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NEWSLETTER

Cedar Rapids Downtown Kiwanis Club

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

The meeting was called to order by President Chuck Wehage.    27 Members in attendance.

Guests:   Kathy Hedlund attended for the second time and brought in her application for membership.  Duffy Schamberger was a guest with the speaker 

Birthdays:  None

Anniversaries:   None

Announcements:  Installation dinner is set for Sept. 26 at Coe College’s Clark Alumni House.  Cost is $15.00 per person.  Please confirm your attendance with Kelly Moore so that we can give an accurate count to Coe’s food service.  A signup sheet will be passed around again next week. 

2.  Dan Breitbach announced that the Club can make some money by working security/ambassadors for Iowa home football games.  Per Mar Security is looking for clubs and organizations to provide manpower.  Per Mar will pay $7.35 per hour per person.  It would be a great way to make $500-1000 for the Club over 1-2 Saturdays if we could get 10 people each day.  Anyone interested should contact Dan Breitbach (dbreitba@coe.edu) if you are interested.  Include in your message the dates you would be available to work.  The next home game is this Saturday, Sept. 8 which is too soon to get anything organized.  All workers must fill out a volunteer sheet and a background check sheet and these forms need to be turned into Per Mar several days ahead of time.    

Happy Bucks:  Jim Platt – a wonderful bathroom experience gone amuck; Jim Moriarity – for the CR soldier who lost his life in Iraq recently and his mediation certification; John Anderson - $5 to GOAD Breitbach and Schmall into big bucks for their sons’ respective Gazette articles; Breitbach scraped together $5 from his retirement fund to match John’s; Joe Schmall also succumbed to the Anderson pressure and ponied up; Dick Boardman – split his $1 (cheapskate) ½ for Tommy Breitbach getting his mom’s athletic prowess and ½ for Jim Doyne’s lesson on how many deer it takes to make a ton (ans: 10); Chuck Wehage gave $2 for Jim Doyne as well. 

Next week’s program:  Bob Bruce WMT, Sept. 19: Janet Ocha (Sp?) Red Cross volunteer

Speaker:   Program Overview:   Jerry Moore gave an informative and humorous presentation on SCORE, Senior Core of Retired Executives.  SCORE was established in 1964 as a nonprofit organization with a purpose to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit in individuals.  SCORE has provided countless one on one sessions for start up businesses and its service is free and confidential.  Nationally, over four million people have been counseled by SCORE.  There are 389 chapters in the US.  Our local chapter 227 has 64 members with its office located in the SBA office.  It is staffed from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. M-F.  It conducts six seminars annually in conjunction with Kirkwood CC.

Jerry’s career started out as a chemist, first for ADM in Clinton.  Following a brief stint with another company in Macomb, IL, he worked for Penford Products until they shut down his division.  At that point he went to work in sales for a company out of Illinois and eventually embarked on his own business. 

Word for the day:  Word for the Day:     Don Grimm, our fine, fine word master, took us to the cleaners today with “Chiasmus”:  A grammatical figure by which the order of words in one of two parallel clauses is inverted in the other.  You say “Whaddup on dis?”  Me too – didn’t understand the definition until Don gave this example: One woman said it’s not the men in my life that matters, it’s the life in my men.  Sounds like a Mae West quote.

Submitted:  Dan Breitbach