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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 No. 44 Vol. 84 Today’s Speaker:
Chad Brock SINGER / SONGWRITER / RADIO DJ
Our
program today will be presented by contemporary country
singer/songwriter Chad Brock. He will be introduced by our
Kiwanian-of-the-day Mitch Cochran. Chad was born and raised in
Ocala performing in the church choir throughout his youth. His initial
love was athletics, and he was a highly touted ball player. After
joining the school chorus, however, our speaker also emerged as a star
soloist, and became so enamored of music that he turned down a
collegiate athletic scholarship to pursue a career as a performer.
Relocating to Nashville to work as a songwriter, he initially struggled
to get his foot in the music industry’s door, and as a result, spent
three years touring as a member of the World Championship Wrestling
organization.
Finally, in 1998, Brock signed with Warner Bros, and issued his
self-titled debut later that year. The second single, “Ordinary Life,”
was a breakout hit, climbing into the country Top Five and “Lightning
Does the Work” was also popular. Our speaker’s follow-up CD was 2000’s
Yes! and the title track – a story song about meeting and romancing his
wife – became his first country chart-topper, nearly making the pop Top
20 as well. In addition to writing and singing, Chad now lives in the
Tampa Bay area and hosts the Morning Drive radio show with Cledus T.
Judd on 99.5 WQYK. Let’s give our speaker a very warm Kiwanis welcome!
TODAY’S QUIZ
1. What is the English meaning for the Latin prefix “pari”? 2.
Providence Canyon State Park, near Lumpkin, Georgia, is known as what?
3. In what year did Boston Common become America’s first public park?
4. Laura Ingalls Wilder moved to what part of Missouri in 1894? 5.
What is the state bird of Mississippi?
LAST WEEK AT KIWANIS
Our program last week was presented by
Marian Scorza, Public Information Officer for the Department of
Transportation’s District Seven Office. She was introduced by our
Kiwanian-of-the-day Bob Piplitz. Our speaker began working for
the Department of Transportation in 1985 in the District Office at
Bartow. She was the first employee for the District Seven Office when
it was organized which today has grown to over six hundred employees.
District Seven covers the counties of Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco,
Polk Manatee, Sarasota and Hernando.
The
main emphasis of Marian’s presentation focused on the 511 phone number
which provides free traffic and travel information in the Tampa Bay
area. This information can also be obtained on the web at
www.511tampabay.com. Up to the minute travel times and incident reports
for select area roads, public safety alerts, including Amber Alerts,
daily major event information and schedules, mass transit incident
information, including buses, trains, airports and seaports, and live
camera images of select roads are all available on the website.
Marian then presented a brief
explanation of contra-flow. The principal benefit of a contra-flow
operation is the ability to use the maximum number of highway lanes
possible for evacuating people from a threatened area. It’s a way to
handle the additional traffic anticipated as Florida residents and
visitors leave a coastal area in advance of a hurricane. One-way or
contra-flow plans are a means of last resort and are established for
certain expressways and interstates in Florida. When the decision is
made to activate a contra-flow, sections of these highways are set up to
route traffic in one direction, heading away from the approaching
storm. Many thanks to Bob for bringing this most important subject to
our collective attention.
VISITORS AND GUESTS
Jeremy Koch, grandson of Dick was a visitor to our meeting last week
as was Jeff O’Brien, who was a guest of Worth Blackwell. Welcome and
please visit with us again!
2006 ST. PETERSBURG KIWANIS OPEN
Saturday, August 19th, at Mangrove Bay Golf and Country
Club will be our club’s first annual golf tournament. This 4-person
Scramble will begin at 10:00 a.m. Member players will be rewarded for
inviting guests with two (2) strokes added to their handicap. Awards
and trophies will be given to the winning teams, as will longest drive
and closest to the Bar (Pin) winners.
Mulligans, putting strings and other
score reducing accessories will be sold and supplied to those donating
to the St. Petersburg Kiwanis Social Committee. Cost is $40.00 per
player. A sign-up sheet is being passed around. Be sure YOU are one of
the 28 or 32 golfers scheduled to tee-off on the 19th.
BOOK DRIVE FOR HAPPY WORKERS DAY CARE
Here is a great opportunity to help children! Happy Workers has a
Literacy Fair scheduled for Saturday, September 23rd. Please
bring at least one or two NEW books to our meeting during the
month of August. All books will be given to Happy Workers Day care
Center for their Literacy Fair. Let’s show Happy Workers how many books
we can provide. Also, please reserve September 23rd for
helping out at the Literacy Fair. You will be glad you did. This is
just another way that Kiwanis helps children!
KIWANIS FACTS – DID YOU KNOW?
According to the Article XIX, Section 2, of the Standard Form for
Club Bylaws, a club’s books should be audited at least once a year by
auditors named by the club’s board of directors. Auditors may be club
members, but not the club secretary or treasurer. The auditors should
be familiar with financial statements, reconcile bank statements (if
necessary), and conduct tests of income and expenditures for the past
year.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Almighty God, direct the Officers and Directors of our club in all our
doings with thy most gracious favor. Enlighten us by thy Holy Spirit as
we consider together our program, our activities and our obligations.
Inspire our minds, assist our wills, and strengthen our hands that we
may not fail in the work thou hast given us to do in the service our
country and to thy honor and glory. Amen.
LAST WEEK’S QUIZ:
1. Joseph’s brothers tried to deceive their father about
Joseph’s disappearance by dipping Joseph’s coat in goat blood.
(Genesis 37:31-32) 2. Leon F. Czogosz assassinated President
William McKinley at the Temple of Music on the grounds of the
Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. 3. A Zoetrope is a machine
that showed animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a
moving wheel. 4. The Baltimore & Ohio was the first U.S.
passenger railroad. 5. Gabriel was the angel who appeared to
Mary. (Luke 1:26-38)
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