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Kiwanis Club of Manotick

THE TICK TALK      VOLUME 17    NUMBER 6

December 21, 2009

REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS:

Board Meeting: 2nd Monday of each month (September to June), 7:00 pm, Hyfield Place

(All members are welcome to attend a Board meeting.)

Regular Meetings: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month at Manotick Legion 6:00 pm for 6:30 pm dinner, September to May.

Bingo at Hyfield Place: 3rd Monday each month, 7:00 pm September to June

Bingo at Carleton Lodge: 2nd Wednesday each month, 6:45 pm September to June

Regular Meetings: Manotick Legion, Beaverwood Rd. 1st & 3rd Tuesdays September to May

Tuesday January 5th: Speaker Councilor Glenn Brooks City of Ottawa, Rideau Goulbourn Ward

Interclubs:  Contact Doug Demers 613-692-4622 djdemers@magma.ca

Recent Happenings:

Bingoland South: The returns from Thursday Nov. 26th were $2757 and subsequent weeks brought in $3800 & $4300.

Christmas Trees: The trees are almost sold out and the final clean-up will be on Tuesday Dec. 22nd.

Christmas Cakes: The cakes are almost gone but a few may be sold off at the next meeting.

Carleton Lodge Bingo: Marg & Doug Demers, Greg & Petie Newton, Dan Deacon and Simone Bachelor attended the Christmas Bingo handing out Christmas goodies and money to the Bingo winners.

Santa Claus Parades: Dec. 5th there were two parades one in Richmond and one in Manotick. We thank the participants for keeping the Manotick Kiwanis name out in the communities they were Joan & Gord Kettles, South Carleton High School Key Club and Band.

Upcoming Projects & Events:

Blood Donor Clinic: Wednesday January 20th at Jack May Pontiac Allan Haan is co-coordinating.

Board of Directors: The Board of Directors met on Monday Dec. 14th to conduct the business of the Club. Two donations were approved 1) Rideau Community Support Service - $1,500, 2) Make-A-Wish Foundation - $800. Our two representatives to the Kiwanis International Convention in Las Vegas June 24 to June 27 will be Al & Claudette Corace.

Highlights of December 14th Meeting: The meeting was full of members and partners, 68 in all and we welcomed our guest speaker John Counsell.

Here we grow again as we inducted Deanna Kelly into our Club. Deanna was sponsored by President Gary Coulombe.

Ian Macdonald acted as the Christmas Fine Master telling some good stories and collecting a multitude of fines from all our transgressors and there were a lot of them. Doug Graham was rewarded all of the money from the 50/50 draw by picking out the orange ball.

David Lochead introduced our speaker John Counsell who is associated with the Bethel Pentecostal Church and a talk show host on CFRA radio. John put a different spin on a Christmas story with some very interesting analogies. He said that there were many milestones and measurement at Christmas some joyous and some painful. Jesus gave all for us why shouldn’t we give all for others as well and serving God is the way. He was thanked by Al Corace on behalf of the Club.

Some Christmas Thoughts: I paid $80 dollars for a Christmas tree but it’ll serve a twofold purpose. Up until Christmas dinner I’ll use it as a tree, and after that as a toothpick.

Maybe I’m just sentimental, but every year there’s something about a Christmas tree that brings tears to my eyes – the price!

I dig Santa Claus. You don’t know how rare it is to meet someone on the give.

From all of us to all of you!

             &Happy New Year

Send your comments to Greg Newton, 613-822-3551, newtfoto@rogers.com

Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.

EC&C District Office

P.O. Box 26040
260 St. Paul Ave
BRANTFORD ON N3R 7X4

Tel: 519-304-0745

district@kiwanisecc.org

Kiwanis Club of Manotick

Box 282

Manotick, ON.

K4M 1A3

http://www.kiwanisecc.org/manotick/index.htm

OFFICERS

President: Garry Coulombe, Past President: Sean Gibson,

President-Elect: Al Corace

Secretary: Rick Coates, Treasurer: Harvey Nielsen

DIRECTORS