KIWANIS CLUB OF EAST HAMPTON CLUB NEWS PAGE

Kiwanis Club of East Hampton

N E W S L E T T E R NOVEMBER 1999

Upcoming Events Monday, November 29   Regular dinner meeting at the usual time (7:00 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Monday, December 6   Our turn to host the monthly Divisional Meeting, which will start a half hour later than usual (7:30 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Stephanie Talmage (our Key Club President), Sara Miller and Katie Sarris will be honored for their recent scientific accomplishments. Price $20 as usual. Let's make the attendance impressive. Monday, December 13   Regular dinner meeting at the usual time (7:00 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Monday, December 20   Christmas Party, maybe? Location to be either MaryJane's (will cost more) or Club Sagal (if we can get a voluntary clean-up crew together.) Open for discussion. Monday, December 27   Regular dinner meeting at the usual time (7:00 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Monday, January 3   Regular dinner meeting at the usual time (7:00 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Monday, January 10   Regular dinner meeting at the usual time (7:00 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Monday, January 17   Regular dinner meeting at the usual time (7:00 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Monday, January 24   Regular dinner meeting at the usual time (7:00 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Monday, January 31   Regular dinner meeting at the usual time (7:00 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Monday, February 7   Regular dinner meeting at the usual time (7:00 pm) at MaryJane's Restaurant. Tuesday, February 8   The Patchogue Club will host a new and different monthly Divisional Meeting at 7:30 pm. This one will be a Comedy Night, recommended for husbands and wives. So, bring the spouse and have fun. Contact Kim Davis (516) 324-2000 or Bill Sagal (516) 267-8288 for details if you can make it.

It's that time of year again when we have to provide a decent meal to the other Clubs in the Division. On Monday, December 6th, the East Hampton Kiwanis Club will be hosting the December Divisional at MaryJane's Restaurant. The regular meeting will start a half hour later, at 7:30pm, to give the members of the other Clubs time to figure out what the STOP signs say. We will be honoring three East Hampton High School students for their outstanding achievement in science. Our Key Club President, Stephanie Talmage, along with Sara Miller and Katie Sarris, discovered a new antibacterial compound. Remember when you used to do that as a kid? We will be entertained by our Town Crier, Mr. Hugh King, who will speak on the subject of the first known use of pickup trucks by the founding fathers of East Hampton. Political correctness notwithstanding, he will not be discussing the founding mothers, who preferred motorcycles.

Dues Are Still Due
And getting ever duer as time goes on. For those of you who don't bother to read the mail you receive from this organization, dues were due in October. Yes, of 1999. You have two options to pay for dues: either send the full $100 (or more depending if you bothered to pay last year's dues), or you can pay $50 now and $50 in April. Obviously, there's less paperwork for us if you just pay it all now and get it over with instead of procrastinating, so pay your dues already!

Christmas Tree Sale
The Christmas trees for our annual sale will be delivered the week after Thanksgiving, and we'll probably start selling them the day of the Christmas parade. Once again, poor Cid Cerchiai will be selling the trees during the week (he doesn't know this yet) and the rest of us will be assigned times during the weekends leading up to Christmas. It's very important that if you are assigned to work a shift, that you SHOW UP!!! If you can't make one of the shifts to which you are assigned, you can either call Bill Sagal (267-8288) or Len Bernard (267-3041) OR find some poor schmuck as a substitute. I know this simple little phone call doesn't sound terribly difficult, but it creates a real problem if you don't make the call and only two people out of six show up at 9am on a Saturday morning. Or, if the entire shift assigned to replace you doesn't show up at all.

By the way, we will be at a new location this year; Bayberry's Nursery in Amagansett. Since this is right on the highway, we shouldn't have a problem selling out. (We've also ordered less trees than last year so that will help, too.)

Yes, selling Christmas trees can be fun! If you bring a decent supply of refreshments, and happen to be on duty with a good conversationalist, and get good weather, and you've just had a fight at home and want to get out of the house, and don't have a bad back, and there's nothing on TV, and you have a special thing for pine trees, it can be fun. At any rate, it's such a treat when your shift is over.

Turkey Hop

Well, we survived another dance without losing the farm. The Turkey Hop was held at Ruschmeyer's in Montauk, on Saturday, November 6,1999. The highlight of the evening was an artful rendition of "La Vida Loca" danced by New York City Ballet's newest principal artist, Len Bernard. And all of the gift certificates and prizes were won by either Eric Goldberg or Laurie Costello. All said, if we had to make our money on ticket sales, we'd still be washing dishes. Thankfully, we made about $1,400, due to program sponsorships, and that saved us.

News Briefs

SUCCESS BY SIX, a program for providing books to children ages 0-6, is moving at a snail's pace. We have received only 25 books to date. Every member has to know a family that has small children or else can spend $5,000.00 and go out and buy some books. Books may be brought to meetings, or may be given to Kim Davis at Suffolk County National Bank on Pantigo Road. Library/yard sales are good places to get books cheap. For details, call Kim at 324-2000.

PHIL TUTINO, sick of convalescing, made his redebut at the Turkey Hop, and returned to his first regular dinner meeting on November 15th. Welcome back, Phil. Now, if you have nothing better to do, start preparing for your term as Club President.

THE ROSS SCHOOL, is interested in becoming involved in the works of Kiwanis. We are exploring the possibility of a second Key Club here in East Hampton.

CLUB CONTRIBUTIONS awarded at the November Board of Directors meeting included $250 to the East Hampton Food Pantry and $150 to the Springs School PTA for their Halloween party.

THE ALMOST BOTTOM LINE For the thirty-some-odd of you Kiwanians who didn't attend, here are some shots of the fun time we had at the Turkey Hop. If you had been there, ya coulda met Jay Schneiderman, our next Supervisor.

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