Our room at the BCC was bursting with folks and noise… what a delight! It's always groovy to have visitors, fellow Kiwanians, and our K family "kids" join us for lunch.
There was a ringing of the bell… but troubles all day with the new? microphone.. so at times it seemed no one was listening- or hearing anything!! But we were happy!!! Madame Pres. BFE Denise asked for our song leader, B. Rice, to lead us in GBA (did you plug your ears??). Invocation was short and to the point, with thanks and blessings for "the weather, Kiwanis and the work we hope we're doing" given by J. Piercy. The "fine" fire extinguisher was carried around by B. Lowman who did have a fun time filling it up.
We had an interclub from Oakland K- (and you know when they show up they have something to sell!). K. Hansen, R. Aubry, and Past Gov. P. Barsotti (along with her handsome son Tony) arrived, partook of lunch, and sold tickets for the raffle of their upcoming Christmas Auction (which has been held for some 42 years at least). It'll be at the Park Plaza Hotel on Dec. the 8th (AFTER our Holiday auction!). $25 at the door.
Our Circle K family chair, Monica, introduced Joe and Peter "on the couch" (I don't think that's an interclub?). She then proceeded to list all the things that Circle K has done in the past week- and what might happen during the upcoming week. Well, this editor got tired of writing!! However, some things remembered are: FTC (Fall Training Conf.) is coming up the weekend of Nov 7-9, and there was a work session for that this past weekend. They put on a Haunted House Halloween festival at the Lincoln Center Oakland
Our very own Madame Pres. BFE Denise is hard at work also, providing See's candy for folks to purchase, available each and every week. So far this is a great success. The lovely filled "October basket" (jams and beer and dried fruits) garnered $50 and when the ticket was pulled, it went to R. Bliss- who happened to be the main person who filled it up to begin with! So, past LTG Bliss decided to give it away to 12 people who purchased a ticket trying to win the basket. I could list everyone whose ticket was drawn, but you know who you are if you were there. The basket itself went home with VC and will be filled again with November items, to be auctioned off in the same manner- Way to go, BFE Denise!!!! Also up for auction was a cute Halloween container of fresh homemade chocolate chip & walnut cookies, made by VC and purchased by B. Lowman.
Committee reports as follows:
Our quilt project is getting it's jump start with a learning session to be held this Sat, Nov. 1st at 10:00am at the quilting room- (That's the upper floor of BFE Denise's business!). PLEASE come if you have or don't have any sewing skills. You will gain some!! B. Lowman has checked with the Kyakammena center and has found they would love to have quilts for both men and women. Dine out night will be held this next Wed. evening, Nov 5th, at the "new" Brennans- same area, right across the parking lot!! 6:00pm .
Dec 3 & 4, Feb 11 & 12 and Apr. 22 &23. A wonderful social event can be this coming Sat, Nov. 1st- with the YPSO concert at the Congregational Church in Berkeley
There was an S.G. (that's Secret Greeter) – the carrier of the fire extinguisher, B. Lowman. The one who missed her, D. Leonard, paid his fine so was not caught!
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L. Hannawalt put in 5 for "Hey Gramma, How do you feel?" and for Key Club help at a fundraiser. F. Bliss put in $$ for two claps (??) and Happy Bday to R. Bliss. P. Khong put in $$ for Circle K's Haunted House Single Service project which is a from the ground up event- lots of hard work and great success- and for Key Club Fall Rally. D. Leonard put in $$ for J. Egeberg's dessert (how does DL stay so slim?- all that rowing) and R. Aubry being a great host. B. Fay put in $$ for the Cal Bear win. S. Hearn put in $$ for the Hope Walk she was in! R. Aubry put in $$ that kids grow up toooooo fast. I think there were more, but then I daydreamed.. and missed some…. Although Past Gov. P. Barsotti did put in $$ for her son joining her for lunch- and for being in Berkeley
D. Wong introduced our speakers, one of whom lives only four blocks or so away from the BCC. Jim Gleich and K. Russell work for AC Transit.
Lots of interesting information!
245,000 people a day ride AC Transit.
30,000 kids are delivered to schools each day.
About 105 routes with 650 buses going at a time.
$310 million operating budget.
6 million gallons of gas a year.
Lost about $19 million from state this year.
Prop VV on ballet would put a $4.00 per
month parcel tax for 10 years to assist.
Working on cleaning up the diesel fleet.
Moving toward hydrogen based system.
(Hydrogen fuel cell)
Working on Bus Rapid Transit from Berkeley
$250 million
Question asked: parking facilities at the Bus Rapid
Transit stopping sites?? Good idea!!
There was more, but that's all I could get written down!! Thanks so much for all this info-
And thus another day has come and gone. Madame Pres BFE Denise called on R. Aubry to lead us in the pledge- which he did with great authority!
The bell was gonged- and we were free!
SAQOTD
Teaching kids to count is fine,
But teaching them what counts is best.
B. Talbert (Columnist)
SAQOTW
What a strange thing is memory, and hope:
One looks backward, the other forward.
The one is of today,
the other is of tomorrow.
Grandma Moses (Painter)
Know that you were missed if we did not see you at lunch today. We are all a special part of this great BERKELEY KIWANIS CLUB.
Editor: VC
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