Kiwanis Club of Edmonds Seniors Newsletter

Tidal Tales

The kiwanis club of Edmonds seniors

meetings weekly at South county senior Center

tuesday~10:am~220 railroad AVE

Published by Edmonds Senior Kiwanis Dorothea Forrest, Editor

January 4th, 2005

Key Club Presidents Corner Interclubs Officers

2005 greetings

As I Prepare this first tidal tales for 2005, news coming from the southern portions of our planet continues to be as bad as I have ever heard in all my life; Pearl Harbor, D Day, 9/11, 1964 earth-quake, Mississippi Floods, Florida Hurricanes, PNW forest fires and currently Iraq.

Earthquakes and tsunamis, being natural disasters, occur anywhere, at any time. Along with hurricanes and volcanic eruptions. the earth damaging itself.

What can we do, us whose motto is saving the children of the world. Now many more children will have to grow up without mama and daddy—without their first teachers, their models for how to handle life. a new tee-shirt, candy, an orange, and placement in an already packed foster home is not taking good care of children.

we have already been workiing on the project of adding iodine to their water supplies, we can repair, rebuild and improve. This is a major and necessary job.

we don’t need another foundation to organize, have big parties and conventions to admire ourselves and raise money for these kids. we need people who will care, not for money and a job, but for love.

KeyClubNews

December was a busy month for Key Club at Meadowdale High .. Working the “Lynnwood City Lights” again this year, operating a Gift Wrap station at Borders in the Mall, sponsoring a coat drive … worthy projects that saw great participation.

Key Club Division 22/24 Lt. Governor Brian Huang visited the club in mid-December and shared news and ideas from the district level. Also the first Key Newsletter appeared this month. Good job Angelica Montanari. It’s great to get the word out. Key Club is no longer “the best kept secret at Meadowdale High”.

On December 16 a small group of Kiwanians from Edmonds Sr’s dropped by in the early morning (we call it an inter-club) and had a chance to witness the Key folks in action before they broke for the holidays.

It was a pleasure having faculty advisor, Mrs. Elizabeth Cano and her husband joining our Holiday Breakfast this year. We are all looking ahead to 2005 for the second annual Valentine Rose sale…. The club’s main fund raising event. And, of course, thanks again to all those Key folks who helped with our big Edmonds Food Bank drive in November at Top Foods. We were proud to hand those that participated their certificates at the Interclub Meeting.

President’s Corner

Now that both Christmas and New Years are over, we can all breath a little easier. Only birthdays, anniversaries and Valentines Day to go. Then it starts all over.

I hope you all got everything you wanted for Christmas. Actually, I figured out if I don't want anything, I'm never disappointed.

I also want you to have a great 2005!

I enjoyed our breakfast meeting at the Pancake Haus and hope that maybe we might be able to do it again. It was enjoyable to be able to talk to everyone, but that head table was sure lonely all alone.

I was very glad to see our Key Club advisor and her husband could make it to the breakfast. She is a very important person and I do hope that each of you can make at least one of the meetings at Meadowdale High School this year. I know it starts early in the morning, but it is sure something to see these kids up, alert and at that meeting.

Sometimes it's a little scary to see these kids and think "this is the future of the world?", but between our sponsorship and Mrs. Elizabeth Cano as advisor, we have a chance to start them off with a taste of community service.

Clayne

Important January Dates

Jan 1, New Year’s Day

Jan. 17th, Martin Luther King Day

Jan 18th, Edmonds Sr’s Brd,8:30 AM

Jan 18th, 10: am, Special meeting with new guests

Jan 21 st. Kiwanis International 90th Birthday.

Jan. 25th. Division 22, Council meets at Snohomish 7 PM

Jan. 29th SnoKing Crab Feed !!! St. Pius Church, Multi-purpose Room, Mt. Lake Terrace - See Pres. Letter Page for full Menu, cost and time.

January Greeters

(Please be on post by 9:30)

Jan. 4, Elwin Wright

Jan. 11, Don Williams

Jan. 18, Ben Snowdon

Jan. 25, Buck Weaver

January Birthdays

No January birthdays

PROGRAM TEAM

January, 2005

SPOUSES

No January birthdays

John Rutter, Captain

Shirley Elliot

Billy Joe Roberts

Chuck Scott

ANNIVERSARIES

No January anniversaries

InterClubs, January , 2005

Thursday, Jan 6, Golden K, Everett Senior Center, Coffee, 10.00 AM

Tuesday, Jan. 11, Mukilteo Kiwanis, Harbor Pointe Club House. 7:30 AM Breakfast.

Wednesday, Jan 19, 7:AM Breakfast. Both ell, North Shores Kiwanis. Alexis Restaurant on Main

Monday, Jan 24, Snohomish Tillicum, 10:AM Coffee. St. Michael’s Church. Snohomish (Backup)

Friday, Jan 28 7:AM, Sno-King Kiwanis Breakfast at the South County Senior Center

January PROGRAMS

Jan. 4, Nick Brossoit, Superintendent of Edmonds School District. What’s new in Edmonds Schools

Jan. 11, Joanne Byrd, The latest in Birding.

