street SE.

3. The finance committee will meet August 13 at 11:30 a.m. and not next week as announced today.

4. John Schweitzer announced that the CR Community Concert Series is going on as scheduled.  The site will be the 5 Seasons Civic Center.  Season tickets are only $30 (for 5 concerts).

5. We received great news from Kiwanis International: our request for $5000 grant for the B&G Club was approved and a check will be forthcoming.

Happy Bucks:  Dr. Graeff – Amer. League won its 12^th straight all star bb game; Bob Hatala – great home run derby performance by Hamilton; Pam Landon – for going to high school with our speaker, Joey O; Don Grimm $2 – one for getting his mother moved to CR and the other ?; Mike Poggenklass $2– he and Brett Favre have something in common and for the great message on the  billboard about how great CR is; Mel Rhodes – he forgot what he’s happy about; James Moriarity – had a dollar left after writing son’s check to Wartburg for tuition; John Schweitzer – for John Waggoner and the Cubs; Dan Breitbach – his parents were sitting close but not at his table; Dick Boardman – happy his son was not at his table.  Oh the love!

Speaker:  Joey O, famous acrobatic golf artist and motivational speaker, gave a wonderful talk on his Dream Seed Foundation and the message he delivers to thousands each year.  Dream Seed – Joey’s concept for planting seeds of positive thoughts and dreams in order to accomplish/live a fulfilling life.  He handed each member a copy of his book “The Dream Seed” and also had copies of his book “Seeds of Wisdom”.  He’s provided over 80,000 books to children through his foundation.  One of the remarkable aspects of his career is his drive to make a difference, overcoming dyslexia to write five books although he has difficulty reading.  Along the way, he’s befriended Bob Hope who wrote the foreword to one of his books.  Thanks, Joey.    

Next Week's Program:  Don Tyne talking about veterans’ affairs.

Word for the day:   Don Grimm returned with a vengeance and once again, stumped the crowd with “Xanthic” – meaning: “relating to, or tending toward a yellow color”. 

Submitted: Dan Breitbach