Kiwanis Kronicle Rancho Murieta, California

Published by the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta, Inc. Editor:новый год Volume 17 Number 4 January 2016

President’s Corner

We can do it!

Rich Gilmour

Question box???

Question:

How did We Can

Do it! begin?

Answer: See

page 21.

December started off on a sad note

when we learned that Kitty York had been hospitalized and as of this writing is still in recovery. Our

thoughts and prayers are with her. Our thanks go out to Carol

Gustafson, Pamela Haines, Clau-dia Faeth and others who have vol-unteered to maintain Kitty’s CRV pro-ject until she returns.

Carol Gustafson and Jack

Seigal will keep us updated on her recovery.

On a more positive note, how about some good news?

We came very close to canceling the April 2016 Kiwanis Kids’ Fishing

Day event due to the impact of the drought on all fish hatcheries both public and private. Our previous sup-plier for the last dozen years went out of business due to lack of water.

Bottom line is we were finally able to get a commitment from the Mt.

Lassen Trout Farm for our standard plant of 700 pounds of trout. So all systems are a go for Kiwanis Kids

Fishing Day.

Our December 3rd meeting fea-

tured Rancho Murieta’s own Rod

Metzler, owner of Empire Golf Man-agement Co, as our guest speaker. Rod manages Turkey Creek, Cherry Island and Ancil Hoffman golf cours-es.

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Jan 1

Diann Swan

Jan 4

Gurdev Hora

Jan 12

Bob Lucas

Jan 21

Kitty York

Kiwanis International

101 years old!

Jan 27

Barbara Keil

Jan 29

Joe Mazzoni, Sr.

Inside this issue

Who attends what 3

Sweats for Vets 3-5

Operation Santa Claus 8-9

Party Time 12-14

CRES Toy Drive Results 24

Kiwanis Kalendar 31

As Kiwanians you are a part of a service club that provides ser-vices to our community such as (but limited to) Scholarships;

KANE project; noon meal deliv-ery; dictionaries to third graders, Kids Fishing Day and more.

But as individuals we can pro-vide service by Random Acts of Kindness. Recently on the televi-sion there was a student who

started a fund to buy equipment to enable a paraplegic to walk again. However commendable

this may be, I am suggesting smaller acts of kindness that can be done daily and less expensive-

ly. I remember going into a cof-

fee shop and getting a free cup, because a person ahead of me paid $20 to assist the customers after he/she left.

Might I suggest:

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Kiwanis Kronicle is a monthly news-

letter published by the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta, Inc. Club was char-tered May 21, 1996. The address of the club is P.O. Box 855 Rancho Murieta, CA 95683-0855 (916) 354-0538

Club meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at the Villas Recreation Center 7083 Murieta Park-

way (Enter North Gate) Rancho Murieta, CA 95683.

Boards of Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta Inc. and Kiwanis Club of Ran-cho Murieta Club Foundation Inc. meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at a designated board member’s home.

Editor……………...…………..John W. Seigal The editor is solely responsible for the

content. It is the intent to be 100% accurate. Articles labeled as Editorial represent the opinion of the editor and may not represent the opinion of the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta, Inc. nor Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta Club Foundation, Inc.

The address of the editor is P.O. Box 1131 Sloughhouse, CA 95683-1131 or email at: jwseigal@sbcglobal.net

President..…………………..Richard Gilmour Imm. Past Pres………………..Craig Carbrey President-Elect………..Bonnie Shewchuk Secretary……………….….…….Linda O’Brien Treasurer…………………………….Susan Sozzi Director………….………Coit Conant (2016) Director….………..William DuVal (2017) Director…..…………….Teresa Field (2016) Director………………...Diann Swan (2017) Director………….………Peter Telfer (2016)

2. Too expensive; and

3. Takes too much time .

The push in the industry current-

ly is to work at making the game

more user friendly.

At our December 17 evening

meeting, John Holm brought us

up to date on Toys for Tots; and

Diann Swan and her guest Maria

Almes explained the value of the

Sweats for Vets program.

Maria Almes is Chief, Voluntary

Services U.S. Department of Veter-

ans Affairs, Northern California

Health Care System at Mather, Cal-

ifornia.

Patty Favero presented the

club with a check from the Rancho

Murieta Women’s Golf Club in the

amount of $782.00....generous

indeed!! This goes to the K.A.N.E,

meals project.

Then we held our first Food Auc-

tion and with a professional auc-

tioneer at the helm in the person of

Bill DuVal, $1450.00 was raised

for the benefit of Kiwanis Family

House, thanks to the generosity of

the membership and the hard work

of Dia Utterback, Bonnie Shew-

chuck, Carole Kramer and Lynne

Erpelding.

Our club donated to the Bob

Bastian family here in Rancho

Murieta.

He has cancer.

Picture from internet: go fund

me.

Jan and I will be in Nashville with

our grandkids over the Christmas

holidays so we will see yʼall at our

Jan 7th meeting which will feature

Lt. Governor Lori Warden.

Have a Happy New Year!! Rich

like a winner!

Rich

“We can do it!”

Who attends what?

He spoke of the challenges that

face the golf industry as manifested in

the declining number of rounds of golf

played in the country since 2005.

Polls indicate that fewer people

play golf because they feel the game

is:

1. Too hard;

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President’s Corner

We can do it!

