April 27, 2010 - Shepheard Blood Center

At its meeting on April 27 the Washington Kiwanis Club heard a report on the Shepheard Blood Center which has visited Washington quarterly for many years.  Speaking for the center was Misty Harris (right), who was introduced by Debbie Jackson, program host for the day. She told of earlier aversion to the needle and how she conquered it. She told how the center will be at two locations here on its visit to Washington next month, at the Methodist Church in the morning and at the hospital in the afternoon.

April 24, 2010 - Paper Loading Project

  

This morning I sent Bob off with my camera to get some pictures of my old paper-loading team in action, with Kerry on top of the semi and the two Bills and Carolyn down below moving the old newsprint from the shelter to the semi via the electric conveyor. I enjoyed this chore for years, plus my other project of house-to-house pickup of newspapers. We got too old and our customers died so we quit for awhile. We want to start that back since there are places that accumulate papers. Let me know if you have a source of cubic-foot stacks of papers. I can be reached via email at theophiluswj@gmail.com or 706-678-4330.

April 20, 2010 - Scouting

Billy Caddell (left) introduced his associates in Scouting - a century old this year, Bobby Standard (right), the Scoutmaster of Troop 34, and Anand Suthar, District Executive of the eight-county Upper River District of the Georgia-Carolina Council, to the Kiwanis Club of Washington at its meeting Tuesday, April 20th. Program host for the day was William Johnson. Caddell told the group of his experiences with his Cub Scout Pack 280, Standard told of his time with Boy Scout Troop 34, and Suthar told of Scouting in his district, specifically at Robert Knox Scout Reservation in Lincoln County.

April 13, 2010 - Universal Health Care

Herb Stackhouse, left, with his new member, Ted Bush.

Kiwanian Chris McCormick of Washington told the other members of his club on Tuesday, April 13, of his study of the recently enacted Universal Health Law revealing to him the unconstiutionality of the act. He pointed out that the original Constitution was four pages long, and explained his problems with the new act compared to the Constitution.

April 10, 2010 - KiwanisOne Day

Nine Kiwanians contributed their morning Saturday, April 10, to building planting beds at the Robert Toombs House, which has lost State funding. Those Kiwanians are shown here and include Sherry Hudson, club president and active oculist; Bob Simmons, Lieutenant Governor and retired airline pilot; Jennifer Atkinson, school teacher and Key Club Advisor; Steve Blackmon, club director and retired businessman; Ed Geddings, club director and retired plant manager; Bill Boyd, club member and retired Episcopal priest; Bruce Holes, club member and active dentist; Jama Carper, club director and active bookkeeper; and William Johnson, club secretary and retired military.They worked under the supervision of Marcia Campbell, Site Manager, and her husband, Lee Campbell.