E-Bulletin....February 8, 2016 (Feb 08, 2016)

Club Information

San Marcos Noon Kiwanis - We Build!

Kiwanis is for Kids

We meet Thursdays at 12:00 PM

Grin's Restaurant

802 N LBJ Dr
San Marcos, TX 78666
United States

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Executives & Directors

President

Moe Johnson

Secretary

Glen Rydl

Treasurer

Randy Cook

Webmaster

Lon Shell

Past President

Del Brown

President Elect

Tracy Herman

Feb 11, 2016
Gary Nelson will bring the program
The program wioll be Mr. Anthony Stahl, new CEO of CTMC

Feb 18, 2016
Steve Furney brings the program
Dr. Kent Griffin Exerciose & Sports Science Asst. Professor; Nat'; Interscholastic Cycling Assoc.

Feb 25, 2016
PANCAKE DAY AND SILENT AUCTION
The whole club is edxpected to participate....Activity Center

Mar 03, 2016
Marcella Burleson will bring the program
She will be bringing information about "Meals to Grow" Ministry"

Mar 10, 2016
Pam Cook brings the program
TBA

Mar 17, 2016
Rob Martin brings the program
TBA

Mar 24, 2016
David Chandler brings the program
TBA

Mar 31, 2016
Randal Grizzle brings the program
TBA

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BULLETIN FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 8TH

"THE SMALLEST GOOD DEED IS BETTER THAN THE GRANDEST GOOD INTENTIONS"

CLUB ATTENDANCE FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016

GREETERS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY

February 11th............David Chandler

February 18...............Pam Cook

February 25...............PANCAKE DAY...SILENT AUCTION (Everyone works and greets)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU WHO WERE BORN IN FEBRUARY

 James Collier.........February 17

WE HAD A WINNER LAST WEEK FOR BIG BUCKS.

Yessir! we had another winner last Thursday. It was Frederick Case. He had all of his pins on and then some. You know what? He gave all of it back to the Eliminate Project. Thanks Frederick!

FUN FACTS ABOUT THE NUMBER '8'

 1.Number '8' is the symbol of harmony and balance.

2. Number '8' symbolizes the ability to make decisions.

3. A bronze anniversary celebrates the'8th' year.

4. The amount of cloud is measured in oktas .(from 0-8)

5. Most umbrellas have '8' sides.

 6. The "stop" sign has '8' sides.

7. In the world of computers, a byte is '8' bits.

8. Spiders have '8' legs

9. The octopus has '8' arms.

10.There are '8' fluid ounces in a cup. There are '8' pints to a gallon.

11. There are '8' planets in our Solar System....Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

12. There are '8' Millennium goals to be achieved by 2015. These goals were agreed on by 192 United Nations member states.....They are: (a) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger...(b) Achieve universal primary education..(c) Promote gender equality and empower women...(d) Reduce child mortality...(e) Improve maternal health...(f) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases....(g) Ensure environmental sustainability....(h) Develop a global partnership for development.

VOTED "BEST OF HAYS" BY THE SAN MARCOS DAILY RECORD

We received notice last Thursday that our Kiwanis Club was voted the "Best in Hays". The San Marcos Daily Record will be announcing the Best of Hays Winners in a special newspaper tab on February 26, 2016. Look for it. We are proud of this.

OUR UPCOMING PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Our program for this coming Thursday will be brought by Gary Nelson. Anthony Stahl, new CEO of Central Texas Medical Center will be our speaker. After a career as an Adventist Disaster Relief Agency executive, Stahl entered health care management in 2006 as human resources and marketing director at Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits, California. He became human resources executive director for the Adventist Health Systems' Florida Hospital Heartland Division in 2012 and was promoted to vice president of support and ancillary services the following year.

Since 2012, Stahl has served as administrator of Florida Hospital Heartland in Lake Placid and vice president of the hospital's Lake Placid, Sebring and Wauchula campuses. He believes that being CEO of any hospital is a sacred calling. We look forward to hearing from our new administrative CEO this coming Thursday.

OUR PROGRAM FROM LAST THURSDAY

Thanks to Randy Cook, who brought the program last week, we got a very fine view of our involvement with the Terrific Kids and K-Kids at DeZavala Elementary School. Those representing the school were Kayla Shook, 4th Grade teacher at DeZavala, and the faculty sponsor of our Kiwanis program there at the school. Also present was Tim Maresch, principal at DeZavala and very supportive of our program. Also attending were two of our K-Kids, Justin McCarty and Marie Lopez, bot h very active in the K-Kids. Kayla shared with our club some of the projects that she is going to try & implement this coming year. Also, they just finished a major fundraising endeavor called "Pennies for Patients" (our club helped with about $150.00 toward that endeavor.) That money will go to the Leukemia and lymphoma program to help to eliminate this awful disease. The K-Kids are meeting every 1st & 3rd Tuesday at 12:25pm in Kayla's classroom. If you have some extra minutes to spare, please join them. They would like to see the faces of those who are helping them from our club.