Rich Gilmour

As a Kiwanian (new or old) think about

who attends what meeting?

Club meetings (1st and 3rd Thursday)

all members are expected to attend. There

is a program at each meeting. Meet at

Villas Recreation Center.

Committee meetings Set by commit-

tee chairs. The committees meet to con-

duct business and to prepare proposals to

the board meetings on the third Thursday

each month.

Board meetings On the Wednesday

before the third Thursday of each month

at 7:00 p.m. The meetings are held at a

designated board members home. One

board is for the Kiwanis Club and the oth-

er is for the Kiwanis Club Foundation. Sep-

arate organizations but the same board

members.

Committee chairs and other club

members are invited to attend board

meetings and see how the club and foun-

dation are governed.

Service projects Club members are

expected to participate in the service pro-

jects of our club.

Interclubs These are meetings when

four or more attend another Kiwanis Club

meeting. Generally it is an eye opening

experience. You get a chance to see how

others do it. Some things you can adopt

and use, and some things… well let us

generally leave it unsaid.

Socials Special events just to have fun

and socialize.

Mid-Year Conference A one-day edu-

cational and motivational conference de-

signed for all club officers, committee

chairmen and members. It is planned so

Kiwanis members can drive to the confer-

ence together, participate in an Inter-

Club, attend a few workshops and then be

back home the same day. The conference

promotes fellowship as well as provides an

opportunity to learn more about Kiwanis.

A Division Council Meeting (DCM) is

a meeting in which the clubs within the

Division come together and are given the

opportunity to network; share experiences

and best practices; and promote upcoming

club events.

Conventions: The Kiwanis family is too

large to gather at one time. So represent-

atives from the Kiwanis family meet at

conventions to conduct organizational

business, elect board members, amend

bylaws and conduct leadership training

etc. These conventions are generally held

annually at the district and International

levels.

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Here is the poster, that Diann Swan started out with for 2015.

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Here is the response for 2015 packed up and ready to go.

Photo Credit:

Al Swan

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VA says thank you.

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Your Kiwanis Kronicle was not at the Kiwanis Meeting 7:00 p.m. on Thursday December 17th, but Al Swann and his camera was.

Here are the highlights:

Maria Almes, from the Vet-erans’ Administration present-ing Thank You certificate to Diann Swan for Sweats for

Vets. See page 5.

Patty Favero presented the

club with a check from the Rancho

Murieta Women’s Golf Club in the

amount of $782.00....generous

indeed!! This goes to the K.A.N.E,

meals project.

It is a Happy Dollar!

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Why?

Read RVT Security Log!

Sign in Old Sacramento!

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The Sacramento VA Medical Center

(at Mather) is a 60-bed, state-of-the-

art, inpatient facility offering a full

range of comprehensive health care

services including medical, surgical,

primary and mental health care.

The medical center, which is com-

prised of 24 medical-surgical beds,

16 Transitional Care Unit beds, 10

Intensive Care Unit beds, 16 Burn

Intensive Care Unit, and a four room

operating suite, also houses a cardi-

ac catheterization lab, a gastrointes-

tinal & endoscopy suite, angiography

capability and 16,000 square-feet of

research laboratory.

The medical center offers a wide

range of outpatient and diagnostic

services, including mammography,

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),

computerized tomography (CT), and

positron emission tomography (PET)

scanning.

On Christmas Day, December

25th, Santa Claus, accompanied by

Kiwanians from the Kiwanis Club of

Rancho Murieta, paid a visit to the

hospital and distributed personally

addressed thank you and holiday

greeting notes to the patients.

These notes were prepared by

Kiwanis and their families.

But first we had to check in with

the VA Police and get our name tags.

Shown above are VA Police and our

group.

We checked in at the Nurses’ Sta-

tion. Santa was a big hit with the staff.

They whipped out their camera

phones and took lots of pictures.

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Continued

Al Swann provided some pictures.

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For some of our readers, this

might be Greek. To your editor, I

can remember it well.

Lost Words from our Childhood

The following is from Tom Gibbs. On

a personal note, I was recently handed

a beer by one of my kids. Unable to

open it I asked if they had a “church

key” – and, of course, got a blank

stare. Use any of the following and you

may get the same response !

Words gone as fast as the buggy

whip ! Sad really ! The other day a not

so elderly (65) lady said something to

her son about driving a Jalopy and he

looked at her quizzically and said what

the heck is a Jalopy ? OMG (new

phrase !) he never heard of the word

jalopy !! So they went to the computer

and pulled up a picture from the movie

“The Grapes of Wrath.” Now that was

a Jalopy !

She knew she was old but not that old…

I hope you are Hunky dory after you

read this and chuckle…

*WORDS AND PHRASES REMIND

US OF THE WAY WE WORD*

by Richard Lederer

About a month ago, I illuminated

some old expressions that have become

obsolete because of the inexorable

march of technology. These phrases

included

“Don’t touch that dial,” “Carbon

copy,” “You sound like a broken record”

and “Hung out to dry.”

A bevy of readers have asked me to

shine light on more faded words and

expressions, and I am happy to oblige:

Back in the olden days we had a lot of

moxie.

We’d put on our best bib and tucker

and straighten up and fly right. Hubba-

hubba !

We’d cut a rug in some juke joint and

then go necking and petting and

smooching and spooning and bill and

cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and

jalopies in some passion pit or lovers

lane.

