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Kiwanis Kronicle Rancho Murieta, California

Published by the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta, Inc. Editor: Spring Izcummin Volume 18 Number 6 March 2017

President’s Corner

Find your

compassion

for youth! Bonnie

Shewchuk

Question box???

A busy month in February starts the season with numerous Kiwanis events on the calendar! It’s your time to jump on in and help at one or all the events coming up.

At the February 2 meeting, one of the best invocations, in my opinion, was presented by Barbara Keil enti-tled “Hugs”. (Please read page 2).

Looking out at the membership after Barbara completed the poem, there appeared warmth like no other. The room became cheerful, uplifted and re-energized. To see everyone reach out to fellow Kiwanians and give that hug made me realize how thoughtful and caring our group is. It gave me that chill when something hits close you your heart. We truly do have special people in our member-ship, “so stretch out those arms with-out delay and give someone a hug today! “

In recapping the meeting, we had numerous updates and requests for volunteers at the events on the cal-endar. The guest speaker was Ran-cho Murieta Association president, Bob Lucas. He presented an update on issues facing the RMA board and other projects occurring in Rancho Murieta. He is also a member of our club.

At the February 16 meeting, our own Pleasant Grove Key Club issued a “take over”, so Key Club president, Austin Thom and two other board members ran the meeting giving me the opportunity to take short breath-er. They did an outstanding job ma-neuvering through the agenda.

The guest speaker for this meeting was Lt Governor, Laird Smith. He gave us all some great ideas on how to highlight our club within the Cal-Nev-Ha Region and District 44 and ensured us all what a great club we have in Rancho Murieta.

The largest highlight of this even-ing was the recap of the Crab Feed. “Third time is a charm” has been the

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Inside this issue

Who attends what 2

Kid’s Fishing Day 3

Mazzoni Family 8-10

Pinewood Derby® 12-15

HH4H 16

Save the dates 16

Where’s Waldo (School)? 17

Meet the Chief 19

Security 20-21

Letters to Editor 23

Paper Plate Awards 25

Kiwanis Calendar 29

What does “making money hand over fist mean”?

See page: 18.

Crab Feed Chair Joe Mazzoni was asked for a report.

He responded: Comments re-ceived indicated that the event was another huge success.

People commented that they enjoyed the ambiance, the food and the music. We netted roughly $3,000 more than last year and $9,000 more than our first year.

We owe it to two factors: Sponsors and Team Kiwanis


March 23

Teresa Field

March 28

Dr. Tom Eaton (twins?)

Al Swan (twins?)

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Kiwanis Kronicle is a monthly newsletter published by the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta, Inc. Club was chartered May 21, 1996. The address of the club is P.O. Box 855 Rancho Murieta, CA 95683-0855 (916) 354-0538

Club meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at the Villas Recreation Center 7083 Murieta Parkway (Enter North Gate) Rancho Murieta, CA 95683.

Boards of Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta Inc. and Kiwanis Club of Ran-cho Murieta Club Foundation Inc. meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at a designated board member’s home.

Editor……………………..John W. Seigal The editor is solely responsible for

the content. It is the intent to be 100% accurate. Articles labeled as Editorial represent the opinion of the editor and may not represent the opinion of the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta, Inc. nor Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta Club Foundation, Inc.

The address of the editor is P.O. Box 1131 Sloughhouse, CA 95683-1131 or email at:

[email protected]

President..……………….Bonnie Shewchuk Imm. Past Pres………….Richard Gilmour President-Elect………..William DuVal, Jr. Secretary……………….….…….Linda O’Brien Treasurer…………………………….Susan Sozzi Director………….Lynne Erpelding (2018) Director….………………....Chet Keil (2018) Director………………...Diann Swan (2017) Director………….………Peter Telfer (2017) Director…..………….Dia Utterback (2018)

March 2-General Meeting Sign up for a food item to take for the breakfast meeting.

March 4-Little League Snack Shack Clean out-Dia Utter-back

March 16- General meeting- Social Potluck-St Patrick’s Day theme-Wear green!!

March 18-Little League Open-ing day- Carrol Cartwright

April 2-Kids Fishing Day- Rich Gilmour

Wear Kiwanis attire and show this community who we are! Caps, visors and aprons are on order.

See you around the neighbor-hood!

Yours truly, Bonnie Shewchuk

theme going around. We surpassed our expectations raising over $16k for all the events and programs we sup-port in our community. Thanks to all that lent a helping hand to make this event successful!

If you missed the meeting consider signing up for the events on the cal-endar. We need your help with the busiest time of the year quickly approaching.

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Who attends what?

As a Kiwanian (new or old) think about who attends what meeting?

Club meetings (1st and 3rd Thurs-day) all members are expected to at-tend. There is a program at each meet-ing. Meet at Villas Recreation Center.

Committee meetings Set by com-mittee chairs. The committees meet to conduct business and to prepare pro-posals to the board meetings on the third Thursday each month.

Board meetings On the Wednesday before the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. The meetings are held at a designated board members home. One board is for the Kiwanis Club and the other is for the Kiwanis Club Foundation. Separate organiza-tions but the same board members.

Committee chairs and other club members are invited to attend board meetings and see how the club and foundation are governed.

