Serving Bellingham for 80 Years

Meets every Tuesday Noon - Bellingham Golf and Country Club - Bellingham, WA

Bellingham Kiwanis Soundings

November 27, and December 4, 2007

President Dick Z opened the meeting with America and The Pledge. Dr. Audley gave us the invocation.

Guests:

Rob Toyer, a prospective member, was our guest today. Bill Audley, current Lt. Gov and official club guest, was also in attendance.

Brain Teaser for the week:

What eleven letter word is pronounced incorrectly by more than 95% of the Ivy League graduates, 10% of the WSU graduates and 1% of the UofW graduates.

Committee Reports and Announcements:

Bingo at the Elks-Don't forget to sign up and participate. It is a lot of fun!

YCPO-Nancy L presented a $500 check to Linda Crawford, Program Coordinator for Bellingham Technical College, to be used for Parenting class scholarships. Linda was very appreciative and also thanked us for our Club's on going efforts to keep their playground in tip top shape.

Spiritual Aims-Alyson asked everyone to sign up to give the invocation at one of our meetings. Pick a day or two when you would be able to provide us with a short invocation or a thought for the day.

Community Service-Dr. Bruce reminded us of the Salvation Army Bell Ringing on Saturday, December 1. Please sign up for a shift. We will have Key Clubbers helping us.

Division Council Meeting-- Monday, Dec 3 at the Legacy Building

Christmas Parties--MSA Golden K will hold theirs December 15; Ferndale will hold theirs December 18; Contact Elizabeth for more info

Community Service- Dr. Bruce also reminded us that Saturday, March 8 will be the Salvation Army "walk n knock". It was moved to the winter so it would not conflict with the city wide food drive held by the Radio stations etc the week ending October 25 (the day it has been held in the past). Fund Raising-Elizabeth announced that everyone should be collecting auction items for Theatre Night silent auction and play to be held January 24. The play will be "Communicating Doors" a comedy with some suspense, using time travel to alter events that have already come to pass.

Choices- We have about 25 presentations to make this year compared to about 15 last year. With possible additions from Options High School and Meridian Middle school. Vaughn has already given one presentation to Meridian Middle School.

Happy Bucks $

Ralph G-Filled in for Vaughn at Bingo as a caller and learned the hard way with a "few" mistakes. Fortunately the crowd was forgiving.

Vaughn-Thanked Ralph for filling in for him while he was on a cruise for a week-spent Thanksgiving in Cabo San Lucas and enjoyed a Thanksgiving dinner of Beef Wellington. (speaking of Turkey's …)

John W-Happy he won't be making mistakes calling Bingo

Mike Y-Sad for the Apple Cup Disaster

Bruce J-Happy for the Apple Cup victory

Rich E-Happy to have attended the Apple Cup with the other 40,000 in attendance

Jan- Happy Kids and grandkids visited for Thanksgiving

Ham-Happy to have visited Mt. Shasta for thanksgiving and got in a round of golf. Shot a 72, but that was on the front nine.

Dick S-Sends greetings from past member Alice Wirkkanen.

Elizabeth-Happy to have had Maggie join her for Thanksgiving

Bill A-Thankful for a very sunny day on Thanksgiving

Jim C-Got his exercise over Thanksgiving by refereeing 11 Basketball games (Whew)

John W-This reminded him that he played Basketball ball with John Stockton when he attended Gonzaga Law school. Their team only lost to Stockton's team by a few (hundred) points. He knew right then he was not NBA potential. :

Al D-Also reminded him of a basketball tourney he participated in in high school. I think they still had the peach basket hoops back then……

Birthdays-None celebrated.

Ticket Drawing

- Mike Yeend won but couldn't find the Joker. The pot is up to $85 (000), give or take a few zeros, but must be present to win! !

Program

-Our own Joe Carpenter, who is chair of our Foundation's investment committee, gave us an update on the new investment policy for the foundation. Talk to Joe and he will provide you with a hand out explaining our policy.

Thought for the week: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle--Philo

Answer to brain teaser: Oh boy, you actually had to look up the answer? OK here it is-the word is "incorrectly".

The club met in the main dining room of the country club with Pres. Dick rapping the lectern for attention. Lt. Gov. Bill (on official visit) led us in song followed by Al Dale with an inspiring invocation. The Lt. Governor spoke of a woeful recent trip to Sumas with other members of our club. The little black cloud followed them all the way up and back home.

GUESTS:

Rich Emerson introduced Antje Workman who had her application in hand. Also, Rob Toyer came with Jim Carney he too, with application.

Bruce's guest was JEFF REEVES who repairs old computers for kids. Jeff gave a short talk explaining his operation. So far, he has helped 1,719 families and recycled over 2,000 computers. Pres. Dick presented a check for $300 to help the cause. Old computers can be dropped of at Bruce's place of business.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS:

YCP#1 meeting at Monday noon, regular place.

Community service next Thursday noon at our house deli.

COMING UP: Salvation Army Lummi island project, first week in April. Theater night on January 24th. - tickets to be sold next week.

INTERCLUB: Jan. 14th with MSA golden, Christmas party. Also, on Jan 18th, same thing with Ferndale club.

Emily gave us the latest on our international projects: The SIGN program needs support by December 31st to receive matching contributions making your pledge two for one.

The SMILE TRAIN: Nancy will be accepting donations next week toward "Changing the World One Smile at a time." Last year our club raised $2,500.00 for this worthwhile project. Checks can be made out to The Smile Train or Bellingham Kiwanis.

HAPPY OR NOT SO HAPPY DOLLARS:

Dr. Bob, guilty of being in the warm South Pacific, donated $50.00 to the SIGN program.

BARB, "sorry I missed bell ringing."

ALYSON, happy to see Janis Erickson and Cyndy Patzman while ringing.

JOHN WILSON pointing our RUSS "dressed to the ninth" without even being asked.

NANCY LARSEN……..WOW 20 year member of our club. Rumor has it she was 14 years old when she joined. Congratulations, Nancy.

RICH EMERSON, praising potential new member ANTJE WORKMAN for joining our rowdy bunch.

JAN, for HANS ERCHINGER-DAVIS , recipient of a award directed to LIGHTHOUSE MISSION.

PROGRAM:

AMANDA HOSTETLER, former KGMI radio personality, now on the Board of Advisors of CHILDCARE WORLDWIDE presented a slide show and very exuberant talk regarding their organization. The international headquarters is located in Bellingham, the ministry in it's 25th year. They feed, clothe and more importantly educate children in the third world countries on a sponsorship program at a cost of $35.00(?) per month, per child.

NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM:

CHRISTINE DESTRY, Director of development of the Boys and Girls Club of Whatcom County will update our group on their activities and the proposed new location in Ferndale. Meeting will again be in the dining room.

Meeting adjourned.

Then re-opened for a business meeting to select two new Board members. Lyla Tjoelker was elected to succeed Chris Neros and Anita Jackson to replace Doug Davidson. Our thanks to Chris and Doug for their past service.