JANUARY 4, 2012
Beth Klingele Next Week’s Program: Aurelio Garcia ESD 105 Regional Arts Education Coordinator
We were greeted by : MIKE MORRISETTE
Invocation by : STEVE SOELBERG
Sergeant: EARL HALL
Bingo winner: CAROL HELMS
50/50 Chance won then lost by: PAT GILMORE
Welcome back AUDREY RICE and PAT GILMORE, nice to see you.
Welcome West Valley Kiwanis Members: Tony Suriano, Helen Downs and Ken Johnson.
Welcome guest Graham Daniels from Meter, Georgia
CAROL HELMS is putting together an interclub for Thursday Jan 12 at Kamiakin, they lunch at Gasperetti’s.
Upcoming events: Father Daughter Dance is January 21. Nutcracker Palace is the theme. Tickets sales are going great according to STEVE EMHOFF – only $70 per couple. Thank you to PAT GILMORE from Dunbar Jewelers for once again donating a fabulous diamond item for the raffle. Drop your silent auction items off at the club meeting Tuesday or with Steve Emhoff or Karl Corpron.
West Valley Crab Feed – Saturday January 28 at West Valley Junior High. Tickets are only $25 each. Let’s support West Valley Kiwanis. Contact Tony Suriano at 949-7501 for tickets.
SPENSER HATTON gave us a report on Edward the Elf who visited over 200 kids at Yakima special education classrooms and at Children’s Village. Edward is accompanied by Santa Claus, aka JAY CARROLL. Thanks also to KARL CORPRON who designed the Operation Kiwanis Claus logo. We are so lucky to have active and dedicated members.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT JOHN BENSON: We learned much about John Benson at his first “classification talk” even though he’s been a member for many years. We also suspect there is much more to learn that the 20 minutes of his talk would allow time for. John told us about his life growing up at Seattle’s Redondo Beach which had, at that time an amusement park. John spent many summers boating on the lake, without a life jacket, although he doesn’t like water and never learned to swim. Like most young men, he also had a passion for fast cars which he worked on during his teens. John starting getting into model trains when he was 12 and it became a life long passion. He plans to be buried with his remaining collection. So much for “you can’t take it with you”. John has been a Safeway worker, boat distributor, Indian fisheries manager and accountant. Initially flunking his first college level accounting class, he later went back to school and eventually got his accounting degree. He worked at Superior Asphalt for over 30 years and still works part time. His current “hobby” is fixing up his parent’s Redondo Beach home where he and Joann enjoy the beach view, and John enjoys his new man-cave.
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