KIWANIS CLUB OF NORTH OLMSTED
Chartered July 21, 1930
Meets Monday Evening at 6:30 P.M.
North Olmsted Party Center
29271 Lorain Rd.
Club Officers
2016-17
President
Thomas R. Herbster
(440) 777-9145
([email protected])
Imm. Past President
Amber Pierce-Smith
(440) 506-0317
([email protected])
NEWS LETTER OCTOBER 2016
MONDAY MEETINGS
President Elect
Laurette M. Tully
(440) 777-1762
([email protected])
October 3 – New Club Officer Installation – Guest Night
Vice President
Linda Cleary
(440) 263-0409
([email protected])
October 24 – Clambake (flier attached)
Treasurer
Donald J. Machovina
(440) 237-2594
([email protected])
Secretary
Kenneth N. Neuzil
(440) 829-1039
([email protected])
Directors
John J. Biss
(440) 327-1804
([email protected])
Janet Byron Anderson
(440) 808-5840
([email protected])
Duane K. Limpert
(440) 734-7439
([email protected])
Howard J. Luke
(440) 777-6493
([email protected])
Barbara J. Schirhart
(440) 777-8397
([email protected])
Laurette M. Tully
(440) 777-1762
([email protected])
www.nokiwanis.org
October 10 – Scholarship Foundation
October 17 – Board Meeting
October 31 - Happy Halloween Everybody
SPECIAL DATES
October 2 – Pumpkinville @ Frostville @ 11 AM to 4 PM (flier attached)
October 20 – Key Club @ NOHS @ 7:15 AM
October 20 – Division 14 @ Porter Library @ 7:00 PM
October 29 – Make-A-Wish Halloween Benefit @ St. Clarence @ 7 PM (flier
attached)
OTHER NEWS AND VIEWS
On September 6th Ken Neuzil and new member Jon Wilhelm spoke to the
Spruce School PTA in regard to the newly installed playground equipment.
The PTA members were very grateful for the contribution from the Kiwanis
Club and pledged to help financially with the cost. Thanks again to Jon and
President Amber Pierce-Smith for spearheading this
most worthwhile effort!
On September 12th Mr. Michael Perry of Szarka Financial Services spoke to the club on the topic of
identity theft, how to prevent it and what to do if it
should happen. Mike brought along an easy to understand guide on the methods used to scam people, and there are many! Consumers can take sev(Continued on page 2)
President Amber with Michael
Perry
eral different precautions, but if a big retailer’s
credit system gets hacked, the consumer needs
to change cards. However, it costs the credit card
companies about $400 per customer to issue new
cards. Thanks Mike for a very eye-opening talk.
On the morning of September 15th, four Kiwanis
members attended breakfast at Canary’s Restaurant, er, attended the year’s first Key Club meeting and then went to breakfast. Members included Ken Neuzil, Stan Ball, Jim Yager, and Howard
Luke. The first big event of 2016-2017 Key Club
year will be Pumpkinville at Frostville on October
2nd. The NOHS SITES program is also helping
out. Between those two entities, the volunteer
signup sheet is full. Thank you Laura Thogmartin
and Lisa Rosenberg (Key Club) and Jeff Zullo and
Cheryl Huffer (SITES) for working to bring all this
to fruition.
Later that same evening, members Ken Neuzil,
Linda Cleary, Tom Herbster, and Amber PierceSmith attended the Division 14 meeting at Porter
Library. Upcoming events on the Division 14 calendar include the annual golf outing at Oberlin
Country Club on September 19th (N.O. members
Howard Luke, Don Machovina, and Walt Spalding
represented our club) and the Division 14 Installation of incoming officers to be held at the Cretan
Center on September 29th (N.O. members Ken
Neuzil and Tom Herbster will represent our club
there).
It was also at this meeting that the Metro West
Kiwanis Club, which is surrendering its charter
after many years of service to the community,
awarded the North Olmsted Club a check for
$500 to be used for the Spruce playground equipment by Don Bisesi in the name of his wife Mickey who recently passed away. Thank you Don
and the Metro West Club!