Heavens to Betsy ! Gee whillikers !

Jumping Jehoshaphat ! Holy moley !

We were in like Flynn and living the

life of Riley, and even a regular guy

couldn’t accuse us of being a knuckle-

head, a nincompoop or a pill.

Not for all the tea in China !

Back in the olden days, life used to be

swell, but when’s the last time anything

was swell ? ‘Swell’ has gone the way of

beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of

spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts,

saddle shoes and pedal pushers.

Oh, my aching back.

Kilroy was here, but he isn’t any-

more.

Like Washington Irving’s Rip Van

Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut’s Billy Pil-

grim, we have become unstuck in time.

We wake up from what surely has

been just a short nap, and before we

can say, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle ! or

This is a fine kettle of fish !

we discover that the words we grew

up with, the words that seemed omni-

present as oxygen, have vanished with

scarcely a notice from our tongues and

our pens and our keyboards.

Poof, poof, poof go the words of our

youth, the words we’ve left behind. We

blink, and they’re gone, evanesced from

the landscape and wordscape of our

perception, like Mickey Mouse wrist-

watches, hula hoops, skate keys, candy

cigarettes, little wax bottles of col-

ored sugar water and an organ grinder’s

monkey.

Where have all those phrases

gone ? Long time passing. Where have

all those phrases gone ? Long time ago:

Pshaw.

The milkman did it.

Think about the starving Armenians.

Bigger than a bread box.

Banned in Boston.

The very idea !

It’s your nickel.

Don’t forget to pull the chain.

Knee high to a grasshopper.

Turn-of-the-century.

Iron curtain.

Domino theory.

Fail safe.

Civil defense.

Fiddlesticks !

You look like the wreck of the

Hesperus.

Cooties.

Going like sixty.

I’ll see you in the funny papers.

Don’t take any wooden nickels.

Heavens to Murgatroyd !

And awa-a-ay we go !

Oh, my stars and garters!

It turns out there are more of

these lost words and expressions

than Carter had liver pills.

This can be disturbing stuff, this

winking out of the words of our

youth, these words that lodge in our

heart’s deep core. But just as one

never steps into the same river

twice, one cannot step into the same

language twice. Even as one enters,

words are swept downstream into

the past, forever making a differ-

ent river.

We of a certain age have been

blessed to live in changeful

times. For a child each new word is

like a shiny toy, a toy that has no

age. We at the other end of the

chronological arc have the ad-

vantage of remembering there are

words that once did not exist and

there were words that once strut-

ted their hour upon the earthly

stage and now are heard no more,

except in our collective

memory. It’s one of the greatest

advantages of aging.

We can have archaic and eat it,

too.

See ya later, alligator !

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Putting your shopping cart in

the proper place after shopping, and maybe take another one that was left astray?

Allowing a person to cut ahead

of you from a driveway en-

trance when a long line of traf-fic prevented this?

Alerting a boss in a market or

store of a clerk who went out of his/her way to assist you?

When checking out of a store or

supermarket, allow a person with fewer items to cut ahead? Or a person with more items when that person has two or three kids in tow?

Pick up trash along the way

when walking down a sidewalk to your next appointment?

Visit a neighbor with a bouquet

of flowers with no reason at all?

Send a letter of thanks to a

teacher, mentor, or someone that taught you some lessons in life that you are still using?

If you have a shut in or in-

firmed person in your neighbor-hood after to take them shop-ping and assist them?

What a harvest of kindness we could gather if we all did one such random act each day!

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Three blind mice,

Three blind mice,

See how they run,

See how they run!

They all ran after,

The farmer’s wife,

She cut off their tails,

With a carving knife,

Did you ever see,

Such a sight in your life,

As three blind mice?

In this role play of despair the

‘three blind mice’ are reference to the

three nobleman who adhered to the

protestant faith during the reign of

Mary I, and were therefore convicted

against plotting against the queen,

who is represented by the farmer’s

wife.

To be fair – she didn’t actually have

them dismembered and blinded like

the rhyme suggests – they just burnt

at the stake, so no biggy.

Continued

The Objects of Kiwanis

The six permanent Objects of

Kiwanis International were ap-

proved by Kiwanis club delegates

at the 1924 Convention in Denver,

Colorado.

Through the succeeding dec-

ades, they have remained un-

changed.

Object 1 - To give primacy to

the human and spiritual rather

than to the material values of

life.

Object 2 - To encourage the

daily living of the Golden Rule

in all human relationships.

Object 3 - To promote the

adoption and the application of

higher social, business, and

professional standards.

Object 4 - To develop, by pre-

cept and example, a more in-

telligent, aggressive, and ser-

viceable citizenship.

Object 5 - To provide, through

Kiwanis clubs, a practical

means to form enduring

friendships, to render altruistic

service, and to build better

communities.

Object 6 - To cooperate in cre-

ating and maintaining that

sound public opinion and high

idealism which make possible

the increase of righteousness,

justice, patriotism, and good-

will.

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Under this title on page 3 read: Socials Special events just to have

fun and socialize.

Here are some pictures from the

Kiwanis Social hosted by John and Susan Sozzi on Sunday December

13th.

Who attends what?

Home made ice cream too.

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George and Ginny’s

Sat. December 19th

Which one is the real Santa Claus?