Service projects Club members are expected to participate in the service projects of our club.

Interclubs These are meetings when four or more attend another Ki-wanis Club meeting. Generally it is an eye opening experience. You get a chance to see how others do it. Some things you can adopt and use, and some things… well let us generally leave it unsaid.

Socials Special events just to have fun and socialize.

Mid-Year Conference A one-day educational and motivational confer-ence designed for all club officers, committee chairmen and members. It is planned so Kiwanis members can drive to the conference together, par-ticipate in an Inter-Club, attend a few workshops and then be back home the same day. The conference promotes fellowship as well as provides an op-portunity to learn more about Kiwanis.

A Division Council Meeting (DCM) is a meeting in which the clubs within the Division come together and are given the opportunity to network; share experiences and best practices; and promote upcoming club events.

Conventions: The Kiwanis family is too large to gather at one time. So rep-resentatives from the Kiwanis family meet at conventions to conduct organi-zational business, elect board mem-bers, amend bylaws and conduct lead-ership training etc. These conventions are generally held annually at the dis-trict and International levels.

President’s Corner

Find your compassion for youth!

Bonnie

Shewchuk

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HUGS It’s wonderous

what a hug can do. A hug can cheer

you when you’re blue A hug can say, ‘I

love you so’ or, ‘Gee, I hate to see you go’

A hug is a ‘welcome back again,’

And ‘great to see you’, Where’ve you been?

A hug can soothe a small child’s pain,

And bring a rainbow after rain. The Hug! There’s just no doubt

about it- We scarcely could survive with-

out it! A hug delights and warms and

charms It must be why God gave us

arms, Hugs are great for fathers and

mothers, Sweet for sisters, swell for

brothers And chances are your favorite

aunts Love them more than potted

plants Kittens crave them, puppies

love them. A hug can break the language

barrier And make your travels so much

merrier. No need to fret about your

store of ‘em’ The more you give the more

there are of ‘em’ So stretch those arms without

delay And give someone a hug to-

day!!

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The Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta will be holding its 16th an-nual Kid's Fishing Day on Sunday, April 2, 2017 at Rancho Murieta's Lake Clementia!

Co-sponsored by the Rancho Murieta Fishing Club and the Califor-nia Department of Fish and Wildlife, the event will include lessons on the importance of good water quality, maintaining habitat for fish, fishing ethics, the care and cleaning of fish caught, and instruction on casting and fishing, under the leadership of personnel from the California De-partment of Fish and Wildlife, and with the assistance of members of the Fishing Club. Trout will be plant-ed for the event.

The event will start at 9:00 a.m. and will be open to children who live in the Rancho Murieta, Sloughhouse, and Wilton Communi-ty from Kindergarten through 8th grade. Attendance will be limited to the first 120 kids who sign up at the Rancho Murieta Business Center. Sig-nup sheets (parental waiver forms) will be available at the Busi-

ness Center the week before the event on Monday March 27. All par-ticipants must check in at Lake Clementia the morning of the event.

A free barbeque lunch will be pro-vided to the kids and their parents at 11:00 a.m.

Besides the Rancho Murieta Fish-ing Club, other sponsors include Fisherman’s Warehouse and Kent Sluiter, C.P.A.

Students from the Rancho Murieta Key Club will be available to help prepare and serve food and assist with cleanup. This student leader-ship and community service pro-gram is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta.

For more information, contact Chairman Rich Gilmour at (916) 354-0550.

Like the title of this book above, your editor is so embarrassed.

The Recycle Bins at Cosumnes River Elementary School were look-ing worn and tattered.

Kitty York provided me with some strong industrial plastic con-tainers (like you use on alternate weekdays for collection).

I wanted the containers labelled and bought some stencils to spray paint to label what should go in the containers and why.

When I picked up the stencil, I

said “You got this one wrong. The ‘S’ in K-Kids is backward!”

The clerk made a motion and I felt 50 shades of red covering my fact. Turn to page 10 to find out why.

Priscilla Dunn has moved!

Kiwanian Dan Hayes emailed that his Aunt Kiwanian Priscilla Dunn shown above, has moved.

Those who attended the Kiwa-nis Christmas party at Bonnie’s home, might remember seeing her.

After being in her home (almost across the street from Al and Diann Swan) for almost 19 years.

She has joined the assisted living at The Meadows Senior Liv-ing. It is located at 0325 East Stockton Boulevard, Elk Grove, CA 95624.

Perhaps you would like to drop her a line, or if in the neighbor-hood, stop by to visit.

Her phone number (916)354-3847, remains the same, but it takes time to “port it” over to the Frontier Telephone Company .

