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NEWSLETTER Cedar Rapids Downtown Kiwanis Club Wednesday, November 21, 2007 The meeting was called to order by President Bob Hatala. 22 Members in attendance. Guests: None Birthdays: Sister Charmaine Anniversaries: None Announcements: S. Charmaine announced the Homeless Children’s Trust shopping, wrapping and party day. Board meeting 12/4 at Wells Fargo. 12/5 is the Xavier choir at Witwer instead of Elmcrest Happy Bucks: Dr. Graeff discussed the historical emnity between Missouri and Kansas, running back to Pre Civil War days. The oldest NCAA Division IA rivalry (Missouri vs Kansas began in 1891 rekindling the coals of this cross border fued. Chuck Wehage is happy that his 42-inch LCD TV now fits the cabinet, thanks to his big belt sander. (Webmaster note: We verified that Wehage used the sander on the cabinet, not on the 42 inch LCD, TV.) John Anderson was happy, but the scribe missed it. Don Grimm was happy that Sitting Bull’s place of repose is under 30 feet of concrete in ND (so SD can forget about it). Dick Boardman was happy his “sons” wouldn’t be at his home for Thanksgiving. Joe Schmall told of his fight with the left-handed lug nuts on his ’69 Mopar that resulted in two broken studs. Doug Dix was happy that Jay Cutler has better stats than Elway’s over the same period. Dan Breitbach is happy that his birth mother is now 81 Next week’s program: Kathy Green – Metro HS Speaker: No program today – scheduled speaker Julie Pulju was suddenly confined to bed. Couple of very nice songs accompanied by Fran Brown. We spent the rest of the time brotherhooding. Word for the day: Tenebresence. The property of reversibly darkening and bleaching in response to radiation of different wavelengths. This word was rejected by Marjorie Grimm (Don's more level headed spouse). So Don also presented "efemera". It means stuff of short term significance. Submitted: Chuck Wehage |