Friday’s Meeting                                December 12,2025
 
President Steve welcomed a smaller than usual crowd to our meeting.  Kirby led the singing and pledge and Lee delivered the invocation.
 
Please keep the following K members and their families in your prayers: Kelly Taylor and her mother (now in hospice), Charles T Haigh, Phill Harris and family, Tim Dunn, Barbara Porter’s daughter in law Nicole, Robbie Talton’s wife Deanna, and Fred Cutter’s father-in-law.
 
There were no guests to introduce.  Invite a friend to the next meeting.
 
Announcements:
  • Jay Gothard reported on the bored meeting held at 301 Wings Thursday night: The Farm City Committee was named the committee of the month.  A new member, Jessica was approved, There is a new Builders Club at Reed Ross. The Annual Golf tournament will be renamed the Don Price Memorial Golf Tournament.
  • Two R’s updated us on Reading Is Fun and it is planned to be up and running the second half of the year. We have more than 2000 books to distribute so stay tuned.
  • The Awards night committee will meet early in January
  • Bruce Brown announced the date for the annual golf tournament at Cypress Lakes Oct 8, 2026.   So, mark your calendar and be prepared to buy a hole sign.
  • The next Kiwanis social event will be on 15 January
 
Birthday’s: Christian Franco, Phill Harris Jr. celebrated birthdays.  Dec 9 was Phill Harrisi’s Sr birthday he would have been 89.
 
Awards: Judge Ammons was presented with a Ruby K award for recruiting 15 members. Brad Hurley has 40 years length of service and Danny Highsmith has 50 years length of service.
 
Bob McAmis had no problem guessing the Mystery Kiwanian: Back the Pack Brown
 
Program: Bruce Brown introduced Donnie Staford who kept our attention as he decoded the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.  It seems that in 16th Century England during the religious reformation, it was not fashionable to profess Christian ideal in song.  So, the persecuted Catholics coded the words to the 12 days to symbolize catholic icons.  For example, Four Calling Birds represent the four Gospels of the New Testament, and 5 Gold rings represent the Pentateuch (first five books of the Old Testament.) Thanks for a very interesting program with a Christmas theme.  You can read the rest by googling online.
 
Lee one $55 in the 50/50 raffle.
 
Thought for the Days ahead from Nanea Hoffman: “May you discover at least one good thing every day, even if you have to put on your glasses and squint. May you carry hope in your pocket, courage in your heart, and love in both hands. “
There will be no meeting on Dec 26 and Jan 2.  Our first meeting in the new year will be Jan 9.