16th Annual Kiwanis Kid’s

Fishing Day


Sponsors: Gold Sponsor - Julie and John Davis, Ace Hardware

Silver Sponsors - Ina and Ron Semrau, Town

and Country Real Estate. Bronze Sponsors - The Golden 1 Credit Union - Karen Hoberg, Rancho Murieta

Homes and Land Real Estate. - Raley’s - Glen and Christy Cramer,

Cramer Concrete - Joey and Ashley Shields, Pan

Pacific RV - Tim and Cathy Whiting, Whit-

ing Concrete Construction. - Dr. Ralph Jacobs, Designs in

Dentistry. - Lisa Wiese & Associates. - Kent Sluiter, CPA

And Team Kiwanis

Bonnie Shewchuck

Dia Utterback

Judith Embree

Carol Prinzo

Bill DuVal

Marcia Reimers

Peter Telfer

Virginia Wolfe

Susan Sozzi

Ginny Macko

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All of our committee members contributed in some way to the success of this event, as did the many other Kiwanis Club volun-teers who stepped up to help. The 22 or so Key Club members from our three Key Clubs who volunteered to serve also deserve a lot of credit.

We couldn't do a dining event of this size without their help, something clearly acknowledged by those in attendance who gave them a little over $1,400 in tips!

The other key component, of course, is the quality of our cater-er, Charlie Mehrten and his Red Oak BBQ crew and the wonderful food they provide. I thought the crab they provided this year was the best we've had.

Keep in mind we have a crab feed to raise money for our spon-sored community activities and youth programs.

I also want to express our appreciation to Father Ju-lito R. Orpil-la, Pastor at St Vincent de Paul, for al-lowing us to use the Social Hall.

Greetings: Your table is here!

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750 Lbs. of crab were eaten

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Our co-Sponsor was Monsei-gneur Raymond Renwald Coun-cil 7241 Knights of Columbus.

It had the license are ran the bar.

Please patronize those businesses in the place mat.


“Bag’s Groove” Music by Tom Bagley

(916) 502-1080

“Bump and Shot” Shot of Vodka and Caviar $20.00


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The story begins with the cover of the February 2017 issue of Ran-cho Murieta Neighbors. On the cov-er is photo entitled The Mazzoni

Family– Loving in Mayberry. Please refer to the picture on the

previous page. I asked the patriarch Joe Maz-

zoni (numbered 19) to tell us a bit about himself and the matriarch Nancy (18).

He responded: I was born at home on the family

farm near Geyserville, CA. (Geyserville is located north of

Santa Rosa on Highway 101, or about 55 miles due west of Sacra-mento, as the crow flies)

I had two brothers; one older (an attorney, now deceased) and one younger (who owns and operates the family vineyards near Geyser-ville.

Nancy Rosa and I both graduat-

ed from Healdsburg High School, located in the town of Healdsburg, about seven miles south of Geyser-ville. I transferred from Geyserville High School to Healdsburg High School beginning in my sophomore year, because Healdsburg had a football program and Geyserville didn't (and I wanted to play).

Nancy and I were married follow-

ing my sophomore year at Oregon State University, and she and our first child attended my graduation from OSU at the end of four years with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Nancy and I started dating as sen-iors at Healdsburg High School, and walked down the aisle together at our graduation. But, I actually met her for the first time at a church picnic when we both were about twelve years old. She says she

doesn't remember this, but I never forgot what an impression she made on me!

I didn't see her again until I transferred to Healdsburg High School, and we ended up in some of the same classes.

Nancy was born in Healdsburg to parents who, with her grandpar-ents, operated a local Italian res-taurant. She had a younger broth-er, now deceased. No other sib-lings.

Coincidently, Nancy and my grandfather’s on the Italian side of our families both immigrated from the same rural village in Italy. Her grandfather owned and operated an Italian restaurant (mentioned above); mine owned and operated a vineyard and winery north of Geyserville.

One of my namesake grandfa-ther Giuseppe's two sons was the family wine maker; the other, my Dad, managed the vineyards, and assisted in the winery.

And yes, I'm half Italian. My mother was Danish (primarily), Irish and Scotch. Her Dad shipped out of Denmark as a sixteen year old on his uncle's Clipper ship and jumped ship in Alaska. He made his way down to the Northern Cali-fornia redwoods, where he worked in the logging business for many years before establishing a cherry and prune farm in the Dry Creek Valley, just west of Geyserville.

His name was Peter Petersen, and, what I remember most about him in his old age was that he al-ways put a raw egg in his brandy! That always fascinated and dis-gusted me as a little guy.

But wait there is more, the story is about the Mazzoni Family and the O’Brien Family. O’Brien as in the name of Linda O’Brien our club’s secretary.

I have asked each of them to explain who the people are, as numbered in the picture.

Here is Joe Mazzoni’s response:

With Nancy's help, here are the names with the reference num-bers: 1. Our son, Joe 2. His wife Wendy, our daughter

in law 3. John O'Brien, Joe's brother in

law (and Linda's son) 4. Tammy O'Brien, John's wife

and Wendy's sister 5. Tina Bobo, Wendy's sister in

law, wife of Chris Bobo 6. Chris Bobo, Wendy's brother,

and Tina's husband 7. Son Joe's youngest, our

grandson, Dominic 8. Son Joe's daughter, Gaby,

our granddaughter 9. Son Joe's oldest son, Gino 10. John and Tammy's daughter

Scarlet 11. Sarah Bobo, Chris and Tina

Bobo's daughter in law 12. John and Tammy O'Brien's

daughter Bailey 13. John and Tammy O'Brien's

son Killian (you wouldn't guess that the O'Brien's are Irish!)

