President Dave Bell called us to order and invited Ted Dimon to offer the Invocation. Ray Arnold then directed our a cappella singing of The Club Song and “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” The Pledge of Allegiance followed.
Guests
Our guests (and their hosts) included Morgan Kiel (Herb Hayde), Bonnie Wills (Seth Jorgensen), and scholarship recipient Jessica Lehr (Elaine Adrian) who presented the club with a set of acryllic paintings of our club seal and the sundial.
Wellness Report
Nancy Carpenter sent greeting cards throughout the dining area to be signed and sent to the members and friends of our club who need our thoughts and prayers. They include: Betty Neal, Nancy Totten, Bill Chester, John Voss, Lou Snodgrass, Bob McBreen, Joan Dimon, Sherman Agins, Don Parks, Mickey Rosenquist, and Martha Keith.
District Convention
Southwest District Convention is to be held August 21-22 in Laughlin, NV. For registration information, go to http://www.kiwanis-southwest.org/.
Desert Ridge Club
President Dave Bell announced the success of the new Desert Ridge Kiwanis Club’s recent golf tournament ($3,000) and was pleased as well to announce the club’s assisting in the formation of a new Key Club at Crestview College Preparatory School.
1,2,3… You Are the Key
Nancy Carpenter received a silver key for her sponsorship of two new members recently. Bill Rintelmann also received a key for his sponsoring Wayne Fulcher.
American Legion Aux. Fundraiser
Post #34, 6272 E. Cave Creek Rd, is hosting an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner on August 25 from 5-8 p.m. The post has adopted AZ National Guard 285th Aviation Batallion. 262 soldiers will be deployed on October 6. All funds raised (after expenses) will go toward a send-off BBQ in September for the troops and their families plus additional gestures of support to follow their deployment.
Guest Speakers
Mark Lauch, science teacher at Cactus Shadows High School, introduced the club to the emerging agricultural science called Aquaponics. This innovative, ecologically-friendly technology combines fish and plants in a recirculating system whereby nutrients from fish excrement serve as nutrients for the raising of vegetables in a soilless environment. Tilapia are the fish most often raised in this agribusiness with lettuce, cucumbers, basil, okra, and tomatoes among the vegetables harvested from the “float beds” adjoining the fish aquariums. Mr. Lauch is currently applying for a grant that would allow the high school to develop its own aquaponics system.
Hans Thiele followed Mr. Lau with an “Our Gang” remembrance of his childhood in Germany during and after the Second World War. His memories included the drone of aircraft in the night sky and the sound of artillery fire during the war as well as the scarcity of food and staples at the war’s conclusion. His story continued with the telling of his family’s purchasing steerage to the United States, his courageous and enterprising mother’s sewing money and jewelry into the hem of her clothing in order to ease the family’s new beginning in this country, and a personal interpretation of the trajectories his native country and adopted nation have taken during his lifetime.
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