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Tidal Tales

The kiwanis club of Edmonds seniors

meetings weekly at South county senior Center

tuesday~10:am~220 railroad AVE ~ MAIL P.O. BOX 221~98020

Published by Edmonds Senior Kiwanis Dorothea Forrest, Editor

August 2nd, 2005

Change is Good!

The Kiwanis Convention brought changes

CHANGE TO CLARIFY OUR GOAL AND OUR MOTTO!

YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE

SERVING THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

“KIWANIS IS A GLOBAL ORGANIZATION OF VOLUNTEERS, DEDICATED TO CHANGING THE WORLD, ONE CHILD and ONE COMMUNITY AT A TIME”

This is so inspiring. Makes me want to put on my boots and my marching clothes and take off for the WORLD!

KeyClubNews

As Key Clubbers are still on vacation, there is not much news. We hope to have a report on our meeting with the new Principal of Meadowdale High School. Incoming Principal, Dale Cote, will soon be at the school and available.

President’s Corner

Good News

The berries are over for this Year and it's time to sit back and relax for a couple of days. This year we rnade a little over $2,300 net. $1,156 on strawberries, $500 on raspberries and $670 on blueberries. We sold 178 boxes of blueberries this year which beat our old record of 138 boxes last year. I feel it was a combination of word of mouth advertising as well as the great article in the Edmonds Beacon. We got all 178 boxes in Ray's and my van and still could have held more. So remember next Year to tell everyone about our blueberries. I think even with our markup we had better prices than local grocery stores. Our berries were better, too.

I enjoyed our programs in July and want to thank John, Billy Joe and Harold for some very interesting topics. I would also like to say I enjoyed our picnic on the 12th. We had some great food and good fellowship. I always like to meet the wives and husbands of our members. Thank especially to Dick Lunstrum for picking out the best chicken.

After September we are changing the organization of oill. program selection groups. We have six groups composed of a chairman and 4 or 5 members. Each group is responsible for 2 months of programs for the coming year. This notice is to get you ready and geared up to find the best programs available.

All the best to all of You!

Clayne

Important August Dates

August 4, Edmonds Kind of Night Out

August 12, 13, 14 Kiwanis Pacific Northwest Convention at Vernon, B.C. Canada

August 12, 13, 14, Taste of Edmonds, Kiwanis Sr.s and Sno-King Kiwanis to manage Vendor Parking Gate.

August 16, Edmonds Seniors Kiwanis Board Meeting.

August Greeters

(Please be on post by 9:30)

August 2, Dorothea Forrest

August 9, John Rutter

August 16, Frank Suhara

August 23, Jack Sadler

August 29, Al Rutledge

August Birthdays

MEMBERS

August 4, John Nutting

August 8, Paul Jacobson, Jr.

August 12, Swanee Huck (H ) *

August 17, R.N. "Buck" Weaver

August 31, Howard Voit

PROGRAM TEAMM

August 2005

SPOUSES

August 5, Loretta Houston

August 11, Dianne Suhara

Co Captains

Buck Weaver, Frank Suhara

Howie Voit

Al Rutledge

Jack Zapara

ANNIVERSARIES

No August anniversaries

InterClubs, August, 20055

August 10, Wednesday - Monroe Kiwanis, Noon lunch, Godard Room, Valley General Hospital, 14701 179th Ave, Monroe, WA

August 18, Thursday - Everett Golden K, 10AM, coffee, Everett Sr Center.

,August 26, Friday, Sno-King Kiwanis 7AM Breakfast, South County Sr Center

August PROGRAMS

August 2 Jerry Dawson, (Frontier Bank) Reverse Mortgages

August 9 Restaurant Finances, Bob Donagon, Finance Officer, Ivars

August 16 Michael Suhara (Akizo Nobel) Netherlands Company, "Aerospace Coating Specialist"

August 23 Jim Boutte (video tape recording) "last Lighthouse Keeper at Burnt Island Booth Bay Harbor, Maine" His son, Capt. Davis Boutte will give a brief presentation.