14. Austin and Sarah Bobo's son (Austin is Chris and Tina Bobo's son).

15. Chris and Tina Bobo's son Austin

16. Chris and Tina Bobo's daughter Carley (her husband is absent from the picture).

17. Austin and Sarah Bobo’s other son.

Also, our daughter in law Wen-dy's parents were gone when this photo was taken. Their names are Gary and Joy Bobo.

Now it is time for Linda O’Brien to name decode the family members that are num-bered.

1. Joe Mazzoni 2. Wendy Bobo Mazzoni 3. John O'Brien, my son 4. Tammy Bobo O'Brien, my

daughter in law 5. Tina Bobo, Chris’s wife 6. Chris Bobo Tammy and

Wendy's brother so is my son's brother in law

7. Dominic Mazzoni 8. Gabriela Mazzoni 9. Giovanni Mazzoni 10. Scarlett O’Brien, my

granddaughter 11. Sarah Bobo, wife of Austin 12. Bailey O’Brien, my grand-

daughter 13. Killian O’Brien, my grand-

son 14. Hayden Bobo, son of Austin

and Sarah 15. Austin Bobo, son of Chris

and Tina



16. Carly Bobo, daughter of Chris and Tina

17. Micah Bobo, son of Austin and Sarah

Everyone is related in picture by marriage except Joe (Sr.)and Nancy who are only related to the Mazzoni family above as their grandchildren and son.

The article was about Wendy and Joe's family. Wendy is sister to Tammy and Chris so they showed all their families in picture to show the family ties in Rancho Murieta.

I moved here 17 years ago be-cause my son lived here and have known Joe and Nancy for over 25 years due to our family connection.

Are you completely confused? All of the children are cousins and very close since they grew up together. We have very large family gather-ings for holidays and special days.

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Follow up from being embarrassed on page 3

After complaining that the sten-cil had the “S” backwards, the clerk smiled a bit and just flipped the stencil over. I had picked it up backwards.

My face turned 50 shades of red, I apologized, and left the store.


Why? Read RVT Security Log!

Above seen at Rancho Murieta Ace Hardware

T-Shirt


People flooded the multi-purpose room at Cosumnes River Elemen-tary School, as our sponsored Cub Scout Pack 633 held its annual Pin-ewood Derby®.

The Pinewood Derby® is a racing event for Cub Scouts in the Boy Scouts of America. Cub Scouts, with the help of parents, build their own cars from wood, usually from kits containing a block of pine, plastic wheels, and metal axles.

Pack 633 has a separate race for folks other than Cub Scouts to build and race specially designed cars for separate prizes.

Once again, Kiwanian Frank Ha-shorva crafted an entry entitled: Larry the Lobster.

Continued next page.

All contestants (racers) must first be registered and weighed in.

Dinner consisted of hot dogs (tube steaks?); choice of chips; choice of soft drinks (or water); and choice of cup cakes (vanilla or chocolate).


The story of the pinewood der-by starts with Don Murphy, Cub-master for Pack 280C (Manhattan Beach, California) in 1953.

Don Murphy want-ed to create a new father-son Cub Scout activity he could do with his 10 year old son who was too young to race in the Soap Box Derby, which requires the boy to drive a homemade car down a hill.

Don's young son couldn't wait two years to race in the Soap Box Derby, so "Dad" Murphy wanted to invent another activity to do with his son and the younger boys in his Cub Scout Pack.

The ideas started percolating in Don Murphy's mind. His dedication to family values and Cub Scouting ideals drove him, to develop the idea of racing miniature pinewood derby cars down a track.

“I wanted to devise a wholesome, constructive activity that would fos-ter a closer father-son relationship and promote craftsmanship and good sportsmanship through compe-tition."

He came up with a basic kit for the cars and designed a track to race them on.

Continued next page.


Pack 633


The count of the crowd = 146 people!


Hygiene Help for the Homeless (HH4H)

By Bill DuVal The goal for this program of

service is 10-13 pounds each month. Look for totals for Jan.

So when you go to your dentist and get a small bag of toothpaste and a tooth brush you can’t use, donate to someone who can.

We need used/new eyeglasses.

When you stay at a hotel/motel and don’t use all of the toiletries, gather them up and donate them.

What you turn in was donated to:

Our Kiwanis Family House,

Loaves & Fishes,

HART (formerly PATH) serving the homeless in Elk Grove. Stands for Homeless Assistance Resource Team.

Little League Opening Day: Sat. Mar. 18th (Rain Date Mar. 25th) Carrol Cartwright is the chair.

Kiwanis Kid’s Fishing Day: Sun. Apr. 2nd Morning, Rich Gilmour is the chair

Easter Egg Hunt: Sat. Apr. 15th Morning, Sally Parker is the chair

Creelman-Francisco Golf Classic: April 27, 2017 (Last Thursday in April) Davis Municipal Golf Course, benefits Kiwanis Family House, Oldest con-tinuously operating charity golf tournament, in Kiwanis International.

14th Annual Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast for Rancho Murieta: Tuesday July 4th. Save the date!

The phrase ‘As Blind as a Bat’ re-fers to someone who is unwilling to recognize bad things, or someone who is completely blind.

