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Springtime City Leadership
Team
President:
Dale Tindall
President Elect:
Christy Flees
Vice President:
Frank LaMagna
Secretary:
Jim Ewbank
Treasurer:
Kay Skelton
Immediate Past President:
Kat George
Directors:
Dr. Don Auerbach
Tom Hanley
Cindy Isaac
Daryl Waterman
Naomi Williams
Doug Williams
Roy Workman
Webmaster:
Springtime City Kiwanis
Community Services:
Doug Williams
Human and Spiritual Values:
Open
Membership Growth and Education:
David Browder, Jr
Membership Retention:
Al Fears
Public Relations:
Open
Sponsored Youth:
David Browder
Young Children Priority One:
Dr. Don Auerbach
Youth Services:
Frank LaMagna
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We are truly a SERVICE CLUB that does our best in our community.
Thank You...
"Membership in Kiwanis provides the opportunity to give something back to our community"
7 months away from our Kiwanis Club's 50th Anniversary
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers
dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.
March 9, 2006
A little bit about Kiwanis' World Wide Service Project: IDD
Salt production, 21 st -century style
Laws alone cannot eliminate iodine deficiency disorders (IDD). Enforcement, education, and equipment are required, and as the nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) discovered, it helps to have Kiwanis support.
A 1953 law significantly reduced incidences of IDD in the Srebrenica, Bratunac, and Podrinje regions, but compulsory salt iodization did not eliminate IDD in the Eastern European nation. Between 1992 and 1996, war closed and bady damaged the country’s only salt-producing factory. As a result, research conducted in 1998 and 1998 discovered rising goiter rates among children ages seven to 14.
A US$474,009 Kiwanis International Foundation contribution helped reopen the Tuzla Salt Factory with improved quality control and efficiency. According to a United States fund for UNICEF report, the factory’s director repeatedly expresses his appreciation for Kiwanis and UNICEF assistance. Three packing machines and new laboratory equipment, the director says, “brought the antiquated and dilapidated factory into the 21st century.”
UNICEF also reports that Kiwanis funds supported public awareness campaigns. One promotion targets new families by introducing nutritional lessons in the nation’s Schools for Future Parents and through the World Health Organization/UNICEF Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative.
The marketing campaigns use a variety of communication channels, including painting the exterior of a Sarajevo tram. The mural, which features the Kiwanis logo, promotes the use of iodized salt to prevent mental disabilities and recommends using salt at the end of the cooking process.
BIH continues to build on its success. More than 450 health professionals attended training sessions to become more familiar with IDD, and more than two dozen sanitary inspectors are trained and equipped to monitor the quality of imported and domestically produced salt.
“On behalf of the UNICEF family and the children that we serve, we wish to thank you for the generous grants from the Kiwanis International family, which are helping to support the IDD control program and giving children a smart start in life,” wrote Meg Gardinier, UNICEF’s managing director of education and community partnerships in a letter accompanying the BiH report.
Show Your " K "
On your coat you wear a little button.
You wear it in the winter and
the summer so they say.
If they ask you why the decoration,
You'll say it's for Kiwanis and
you're proud to show your " K "
CHORUS
Show your "K!!" (For the Kids!)
Show your "K!!" (For the Kids!)
If you're stayin' home or going far away.
On your coat you wear a little button.
If you love Kiwanis you'll
be proud to show your " K "
Shake a Hand, Think KIWANIS
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Attendance 25 Announcements
President Wilber Van Scoik opened the March 2nd meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Springtime City.
David Browder led the National Anthem. Al Fears provided the invocation.
Guests
Seniors Members: Cal Wyatt
Mark Younger w/CHS Baseball - co-worker of Jeff Cesta
Wilber asked "Is Everyone Pumped about Kiwanis?"
What do you do when you shake a hand?
Everyone shouted: Think K I W A N I S
Bill Roys who was a long time member of our club and now a member of the Kiwanis Club of Seminole is in Bay Pines Hospital with Pneumonia. His daughter says he will be in for about 5 days. We will sign on card at our meeting on Thursday night to encourge him to Get Well.
