Meetings: Wednesday Noon President: Frank Zajac Program Chair: March: Daphne Wells. |
Total K day this Saturday This Saturday, March 20th, all are invited to converge at the Community Services Agency (CSA) to help paint, install a sink, and otherwise help improve one of the cities most valuable social services assets. Key clubbers should appear at 8am and 10 am for Kiwanians. The event runs until 4pm, and people are encouraged to come out even if it for only an hour. |
Moffett Field Hit by Space Radiation!! Today it was revealed that Moffett Field has been hit by Gamma Wave radiation every second of every day for the last several billion years. Nadine Levine, the Mountain View Assistant City Manager will update us tomorrow on this and other government conspiracies between city and federal entities. It was also revealed that one small jar of nail polish remover contains several thousand times more carcinogens than the entire set of chemicals estimated to have been transmitted from the Moffett Field toxic plume to Mountain View city properties.
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Kiwanis plugs into Network for Battered Women Last Wednesday, Nancy Fomenko spoke on matters related to spousal abuse. She related the story of a woman at the grocery who had to go out to the car to get the money from her husband/boyfriend, and how this was a clear and powerful clue that the woman was in a generally abusive relationship. Kiwanians contributed several bags of everyday supplies to the Network.
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March programs:
March 24 - Gloria Ortega, Catholic Charities, on the Mountain View housing project and other news March 31 – Chuck Osborn, president of the Rotary club, with Monique Kane. April Programs:
April 7 – The 142nd anniversary of the battle of Shiloh: Chris Kuszmaul will talk about it.
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Editorial: Children Scorched by Red Tape Every Monday, I have lunch with the kinders and first graders at Slater Elementary. This most recent Monday was unusual, however, in that it was truly warm and sunny. Sounds good? Well, yes, but the sun was beating down on the kids, who generally eat outside. The noontime sun in springtime will only get more harmful to their future health, not to mention how it reduces their incentive to eat properly. Now, when it rains, the kids eat in the classrooms --- and of course we could have the kids eat in every day --- but the classrooms would be hard to sustain as clean pest free places. They just are not designed to handle lunch every day. Meanwhile, Monday, some kids were hiding under the tables to eat their lunches. "This," I said, "is a job for the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View!" Soon, I had spoken to several parents and PTA presidents at other schools, and learned that the regulations concerning awnings and other structures that might give shelter to the kids are onerous indeed. Foolish me, I thought it’d just be a matter of money. I will be following up on this, but I need your help: Pester me, and help me track down any bureaucrat who we find in our way. |
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