You can use the idiom ‘As Blind as a Bat’ to describe someone who re-fuses to notice an obvious thing.

But we Kiwanians know that bats

are not blind. When Joellen Arnold presented

her program about bats, she men-tioned that bats are not blind.

Saying “Blind as a bat” isn’t cor-rect.

The truth is 1,100 bat species can see and often their vision is pretty good, although not as excellent as many night-hunting animals.

Some bats use echolocation to identify their food, but see quite well.

Idiom Idiocy

Recent: 308 items; 20 lbs.

Recent: 217 items; 44.2 lbs.

Recent: 46 items; 2.8 lbs.

The story of my life…

“I knew better and did it anyway.”

It ain’t necessarily so!

It used to be when you change your clocks (Standard Time to/from Daylight Saving Time), you change your batteries in your smoke/fire/carbon monoxide de-tectors.

This ain’t necessarily so any longer. Technology has changed.

Some detectors last for 10 years, some batteries last longer, go to Rancho Murieta Ace Hard-ware to get the latest information and/or supplies.


I have no idea where Waldo is now, they have been looking for him since 1987 when he was created by Brit-ish illustrator Martin Handford.

But I do know where Michael Gulden has been since he left as Prin-cipal of Cosumnes River Elementary Schoo. He was transferred to a brand new school yet unbuilt. The working name of that school was Ana-tolia II.

It is located at 4350 Sophistry Drive Rancho Cordova, California East of Sunrise and south of Doug-las Road.

Note the view of this campus under construction (top right). Here is a close up of the school take Feb. 13th shown below.

Now the school has a name. In the regular meeting of the Elk

Grove Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday, February 7, the EGUSD School Names Com-mittee recommended to the Board the name of Robert J. McGarvey Elementary School for the Anatolia II school site. The Board of Educa-tion unanimously voted to accept the recommendation.

Robert J. (Bob) McGarvey has lived in Rancho Cordova since 1967. He has been a steadfast leader in many community, church, and school organizations and activities. He was named Ran-cho Cordova Man of the Year by the Grapevine Independent News-

paper in 1987. He has been an

active member of the Mather Restora-tion Advisory Board since 1994 and the Cordova Community Council since 1975. He was one of the community mem-bers who formed the City of Rancho Cor-dova and served on the City Council as Mayor.

From the City of Rancho Cordova’s website we learn: Council Member McGarvey was elected to the first City Council in 2002 and reelected in 2004, 2008, and 2012. He served as Vice Mayor in 2005, 2010, and 2014, and as Mayor in 2006, 2011 and 2015.

Bob, who has lived in Rancho Cor-dova since 1967, has been a steadfast leader in many community, church, and school organizations and activi-ties.

He has been an active member of the Mather Restoration Advisory Board since 1994 and the Cordova Community Council since 1975. Dur-ing his first tenure as Mayor, he formed a Sister City Citizens Commit-tee that resulted in Turrialba, Costa Rica becoming a Sister City with Ran-cho Cordova; he started the Rancho Cordova Veterans Day and Memorial Day celebrations at the Veteran Me-morial Plaza VA Hospital; and created the first Rancho Cordova Post Cards because none could be found in the City.

He retired from PacBell after 33 years working in the central offices and network operation center. He is a substitute teacher in the Folsom/Cordova School District.

He served in the Air Force from 1961 to 1967 - the last 2 1/2 years of active duty was serving at Mather

AFB, and the last two years were in the reserves.

He received an A.A. degree from Sacramento City College, and a B.A. in Government from California State University, Sacramento.

His hobbies include fishing, hunt-ing, camping, reading, and playing the piano. He and his wife, Terri, have four children and eight grandchildren.

To complete this article, who will be the new Principal of Cosumnes River Elementary School? The po-sition is being currently filled by two alternating Interim Principal.

It was recently announced that the new Principal will be Sheila Caruthers. She is currently the Principal of Franklin Elementary School.

It is located at 4011 Hood-Franklin Road, Elk Grove, Califor-nia.

Its website reports that has been educating students in this commu-nity for almost 130 years.

Artist rendering of the future.


Some words from Dr. Seuss

Confused

“Don’t Believe the World Owes You a Living. “The World Owes You Nothing. It Was Here First.”

Mark Twain 1835-1910

Mark Twain

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

A message from:

Kiwanis Division 44 in a nutshell!

Find it on the web: www.cnhdivision44.0rg

Like us on Facebook: Division 44 Kiwanis CNH District

Submit newsletter articles and pictures to:

[email protected]

Making money hand over fist means to make a lot of money quickly.

This term has a nautical history. It relates to the practice of climb-ing a rope hand over hand.

This soon became known as hand over fist, with the fist being the hand gripping the rope.

The term hand over fist soon evolved from making progress up a rope to making progress gener-ally.

Today, it relates only to financial gain.


Rancho Murieta Community Ser-vices District (District) was formed in 1982, by State Government Code 61000 to provide essential services in Rancho Murieta. The District is an independent special district which provides the follow-ing services:

Water supply collection, treatment, and distribution

Wastewater collection, treatment, and reuse

Storm drainage collection, disposal, and flood control

Security

Solid Waste collection On January 31st the Rancho

Murieta Community Services Dis-trict sponsored a Meet the New Security Chief event.