Our 44th annual Ed Wells / Kiwanis Club of Springtime City Track Meet is March 15 {girls} and March 16 {boys}(Wednesday and Thursday). As this is a major fundraiser for our club, ads are available from $100 to $5,000 for the Track Meet Program. This year's event will be extra special as Clearwater High School celebrates it's 100th Year Anniversary. Many volunteers will be required on both days, so please gather and ask your friends and family to assist with this event. We will and must succeed in an extra special Kiwanis way.
We need volunteers from 2PM to 6PM & 6PM til 10PM on both days - Wednesday and Thursday. A signup sheet was passed around for Kiwanians and friends to participate.
Reconciler Head Start Readers this past Wednesday noon:
Dale Tindall, Ron and Sara King
Our March Madness Fundraiser is now in progress. Christy Flees is our fundraiser leader.
10 tickets were given to each club member tonight. This fundraiser ends on March 9th with a final end date of March 15th. Each ticket cost/donation of $10 and you have a chance to win part of the $1000 in prize money. Christy wants 400 tickets sold this year; so prepare to get your friends and enemies involved. Please try to bring your collect money and stubs to our weekly meetings.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT
Mark Younger who runs the Clearwater High Bosters for their Baseball team stopped by to say Thank You for our support for with their Baseball Team schedule that our Kiwanis Club help sponsor. The design includes our Club Pin and website information.
Our Interclub Chairman, Joe Patty had us throughout north Pinellas this past week:
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03/02/06 -- Greater Clearwater
Dale Tindall, Joe Patty Jr, Carl Babcock, David Browder, Maurice Mickens
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03/01/06 -- Safety Harbor
Dale Tindall, Joe Patty Jr, David Browder, Ed Wells
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02/28/06 -- Countryside
Dale Tindall, Joe Patty Jr, Doug Williams, Jan Gordon, John H. Williams III
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02/25/06 -- Tarpon Springs
Dale Tindall, Joe Patty Jr, Keith Philipson, Roy Workman
Paint Your Heart Out Clearwater - This Saturday March 25
Beverages and snacks will be provided by Kat George
Bring your favorite paint brush and a bucket, plus anything else that may be helpful in getting the job done including your positive Kiwanian attitude and your awesome smile...
A couple of streets west of US19
SW Corner of US19 and SR590
The Florida Youth Ranch is hosting their 2nd annual Open House this Saturday, March 4th from 11:30AM til 2:30PM.
A complimentary BBQ lunch will be served along with tours of the campus and the cottages.
Margaret Rutkowski shared her experiences on her trip out west. She attended 2 Kiwanis meetings and sat next to a Past Governor of Kiwanis on her plane ride home.
Sam Youssef, Linguist - Commanding General's Office - 101st Airborne Division (AASLT) in Iraq
Sam is sitting in the back right hand corner of picture
He has returned back to Iraq in theater and says he could not believe the amount of welcome that he received from his commander and everyone there, "it is kind off odd thing to see you are welcome in your work more than being home , but that is life, and I will put every thing in God’s hands."
"I was very surprise to find 3 boxes from your Kiwanis group that was forward from my previous base, please thank the team for all there efforts and God bless. The following is my new address for your records."
Sam Youssef
HHC 501st STB
FOC SPEICHER
APO AE 09393
Joan Brock was inducted as our twelfth (12th) new member of the Kiwanis Club of Springtime City for the Kiwanis Year of 2005-06. Joan is a longtime resident of Clearwater and recently retire from the County' Election Office. She has 2 daugthers in Gainsville and Trinity. She is a sports fanatic with the Bucs, Gators, Hockey and most importantly College Basketball. She is a proud Grandma and like politics. Joan says she is very impressed with our club and feels very welcome and is honored to be a member of our club.
Joan was sponsored by Jan Gordon who shared the many activities she has been involved with in the past 5 months since she has been a member. It was a long list...
Al Fears performed the induction and provided Joan with a Kiwanis Membership folder with a Kiwanis Magazine and a booklet called: Kiwanis is a VERB. Her Kiwanis Pin was lapelled her sponsor. A Kiwanis Apron was provided so for the next month each can ensure that he meets all of the members of our club including signatures.
Our Club membership sang: You're in Kiwanis Now !
Joan also received a nice plaque displaying the "Objects of Kiwanis".
The Traditional Welcoming all new members of our Kiwanis Club with a Standing Ovation occurred at the end of the induction ceremony.
