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The Kiwanis Club of Washington was the 312th club organized under Kiwanis International on September 29, 1920. We have therefore named this blog Kiwanis 312. We are pleased to welcome you to our blog, which for the present must serve as our website.

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The Kiwanis Club of Washington meets for lunch every Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. at the Woman's Club, 108 North Alexander Avenue, Washington, Georgia, across Court Street from the Post Office.
Contact the Kiwanis Club of Washington through me or one of our Current Board or Members (see Pages below). You can expect a response within 24

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March 25, 2010 - Newsletter

Fifteen Washington Kiwanians - club members, spouses, and a widow - attended the 6th Division Rally at the Thomson Depot last Friday, March 19. They included Nancy and Wayne Madden, Kerry and Nanc y McAvoy, Bob Simmons, Sherry Hudson, Debra Guin, Don and Lillie Crowe, William Johnson, Steve and Eleanor Blackmon, the Al Zimas, and Margaret Norris.

The purpose of the rally, of course, was to provide for a visit by Georgia District Governor Nancy Walden and her husband, Pat Pelley. Margaret Norris, widow of last year's district governor, Carlton Norris was recognized by Governor Nancy with the Kiwanis Leadership Award for her outstanding support of late husband Governor Carlton and his remarkable tenure as Governor 2008-2009.

For several minutes before dinner, the five club presidents present reported on  their clubs' activities thus far this year. All of them were upbeat in their reports concerning recruiting and projects, our Sherry particularly so. Washington's Vice President Lillie Crowe, director of Bartram  Trail Regional Library received the Kiwanis Leadership Award from Georgia District Governor Nancy Walden.  She is a member of the Newnan Kiwanis club and retired superintendent of Coweta County schools.

Governor Nancy presented an interesting, informative, and inspiring report on the district's goals and activities thus far this year.

Madanjit Oberoi of Atlanta Fiber Glass tells its story

"Obie", as he is called, told the club this week of his experiences as an immigrant from India obtaining funding to build a factory in Washington that is using local labor to sell fault-free woven fiber glass insulation in 200-pound rolls using fiber glass scrap from all over the world. He was highly commendatory of his 15-member work force.





March 18, 2010 - Newsletter

Washington Kiwanis Club Cosponsors Tour of Homes with Woman’s Club

Our Spring Tour of 2010 is upon us.  The club members who are on the joint tour committee with Woman’s Club members have worked hard for several months to attract a good attendance at the Candlelight Tour on April 2 and the Day Tour on April 3. It’s now up to the rest of us to be sure our visitors enjoy their stay in Washington so that they will come back next year.

Trevin Burriss is the dispatcher this year and needs our help in providing from 25 to 30 tour cars.  Those of us who are selling tickets, handling parking or driving tour cars should be at the Washington-Wilkes Elementary School on East Street well before the time for the tour to start, 10:00 a.m. on April 3.

Division 6 Rally at Thomson Depot, 6:30 p.m., March 19.

District Governor Nancy Walden will visit the 6th Division of Georgia Kiwanis clubs – Augusta, Uptown Augusta, Louisville, Thomson, Warrenton, and Washington – this Friday night at the Depot in Thomson. Governor Nancy will meet with the club presidents at 6:30 p.m. and will join the rest of us for roast beef at 7:00.  Lieutenant Governor Bob Simmons has arranged for “Miss Jane’s” in Warrenton to cater the meal and for the Thomson High School Jazz Band to provide entertainment.

Directors Increase Dues

At its meeting last Thursday, the board of directors determined it to be necessary to increase monthly dues from $45.00 to $50.00 in order to pay rent to the Woman’s Club at the rate of $200.00 a month.

Proposed Hotel at Pope Center

At the club’s meeting this week Bruce Holes introduced businessman Henry Harris, a member of the Urban Development Authority of the City of Washington, who presented to the club the background and the pros and cons surrounding the proposed hotel adjacent to the Pope Center.