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(Continued)

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A leap year (also known as

an intercalary year or a bissextile

year) is a year containing one addi-

tional day (or, in the case of lunisolar

calendars, a month) added to keep

the calendar year synchronized with

the astronomical or seasonal year.

Because seasons and astronomical

events do not repeat in a whole

number of days, calendars that have

the same number of days in each

year drift over time with respect to

the event that the year is supposed

to track.

By inserting (also called intercalat-

ing) an additional day or month into

the year, the drift can be corrected.

A year that is not a leap year is

called a common year.

For example, in the Gregorian cal-

endar, each leap year has 366 days

instead of the usual 365, by extend-

ing February to 29 days rather than

the common 28.

Similarly, in the lunisolar Hebrew

calendar, Adar Aleph, a 13th lunar

month, is added seven times every

19 years to the twelve lunar months

in its common years to keep its cal-

endar year from drifting through the

seasons.

The name "leap year" comes from

the fact that while a fixed date in the

Gregorian calendar normally advanc-

es one day of the week from one

year to the next, the day of the week

in a leap year will advance two days

(from March onwards) due to the

extra day added at the end of Febru-

ary (thus "leaping over" one of the

days in the week).

For example, Christmas fell on

Tuesday in 2001, Wednesday in

2002, and Thursday in 2003 but then

"leapt" over Friday to fall on a Satur-

day in 2004. (Source Wikipedia)

The Monkey (猴) is the ninth of

the 12-year cycle of animals which

which appear in the Chinese Chinese

zodiac related to the Chinese calen-

dar.

Occupying the 9th position on the

Chinese Zodiac, the Monkey possess-

es such character traits as curiosity,

mischievousness, and cleverness.

Forever playful, Monkeys are the

masters of practical jokes. Even

though their intentions are always

good, this desire to be a prankster

has a tendency to create ill will and

hurt feelings.

Although they are inherently intel-

lectual and creative,

Monkeys at times

have trouble exhibit-

ing these qualities.

When that happens,

they appear to oth-

ers to be confused.

But nothing could be

further from the

truth as Monkeys

thrive on being chal-

lenged. Monkeys

prefer urban life to

rural, and their fa-

vorite pastime is

people-watching.

The Monkey is associated with five

elements: Metal; Water; Wood; Fire;

and Earth.

The Fire Monkey is for the year

2016.

The Fire Monkey is the most active

and aggressive of the Monkeys. Nat-

urally dominant, he automatically

gravitates towards leadership roles

and is competitive in whatever he is

doing. He will need to be careful not

to let this overwhelm him and turn

into toxic jealousy.

He also constantly strives to be in

control of whatever situation he is in,

which can become overbearing. The

main drive for whatever he embarks

on is to head straight for the top and

stay there. However, when he is in

charge of a situation, his people skills

kick in and he does nurture those

under his charge who need it.

With his Fire energy, this agile,

impulsive Monkey often leaps where

angels fear to tread. This reckless

behavior sometimes turns out to not

be to the Fire Monkey’s advantage.

However, he is very creative, dynam-

ic and has a particularly good talent

at drawing people to him – this often

helps him get out of scrapes. He’ll

leap from tree to tree – whichever

has the most fruit at the time – then

find the quickest, cleverest escape

before others get to him.

In general though, the Fire Monkey

is flamboyant and charmingly friend-

ly, and has a large social circle.

Read article page 23

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PNC Financial Services of Pitts-burgh, Pennsylvania PNC re-leased its 2015 annual Christmas Price Index which rose just 0.6%

for 2015.

PNC Financial Services Group,

Inc. is an American financial ser-vices corporation, PNC is the fifth largest bank in the United States

(total branches), sixth largest bank by deposits in the United States, ninth largest by total as-sets, and the third largest bank off-premises ATM provider.

Back in 1983, PNC first meas-ured the cost of everything in the

'12 days of Christmas' song to entertain their clients during the slow holiday weeks.

And every year since then, a team of economists has come up with an index of the price changes

as a fun way to help people un-derstand how this aspect of eco-

nomics works.

Because commodity prices have tumbled in the past year, the cost of most of the 12 things were un-

changed year-on-year, reflecting the trend in the real government consumer price index.

The cost of five gold rings was also unchanged, surprising PNC economists the most as actual gold prices have fallen more than 10%

in 2015. But of course, we shouldn't seri-

ously compare fictitious gold rings to real gold. The "core" Christmas price index, which excludes volatile costs of swans, was 1%.

Here's a table with all the price changes:

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To begin with there are two dic-tionaries that publish Word of the Year.

For 2015 there are no “word(s)

of the year” from both dictionaries. Read on:

The publisher of Merriam-Webster's Words

of the Year began in 2003.

For 2015 the Word of the Year is not a word it is a suffix:

“-ism”. The suffix -ism goes all the

way back to Ancient Greek, and

was used in Latin and medieval French on its way to English.

Originally, it turned a verb into a noun: think of baptize and baptism, criticize and criti-cism, or plagiarize and plagiarism.

It has since acquired many other uses, including identify-ing a religion or practice (Calvinism, vegetarianism), a prejudice based on a specific quality (sexism, ageism), an adherence to a system

(stoicism, altruism), a condition based on excess of something (alcoholism), or a characteristic feature or trait (colloquialism).