Mark your Calendar with our Kiwanis Club's Scheduled Events
Thurs - 3/09 - Division 12 Council Meeting (DCM) @ St Matthias Lutheran Church, 2751 Sunset Point Road
Wed - 3/15 - Girls Track Meet - Clearwater High School
Thurs - 3/16 - Boys Track Meet - Clearwater High School
Sat - 3/25 - Paint Your Heart Out Clearwater
Thurs - 4/13 - Kiwanis Bar-B-Q at Camp Soule
Thurs - 5/25 - Division 12 Council Meeting - Long Center
Weekend - 6/3 - 6/4 - All Children's Hospital Telethon - Building Miracles
Week - 6/26 - 7/2 - Kiwanis International Convention - 
Sat - 7/15 - Children's Health Fair
Week - 8/24- 8/27 - Florida District Convention - Orlando
Future Club Programs - Speakers
March 2 - Mr. Bruce Bussey, Pinellas County Housing Authority, Affordable/Community Housing
March 9 - Ken Klein, Land Ops Chief, Maritime Minutemen of Florida. US & Florida Border Control.
March 16 - Track Meet - No Club Meeting
March 23 -Faye Rasanen, Director of Community Relations, Regency Oaks
March 30 - Beth Kerly, Special Assistant to the Governor, Jeb Bush. Program: Governor's initiatives/priorities for the 2006 legislative session.
April 6 - Clearwater Firefighter of the Year - Lt. Brent Bronson and his supervisor, Deputy Chief, Roger Dube
April 13 - OUT MEETING - Kiwanis Bar-B-Q at Camp Soule
April 20th: Col. Hector Pagan, SOCOM Executive Officer for General Brown, Mc Dill Air Force Base
April 27th: Brian Flaherty, Chairman of the Board, Pinellas County Housing Authority
May 4th: Club Election Day (no program)
May 11th: Turn Around Awards (no program)
May 18th: Ron Heller, Motivational Speaker & Author
May 25th: Division 12 Council Meeting, Long Center Clw
June 1st : Clearwater Firefighter of the Year, Lt. Brent Bronson and Fire Chief, Jamie Geer;
June 8th: Keith Philipson, Education Director, Eckerd Youth Alternative. Program: Serving Special Needs Children;
June 15th: Gene Cochran, Director Florida Fingerprint Services. Program: Child Identification and Protection.
June 22nd: Lisa McDaniel, Public Information Specialist, City Of Clearwater. Program: Solid waste & Recycling.
June 29th: Out Meeting--Aktion Club, Brighthouse Field B A S E B A L L, 6:00pm
We did SING led by Song Leader David Browder
- ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
Fines and Happy Dollars by the Fine Master David Browder
Wilber - Reading flyer
Tom - Overkill
Jeff - New puppy in his house
Don - Pre-Congrats Award
Margaret - Kiwanis Press Club
Nolan - Late of the lates
Carl - Not Best Dressed
Donna - Got a Buck ?
Neil - Welcome Back - We missed You!
Joe - It's a Buck!
and many Happy Dollars were collected from all of our members including Al for being HAPPY and Kay Skelton on her job promotion.
Program
Vice President Jeff Cesta introduced Bruce Bussey, Planning Manager with Pinellas County Community Development who shared the County efforts to solve both community and affordable housing.
Community Housing Initiatives include:
- Community Housing Trust Fund
- Review of Local Development Regulations
- Community Land Trust
- Inclusionary Housing Policy
Building Better Communities
Vision
We envision Pinellas County as a place where all residents have the opportunity to live in decent neighborhoods with access to quality affordable housing, pleasing streetscapes and open green spaces, sound infrastructure, ample economic opportunities, convenient public facilities and access to all the services vital to maintaining a safe and sustainable community.
Mission
Guiding the development of better communities in Pinellas County through partnerships with residents nonprofits, local governments, developers and other public and private entities.
The Existing Housing Situation
Pinellas County enjoys a national reputation as a choice residential community. The reputation springs from a sub tropical climate plus a peninsula location affording ready access to the world class beaches and abundant water vistas.
Since the end of World War II, families have relocated to Pinellas County from all parts of the nation and many foreign countries. Often our residents came as visitors and decided to relocate here, to work or retire. Most residential growth in the County occurred between 1950 and 2000, when approximately 85% of all the housing was constructed.
