Kiwaniscope for Thursday, November 16, 2023 Breakfast meeting. Food drive following.

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Good morning ! This week in Kiwaniscope - breakfast meeting on Saturday, with 2020 Service and Leadership Awardee now West Point cadet Knox Watson, delivering new winter coats to Norwalk Project Head Start, a list of future events, Kiwanis International convention announcement, and a video: What If?

Editor

MEMBERS’ MILESTONES

Harvey Luft and Jim Magid celebrate their birthdays next Monday. Past President Dr. Tom Failla's birthday is next Tuesday. Happy birthday, members!

John Moran's (Susan) wedding anniversary is today. Happy anniversary, John and Susan!

THIS WEEK

This Saturday, November 18, 2023

Breakfast meeting. Food drive afterwards.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall - 8:30 a.m.

Pre-holiday Food Drive 🦃

Weston Shopping Center, 9:30 a.m. - 1: 30 p.m.

FOOD DRIVE

by Dan Gilbert

Weston Kiwanis is conducting a food and healthcare products drive this Saturday at the Weston Shopping Center, giving Westonites the opportunity to help their neighbors in need; Weston's Food Pantry is the beneficiary.

I'd like two Kiwanians at Lily’s and one at the Weston Pharmacy on each shift. We’ll have two shifts: 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.. I've invited Weston High School Key Clubbers to help. Please email me if you’ll volunteer for one of the shifts.

Photograph contributed by Steve Thomas.

LAST WEEK

Members and guests arriving early for last Saturday's meeting were asked to wait outside pending a decision by Norfield Church on the status of the parish hall. Chef Bill on arrival found the parish hall had been vandalized and reported it to police. Norfield allowed us to have our meeting in the Christian Education building.

Kiwanians rallied typically to the challenge, undeterred and flexible. Chef Bill brewed and brought coffee and a member got breakfast sandwiches from Lunchbox, members set up the room Jim McMorris rounded up and configured an LCD projector for West Point Cadet Knox Watson, our speaker. Knox wowed members with his presence and presentation, giving no small measure of credit to how the fine young man Knox has grown to be to dad and President-elect Tom Watson. The scheduled foundation trustees and officers meeting was not held.

NEWS

Past President Dallas Kersey ran across this cartoon organizing his office. "It's more relevant this year/holiday than I have EVER seen it before. Tons of catalogs every day." (From the cartoon originally appearing in The Wall Street Journal.)

NEXT WEEK AND BEYOND

Next Saturday, November 25, 2023

Breakfast meeting. (No turkey leftovers on this Saturday after Thanksgiving - we promise.)