August 30 Kiwanis member John Nutting, "Inventions"

Program Committees

August 2005

Buck Weaver, Capt.

Frank Suhara

Al Rutledge

Howie Voit

Jack Zapara

September 2005

Ray Olson, Capt.

Dorothea Forrest

Mike Medalia

Ben Snowdon

Rita Miller

Member News

Howie Voit has missed several meetings because he has had work done on his knees. He is at Richmond Beach Rehabilitation, 19235 - 15th Ave. N.W. Shoreline 98177. Rm # 311, Bed 2. His Personal phone is 206-546-6061. Facility Phone is 206546-2666. Visitors are welcome! He'll be there several weeks.

We received word that Gordon Milliken had passed on. Funeral arrangements are not currently known. Gordon was pleasant, interested, knowledgeable. He'll be missed, big time.

Buck Weaver is working on promoting an Aqua Sox baseball game for us Seniors, August 17th. He'll have more news soon on whether we get a special group rate.

Gordy Wilson, from Everett, was at our July 26th meeting. It was great to see Gordy.

Edmonds Seniors Kiwanis hosted the Division meeting on July 21, at 7 PM. Lynnwood, Snohomish, Snohomish Tillicum, SnoKing, and Edmonds Sr's were there. Monroe was a "no show". Lynnwood now meets at their Firehall. They hosted a golf tournament on July 23rd. Winners were Snohomish, first; E.D.J. Precision Machine, second; Monroe, third. Larry Merwin, next Lt. Governor, reported on the International Convention.

Old Salt, Sez,,

Can’t believe that too much salt can cause tinnitus

Limit the Salt!

PNW CONVENTION

In Vernon, B.C., Canada. August 11 --10:AM August 14.PNW (Pacific North West) Kiwanis has 413 clubs in 7 States & Provinces. The proposed amendments to District By-laws are in our Division 22 WEB site, click link on Pacific North West Kiwanis. This has it all. The delegates to the convention from the Edmonds Seniors Kiwanis are: Clayne Leitner, President; Elwin Wright, Past President; Dorothea Forrest, Tidal Tales Editor.The meeting on Aug. 9th is your last chance to voice concerns.

For those who like FUN, there is a golf tournament, plus Friday fun at the O’Keefe Ranch.

A complete schedule and information is posted under Pacific North West Link on the WEB site.

Lots of information there.

July 21 Board Meeting

Motion was made and passed unanimously that any Committee which had no expenses listed in the Budget, have the approval of two Board members before committing and submitting any expenses with a full report. All Committee expenses listed in the annual budget cannot be exceeded without full board approval. Our Market Table was disappointing and the Board will not do that again. Other income sources provide much more revenue. Jim Buchanan is Chairman of the Sr’s portion of the Taste of Edmonds and Elwin Wright is Sr.s contact for

Edmonds Night Out against Crime.

MORE ON CONVENTIONS

Larry Merwyn, Lt Governor elect for Division 22, gave us more reports on the International Convention at our July 21 Division meeting. The New Leadership Education Program is for students, primarily in hto achieve high school. This replaces the HOBY program. The mission is to provide a "life changing experience that inspires young people to achieve their personal best through service leadership". Leadership comes from helping others succeed, one of the most important lessons of leadership. PNW's first excursion into this program was in Stanwood, several months ago. Our Division did not send any participants, mainly because we weren't informed. Also, it isn't cheap. Another "class" is September 30th to October 2nd at Milwaukie, OR. More about this later.

There is a Camp for seriously burned children, cost is $250.00er session. It is suggested that each club in a Division donate $50.00 towards a needy burn victim's participation. This way at least one youngster can go from each division.

New Position

Larry told us there will be a new position, that of Division Secretary. This will assist the Lt Governor in his duties, as well as improve communication between clubs. Rod Vroman has accepted this position for Division 22.

SYLVESTER NEAL, PNW, WAS ELECTED TO BE INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE

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