Today the county is "built out" and new housing development is limited to scattered infill locations, and redevelopment opportunities in high value locations, particularly on properties proximate to the Gulf and the Bays. While a variety of housing types exist here the predominate type is the single family detached home, typically constructed in the Mediterranean style, using block and stucco.
Typically these homes are on lots smaller than 15,000 square feet. Square mile after square mile of this type of housing predominates, interspersed with low rise, garden type apartments and mobile home parks. That is the image of Pinellas which enjoys favor in the public's mind.
On the beaches, in downtown St. Petersburg and Clearwater, as well as in other scattered, water front locations, some mid-rise (under 20 stories) condo flats have been developed. This type of higher density housing (30+ units per acre) has not expanded beyond a few high prestige, high value locations. The newest housing trend of the past 5 years, are attached townhomes, developed on scattered infill locations, developed primarily between 7 - 10 units per acre.
The County's image as a residential and tourist locale is so ingrained in the public's mind, that some residents are surprised when informed of the size and vitality of the Pinellas non retail employment base. Most non retail employment centers consist of clusters of modern campus style office parks, and low rise, flex building centers which blend unobtrusively with the residential neighborhoods which adjoin them.
In Pinellas, a home purchase continues to be relatively affordable by the pricing standards of the nation's top 30 metro Areas. Most first quality Pinellas housing, with the exception of beach locations, can be purchased for under $140 per square foot. In the majority of the nation's top 30 Metro areas, home prices are $150+ per square foot.
In the past 5 years there has been a run up of prices in Pinellas, but that occurred later than in many other parts of the country, due in part to our dispersed pattern of regional employment centers on both sides of Tampa Bay. Multiple centers afforded, until recently, a balance of land supply vs. demand, do to great diversity of choice residential locations with easy access to those centers.
Housing Needs in Relationship to the Economic Development and Redevelopment Plan
Any significant expansion of targeted contributory jobs will result in a demand by new employees for nearby housing. Currently, only a small amount of new housing is being developed near the employment zones. Therefore, the planned employment expansion will likely produce the following trends. First, there will be intensified bidding for existing Pinellas County homes offered for sale. Demand for close in, centrally located housing currently outstrips supply, and as a result, home prices in Pinellas are currently increasing by more than 10% annually. A significant employment expansion, without the provision of corresponding new housing, will likely exacerbate the current home price escalation.
Secondly, some of the new demand will likely be met by employees seeking new housing in fringe suburbs, particularly Pasco County and Manatee. Those employees will engage in long distance commutes to work, adding to congestion on already crowded highways. One way for employment to expand, without causing negative housing and traffic congestion effects, is for Pinellas civic leaders to facilitate new housing construction, in and proximate to employment zones. However, providing new "in town" housing poses many challenges to overcome if this housing expansion is to happen. These challenges include:
- The challenge posed by limited vacant land availability. Some of the few remaining blocks of vacant land are in public ownership for environmental preservation.
- The challenge of acquiring and redeveloping parcels occupied by older obsolete structures, including assemblage, clearance, and retrofitted utilities.
- The challenge of the economics of residential redevelopment, which often require higher densities and mixed residential, commercial use to make such ventures feasible.
- The challenge of neighborhood aging and decline, which in some locations discourage new investment in and near industrial areas.
- The challenge to find alternatives to automobiles for the journey to work from nearby residential neighborhoods to employment centers.
- The challenge to broaden public perceptions regarding the advantages of housing variety, including the compatibility of mixed housing types developed at varying heights and densities, proximate to established neighborhoods of single story, detached housing.
Housing Strategies
The Housing Overview addresses the myriad of issues confronting the Pinellas Community as it moves toward buildout, while considering strategies to secure a dynamic economic future. There is a need to address housing types and densities, affordability, new models for development, location, jobs/housing balance, maximizing infrastructure investments and transit/transportation relationships. Six strategies and implementing recommendations have been prepared to address these critical issues. The six strategies are:
- Sponsoring Urban Density Housing
- Promoting New Urbanism
- Assembling and Inventorying Housing Sites
- Maintaining Quality Neighborhoods
- Anchoring Employment Centers with Public Investment
- Financing Neighborhood Renewal Proximate to Employment Centers
Al Fears won $10 and Christy Flees won $8 with ticket. Kay Skelton ran the 50/50.
