Editor – Dean Lail
Reporter: Mike Hunter
Klarion Committee Chair: Chris Ward
Meeting – 11/4/03
Two good songs and an invocation with an "unspoken prayer
request" started our election-day meeting. The City of
Asheboro had elections for the school
board and city council while we Asheboro
Kiwanian's elected Chris Griffin to take
a spot on our board. Visitors included an interclub
from Greensboro, David DeVriend, guest of
Mike Stack and Robbie
Cox who was the featured spotlight
business. Robbie is the third generation
to work in his family business, Cox's
Harley-Davidson, Inc. We learned how this business that started with
humble beginnings was recently recognized as being number 1 in the
nation in customer satisfaction and award ratings.
Robbie attributed his family's success to
hard work and by treating all staff members like family. Our program
was Henry "Looking Bear" Free. He is the leader of the
Uwharrie Native American Flute Circle and
provided our group with Indian music from his flute and drums. Lynn
Jones announced that we had 52 Kiwanian's
and 7 guests in attendance and in the next week Jeff Miller is
celebrating his birthday and Marvin and Helen Caviness
are celebrating their anniversary. Reporter, Mike Hunter
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www.AsheboroKiwanis.org
The club has a web site now. Based on templates provided by Kiwanis International, the web site provides basic information about the club including a list of committees and projects, contact information and a calendar of events including the bell ringing sign up. Prospective members are directed to fill out an online information request form. Past issues of the Klarion are posted and links to other community sites are provided. If you have any suggestions for content or would like a particular link to a web site added, please let me know. Dean.
$100 Ultimate Speed Skating Team sponsor.
$250 Builders Club – The Learning Center.
No meeting Dec. 30.
Nov. 15 Salvation Army bell ringing begins every Saturday until Christmas, 9am-9pm.
Nov. 11 Veterans
Day
Veterans Day originates from the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when World War I ended.
Nov. 9-17 Key Club Week
Nov. 19 Leonids meteor shower peaks - 2:28am
Nov. 20 Great American Smoke Out
Dec. 5 Asheboro Christmas parade – volunteer to hand out books.
Dec. 23 Kiwanis Christmas program.
Nov. 15 America Recycles Day
Millions of Americans will celebrate recycling by participating in events throughout the United States. America Recycles Day is a national all-volunteer, non-profit organization which sponsors this annual campaign with the goal of educating and encouraging Americans to recycle and buy recycled products.
Nov. 11, Sylvia Beamer, Director of Volunteers at Randolph Hospital
Nov. 18, Forest Hazel, Saponi Indian
Nov. 25, Farm-City Night
Dec. 2, Wright Brothers
Give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than the material
values of life.
Abraham Lincoln said: “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Local Girl Scout Camp Named for Native American Indian Tribe
The Keyauwee Program Center near Sophia
just outside of Randolph County is near the site of the village of
Keyauwee Indians.
The Keyauwee do not appear to have been
noted by white men before 1701 when they were found in a
palisaded village about 30 miles
northeast of the Yadkin River near the
present Highpoint, Guilford County. At
that time they were preparing to join the Saponi
and Tutelo for better protection against
their enemies, and, shortly afterward, together with the last
mentioned tribes, the Occaneechi, and the
Shakori, they moved toward the
settlements about Albemarle Sound.