-Ism is also sometimes a noun meaning “a distinctive

doctrine, cause, or theory” or “an oppressive and especially discriminatory attitude or be-

lief.” It’s usually used to em-phasize a group of -ism words, as in “cubism, abstract expres-sionism, and all

the other isms.” Oxford Dic-

tionaries began their Word of the Year in 1990.

For the first

time ever, the Oxford Dictionar-ies Word of the

Year is a picto-graph: officially called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji, though you may know it by other names.

There were other strong contend-

ers from a range of fields, outlined below, but was chosen as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.

Why was this chosen? Emojis (the plural can be ei-

ther emoji or emojis) have been around since the late 1990s, but 2015 saw their use, and use of the word emoji, increase hugely.

This year Oxford University Press have partnered with leading mobile technology business SwiftKey to

explore frequency and usage statis-tics for some of the most popular emoji across the world, and was chosen because it was the most used emoji globally in 2015.

SwiftKey identified that made up 20% of all the

emojis used in

the UK in 2015, and 17% of those in the US: a sharp rise from 4% and

9% respectively in 2014. The word emoji has seen a similar surge: although it has been found in English since 1997, usage more than tripled in 2015 over the previous year according to data from the Oxford Dictionaries Cor-

pus.

A brief history of emoji: An

emoji is ‘a small digital image or icon used to express an idea

or emotion in electronic com-munication’; the term emoji is a loanword from Japanese, and comes

from e ‘picture’ +moji ‘letter, character’.

The similarity to the English word emoticon has helped its

memorability and rise in use, though the resemblance is actu-ally entirely coincidental: emoti-

con (a facial expression com-posed of keyboard characters, such as ;), rather than a stylized image) comes from the English words emotion and icon.

Emojis are no longer the pre-serve of texting teens – instead, they have been embraced as a nuanced form of expression, and

one which can cross language barriers.

Even Hillary Clinton solicited

feedback in the form of emojis, and has had notable use from celebrities and brands alongside everyone else – and even ap-peared as the caption to the Vine's Expository Dictionary

which apparently kicked off the popularity of the term on fleek, which appears on Oxford Diction-aries’ Word of The Year shortlist.

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Marianna Hashorva emails about this. Read it on page?

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Marianna Hashorva emails: I met Traci Lillich at the Christ-

mas Present Sorting Event at Lee

Middle School in Woodland recently on a Saturday. What an amazing organizational minded person is Traci Lillich!

She works through the schools and have fine-tuned their system beautifully so that they reach thou-

sands of school kids who would have

No Christmas without this fund-raise! Traci Lillich; her husband, John; her mother, Joyce; and the entire family form the board and

the helpers, along with hundreds of others who help as well.

All the money and purchased

goods go to this year-round giving to the poor.

They are usually able to buy a bike for every child who asks for

one. Not this year though. Several of the men there put the bikes to-gether. They also get games and clothes and books…it was great!

You'd have to see it first hand, as I did, to even imagine how it's done. Next year maybe we can in-

vite some Kiwanians down to Woodland at Christmas time to ob-serve how it's organized.

They have Giving Trees up all over our community and one can

take a tag and buy the items men-

tioned on it. Last summer they had a wine and

buffet benefit at our Rancho Murieta Country Club for this cause and they intend to repeat it this sum-mer.

After I spoke with she would like

to come as a before the wine and buffet is held this summer.

I just wanted to be sure this pro-

ject saw some light as it is a won-derful thing!

Thanks! Marianna Hashorva

Footnote: Kiwanis Kronicle went to the Kylee Lillich Giving Tree web-site: http://www.kyleesgivingtree.org/

It states: The Kylee Lillich Charitable

Giving Tree’s primary purposes

are to help: Needy, homeless and hospital-

ized children Grieving children who have lost

a sibling, parent, or primary

caregiver Other children’s programs in-

cluding Hospice and “animals helping children” programs

We are a year round program and have a holiday giving tree. Our non

-profit organization is 100% volun-teer based. Almost all donations go directly to assisting needy children

Traci Lillich pointing out the

charity at the Cosumnes River Ele-mentary School Toy Drive.

This charity received 120 toys.

Stay warm this winter. Rancho Murieta Ace Hardware

has the tools and means for you to do so.

It has fire lighting equipment for your fire place.

It has space heaters, and more!

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“We Can Do It!" is an Ameri-

can wartime propaganda poster pro-

duced by J. Howard Miller* in 1942

for Westinghouse Electric as an in-

spirational image to boost worker

morale.

The poster was seen very little

during World War II. It was rediscov-

ered in the early 1980s and widely

reproduced in many forms, often

called "We Can Do It!" but also called

"Rosie the Riveter" after the iconic

figure of a strong female war produc-

tion worker.

Miller is believed by many to have

based the "We Can Do It!" poster on

a monochrome United Press Interna-

tional (UPI) photograph taken of Ann

Arbor, Michigan, factory work-

er Geraldine Hoff in early 1942

when she was 17.

The photograph of Hoff shows her

wearing a polka-dotted bandana on

her head, standing up and leaning

over a metal-stamping machine, and

operating it with her hands at thigh

level firmly on the controls. Hoff left

her factory job soon after the publici-

ty photograph was taken; she heard

that the metal-stamping machine had

injured the hand of the previous op-

erator, and she did not want to ruin

her ability to play the cello. She ob-

tained a new job as a timekeeper for

another factory.

