July 15, 2008
Beth Klingele President WENDY AGUILAR greeted us after we were greeted by STEVE PICKETT. Our lone guest was Evelyn Kohler, better half of DON KOHLER. No longer was a guest but not quite an official member, but welcome none the less Phyllis Webster. RUSS ROBERTS prayed for us.
CAMI LEONARD reminded us that Kiwanis Golf Day is Tuesday July 29. You can sign up for 9 or 18 holes. A barbeque lunch will be served. Cami needs a head count for lunch ASAP, so please call or email her if you will be eating and playing or just playing.
BETH KLINGELE announced that she is looking for a few good Kiwanians to man the security and greeting at The Case of the Blues Saturday August 16th. A few hours of easy work gets you a ticket in and Kiwanis service hours for our club.
President Wendy then honored some of our very long time members. STAN PRATT, a past President has been with the club for 40 years (and Wendy noted, longer than she has been on this earth). STEVE EMHOFF, past President and past Lt. Governor, is celebrating 30 years tin the club. DR. MIKE WILSON, also a past President and past Lt. Governor is celebrating 25 years in the club as is SPENCER HATTON, also a past President. What fine and dedicated club members we have!
Our sergeant was none other than incoming President RON ZIRKLE who put us to shame with a revolutionary war quiz.
Bingo was won by LYNN BUCHANON and the 50/50 raffle, which is getting more interesting by the week, was won and lost by JOHN BENSON.
Our program was by Dr. Mike who gave us an update on Kiwanis Trust business including the controversial “Rotary Fields” signage at Kiwanis Park. The solution that will almost certainly be ratified by the Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis trusts is to reconstruct the sign with 8 ft diameter signs for each of the three service clubs rotated by a motor so that each service club gets equal signage exposure. The cost of this signage should come in under $10,000. The words “Rotary Fields” will be removed. A planter box will decorate the base of the sign.
The gour backstops that are now all decorated with Rotary logos will be taken down, each service club will have a backstop sign and the fourth will possibly honor Helen Jewett who donated a large sum towards the ball fields.
Also the three trusts will each write a letter to the city asking that the “Gateway Complex” signage be taken down and that the park be advertised as Kiwanis Park.
In other trust business, the three trusts, Lions, Kiwanis and Rotary have purchased 5 properties in the northwest corner of the park for approximately $300,000. They are being cleaned up and will eventually be turned over to the city of Yakima for more ball parks. Hopefully the “pond” can be filled in making room for more ball fields. One field is planned for now.
There are no further plans to buy more land with Kiwanis Trust money. Rotary is considering purchasing more land.
The Kiwanis trust has over $800,000 in it at this time.
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