The new chief is Paul Wag-ner. He started his new position on July 25th.

When asked to tell others about himself he replied:

“I was born in Oakland and raised in the Bay Area. A few years after college, I went to the

police academy. “Then I worked for the City of

Mill Valley as a police officer for two years.

“I left Mill Valley to work for the City of Richmond as a police officer for almost five years. After leaving Richmond Police Depart-ment I went to work at Target as a Loss Prevention Manager in the Bay Area for three years.

I then became the Security

Director for the Downtown Plaza in Sacramento (before it was an arena) for five years.

“In 2013 I worked as a Securi-

ty Manager for the Parkwest Lo-

tus Casino on Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento for two years.

“My last position, prior to com-

ing here, was with Micron Tech-nology as a Site Security Manag-er, I had offices in Folsom and the Bay Area.

I have 19 years of law en-forcement, security and loss pre-vention experience. I love what I do and am very passionate about my profession and the people I work with and for.

“I have been married for 16 years and have a 10 year old son. We moved to Sacramento in 2006 and live in Carmichael.

“When I have free time, I love to travel and cook. My son is very involved in Soccer (I played in College and semi-pro) so I really enjoy playing with him and being a soccer dad.

“I am very excited about com-ing here to Rancho Murieta and starting my new career here. Everyone has been friendly and understanding and I look forward to a very long career here.

“I really enjoy coming to work every day and I feel blessed and lucky to have fallen into such a great community and team.”

Meet the Chief!

Frank Hashorva is seen scheduling Chief Paul Wagner to be a guest speaker at a future Kiwanis meeting.


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5. Always drink upstream from the herd.

6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

7. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back into your pocket.

8. There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by read-ing. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.

9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

10. If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.

12. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

13. Never squat with your spurs on!

About Growing Older...

First ~Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start brag-ging about it

Second ~ The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Third ~ Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.

Fourth ~ When you are dissat-isfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

Fifth ~ You know you are get-ting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

Sixth ~ I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

Seventh ~ One of the many things no one tells you about ag-ing is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Eighth ~ One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Bill DuVal sent me an email that he received from an old shipmate. The topic was Will Rogers.

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – Au-gust 15, 1935) was a stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville, performer, American cowboy, hu-morist, newspaper columnist, and so-cial commentator.

Rogers became an advocate for the aviation industry. He befriend-ed Charles Lind-bergh, the most famous aviator of the era.

In 1935 the famed aviator Wiley Post, an Oklahoman, became in-terested in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast to Russia. After making a test flight in July, Post and Rogers left Lake Washington in Renton in the Lockheed Orion-Explorer in early August and then made sever-al stops in Alaska.

While Post piloted the aircraft, Rogers wrote his columns on his On August 15, they left Fairbanks, Alaska for Point Barrow.

They were about 20 miles south-west of Point Barrow when they became uncertain of their position in bad weather and landed in a la-goon to ask directions. On takeoff, the engine failed at low altitude, and the aircraft plunged into the lagoon, shearing off the right wing, and ended up inverted in the shal-low water of the lagoon. Both men died instantly.

Some of his sayings:

1. Never slap a man who's chew-ing tobacco.

2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

3. There are two theories to argu-ing with a woman. Neither works.

4. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Ninth ~ Being young is beauti-ful, but being old is comfortable.

Tenth ~ Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witch-craft. Today it's called golf.

And, finally ~ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Take time or make time to read the article about the Mazzoni Family in the February Issue of Rancho Murieta Neighbors.


Think ink! Recycle your ink/

LASER/toner cartridg-es. Turn in at Rancho Murieta Business Cen-ter or given to Jack Seigal at meetings.

They will be turned into our Kiwanis Family House.

It makes “cents” to recycle for the environment and for our Kiwa-nis Family House income.

P.S. If you turn them in at the

business center. You can buy re-placement inks there for your printer.

Featured at Raley’s Grand Open-ing in the Rancho Murieta Plaza was a large display of Sumo Citrus.

Sumo Citrus® is unique in that it

is large, seedless, exceptionally juicy, very sweet and easy to peel.

Its homely exterior belies deli-cious individual sections bursting with delicate flavor.

The unique size, shape and look

of Sumo Citrus® distinguish it from other mandarins.

Its Asian origin makes it exotic, but since it is grown here in Cali-fornia, food safety and freshness are ensured at a fraction of the price that it costs in Japan.

Although developed in Japan it is now grown on family farms in Cali-fornia’s San Joaquin Valley.

It is a large mandarin with some orange parentage. Its unique char-acteristics include a large, distinct

shape that's easy to peel. It is nat-urally seedless, sweet, and juicy. It is available in limited supplies available from February to May.

They are easy to identify with the unique shape; bumpy rind and knob on the top that the growers like to call the Sumo Citrus® 'top-knot.'

Unlike other citrus varieties, Su-mo Citrus® is 'neat' meaning no sticky mess, and hands stay dry. Sumo Citrus® has very little albe-do or rag (the white part of cit-rus), allowing the fruit to section easily with less of the white "netting" sticking to the fruit.