Jan. 18, Mike Gianunzio will dazzle us With how PUD got the Enron tapes, Enron’s manipulation of electricity prices, and the story about the story. Lots more, so be at the meeting. A Modern“David & Goliath”Tale

Jan. 25, Mike Mathis, Child Burn Victim & Co-founder of Camp Phoenix.

January 2005 - February 2005 Program Committees

Buck Weaver, Capt.

Frank Suhara

Al Rutledge

Howie Voit

Gordon Millikan

Ray Olson, Capt.

Steve Callender

Dorothea Forrest

Mike Medalia

Ben Snowden

December’s “puppet” show

Marybeth O’Leary, our Div. 22 Lt. Governor, suggested this group to us. She was at one of our meetings when we were talking about the Bike Helmets and wondering about a way to get kids more interested. It’s called “New Kids on the block” and they are for the most part, live “puppets”. This particular group is out of Everett and performed one of their acts for us on December 14th. Now that the Holidays are over, we will contact some of the schools and figure out a way to approve this for showing. It is, as the kids would say “cool”, and fun.

On Being both Editor and Reporter

There are times when putting together the material for a story it appears that something wasn’t as it should be. As a reporter I am responsible for getting the story accurate, as an editor, I am responsible for checking that accuracy. This was what happened in the Food Bank Drive our club sponsored for the Edmonds Food Bank.

I was told that voluntary donations we received from the public would be doubled by an international company, if the checks were held for a certain length of time after the drive was over. Some of the checks ($50.00) written had been changed to be payable to Edmonds Sr.s Kiwanis Food Bank Drive. Edmonds Sr’.s doesn’t have a Food Bank. We also collected between 400 and 500 dollars cash. Someone in the past had determined that all of this money was to go into the Kiwanis bank account and one check was to be written to the Edmonds food bank, from Edmonds Seniors Kiwanis and drawn on the Sr’.s bank account.

When I checked with Peggy Kennedy on this, she told me this double donation had been effective several years ago and they didn’t use it, not knowing if it was even still in effect. As they are audited very stringently, and checks written for them to someone else are difficult to prove, she said they could get in trouble over this, that she had no idea this was being done this way. I reported it to the board at the December meeting. I would suggest checks given to us for the Food bank go with the food picked up each day.

Absent Members

Gordy Wilson still hasn’t made it to a meeting, He wrote that he was thinking of us.

Chick Scott is home from the hospital.

Both Mike and Gene Medalia had surgery same day in December. Hope they had a Merry Christmas.

Shirley is visiting in Eastern Canada.

Mattie and Joyce Martin went to Mesa, AZ to warm up.

Former Kiwanis member, John Nutting, who is also active in Crime Watch and VFW, lost his wife, Jerry, to cancer just before Christmas. John’s many Kiwanis friends attended Jerry’s memorial service.

When she was at the doctor’s for a check-up, Dorothea complained about her ears possibly causing her dizzy spells and shortness of breath. Her doctor ordered an EKG, which resulted in a visit to a cardiologist after being compared to last year’s EKG. Diagnosis, Atrial Fibrillation. So, she is on a routine to try to stop the heart murmur, and no overdoing or fun. Gasping for breath isn’t her idea of exercise either. She’ll be absent from meetings for awhile, and will miss all of you.

Membership

Forty plus invitations were mailed to prospective new members from lists provided by current members. We also have some new members who are ready to be oriented.

Our January 18th meeting will feature a guest speaker describing how Washington’s PUD got the ENRON tapes. The tapes are about ENRON’S manipulation of electricity prices. Also will share some of the experiences with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Sen. Maria Cantwell is leading a fight to have the FERC take action on behalf of our state’s electric customers. The invitations are to hear this Jan. 18th speaker. We hope to have a good turn out A Modern-Day “David and Goliath” Story..

Coming Attractions!

Sno-King's Annual Crab -and Spaghetti-Feed

This popular event is targeted for January 29! One of the most fun filled events of the entire year, it is really worth every dollar spent. All the delicious crab and spaghetti you can eat, and they really mean it! Live music and dancing with a social hour from 6 pm to 7 pm. Dinner served at 7:00 PM. Besides the crab and spaghetti, there will be clam chowder, garlic bread and salad. Beer and wine will also be served. {Because of this no one under the age of 21 will be admitted. }

Held at St. Pius Catholic Church in Mountlake Terrace, address 22109 58th Ave. West. Dancing will be to the music of the Carousels. There will also be door prizes.

Actually, I am starting to drool, this was so good last year, I sure hope I can go. At least to eat! For more information and tickets, contact Duane Pennins at 206.367.8823.

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