The "We Can Do It!" image was

used to promote feminism and other

political issues beginning in the

1980s. The image made the cover of

the Smithsonian magazine in 1994

and was fashioned into a US first-

class mail stamp in 1999.

It was incorporated in 2008 into

campaign materials for several Amer-

ican politicians, and was reworked by

an artist in 2010 to celebrate the first

woman becoming prime minister of

Australia. The poster is one of the ten

most-requested images at

the National Archives and Records

Administration.

After its rediscovery, observers of-

ten assumed that the image was al-

ways used as a call to inspire women

workers to join the war effort.

However, during the war the im-

age was strictly internal to West-

inghouse, displayed only during

February 1943, and was not for

recruitment but to exhort already-

hired women to work harder.

Feminists and others have

seized upon the uplifting attitude

and apparent message to remake

the image into many different

forms, including self empower-

ment, campaign promotion, adver-

tising, and parodies.

*In 1942, Pittsburgh artist J.

Howard Miller was hired by

Westinghouse Electric's internal

War Production Coordinating Com-

mittee, through an advertising

agency, to create a series of post-

ers to display to the company's

workers.

The intent of the poster project

was to raise worker morale, to

reduce absenteeism, to direct

workers' questions to manage-

ment, and to lower the likelihood

of labor unrest or a factory strike.

Each of the more than 42 post-

ers designed by Miller was dis-

played in the factory for two

weeks, and then replaced by the

next one in the series.

(Source Wikipedia)

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Perhaps you can remember that lit-tle red pot at the corner of the serving table at Sozzi’s Open House.

It had cheese spread to die for.

Frank Hashorva was bragging that his wife Marianna had made it.

This is true. But it had a taste worth remember-

ing. Marianna used Kiwanian Priscilla

Dunn’s Recipe.

Your Kiwanis Kronicle, cracked the secret vault and has published Priscil-la’s Hot Cheddar Mushroom Spread.

Look for it on the right side of this page.

Seen at the Sozzi’s Open House, left to right: Marianna Ha-

shorva, Dottie Seigal, and Priscilla Dunn.

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Cosumnes General

Store A progress report

Your Kiwanis Kronicle,

checked in with Peggy Da-

vis to see how the rehabili-

tation is going for the

Cosumnes General Store.

She said: “It sure is great

to see things moving along

on the Cosumnes house.

“We chose that roof color

because we thought it would

look best with the colors we

are using on the house.

“The covered porches will

be the next thing done. That

should start next week.

“The side facing the high-

way will have the same

style porch as is shown in

some of the old pictures we

have.”

Keep looking as you drive

by on Jackson Road.

1. Picture top

left above:

The old metal

roof.

2. Picture top

right: opened,

ready to install

new roofing.

3. Picture to the

right: New

roofing in-

stalled.

Billionth Stamp Sold

Nearly 20 years ago, a U.S. postage stamp was born, de-signed to raise research money for breast cancer. This month, the

colorful stamp reached a mile-stone: The one billionth sold.

For the stamp’s creator, Sacra-mento breast cancer expert Dr. Ernie Bodai, “It’s the best

Christmas present I could get.

I’m ecstatic.” Dr. Ernie Bodai is a Kaiser

Permanente surgeon who is the

director of breast surgical ser-vices for Kaiser, and is the man responsible for bringing the Breast Cancer Awareness postage stamp into existence.

Bodai said he doesn’t know where or exactly when the bil-

lionth stamp was sold. But when sales reached 993 million a few months ago, he began hoping that October’s breast cancer awareness month and Decem-ber’s Christmas card mailings

would push the stamp’s sales over the edge.

The 1 billion marker was an-nounced recently by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., one of the stamp’s original sponsors in Con-gress.

Earlier this month, President

Barack Obama signed legislation

to extend stamp sales another four

years, to 2019. The measure, co-

authored by Feinstein, passed

unanimously in the U.S. Senate. In

the House, the vote was 422-1.

The stamp’s image is based on

Artemis, the ancient Greek god-

dess of the hunt and a protector of

women. She’s depicted reaching

for an arrow, mimicking the posi-

tion women use during a breast

self-exam. The same image has

been used on breast cancer

stamps in other countries

“Americans have used the power

of the mail to raise awareness

about this disease as well as hope

for the cure,” Postmaster General

and CEO Megan J. Brennan said

in a statement.

The stamps, first issued in 1998,

sell for an 11-cent premium above

the price of a regular first-class

postage stamp. They cost 60

cents, compared with a regular 49-

cent stamp.

To date, U.S. breast cancer

stamp sales have generated about

$81.8 million for breast cancer

research.

“Every single penny goes to re-

search,” said Bodai. Source Sacramento Bee

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On Friday December

18th, Josh Grimm K-

Kids President, an-

nounced the results of

the Cosumnes River

Elementary School’s annual toy drive.

The total count was

360 toys (120 for each charity)

The three charities benefitting:

Toys for Tots Provides toys as

a tangible sign of hope to eco-

nomically disadvantaged chil-

dren at Christmas.

Toys for Troop’s Kids Provides

Christmas toys to the children

of American military members,

especially deplayed troops.