They are naturally sweet, and a healthy replacement for artificially sweetened candy and other high sugar snack foods. There is a low acidity level, great for sensitive stomachs that have trouble with high acid levels in other citrus. It is a good source of Vitamin C. It is Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium free. It contains Folate, Potassium and other vitamins and minerals. In addition, Sumo Cit-rus® is a good source of Fiber.

On the occasion of Raley’s opening its new market at Ran-cho Murieta Plaza a reader emails:

Dear Editor: Wasn't it just fan-

tastic.

I never thought a grocery store

opening could excite me so much.

I must not have enough excite-

ment in my life lately. On the occasion of the recent

Blood Drive: Dear Editor: Monday’s blood drive was a

wonderful, record breaking suc-cess!

You and the entire community really stepped up to help out with the urgent need for blood.

We had the largest turnout that was not associated with a supporting a local patient.

There were 113 participants and 97 pints of blood were col-lected. WOW!

We also had six first time do-nors which is great.

All of us want to thank you for your part in the success of this drive.

It could not have happened without your responsive outreach efforts.

Thank YOU! Patti Keating RMWC Blood Drive Co-Chair,

Publicity Editor’s Note: Bill DuVal and

Arlene Wallace donated blood. Judith Embree had another medical appointment, but donat-ed brownies to those who donat-ed blood.


Philosophy 101

As we grow older and wiser we realize a $300 or $30 watch - - - both tell the same time.

Whether we carry a $300 or $30 wallet/handbag - - - the amount of money inside is the same.

Whether we drink a bottle of $300 or $30 or $3 wine - - - the hangover is the same.

Whether the house we live in is 300 or 3,000 or 30,000 sq. ft. - - - the loneliness is the same.

And we realize our true inner happiness does not come from the material things of this world.

Whether we fly first or econo-my class, if the plane goes down - - - we go down with it.

Whether we fly first or econo-my class, if the plane reaches its destination - - everyone arrives at the same time.

Therefore . . . we should real-ize that when we have mates, buddies and old friends, brothers and sisters, with whom we can chat, laugh, talk, sing, talk about north-south-east-west or heaven and earth -- that is true happiness!

Six Undeniable Facts of Life: 1. Don't educate your children

to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so when they grow up they will know the value of things, not the price.

2. Best wise words: "Eat your food as your medicines. Oth-erwise you have to eat medicines as your food."

3. The one who loves you will never leave you because, even if there are 100 reasons

to give up, he or she will find one reason to hold on.

4. There is a big difference be-tween a human being and being human. Only a few folks really understand that.

5. You are loved when you are born. You will be loved when you die. In between, you have to manage!

6. If you just want to walk fast, walk alone; but, if you want to walk far, walk together!

Six Best Doctors in the World:

1. Sunlight 2. Rest 3. Exercise 4. Diet 5. Self Confidence 6. Friends

And, finally: The nicest place to be is in someone's thoughts, the safest place to be is in someone's prayers.

Show your colors. Show folks where you live!

Check out Rancho Murieta Ace Hardware for these signature clothes.

Also look for these cards:

It is the intent of the Kiwanis Kronicle, to report the news and stories accurately.

When mistakes are made, the Getting it Straight, column re-ports the corrections.

In the past issue about reha-bilitating Room 102, our spon-sored room at our Kiwanis Family House, one of the team members was incorrectly named.

The correct name is Judy Leezer.

The editor apologizes for this egregious error. jws


This month, there are three Honorees. Also it is ground breaking that none of the Honorees are

Kiwanis Members, (not yet though). They were selected because they were worker bees at the 3rd

Annual Crab Feed, and were keys to its success.

Honoree #1: Angie Friedrich

Honoree #2: Dr. Karen Krieg

Honoree #3: Ellie Hanson. (Ellie is Carol Gustafson’s daughter. Ellie filled in for her mom, when Carol took sick).

Photo credit: Peter Telfer

Angie Friedrich Dr. Karen Krieg

Carol Gustafson accepting for her daughter,

Ellie Hanson.

Worker Bees!


Collect labels! Support

Cosumnes River Elementary School!

Deposit items at collection boxes at RMA office, CRES, or give to editor.

Kiwanis Help Line

(916) 354-0538

Need help?

Want to know where

to get a wheel chair?

Want meals deliv-

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Want to know about

how to join Kiwanis?

Want to know about

Kiwanis sponsored activities?

With The Eliminate Project, Kiwanis International and UNICEF have joined forces to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus.

This deadly disease steals the lives of nearly 60,000 innocent babies and a significant number of women each year. The effects of the disease are excruciating — tiny newborns suffer repeat-ed, painful convulsions and ex-treme sensitivity to light and touch.

To eliminate MNT from the Earth, more than 100 million mothers and their future babies must be immunized.

This requires vaccines, syring-es, safe storage, transportation, thousands of skilled staff and more.

It will take US$110 million — and the dedicated work of UNICEF and every member of the Kiwanis family.

What is an

inter-club?

An inter-club meeting is a meeting staged by two or more Kiwanis clubs (including clubs in formation), or by a Kiwanis club and any K-Kids, Builders Club, Aktion Club, Circle K Club, or Key Club.

