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The Opening Act
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Club
President, Adam Bain, presided over the Club's meeting of August 16. Jonathan Turner once again provided the
entertainment, along with his Kiwanis Professor Longhair Blues Symphonia.
Adam
had a whole bunch of announcements. First, we were reminded again of the Club bags tournament on September
18. Discounted early-bird registration
is good until August 25. To date, it
appears that this project should go swimmingly.
Speaking
of bags, Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 seem to be the times to help out the
Kiwanis bags construction company sessions at Adam's house. Refreshments are promised, but only after all
electrical tools are unplugged.
Fresh
from a hard stint of campaign electioneering from the recent District
Convention in Normal, Illinois, we welcomed our incoming District Governor, Mel
Peterson.
The
Quad Cities mega-meeting will be held August 19 at The Lodge.
The
golf outing was a bit drizzly and drippy, and our Club team wasn't able to
wrest the trophy away from the Kewanee Club, but a good time was had by all.
Our
Club-sponsored NAMI Walk will be held October 2 at 10:00 a.m. on Credit Island.
There
is a vacancy on the Club Board. If you'd
like to volunteer for some very worthwhile Club work and see how Club governance
is handled, go ahead, throw your hat into the ring.
The
Kiwanis International project will be eliminating tetanus among youth and
mothers of youth. This will be a
co-venture with UNICEF. More to follow.
Mike
Bell began his segment of the program by giving a report from the last Board
meeting. The Club is financially sound,
projects are going well, and we have two outstanding Club members who will be
presented with Hixson Awards on August 30.
The
Kartel won the preliminary Fun and Fellowship prize, and Dale Blocklinger won
the opportunity to lose the grand prize.
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The
program was given by David Levin of Ruhl & Ruhl Commercial. Dave pretty well summed up the status of real
estate transactions in the Quad Cities by citing this as being both the best
and worst of times. Dave has been
exclusively in commercial real estate since 1982 and proudly carries the SIOR
designation, an achievement obtained by only three other realtors in the
area. Dave indicated that things are
improved this year over last, both in numbers of sales and in value of
sales. He offered some of his thoughts
on how and why real estate markets in other areas of the country have
collapsed, as well as why conditions have never been as bad or as robust as in
other areas of the country.
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