"KIWANIAN OF THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY"

Let's face it guys & gals, is there nothing that Lon Shell has not put his whole heart and soul into when it comes to working for his club. Well Pres. Moe presented a T-Shirt to Lon last Thursday, and declared him Kiwanis of the Month. This was for Lon's latest endeavor in helping Bonham Pre-kindergarten school prepare for some much needed playground projects. The projects have not been done as of yet, but Lon wants the club to keep their enthusiasm up about the projects, so that when the time comes, we will be ready. But this latest is only one of many things that Lon has dedicated himself to. He believes in Kiwanis 100+%, so he is certainly worthy to wear the K.O.T.M.

"I NEED HELP!

"A policeman was taking a vandalism report at an elementary school when he was interrupted by a six year old girl. She looked up and down at his uniform and asked, 'Are you a policeman?' 'Yes I am,' he said. 'My mother told me that if I ever needed help, I should ask a policeman. Is that right,' the girl asked. 'Yes it is,' said the policeman. The girl extended her foot to the policeman and said, 'OK, then, would you tie my shoe?'"

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS?

1. The term 'maverick is derived from the name Samuel A. Maverick,an early Texas lawyer and pioneer., (1803-1870).

2. "Oscar", the Academy Award statuette, was named for Texan Oscar Pierce, whose niece worked in Hollywood for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. When she saw the gold statuette, she reportedly said, "Why, that looks just like my Uncle Oscar.

3. The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is home to the world's largest parking lot. The Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport has the third largest runway in the world and the alternate landing site for the space shuttle. Texas has more airports than any other state in the country.

4. The word "Texas" was the Spanish pronunciation "Tejas" of the Hasinai Indian word meaning 'allies' or 'friends'. In fact the Texas motto is "friendship."

5. The Texas State Capital - - completed in May, 1888--is the largest capital of all state capitals in the nation in terms of gross square footage. It is second in total size only to the National Capital in D.C. Additionally, the capital dome in Austin is 7 feet higher than the dome on the U.S. Capital. Texas isthe second tallest state capital building after Louisiana.

6. The largest county in Texas is Brewster. It measures 6,190 square miles, which roughly is the size of Connecticut. Delaware could fit inside Brewster three times.

7. After the popularity of the song "Luckenbach, Texas", so many road signs were stolen that the government stopped making them.

8. The city of Slaughter, Texas, has never had a homicide.

9. The largest city in Texas is Houston. It is also the fourth largest city in the United States.

10. If Texas were a country, it would rank as the world's 7th largest producer of greenhouse gases. Additionally Texas emits more greenhouse gases than any other state in the United States.

11. Texas experiences the most tornados in the United States with an average of 139 per year. Tornadoes occur most often in North Texas and the Panhandle.

12. The deadliest natural disaster in the U.S. was the Galveston hurricane of 1900, which killed between 8,000 - 12,000 people.

1. Did You Know that a chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time?

 2. Did You Know that the orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily inside the Sun?

 3. Did You Know that rubber bands last longer when refrigerated?

4. Did You Know the blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it?

5. Did You Know that a left handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a right-handed person because they can supply a stronger anticlockwise turning force than a right-handed person. However a right-handed person will find it easier to tighten the jar up afterwards?

6. Did You Know that the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue?
7. Did You Know that if the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction?

 8. Did You Know that the hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white?

9. Did You Know that if a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can change the colorings of its body to match the pattern of the chess board. The sole takes about 4 minutes to make the change?

10. Did You Know that the first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and Silicate - hence its brand name, Persil?

HISTORICAL FACTS FROM FEBRUARY 5TH TO FEBRUARY 11TH

February 5, 1917......The new constitution of Mexico allowing for sweeping social changes was adopted.

February 6, 1933.......The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted. It set the date for the Presidential Inauguration as January 20th, instead of the old date of March 4th. It also sets January 3rd as the official opening date of Congress.

February 7th, 1795......The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting the powers of the Federal Judiciary over the states by prohibiting Federal lawsuits against individual states.

February 8th, 1910.......The Boy Scouts of America was founded by William Boyce in Washington, D.C. , modeled after the British Boy Scouts.

February 9, 1943.....During World War II in the Pacific, U.S. troops captured Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands after six months of battle, with 9,000 Japanese and 2,000 Americans killed.

February 10, 1942.......The first Medal of Honor during World War II was awarded to 2d Lt Alexander Nininger (posthumously) for heroism during the Battle of Bataan.

A CLOSING THOUGHT FROM THE EDITOR

"The most valuable gift you can give another is a good example"