2011-2012 Officers & Board of Directors: President Doris Rappold, President-Elect Mike Koorie,

Vice President – John Dufrene, Secretary – Faye Dufour, Treasurer--Bill Lindsey, 

Directors: Sharon Leshe, Ira Snyder, Jim Perrier, Irby Bourque and Dr. David Charles.

Next Meeting (February 9th, 2012, 7:00 am,)

February 2nd, 2011 Meeting 

President-Doris Rappold - presided over the meeting.

Opening Prayer –  Larry Manguno

Song – Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Pat Maroney is not doing great, keep Pat in your thoughts and prayers and maybe give him a call or send him an e-mail.

Upcoming Events:

Next Hope Lodge dinner will be on Wednesday February 8^th. Fun, Food, Fellowship, and Karaoke! 

Mark your calendars now. Cooking starts at 4:pm – Serving starts at 5:pm.

Mardi Gras Stands – Take Down will be on Sat. Feb. 25^that 8: am until about noon.

Inter-Club – John Dufrene – We had an interclub at the Mardi Gras stand set-up with the Crescent City Eye Openers.Present were Anthony Simmons, Sharon Lesh, Russell Diodene’, and Larry Sevenker.

Brags:

Roy Taylor and Wendy Barrios are leaving on a Caribbean Cruise after today’s meeting.

Jim Perrier’s Company landed the contract to provide the technology work at the new Churchill Downs race track in Jefferson Parish.

Youth Leadership – Anthony Simmons

Our four key clubs are planning a Book Sale in February, start saving your old books, videos, C.D.’s., New picture frames, Stationary Items, Etc.…We needs lots of books still!

John Curtis’ Key Club hosteda 7^th& 8^th grade dance last Saturday and raised $54 and over 100 can goods. They participated in a dance-A-Thon on Friday to raise money for Children’s Hospital. They raised $639.

They will participate in a 5-K run this Saturday to raise money for St. Jude’s.

Thank you to our very generous Kiwanians. Today you donated $89 for Muscular Dystrophy, and donated money to sponsor three walkers in Saturday's walk for St. Jude's Hospital! You make me proud! Anthony

Haynes Key Club – Gene Katsanis – Holding a blood drive today. They had a successful fundraiser selling beef jerky. They will also be participating in the 5-K run this Saturday to raise money for St. Judes and will be helping at the Hope Lodge dinner on the 8^th.

Ira Snyder:

Tutoring – We had a meeting this week to and everything is going well. We are getting feed back from teachers and tutors and will be tweaking and improving our efforts.

B.U.G. Program – We presented 3-$10 gift cards to students at Jefferson Community School who have successfully raised their grades.  Joel Phillips will be meeting with the principals at three other schools to see if we can start a B.U.G. program at those schools.

Park-A-Boo – Larry and Ira will be moving supplies from Bonnabel to the storage facilities after todays meeting.

Dues – Bill Lindsey – We have come up with a system for those who would like to pay their dues and or weekly breakfasts annually. When you pay for your breakfasts in advance you will receive a coupon book.

The Breakfast Coupon books are now available.

Guest Speaker Program – Bill Curl is looking for some help with the guest speakers, making follow up calls and finding new and interesting speakers. Let Bill Know if you came spare some time to help or if you have some ideas for guest speakers. This is a great opportunity to learn from the best.

Even if you can’t help with the program if you know of someone who would be a good speaker let Doris know and she will contact them.

Mark your calendars;

Jefferson Community School will hold its annual fund raiser “Classic Chefs of Jefferson” on Friday March 16^th. They need some volunteer to help make follow up phone calls to people who were mailed tickets. This is a nice event with good food and a silent auction. 

Jefferson Parish Special Olympics will be held on Friday March 30^th.

International Convention News: The Kiwanis International Board, meeting in New Orleans this past weekend, agreed to extend the Registration Deadline for this summer's convention in the Crescent City from the middle of February to MARCH 20th. This does include the special Host District Volunteer Registration offer of $100.

Next Week we will have a club survey. Come and make your opinions known.

Speaker – - Pat Buckley – 2011 Taxes

The IRS is having problems enforcing tax laws because they are to complicated and the staff of the IRS is being cut due to budget cuts.

They are collecting more and more information electronically and matching that info to your tax return.  If you forget to declare any income they will likely find it eventually.

Another problem they are having is that many fraudulent returns are being filed by identity thieves trying to collect large refunds. A lot of these are coming from prison inmates. They send in these returns very early before the IRS has all the information to verify the returns, now the IRS is holding up returns on the returns filed early.

When there is a discrepancy it can take several months to correct.

50/50 Winner – Mary North

Closing Prayer – John Dufrene

“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy."

--Mark Twain

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Dues News – Please mail your checks for dues to:

Kenner North Kiwanis, P.O. BOX 642033, Kenner, La. 70065

Park-A-Boo –-Set-up starts on Sunday October 22nd, the event itself is October 28, 29, & 30^th, take down work to finish by Tuesday, November 1st.

Members are reminded to contact Frank Ellis, who is heading up our Spiritual Values activities, with any info on members or members of their families whose situations should be recognized in some manner.  Remember, this is not just for illness or death, but also for congratulations for babies, grandbabies, anniversaries, birthdays, etc.   Please also include members who have been missing meetings if you think they need a gentle nudge.

* Remember to bring a guest to next week’s meeting!!!

        KNK Meets 7 to 8 am each Thursday at the DoubleTree Airport Hotel

                2150 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, Louisiana.