Clubs with 20 or fewer members need a minimum of two members in attendance to constitute an interclub meeting. Clubs with 21-30 members need three mem-bers, and clubs with 31 or more members need at least four members in attendance.

Visiting groups shall be composed of a minimum of two Kiwanians’ plus members of K-Kids, Builders Club, Ak-tion Club, Circle K Club, and/or Key Club must be in at-tendance (a lieutenant gover-nor can only be included if he/she is a member of the participating club).

Inter-clubbing is a means of supporting Kiwanis’ fifth Ob-ject, which is “To provide, through this club, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruis-tic service, and to build a bet-ter community.”

This wider scope of Kiwanis can be achieved by arranging visits between clubs in the same town, division, and dis-trict, as well as inter-district get-togethers.

Kiwanis protocol is to have the visiting club call the host club to advise it how many people are com-ing and when.

Kiwanis Kronicle Kiwanis Kronicle is

emailed to members who have email addresses. For those who don’t it is provid-ed by alternate means.

It is also emailed to some Kiwanis Division and Dis-trict addresses.

If you want a copy emailed to you, email edi-tor:

[email protected]

Tally up!

Each month, our ever loyal

club secretary, Linda O’Brien, prepares many reports for Kiwa-nis International and the Cal-Nev-Ha District.

One of the reports deals with service hours.

So please tally up your service hours for the various Kiwanis projects, and give them to her at the first club meeting of the month.


Looking ahead!

Kiwanis International Conventions

2017

July 13-16 Kiwanis International Convention Paris, France

2018

2019

Mar. 2– Michelle Cummings– Sac Metro Fire District

Mar. 16– Social Irish Theme

Apr. 6– Kerri Daniels, Camino de Santiago

Apr. 20— John Cover, Band Leader of Crystal Image

Proposed Club Programs

Oh the places you’ll go, Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!... Dr. Seuss

Pun of the Month

Division Council Meetings

A meeting where members from the different clubs in Divi-sion 44 get together to share successes, plans and con-cerns. A time to honor our dif-ferences and celebrate our achievements.

The location is at Oak Avenue Free Methodist Church, 8790 Oak Ave. Orangevale, CA 95662

Dinner is served at 5:30 p.m. for $10@ and meeting starts at 6:00 p.m.

Monday, March 13, 2017

Monday, April 10, 2017:

Monday, May 8, 2017

Wednesday, May, TBD 2017: Prayer Breakfast

Monday, June 12, 2017: Lt. Gov. Smith / Lt. Governor Laird Smith's Home

July: No Meeting

August: No Meeting

September, 2017: Lt. Gov. Installation / TBD

One word essay

Relaxed

Kiwanis Cal-Nev-Ha

District Events 2017 Mid-Year Conference

South March 4, 2017 – River-side, CA • Riverside Conven-tion Center

2017 District Convention August 3-5, 2017 – Reno, NV • The Nugget Hotel

2018 District Convention August 9-11, 2017 – Kona, HI • Sheraton Kona Resort & Spa


Lincoln Foothills: Turkey Creek Golf Course 1525 State Highway 193, Lincoln, CA 95648 1st &

3rd Friday at 11:30 a.m. Email [email protected] before coming.

1st Thurs. 7:00 a.m.; 3rd Thurs. 7:00 p.m.

Strikes Unlimited 5681 Lonetree Blvd. Rocklin– Thurs.@12:00 p.m.

Noon.

Last Wednesday of the month: 6:00 p.m.

NEW: 2nd Thursday 6:30 p.m. IHOP Rest. 2216 Sunrise Blvd. Rancho Cordova, 95670

All Thurs. except 2nd IHOP Rest. 7:00 a.m. 2216 Sunrise Blvd. Rancho Cordova

1st Thurs, 7:00 a.m. 3rd Thurs, 7:00 p.m.

Greater Colfax has merged into the Kiwanis Club of Auburn.

New: 1st Tuesday is a dinner meeting at Buonarroti’s at 5:30 p.m. $18.00


Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world, one child, and one community at a time.

March in present time is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of the seven months which are 31 days long.

March in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of Sep-tember in the Southern Hemisphere.

In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological spring is 1 March. In the Southern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological autumn is 1 March.

March starts on the same day of the week as November every year and February in common years only. March ends on the same day of the week as June every year. In leap years, March starts on the same day

as September and December of the previous year. In common years, March starts on the same day as June of the previous year.

The name of March comes from an-cient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and named Mar-tius after Mars or Ares, the Greek god of war.

In Rome, where the climate is Medi-

terranean, March was the first month of spring, a logical point for the be-ginning of the year as well as the start of the military campaign sea-son.

January became the first month of the calendar year either under King Numa Pompilius (c. 713 BC) or under the Decemvirs about 450 BC (Roman writers differ).

The numbered year began on March 1 in Russia until the end of the 15th century. Great Britain and its colonies continued to use March 25 until 1752, which was when they ultimately adopted the Gregorian calendar. Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the New Year in March.

March 2017

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1 2 7:00 a.m. Meeting Program: Michelle Cum-mings, Sac Metro Fire

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12 2:00 a.m.

13 14 15 16 7:00 p.m. Social: Irish Theme

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19 20 3:29 a.m. 21 22 23 24 25

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