No Mind Reader Here
Triple amputee determined to stay positive
June 18, 2005 started out like most other days for Kevin Trent of Tazewell. He and a buddy had mowed a customer’s yard earlier in the day. They then spent the next several hours enjoying one of their favorite pastimes—fishing.
Little could they have known at the time, but at 10:45 p.m., Kevin would be involved a motorcycle accident that would cost one man his life and Kevin, both arms and his left leg.
Ahead of him was his new reality as a triple amputee. Nothing would ever be the same. After spending 69 days at the University of Tennessee Hospital, Kevin was transferred to the Rehabilitation Center at Lakeway Regional Hospital, where doctors assured him he would spend the next four to six weeks. "I told my family I didn’t know what they were talking about, but I planned to be home in two weeks," he said.
While his family rushed to get the house ready for his return, Kevin worked to speed up his recovery. He went home from the hospital in only three weeks.
As part of the healing process, doctors and therapists encouraged Kevin to come up with a goal for his rehabilitation. He set a goal of being able to go hunting by Christmas. Proving necessity is the mother of invention, Kevin’s family members created a number of devices which, strapped to his right leg and the stumps of his arms, allows him to hold and shoot his crossbow.
True to his dream, last December Kevin went hunting and shot a five-point buck. Amazingly enough, with his modified crossbow, Kevin was outshooting his father and uncle before he was fitted with any of his prosthetic limbs. The first he received was his new leg. Even that was an adventure. Before he could be fitted with the leg, a special foot had to be ordered from California, the only place able to construct the foot to fit Kevin’s six-foot, eight-inch frame and size 18 shoes.
Although he was unable to go far, Kevin said he took his first steps the same day he received the leg. Not happy with needing others to feed him, Kevin also began learning to feed himself as soon as he received his new right arm. :It wasn’t pretty," Kevin said, but he managed his first food the same day he was fitted for the arm—a cookie.
His healing process has not been without setbacks, however. "Things you take for granted, he’s had to start over," said his aunt, Theresa Bolden. "The hardest thing is wanting to do something for him and knowing you shouldn’t," Bolden said. "You want to make everything easy for him, even though you know it’s not helping him."
Although he hopes to one day master getting into his prostheses unaided, for now, he has to rely on his family to help him. "The hardest part is getting used to everything," Kevin said. "Needing people to help you all the time is hard." He misses the independence he had prior to the accident. "That hurt me more than anything," Kevin said.
Prior to the accident, Kevin had completed mechanic training on his job and had purchased a new truck prior to the accident. He and a friend also mowed yards during the summer. He was also helping his father train six bird dogs.
He hopes to get back to much of that, but he still has quite a bit of rehabilitation in front of him. Doctors have assured Kevin once he gets used to his arms, he will be able to do everything he used to do. In the meantime, he is optimistic. "You can’t give up," he said. "You have your good days and bad days, You can’t let your bad days get to you."
During his hospital stay, Kevin said he met many other people with amputations and he felt he learned more from them than from the therapists. "They (the therapists) know how to work my muscles, but they can’t tell me how to work these," Kevin said, holding up his arms.
One patient he met at the hospital in Knoxville gave him advice which has been part of Kevin’s motivation. "He said my prison would only be as big as I let it get," Kevin said. The man had lost both of his arms in an accident 36 years earlier.
He has also been inspired by the stories of amputees he’s seen on the Discovery Health cable channel. "You see people doing things that motivate you to do more," he said. A number of people Kevin doesn’t know have also helped him in his healing. "They held BBQs, a motorcycle ride and other benefits," he said. "People have done more than I thought they would." The benefits have been very helpful. Kevin and his family hopes his insurance and the gifts from strangers will help defray the costs of his prostheses, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars a piece.
Kevin is still making long-range plans. This summer, he hopes to get back to mowing yards again. He also hopes to go to Colorado this fall with his grandfather to go elk hunting. Kevin said he will not let the phrase "I can’t" hold him back.
Anyone wishing to help Kevin can donate to the Kevin Trent Hope Fund c/o Citizen’s Bank. For those wishing to drop him a word of encouragement, he can be reached at P.O. Box 3266, Morristown, Tenn. 37815.
Celebrating 49 Years of Service in Clearwater, Florida
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