Club Delivers Dictionaries to Third Graders at WWPS

On Friday, March 5, eight members of the Washington Kiwanis Club – Lillie Crowe, Debra Guin, Carolyn Reynolds, Bob Simmons, Bill Boyd, George Brooks, Trevin Burriss, and Al Zima – delivered 140 Student Dictionaries to the five classes of the third grade at Washington-Wilkes Primary School.  To accomplish this, the club donated $3.00 for each dictionary delivered to The Dictionary Project in Charleston, SC.  This is our fourth year on this project, and we have donated 792 dictionaries in this manner.

March Birthdays

Two members of the club had birthdays this month, Dave Toburen on the 4th, and Jim Finch on the 11th.

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March  9, 2010 - Newsletter
During breakfast Bob mentioned that he might  go to Louisville to award the "Distinguished Club" and the banner patches to that club. Very shortly, he received a call from Secretary Jessie of the Louisville club inquiring about his schedule. This sealed his decision to go to Louisville instead of our own club's meeting.   I decided to go and told Bob I wanted to ride with him. This suited him fine so we  called my substitutes about leading the singing and reporting the program to the newspaper, Bob left with the car to get himself and the car ready, and I waited for his return. We needed to leave by 11:15 in order to get to the Louisville club by their starting time of 12:30 but couldn't leave until 11:30.  As it worked out, when Bob went in the restaurant at 12:45, they hadn't started their activities. I preferred to not go to the meeting so I had a pleasant wait in Queensborough National Bank & Trust's parking lot. Bob came out about 2:15 and we left. He was pleased with the meeting and took several pictures with my camera. We stopped for more gas at Raceway and for groceries at Bi-Lo in Washington and reached the house about 4:00.

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March 2, 2010 - Newsletter
C. E. "Ted" Bush III, a Certified Forester living in Washington (below) was introduced to the Kiwanis Club Tuesday, March 2, by Kerry McAvoy, a long-time wood manufacturer, and told the club of his experiences as a forester in the southern hemisphere - Southern Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, New Zealand, and Australia. He told of the industry's experience with the Eucalyptus tree and several species of pines.





 


  
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February 23, 2010 - Club Business

REPORT - I had barely arrived, selected my seat, and served myself water and salad when Sherry's "clanging cymbal" called me to duty in leading the group in singing "America the Beautiful" - no piano accompaniment but perfectly in tune. Then Bill Lee led us in   "Pledge to the Flag" - no comma in "one nation under God", and Dave Toburen followed with a very proper "Grace". While letting the chow line die down I was able to eat  some of my salad and begin taking snapshots of  the group with my trusty Canon Powershot Elph, light gray. With only two or three ahead of me, I then signed in and served the rest of my lunch of corn, dressing, lima beans, a barbecued-chicken drum stick, and - shame on me - blueberry cobbler with whipped cream. After eating a proper amount and turning in my cutlery, I went around getting a snapshot of all the tables. After a while Sherry called us  to order and  told us why she had called the program "Kiwanis Training" in last week's bulletin. (There  was no bulletin today and she was concerned that most of us don't know how our $45.00 dues money is spent each month. Also, there have been some complaints about a decision of the Board a year ago, and  she has had enough of them.) She called on me as an old-timer to comment on what problems the administrative account may have had in the "dark ages." Treasurer Lee Benner then gave us a well-prepared explanation of how the $45.00 dues income, plus a little more, has been spent.   Sherry gave an impassioned explanation of the Board's action last year in changing  how we pay the Woman's Club a donation instead of rent. After a  period of Q&A she read an article  from the Standard Form of  Club Bylaws explaining how to reverse a decision by the Board and closed the meeting.

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INSTRUCTIONS: All  my life I've been learning to read and write in different styles, as letters, instructions, essays, reports, military letters, and now newsletters, which seem to be a combination of the others. At any rate, I've this week seen  the Augusta club's website, which  includes a string of newsletters  reporting on club programs and activities. We don't have our own website as recommended by International and District, but are starting to develop something, either our own website or changing this blog enough to consider it a website. Notice the large number of Gadgets I've added, particularly Text that I renamed Welcome, Pages that contains Newsletters and other stuff I control, and Link List that contains connections to other people's stuff as well as some of my own blogs. All it takes to get to any of them is a mouse click.
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RECOMMENDATION - I recommend that you study the Standard Form for Club Bylaws that I've added under Pages in Kiwanis 312
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