Kiwanis Key
Volume LXXIX     Number 15      February 2, 2024
 
 
President Al got us started on time, Kirby led the singing and pledge and Debbie Best offered the invocation and out meeting was off and running. 
 
Our list of infirmed members and their families is starting to get smaller.  Please keep the following members and their families in your thoughts and prayers: Jerry Teele, Grace Moon, L D Brock. Mark Hurley, John Byers, Grant Gabriel, Kath Jensen’s Husband Jerry and Worth Moore.
 
Sebrina Brooks, Gregg Swanson, Anna Shanko, and Mary Lynn Bryan were our guests. Please come back to see us.
 
Announcements:
  • Kiwanians in the news (not the blotter)-Bill Bowman ‘s Up and Coming earned an award, CFRT’s Ella Wrenn earned a Young Professional recognition, and the keeper of our endowment, Cumberland Community Foundation earned The Chamber’s Public Service Award.
  • Please find the email blast that was sent out with the link to register for the awards night at Highland Country Club 23 February 2024 starting at 6:30 pm. 
  • The February Kiwanis Social will be at the District House of Taps on February 15
  • Tickets are on sale for The Reverse Raffle (Virtual) on March 15.  This is one of our biggest fund raisers so please consider buying a ticket.  It can be added to your K Bill as well.
  • John Malzone made his entrance just before the program introduction.  That’s early for John isn’t it?
 
Dr Hershel Bell, Founding Dean of the new medical school presented our program.  The Medical School is a partnership between Cape Fear Hospital and Methodist University.  It has been 4 years in the making with a lot of behind-the-screen work being accomplished to get the process as far as it has come.  The Medical School is envisioned to help mitigate the DR workforce shortage in our community.  Communities with medical schools and residency programs retain up to 67% of their graduates in the local area.  A group is hard at work complying with an accreditation timeline to accept the charter students in 2026 as well as prep for a new Medical School Building on the Cape Faer Hospital campus. It is a much-needed addition to our community.
 
$69 bucks were handed out in the 50/50 raffle.
 
And now a little humor:
 
I very quietly confided to my best friend that I was having an affair.  She turned to me and asked “Oh, are you having it catered?” and that my friends is a sad definition of getting old.
 
Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old man asked him “And what is the best thing about being 104?” to which he replied, “No peer pressure”.
 
Bring a friend to next weeks Kiwanis Meeting.