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May 20,  2009

Newsletter

 

 

 

 Checkout the new look of our clubs’ website

Just a reminder to treat those that serve us at the Sizzler well and remember to leave a tip for them before you leave.

Meetings:  Sizzler, 371 East 400 South, SLC 11:45 – 1:00 pm, Meeting Room (Northwest corner of Restaurant.) Round Table Meetings, Same Time & Location except in the Atrium.

 

** Board meeting is the 1st Tuesday of every month at the Pagoda, 5th East and 1st North in Salt Lake City.   5:30 pm with dinner afterwards.
                                                                         

WED 5/20 Round Table, Erland Elmer on Maximizing Kiwanis Service

TUE 5/26

12:00
Noon

Division 2 and 8 Governors luncheon.  Golden Corral, 665 Fort Union Blvd, Midvale
TUE 6/02 Board Meeting**
WED 6/03 Speaker and Topic – TBA
WED 6/10 Speaker and Topic – TBA
WED 6/17 Round Table
WED 6/24 No Meeting
6/25–6/28 International Convention, Nashville, Tennessee

WED 7/1

Speaker and Topic – TBA

TUE 7/7 Board Meeting**

WED 7/8

No Luncheon Meeting

 

 

 

SAT 7/11

Summer Party, Ed Rogers Ranch

WED 7/15 Round Table

WED 7/22

Speaker and Topic – TBA

WED 7/29 Speaker and Topic – TBA
TUE 8/4 Board Meeting**
WED 8/5 Speaker and Topic – TBA
WED 8/12 Speaker and Topic – TBA
WED 8/19

No Meeting

8/21-8/23 District Annual Convention, Burley ID
WED 8/26 Speaker and Topic – TBA
TUE 9/01 Board Meeting**
WED 9/02 Speaker and Topic – TBA
WED 9/09 Speaker and Topic – TBA

WED 9/16

Round Table

 

 

Announcements

 As noted in the schedule, we are participating in the Division 2 and 8 Governors luncheon on the 26th.  As a result there is no luncheon meeting on the 27th.

 

There was a communication error involving last week’s scheduled speaker. 

Barbara Pioli regrets not being at the meeting. She is going to be re-scheduled probably for sometime in June or July.

 

Look for U&I Kiwanian Volume 13 Issue 5 to arrive around June 1st.  

 

In 1908 …

Federal spending:   $0.66 billion
Unemployment:   8.0%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

 

• Petroleum production starts in Middle East.

 

• Mysterious Siberian explosion levels

  hundreds of square miles of forest.     

  Explanations include a comet, meteorite,

  natural atomic explosion, or crashed UFO.

 

• President Roosevelt holds White House

  Conservation Conference, which leads to

  establishment of the National Conservation

  Commission.
 

 

• Earthquake and resulting tsunami kill 70,000 to

  100,000 in southern Italy and Sicily.

 

May 20th in History …

1506 - Christopher Columbus died in Spain.

 

1861 - North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.

 

1927 - Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis.

 

1932 - Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

 

1961 - A mob attacked a busload of "freedom riders" in Montgomery, Ala., setting the bus on fire.

 

1978 - Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.

 

1996 - In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.

 

2002 - East Timor became the newest nation.
 

Contact Information

(B) Business, (C) Cell,(H) Home

President/ Newsletter

Gordon Lewis,  (C) 915-6228,  (C) 706-4519, gclbowl@comcast.net

Immed Past President

Ron Howell, (W) 983-8000, (H) 397-2532

1st Vice President

Dave Nelson, (B) 486-7855, (C) 918-7617

2nd Vice President

Ed Tanner, (B) 524-2534, (C) 201-9908

Secretary

Mark Anderson (B) 568-9322 (C) 232-5560

Board Members

Dave Nelson, Ed Rogers, and Ron Howell, Chuck Baker