Visitors Day November 25th.  In an effort to grow our membership, we are asking Club members to invite a potential member to our meeting on the 25th.  Club Member Mark Amacher will be giving a presentation on the JFK assassination.  Mark was there at the assassination, and this promises to be a fantastic and insightful program.  Please reach out to a business or colleague who would make a good addition to Kiwanis, and show them what we are all about!  A pdf flyer is available if you wish to send via mail or email, just contact me, Daryl, for a copy.

The Bow Tie Challenge continues.  Club Member Craig Knobloch has thrown down the gauntlet!  After realizing his initial idea for a beard growing contest was perhaps unfair to the women in the club, the ever dapper Craig is throwing down a bow tie challenge to the club.  If you own a bow tie, wear it to this next or an upcoming meeting.  He will contribute $1 for every member to the club.  The real challenge may be if you know how to tie it!  Only two members rose up to the challenge last week.  

Holiday Cheese Sale.  Tom Plechaty has several cheese packages available for sale, a great gift for the Holidays.  See Tom at a meeting, or contact him to make arrangements.  Last year, the club made almost $1500 on this fundraiser!

The Feature Attraction

    The program was given by Grey Giovanine, varsity men's basketball coach at Augustana College.  His background included several anecdotes in response to Duncan Reid's introduction concerning his father, a renowned high school basketball coach in Illinois.  Grey focused much of his presentation on the South America tour the team took recently, prior to the start of the school year.  As the team has found in the past, games are ordinarily scheduled against teams made up of much older and more experienced players.  At the same time, this sort of competition provides a tremendous opportunity for the team to develop strong skills.  In a similar vein, the team had much of same experience playing the University of Iowa this past weekend.  Grey closed up his presentation with special stories on certain selected players, the prospects of the team itself, and its competition in the CCIW.

November 18th       Thom Sigal, RIHS Boys Basketball Coach

November 25th       Visitors Day, Program by Mark Amacher, 50th                                        Anniversary of JFK Assassination.

PHRASE FOR THE DAY

            "Oh beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years.  Thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears.  America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea."    - America the Beautiful