Kylee Lillich Giving Tree Helps

needy, homeless, and hospital-

ized children; Grieving children

who have lost a sibling, parent,

or primary caregiver; other

children’s programs including

Hospice and “animals helping

children”

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Here are a few of the highlights from Kids Can Food Drive 2015.

The food collected at Cosumnes River Elementary School was

trucked to the Elk Grove Food Bank Services, which serves this area.

Karla A. Haiberg, Elk Grove Food Bank Services, Community Relations Manager responded to these questions.

Has the Kids Can Food Drive

been totaled yet?

This year's can total is 90,687

cans / 85,693 lbs. (compared to last year totals of 91,848 cans / 86,796 lbs.) Relatively the same amounts.

Number of schools participating — 56 a record number! (last year was 48)

Of the weight turned in on be-half of Cosumnes River Elementary School, how did that stack up?

Cosumnes River Elementary col-

lected 1750 cans approx./ 1665 lbs. This number looks to be around the average collected.

What are totals for other schools?

Highest number collected was

John Ehrhardt Elementary School 7168 (they hold garage sales, food drives at their fall carnival, and collect outside of grocery stores).

With the support of the Elk Grove Unified School District, EGUSD Board members, teachers,

support staff, students and parents this food drive feeds the many local hungry in the Elk Grove communi-ty.

I also want to mention the many Kids Can Food Drive volunteers it takes to make this important pro-gram happen. From delivering sup-plies to picking up cans, it does take a village.

We are grateful for a community

that continues to fill this need. In gratitude, Karla A. Haiberg

Truck being loaded above; being unloaded below.

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Life Lessons I Learned from my Parents By Joshua Becker

Celebrate holidays with fami-

ly. Even when we lived far away

from extended family, I always

remember making it home for

the holidays as a kid. And as an

adult, I still do.

Choose the narrow path. Many

will choose the broad, well-

trodden path. My parents never

did. Their values always dictated

their decisions even when they

were unpopular.

Come home for lunch. I dis-

tinctly remember my dad coming

home from work each day for

lunch―usually for a hot dog on

bread with chips. Let me repeat

that, I always remember my dad

coming home from work for

lunch.

Commit to your spouse. My

parents have remained faithful

to each other in every possible

way for 40 years. I can’t thank

them enough.

Compete but remain

fair. Competition runs deep in

our family. But so does fairness.

And I’d hate to have the first

without the second.

Concern your life with more

than money. My mother and

father always concerned them-

selves with greater pursuits than

money.

Disagree humbly. Nobody gets

it right every time. I’m glad I

learned from them the im-

portance of being able to disa-

gree with genuine humility…

sometimes I wish I learned this

even more.

Discipline is a virtue. Self-

discipline ought not be feared,

but nurtured.

Think ink! Recycle your ink/

LASER/toner cartridg-

es. Turn in at Rancho

Murieta Business Cen-

ter or given to Jack

Seigal at meetings.

They will be turned

into our Kiwanis Fami-

ly House.

It makes “cents” to recycle for

the environment and for our Kiwa-

nis Family House income.

P.S. If you turn them in at the

business center. You can buy re-

placement inks there for your

printer.

2nd Annual

Kiwanis Crab Feed

Rancho Murieta

St. Vincent de Paul

Catholic Church

14673 Cantova Way

Rancho Murieta

Saturday

Hygiene Help for the

Homeless (HH4H) By Bill DuVal

The goal for this program of

service is 10-13 pounds each

month.

So when you go to your dentist

and get a small bag of toothpaste

and a tooth brush you can’t use,

donate to someone who can.

When you stay at a hotel/motel

and don’t use all of the toiletries,

gather them up and donate them.

Donated for the month of

November:

What you turn in is donated to:

Our Kiwanis Family House,

59 items weighing 5

pounds.

Loaves and Fishes,

405 items weighing 28.8

pounds

PATH serving the homeless in

Elk Grove.

116 items weighing 3.4

pounds.

November Grand Totals:

580 items weighing 37.2

pounds

A day without sunshine is like,

night..

Tickets $50@

See John Holm

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Some words from Dr. Seuss

Confused

“Clothes make the man.

Naked people have little or no

influence on society.”

Mark Twain 1835-1910

Mark Twain

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers

are simple.”

Davis Ranch is closed until Asparagus Season (Mid-March)

This gives time for Store Manager Jim Ayers to have some Papa Time with son JD shown below.

Ag Reports

Strutz Ranch Winter Hours

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Collect labels!

Support Cosumnes River

Elementary School!

Deposit items at collection

boxes at Plaza Foods and the RMA office.

Kiwanis Help Line

(916) 354-0538

Need help?

Want to know where

to get a wheel

chair?

Want meals deliv-

ered during lunch?

Want to know about

how to join Kiwanis?

Want to know about

Kiwanis sponsored activities?

With The Eliminate Project, Ki-

wanis International and UNICEF

have joined forces to eliminate

maternal and neonatal tetanus.

This deadly disease steals the

lives of nearly 60,000 innocent

babies and a significant number of

women each year. The effects of

the disease are excruciating —

tiny newborns suffer repeated,

painful convulsions and extreme

sensitivity to light and touch.

To eliminate MNT from the

Earth, more than 100 million

mothers and their future babies

must be immunized.

This requires vaccines, syringes,

safe storage, transportation,

thousands of skilled staff and

more.

It will take US$110 million —

and the dedicated work of UNICEF

and every member of the Kiwanis

family.

