 | Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. |
| Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. |
| NEWSLETTER Cedar Rapids Downtown Kiwanis Club September 20th, 2006 The meeting was called to order by President Doug Dix. 27 Members in attendance. Guests: No guests Birthdays: The one and only, the indescribable, the articulate, mocha-chocolate-lovin’ Mary Corkery. Anniversaries: None Announcements: 1. Sign up sheets for both the installation dinner at Elmcrest CC next Wednesday, Sept. 27 and the Oct. 5 golf outing at St. Andrews were circulating around the tables. The dinner begins with a social ˝ hour at 6:00 pm. The golf outing begins at 12:30 pm followed by a steak dinner. Individuals can sign up for the dinner only if golf isn’t their game or they can’t play hooky from work. Happy Bucks: Duane Kurrelmeyer – coverage in the Gazette; Bob Hatala – worked the chain gang at the prison, whoops, I mean Kennedy-Washington football game last Friday night; Don Grimm – 600+ attended something that escapes me right now; Roger Hoffman – celebrating 28? yrs of marital bliss, (hopefully I got that right); Fran Brown – crisis in Thailand is over which is a relief since her son is there; Doug Dix – owed a buck for last week’s word of the day; and Dan Breitbach – found the key to his parents’ condo and announced that the party is on and it’s BYOB – BRING YOUR OWN BROOM to help clean up. Next week’s program: September 27: Installation dinner 6:00 pm Elmcrest CC Speaker: Dave Gosch introduced Alfred Ramirez, Executive Director of Diversity Focus, a relatively new organization in Linn County. Alfred was born and raised in Los Angeles, attended the University of Columbia in New York, and has been involved with diversity programs on the national, state and now local level for many years. He moved to Cedar Rapids in February ’06 to take this position. Alfred gave an interesting talk on the mission of Diversity. The organization is celebrating its one year anniversary with a press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 10:00 am at the African-American History Museum. Diversity Focus is a non-profit organization devoted to enhancing the diversity of the CR-IC area and its initial three goals are: Word for the day: Wordmeister Don Grimm presented us with “stover” and lo and behold, the incomparable, animal psychic Dr. David Graff came up with the correct answer: the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested. This did cost the club president another dollar. To dampen Dave’s enthusiasm for guessing correctly, the incomparable and one and only (thank God) John Anderson added that the good Doctor would know this as he often had owners feed excessive amounts of stover to their animals causing them to become sick and need vet care. Submitted: Dan Breitbach (Yours Truly) | ||||||||||
| KIWANIS SPEAKER COORDINATORS: September 2006 - Dave Gosch October 2006 - Joe Nolte November 2006- Bob Cenek Back
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