And from His fullness have we all received, grace upon grace ... grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. John 1: 16,17

President Tony Proffitt called the meeting to order. It was obvious its election time. The meeting room was full of gold & blue paraphernalia. Blue place mats, stickers, gold wrapped candy and signs around the walls. A fun time to be a Price Hill Kiwanis member, UNTIL THE BOMB WAS DROPPED.

This reporter, a Kiwanis member for over 30 years, was shocked and saddened by the announcement by Dick Bucher that he was leaving the club. "He's going home to mom" as Dick so well stated. Leaving our club and joining the Cheviot/Westwood Club. We were sponsored many, many years ago by Cheviot/Westwood Club and Dick will become a member of that club.

It may be to late for a change of heart but I personally will miss Dick and his unending contributions to the club. God bless you Dick and I wish you many more years of service to the community through Kiwanis.

Continuing on, as best I can, with everything else that went on at a very busy meeting. The invocation was by Gene Simpkins and Gene presented Gary Becker as "Egg of the Week" for all his work, mainly as Santa at Oyler, etc. Also Gene is inaugurating a new egg barrel booth for Rose Bloom Boom to guess the number of eggs in a barrel. More on that later.

Charlene Basken introduced guest Ronda Huber who will be interviewed as a potential new member. Howard Zoellner gave a plug for the Sixth Division Golf Outing at Hidden Valley Golf Club. Get your group together and join Howard and the others on May 22, 2000 for a great Golf Outing.

Scott Becker, a gold ticket candidate, made a plea for more corporate sponsors for the Rose Bloom Boom. Try to support Scott on this very important part of our fund raiser.

Old man Becker pleaded for pre-sale of tickets on the Golf Booth. For $10.00 you can spend a week in a beautiful condo at Hilton Head, a set of clubs, balls, etc. if your name is pulled. So sell, sell, sell these tickets. You don't need to be present to win this prize.

Bob Rinear mentioned the "lunch bunch" tickets. For $10.00 you become a part of a ticket on the grand prize drawing. Get on several different lunch bunch tickets and increase your chances to be a winner. Also get your money in on the main ticket.

Joyce & Lou Schroeder - co-chairpersons of the silent auction, pleased for more items, especially large items for the silent auction. Lou also started the mystery "money box" to be filled with money for bidding at the silent auction. Dan Kipp once again explained the "Mother Load" ticket that he does such a great job on and encouraged anyone so inclined to purchase one of his "Mother Load" tickets. Also he mentioned a possible trade with a Calif club. $14.00 and we are rid of Dan to the Calif. Club, or something to that effect. I really did not fully understand all the particulars.

Glad hand prizes were given to Howard Zoellner, Sandy Flick, Earl Ostertag, Joe Fettig, Lou Schroeder & Bob "who's he" Plagge. Split the Pot was won by Bill Stautberg.

Happy birthdays were sung to: Tom Brown, Dan Finke, Judy Jennison, Russ Puckett, Joe Schrage and Harry Maly. Dick Bucher led us in this as well as Summer Time and Smile.

After all this, a little time was left for campaining by the Blue & Gold tickets.

 

-Forcefully submitted by - Jack Kahny