Another great day in Cave Creek. President Dave noted yesterday was the beginning of a “new era” that might bring hope that might improve consumer confidence. Amen even before the invocation by Gene Ragsdale that reflected these sentiments of moving forward together.
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Our greeters were Burt Lundquist, Ed Knight and John Skarda. The House Committee doing some double duty since Burt and John did both, with Chuck Hoch and Herb Engdahl helping on House.
Alan Haugner provided pre-lunch photos from the Christmas party.
Richard Saunders led us in “America the Beautiful,” with fabulous fingers Lloyd Meyer on the piano.
Ticket winners were George Schmid and Hans Thiele.
For wellness, Lou Snodgrass reported that member Jack Davis was quite ill with an enlarged heart and a card was circulated for him. Blaine Keith keeps recovering – he loves phone calls at 595-9564.
Guests
All guests today had new member applications. John Skarda hosted Pete Gross. Brian Kunkel had an app and check from strong-backed Brian Jones. (Fleas take note.) Richard Daub was a walk-in introduced by Alan Haugner. Richard’s wife is a teacher at Lone Mountain Elementary School. Our support of our local schools stimulated him to check us out on the web, and then come to join.
New Member Recruitment
Kiwanis International awards keys to members who recruit new members. If you recruit one in the year, you get a bronze; two, silver; three, gold. Members getting the bronze today included Janie French, Manny Gonzales, Glen Hanf, George Schmid, Hans Thiele and Max Wyatt.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Board Meeting. Our Board of Directors will meet this coming Tuesday 1/27 at starting 8:00 AM at the community room in the Harris Bank. All members and any members of the public may attend. For an agenda and any advance materials sent to the Board, contact Secretary Gary Hayward at gvhayward@cox.net or President Dave Bell at davjanbell@cox.net
Library – An Evening with Barry Goldwater Jr. Event postponed until March 3 at 6 PM.
Souper Bowl of Caring. Celebrate the Supper Bowl with caring for the hungry – bring cans of soup (or other canned goods including canned vegetables you don’t want to eat) to lunch next Wednesday for David Shirey to take to the food bank.
Flea Market. Next will be Saturday 1/31. Please bring donations to warehouse by next Wednesday after lunch until 3:30 PM. Come help set-up Friday 1/30 at 2 PM, or sale day from 8 AM until close at 2 PM.
Science Fair. Help wanted. Jim Walborn and the science crew need more help with judging. Please contact Jim at 473-8349 or jim_walborn @quest.net
New Sign. Finally a new sign for Kiwanis on Cave Creek Road. Thanks Brian Kunkel for getting the old down. Here’s to the right tools to getting the new one up.
Wish List Fulfilled - Below is a link to a spreadsheet containing wish list requests that our club has filled. Thanks go to club President Dave Bell for supplying this. Click here to see the wish list
Help Wanted - The Sundial Committee is looking for a few good reporters and photographers. We're currently staffed such that each member contributes once a month. We'd like to get additional help from folks who would like to share their creative writing and photography skills with the club. As far as the time commitment, our consensus has it that the reporter invests approximately 1 hour, and the photographer has to simply upload photos to their computer. If you're interested in lending a hand, please give Tim Pitel a call at 623-308-2916.
Sundial Changes - In an effort to trim some costs, we've decided to reduce the postal mailing of the Sundial to once a month. Each issue will contain an entire month's worth of our club's news. This change will become effective with the first issue on April 1, 2009 which will contain the club news since March 1. Please note the online version will continue to be emailed weekly.
PROGRAM
Susan Vanik introduced her former neighbors Dave and Flo Wagner who back-packed through Asia for more than a year. Dave spent over three decades running and owning international businesses, and devoted time to humanitarian causes.
Dave had a pre-mature retirement because of open heart surgery. He had a year and a half recovery. Because of that and a lot of wanderlust, he and his wife fulfilled a life-long dream to back-pack through Asia. They bought a one-way ticket to India. For 13 months in 13 countries they traveled with only three changes of clothes and a laptop computer. They lived adventures previously imagined and eventually wrote a book “Unpaved Roads.” You can’t get lost since you don’t have a destination; where you are is your destination.
Traveling this way, they fell into a “back-pack” culture that provides information about “how to and where to” and can provide extremely useful fake student passes that save money and sometimes access at borders. “Lonely Planet” guidebook helps find the way and provides useful phrases in many languages. Most people traveling this way are significantly younger – between 20 – 30 years old. It is an interesting way to get to know different cultures and loose 30 pounds/person.
Next week Dr. Michael Crow, President of ASU, will be a very special speaker.
Thanks much to reporter Michael Moore and Photographer Sherman Agins for making this issue a reality.
Video of our lunch speakers Part 1
Lunch Speakers Part 2
Lunch Speakers Part 3
Lunch Speakers Part 4
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