What is an inter-club?

An inter-club meeting is a meeting staged by two or more

Kiwanis clubs (including clubs in formation), or by a Kiwanis club and any K-Kids, Builders Club, Aktion Club, Circle K Club, or Key Club.

Clubs with 20 or fewer mem-bers need a minimum of two members in attendance to con-stitute an interclub meeting. Clubs with 21-30 members need three members, and clubs with

31 or more members need at

least four members in attend-ance.

Visiting groups shall be com-

posed of a minimum of two Ki-wanians’ plus members of K-Kids, Builders Club, Aktion Club, Circle K Club, and/or Key Club must be in attendance (a lieu-tenant governor can only be in-cluded if he/she is a member of

the participating club).

Inter-clubbing is a means of supporting Kiwanis’ fifth Object, which is “To provide, through this club, a practical means to

form enduring friendships, to

render altruistic service, and to build a better community.”

This wider scope of Kiwanis

can be achieved by arranging visits between clubs in the same town, division, and district, as well as inter-district get-togethers.

Kiwanis protocol is to have the visiting club call the host club to advise it how many people are coming and when.

Kiwanis Kronicle Kiwanis Kronicle is emailed

to members who have email addresses.

It is also emailed to some Kiwanis Division and District addresses.

If you want a copy emailed

to you, email editor: jwseigal@sbcglobal.net

Tally up!

Each month, our ever loyal club

secretary, Linda O’Brien, pre-pares many reports for Kiwanis

International and the Cal-Nev-Ha District.

One of the reports deals with service hours.

So please tally up your service hours for the various Kiwanis pro-jects, and give them to her at the first club meeting of the month.

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Looking ahead!

2016:

Mid-Year Conference South

- 2/6/2016 - Queen Mary in

Long Beach, CA

Mid-Year Conference North

- 2/27/2016 - Double Tree

in Sacramento, CA

International Convention -

6/23 - 6/26/2016 - Toron-

to, Canada

District Convention - 8/11

- 8/13/2016 - JW Marriott

Resort & Spa in Las Vegas,

NV

2017

July 13-16 Kiwanis

International Convention Paris, France

Jan. 7 Lori Warden, Lt. Gov.

Div. 44, Official Visit

Jan. 21 Boy Scout Troop 633

Feb. 4 Saving America’s Warri-

ors– Susan Fenstra

Feb. 18 Pleasant Grove High

School Robotics Club

Mar. 3 In lieu of a meeting we

will have Interclubs. More de-

tails later, stay tuned.

Proposed

Club Programs

Oh the places you’ll go, Today is your day!

Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!... Dr. Seuss

Pun of the month

Division Council Meetings

Host Clubs

Lt. Governor Lori Warden says announced the host club for

the DCM’s.

They are held at the Oak Avenue Free Methodist Church 8790 Oak Avenue, Orangevale

CA at 5:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month. The DCM is a dinner meeting ($10) pre-pared by the church volunteers.

Jan. 11th Granite Bay

Feb 8th Carmichael

March 14th Sac Suburban

April 11th Roseville

May 9th Lincoln Foothills

June 13th Auburn

Stay tuned for Prayer Break-

fast, probably May is the month.

When you want to do

something you find a way.

When you don’t want to do

something, you find

an excuse.

Jim Rohn

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Lincoln Foothills: Turkey Creek Golf Course 1525 State Highway 193, Lincoln, CA 95648 1st &

3rd Friday at 11:30 a.m. Email bethroberts49@gmail.com before coming.

1st Thurs. 7:00 a.m.; 3rd Thurs.

Strikes Unlimited 5681 Lonetree Blvd. Rocklin– Thurs.@12:00 p.m.

Noon

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

February is the second month of

the year in the Julian and Gregorian

calendars. It is the shortest month

and the only month with fewer than

30 days. The month has 28 days in

common years and 29 days in leap

years.

In the Southern Hemisphere, Feb-

ruary is the seasonal equivalent of

August in the Northern Hemisphere.

February starts on the same day

of the week as March and Novem-

ber in common years, and on the

same day of the week as August in

leap years. February ends on the

same day of the week as October

every year and January in common

years only. In leap years, it is the

only month that ends on the same

weekday it begins.

A leap year (or intercalary or bis-

sextile year) is a year containing

one extra day (or, in the case of

lunisolar calendars, a month) in

order to keep the calendar year

synchronized with the astronomical

or seasonal year.

Because seasons and astronomi-

cal events do not repeat in a whole

number of days, a calendar that

had the same number of days in

each year would, over time, drift

with respect to the event it was

supposed to track. By occasional-

ly inserting (or intercalating) an

additional day or month into the

year, the drift can be corrected. A

year that is not a leap year is

called a common year.

For example, in the Gregorian

calendar (a common solar calen-

dar), February in a leap year has

29 days instead of the usual 28,

so the year lasts 366 days in-

stead of the usual 365.

Similarly, in the Hebrew calen-

dar (a lunisolar calendar), a 13th

lunar month is added seven times

every 19 years to the twelve lu-

nar months in its common years

to keep its calendar year from

drifting through the seasons too

rapidly.

February 2016

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 7:00 a.m.

Meeting

Saving Amer-

ica’s Warriors

5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 7:00 p.m.

Meeting PGHS Robotics Club

19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

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