July 6, 2010
Today’s Program: Florida’s Property & Casualty Insurance Crisis and SB-876
Today’s Speaker: Senator Michael S. “Mike” Bennett
Elected State Senate November 2002 and subsequently re-elected in November, 2004
Represents District 21, consisting of Manatee and Lee Counties, includes parts of Sarasota, Charlotte and DeSoto Counties
Prior Legislative service – Florida House of Representatives – 2000-2002
Senate Committee Membership:
- Community Affairs, Chair
- Policy and Steering Committee on Commerce & Industry, Chair
- Policy and Steering Committee on Governmental Operations
- Policy and Steering Committee on Ways and Means
- Banking and Insurance
- Finance and Tax
- Health Regulation
- Military Affairs and Domestic Security
- Reapportionment
- Select Committee on Florida’s Economy
Appointments:
The National Conference of State Legislatures’ Standing Committee on Communications, Technology and Interstate Commerce
The Southern Legislative Conference’s Energy and Environment Committee
My Safe Florida Home Advisory Council and Hurricane Advisory Council
Past President:
The Greater Sarasota Sertoma Club
Electrical Council of Florida
American Subcontractors Association
Manasota Specialties Contractors
Current Service:
The Mote Marine Advisory Council
Board Member, Florida Biofuels Association, Inc.
Member Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida
What’s Happening
Get Well Soon
So Hal Wells retires and then he gets sick. That’s not fair! Wish Hal a speedy recovery. A card went around the table for Kiwanis signatures.
Get Well Two
Nancy Pate-Nelson, Tom’s wife, has been diagnosed with CLL (chronic lymphocytic cancer). She is going through chemical therapy with a bone marrow transplant scheduled later this year.
Get Well Three
Rusty Lampe recently had a pacemaker inserted. Complications arose and he looks forward to returning home as “bouncing” between the hospital and the physical therapy in the nursing home is not fun.
Viva Las Vegas
Tom Nelson gave a report on the International Convention in Las Vegas. Watch for details in next week’s bulletin. Also representing the club were Bob Piplitz, Markus Mittermayr, Charles Stuart, and Harry Eisnaugle.
PLEASE PLACE THE SCOTT BOYLE PICTURE HERE
Last Week at Kiwanis
Kiwanian of the Day, Cathy Swanson, introduced Cynthia Luke, Executive Director of the Children’s Dream Fund of St. Petersburg with offices in St. Petersburg and Tampa with a regional focus from Gainesville to Naples to Winter Haven.
The following is from The Children’s Dream Fund website: “The Children's Dream Fund was founded in 1981 with the single purpose of fulfilling dreams for children ages 3-18 that have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
Referrals are received from several hospitals on Florida's west coast. Dreams vary greatly - from trips to Disney World, meetings with celebrities, computers, play sets, cruises and shopping sprees. Every child deserves hope and a dream!
The true impact of a child's dream cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Our desire is to grant every eligible child's dream. There are many children in our community with life-threatening illnesses, and the Children's Dream Fund needs your help to reach them.”
The Children’s Dream Fund has seventeen members on their Board of Directors who are the stewards for donations received. Additionally, many of the dreams for the children are donated by the respective organizations that make the dreams possible.
Recently the Dream Fund hosted “Rays on the Runway” as fifteen Tampa Bay Rays players and two coaches participated as models for a fund-raising auction.
We thank you Cynthia for visiting our club and spreading the word to us about the dreams that come true for children of Florida who have suffered the misfortune of terminal illness.
Attendance Last Week
We had 40 members and 4 guests.
Susan Blackburn, guest of Cathy Swanson
John Cartier, guest of Ron Braun
Leslie Trevathon, guest of Cyndi Mulligan
This Week’s Quiz
- Where is General George Patton buried?
- Where was President McKinley shot? Where was President Garfield shot?
- Name the states that border the Great Lakes.
- Name movies that Tom Hanks won back-to-back Oscars for best actor.
- How many keys are on the typical Grand piano? A) 75 B) 102 C) 88 D) 95
Last Week’s Quiz
- For the next 25-years in agreement with the College World Series of Omaha, Inc., and the NCAA, the CWS will be hosted by the city of Omaha in a new 24,000-seat stadium scheduled to open next year.
- The NCAA school has been to the CWS twenty times, but never won is Florida State University.
- The team with the CWS that is the only school to be in a BCS Bowl, NCAA Basketball tournament, and the CWS for 2009-2010 school years is the University of Florida.
- The first "official" state celebration of the Fourth as recognized under resolve of a legislature occurred in Massachusetts in 1781. Boston was the first municipality (city/town) to officially designate July Fourth as a holiday, in 1783. Alexander Martin of North Carolina was the first governor to issue a state order (in 1783) for celebrating the independence of the country on the Fourth of July.
It was originally made so the Americans can have their freedom thus the name independence day so people say Fourth of July for short.
- It is called "darling'" in the movie "Everyone's Hero".
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