President Khong rings the bell on this sunny day to start things up. On tickets was Roberta and Denise, who took turns taking over that booth, it seems the April chair forgot to assign. On fine box is T Paradis, who upon receiving her box visits late comer J Alexander. Borden Price leads the patriotic song, GBA. It was… powerful. I think I started on the wrong key though. J Piercy lead us in invocation.
We had several guests, first introduced was A Paradis who paid a fine for his absentees. Pres Khong is keeping track of guest appearances, that's 1 week in a row so far. We have Bill K-burg from Albany Kiwanis and Evan, who had some time and cash for a quick meal with his favorite people.
From CKI we had Monica, Lt. Gov Gail, VJ, Dimetri, Mimi and Rocky. Some new faces, wait… that's only if you weren't at Gualala! These are some hard-working folk. Monica announced, after adjusting her mic, that this weekend was Relay for life, there is a need for tents and donations. That's going on all day Saturday. Also, on mother's day is Spring banquet at the club house (close to the alumni house I think I heard) from 6-9p 20 bucks for your meal and entertainment. Also General meeting is at 7p It's the 2nd to last meeting. Come!
Pres Khong continued with announcements.
Governor's visit is this Friday at Spenger's. So far 18 people are signed up. Let's have a good showing for Gov. Knight!
Also, JR reported that Gualala was a fun weekend. we outshined ourselves, kudos to all who worked so hard. Her's a ten dollar bill for those who had steak dinners. We did such a great job on all 10 of our projects. Including dolls and tennis balls. We've got tons of dolls, almost an overload! Any ideas for a place to deliver them? Pres Khong hypes up the great projects for next year! Let's build some excitement.
Service:
This weekend is a service project. The Le Conte Elementary school work party. The address is 2241 Russell St, Berkeley, CA 94705. 9-12p There will be display boards put up, books packed and tennis ball cutting. We need another ladder and another electric screwdriver/drill with screw bit
Scholarship: 5 students received some big money scholarships. On the last Tuesday of next month, May 27th, we'll have our annual luncheon to meet these folk and honor them.
Membership:
Kiwanis Dine-Out Night will be meeting at Barney burgers on College Avenue next Tuesday night at 7pm for some great food and a night time social over food. Invite all those people that can't come to Kiwanis lunch meetings!
JP announces that as many of us will be receiving a generous tax refund from the government, we should consider stimulating our economy by donating that money to the scholarship fund. Tax deductions on tax free money!
Birthday/Anniversary announcements:
On the 24th of April, JP celebrated his birthday but was not here! Piercy refused to pay up, as it turned out, the 23rd of April was his and TP's 53rd anniversary, for which he did not receive a reminder and May 24th is his birthday. Money was exchanged, though I am not sure who it came from.
VC has a birthday on May 25th
D Haughlin receives a pin for 7 years perfect attendance!
Happy-sads:
□ A Paradis gave a J $5, for an official kicked off to project 2015, kitchen remodeling
□ B Kburg gave J monies for CKI lt. gov and daughter's graduation from Ganzaga. Also for his 21st anniversary and all the great kids getting scholarships for college.
□ Phuoc had J for amazing weekend
□ Jack had J monies for the weekend, and happy/proud monies for scholarship committee's hard work
□ J Piercy had a L dollar for not getting an anniversary warning. Also some advice. If you go to Yosemite and camp out, you want to take own food, because the two restaurants either require reservations are 60 days ahead or have 2 hour wait-times.
□ Jane has J bucks for Gualala, though it could be her last one
□ Bill Fay had L dollars for being too old to go to Gualala
□ Duane had happy dollars for Roberta for2 foot holes and fun and fellowship
□ Sandy's J for enjoyment and Gualala for Duane getting them there and back safe and sound.
Speaker:
Our speaker today was Martin Bourque, the executive director of the ecology center. The center was the first to run all diesel on biodiesel. Also, the ecology center is one of the first to collect recycling city wide. He bragged about the city's efforts for best practice by sorting glass into colors so that they can become bottles again, not asphalt.
He talked about the ecology center as a community center which gets answers to people. It is unique because they work on all issues related to the city. Waster, water, transport. "How do I? questions" They work on a service based approach to ecology. There is a public library and is for information giving. There are some products sold in store which are not even profitable, they just want Berkeley residents to have options to buy them. They also have heirloom seeds and an sharing seed library.
The ecology center is also responsible for the Farmer's market. This year is its 20th anniversary. There are 3 every week, one in north Berkeley, one in down town and one in south Berkeley. Farmers focus is on meet consumers, can give quality products to consumers directly without transport costs. It supports those who would otherwise go out of business. It provides education with young people, for eating fresh and healthy every day. Also a good place for new farmers to have a chance to compete with larger farmers.
Eco-house (tours) are available, a small house with lots of examples of eco-friendliness. Perhaps we can get a project there as a club?
There was also quick mention of a Low carbon diet. Social club really, where over dinner people explore high impact things to do in 30 days for high impact carbon reduction!
Monica our k-fam chair leads us in the pledge.
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