Hannibal Evening Kiwanis

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1 Hannibal Evening Kiwanis Weekly Update for June 18, 2018 Date Topic Schedule Location/Time June 18 June 25 Jennifer Wilson Executive Director Turning Point Recovery Center Park Planning and work schedules signup/discussion July 2 Clean up in Central Park Central Park 6:00 p.m. July 9 Board Meeting July 16 Captain Mike Roinila PhD Salvation Army July 23 Pending Air Evac July 30 Committee meeting August 6 Board Meeting August 13 Mark Adkison Shiloh Children s Ranch August 20 Open August 27 Committee meeting Sept 3 No Meeting due to Labor Day Sept 10 Board Meeting Sept 17 Open Sept 24 Installation of Officers Dinner If you have any program requests and/or suggestion, please send an to: Patty Light at light0029@socket.net June 11th Meeting 32 members and 2 guests were present. 50/50 pot was $ Chad Fords name was drawn and he was not present. We had a rollover.

2 Story for the week Pearl Harbor; Very interesting what God did that day. Really interesting, and I never knew this little bit of history: Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes.. I went into a small gift shop to kill time. In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled, "Reflections on Pearl Harbor " by Admiral Chester Nimitz. Sunday, December 7th, Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat-- you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war. On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters everywhere you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?" Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?" Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?" Nimitz explained: Mistake number one : the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800. Mistake number two : when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships. Mistake number three: Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America. I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still an inspiration as I reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest that because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredricksburg, Texas --he was a born optimist. But anyway you look at it--admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism. Continued on next page

3 Story for the week continued President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and defeat. There is a reason that our national motto is, IN GOD WE TRUST Why have we forgotten? PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY! Submitted by Dee Wright Kiwanis Tid-Bits Monies received by Kiwanis clubs from fundraising projects in which the public participates, or from members or others for service activities sponsored by the club, must be segregated from the administrative funds of the club and used only for the club s service activities. Only the actual costs of the fundraising activity can be charged to the service account. In addition, interest earned by the service account cannot be transferred to the administrative account. All nonservice operating costs of the club must be charged to an administrative account, which is funded by member dues and fees. Car Raffle Sales Last 2 Weeks YTD Doug Browne 30 Paul Buckman 106 Bruce Anton 6 Spike Ehrhardt 101 Spike Ehrhardt 3 Dee Wright 69 Jim Light 1 David Bleigh 34 Jim Harris 33 Steve McGregor 22 Mail 153 Total YTD 729 Mail 3 Prior Year YTD 641

4 Kiwanis Calendar Date Topic Location/Time Jun 28-Jul Kiwanis International Convention Las Vegas, Nevada USA Aug Missouri-Arkansas District Convention Ramada Oasis Conv. Center Springfield, Missouri Your Club Officers and Board of Directors Position Name Name President Lauren Youse President-Elect Angie Wilcoxson 1st Vice President Dave Hirner 2nd Vice President Mike McKenzie Treasurer Paul McVicker Secretary Bob Chriscinske Immediate Past President Debbie Grieshaber Director through 2018 David Bleigh Kent Wolber Director through 2019 Chad Ford Carol Nietiedt Director through 2020 Paul Buckman Erin Otten Your Foundation Officers and Board of Directors Position Name Name President Lauren Youse President-Elect Angie Wilcoxson 1st Vice President Dave Hirner 2nd Vice President Mike McKenzie Treasurer Paul McVicker Secretary Leslie O Brien Immediate Past President Debbie Grieshaber Director through 2018 David Bleigh Kent Wolber Director through 2019 Chad Ford Carol Nietiedt Director through 2020 Paul Buckman Erin Otten

5 Thoughts of the Day "She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell." - Marita Bonner "Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies." - Robert F. Kennedy "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure." - Helen Keller Help s sent via our website will say the was from the sender (i.e. Paul McVicker) but is really sent from address comms@portalbuzz.com. Because of this, many programs will see the as junk . To activate the links in the s or have the attachment come through, you will need to have set the as non junk in your program and trusted the sender s address. If you add both addresses to your contact list will help also. The adding of the sender s (i.e. mcvickerp8@gmail.com) and the comms@portalbuzz.com to your contact list will also help if you are using an online service like yahoo.com, gmail.com and hotmail.com. We are getting reports of yahoo.com preventing the of the newsletters from getting through their filters. Links Facebook Page Home page on club website Kiwanis International Hannibal High School Key Club Facebook page Kiwanis One Member Resources Missouri-Arkansas District of Kiwanis International /