The meeting on September 19th was to be a
Board Meeting, but with treasurer Don Machovina
out flailing away at his ball at the Division 14 golf
outing, we had no treasurer’s report. Secretary
Ken Neuzil read a letter from Kiwanis International thanking the club for its contribution of $3000 to
the Eliminate Project. The Board approved funding the Bridge Club for the coming year. And that
was about it for the Board Meeting. We did collect $58 for the Oxcart Food Pantry, however. In
other non-Board business and after some shuffling of the cast, the incoming officers for the 2016
-2017 Kiwanis year will be: Tom Herbster
(President), Laurette Tully (President-Elect), Linda Cleary (Vice President), and Janet Byron Anderson, Barb Schirhart, and John Biss (Board
Members for 2016-2018 term). Also, Dave Dillon
will serve as our representative to Community
Council and Laurette Tully and Gene Shook will
co-chair the Spiritual Aims Committee.
At our final meeting for September, Rose Serraglio updated the
club on the plans for this year’s
Halloween fund-raiser for the
Make-A-Wish Foundation,
which will be held on October
29th at St. Clarence Church
from 7:00 to 11:30 PM. Ken
Neuzil also appealed to members to help at Pumpkinville at
Frostville on October 2nd from
11 AM to 4 PM.
President Amber with
the Make-A-Wish
Foundation Speaker
WORK AND INVOCATION SCHEDULE
Date
10/3
10/10
10/17
10/24
Serving
Robert Carrick
Gene Shook
Jim Hoover
Laurette Tully
Duane Limpert
Jim Yager
Frank Miller
Stan Ball
Invocation
Dave Dillon
Howard Luke
Duane Limpert
Don Machovina
BIRTHDAYS
Oct. 8 ------------------------------------ Mae O’Grady
Oct. 8 ---------------------------------- Rose Serraglio
Oct. 10 ---------------------------------- Tom Herbster
Oct. 10 ------------------------- Amber Pierce-Smith
Oct. 19 -------------------------------------- Dan Vento
ANNIVERSARIES
Oct. 7 ---------------------- Melissa and Kevin Clere
Oct. 24 ----------------------- Linda and Tom Cleary
Oct. 26 --------------------- Tom and Barb Herbster
AND FINALLY………… from Howard Luke
 As I get older I realize: I talk to myself because
sometimes I need expert advice.
 Sometimes I roll my eyes out loud.
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 I don’t need anger management. I need people to
stop pissing me off.
 Experience is what you get when you didn’t get
what you wanted.
 My people skills are just fine. It’s my tolerance
of idiots that needs work.
 Isn’t it odd the way everyone automatically assumes that the goo in soap dispensers is always
soap?
 The biggest lie I tell myself is, “I don’t need to
write that down, I’ll remember it.”
 I like to fill mine with mustard, just to teach people a lesson in trust.
 When I was a child I thought naptime was a punishment. Now it’s like a mini-vacation.
 Well aren’t you a waste of two billion years of
evolution.
 The day the world runs out of wine is just too terrible to think about.
 The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
 Even duct tape can’t fix stupid, but it can muffle
the sound.
 When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
 Wouldn’t it be great if we could put ourselves in
the dryer for ten minutes and come out wrinklefree and three sizes smaller.
 “Getting lucky” means walking into a room and
remembering why I’m there.
 And more good humor
 Deja Vu – When you think you’re doing something you’ve done before, it’s because God
thought it was so funny, he had to rewind it for
his friends.
 Money talks…but all mine ever says is good-bye.
 By the time you learn the rules of life, you’re too
old to play the game.
 Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are
they afraid someone will clean them?
 Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button.
 I don’t have a beer gut, I have a protective covering for my rock hard abs.
 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
 The difference between in-laws and outlaws?
Outlaws are wanted.
 If you can stay calm while all around you is chaos, then you probably haven’t completely understood the situation.
 It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens
in the world everyday always just exactly fits the
newspaper.
 Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the
chance?
 I have all the money I’ll ever need – if I die by
4:00 p.m. today.
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