FEBRUARY 3, 2009
Beth Klingele NEXT WEEKS PROGRAM: the WASL (the learnin’ one, not the drinkin’ one)
We were graciously greeted by MAC PORTER, prayed for by RUSS ROBERTS, President RON ZIRKLE ran a very argyle meeting and also pinch hit as our sergeant.
Welcome back TERESA VITELLO, who announced that the Wellness House for which she is now employed in having a fund raiser “Lunch Among Friends” Friday March 6th. Contact Teresa or MARGARET FILKINS for more info.
Nice to see long time members BRIAN BLOUNT and CORKI MATTINGLY.
BECKY SCHOLL announced an opportunity for small roving dinners among CWU grads that support the school, see Becky to sign up.
Becky also is selling tickets for the League of Women Voters annual fundraiser coming up on Sunday March 29 at the Seasons featuring The Righteous Mothers. See Becky about that too.
BETH KLINGELE won bingo for the second week in a row. (Wish I was this lucky in the lottery). New member JAN LYONS won then lost the 50/50 drawing.
Don’t forget to buy your tickets for the West Valley Kiwanis Crab Feed coming up on February 28th. Let’s get an interclub.
President Ron introduced our program speakers, Ralph Curran and Jim_______ from the City of Industry Kiwanis club. These two gentlemen are promoting Kiwanis/SIGN a district wide humanitarian effort working to heal extreme leg trauma in developing countries throughout the world. Kiwanis/SIGN provides free surgical implants that surgeons use to heal otherwise untreatable injuries. Lewis G. Zirkle, Jr., MD received a $10,000 Kiwanis World Service Medal prize he received in 1997 to help found Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN). His goal is to create equality of fracture care throughout the world. The tools and technique that SIGN provides to doctors all over the world allow for much quicker healing than traditional methods. The implant does not require a computerized x-ray machine and can even be used in hospitals without electricity. The speakers noted that a donation of $100 pays for a surgery and a $15000 donation establishes a SIGN center and 100% of donations go to the program, overhead is covered by a group of individuals.
The PNW district of Kiwanis has a goal of creating 100 new SIGN centers. This will result in at least 10,000 persons restored to productive lives each year.
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