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Over The Coffeecups
Warren Mitchell - Editor
TODAY'S PROGRAM
Patrick Hicks will introduce Scott Simmons, who is
President of Simmons Properties; a historic property
development and management company. He is the former National
Sales Manager of Cornerstone Medical.
Scott
attended Georgia Tech University on a track scholarship. He
served on the board of Goodwill and Christmas in April. He is
also on the selection committee of the Hitchcock Awards.
He is 39
years old and he and his wife, Jill, have a daughter Bailey
Marie, 7, and a son Byron, 3.
He
recently developed a housing project slum into loft
apartment's downtown. Scott is running for Mayor and just
opened his campaign headquarters at 1809 West 2nd
St. off Mulberry. If you want to know more about Scott you
can go to his e-mail address,
www.simmonsformayor.com
LAST
WEEK'S
PROGRAM
Frank Wells
introduced Kathryn Hollingsworth, Director of the
Archibold Senior Center of the Montgomery Area Council on
Aging. She was born and raised in Birmingham; graduating with
honors from Birmingham Southern with a B.A. in Business
Administration. She worked in radio in Birmingham and
television in Montgomery.
She has
been director of the center since 2000. Kathryn began by
saying she has a warm feeling about Kiwanis. Another chapter
of Kiwanis had helped the center. The center was given money
from Mary Kathryn Archibold Blount. Before that they had to
rent space or have space donated. They are a nonprofit
organization; they do not have means for raising money. When
they are given the center, they thought great they could rent
it. It is rented on weekends for weddings, all kinds of other
events, providing some income. One Kiwanis club gave them
over $20,000 to carpet the center. The carpeting was complete
last month and she invited us to come see it.
If we
went, we would see a tattered tile area where the tap dancers
dance. The tap dance instructor is 83 years old and has
taught tap dancing for 60 years. One of the 2 tap dance teams
is 80 + years old, but won’t tell her the right age. They
have performed at the Jr. League Flea Market for the past 4
years. They have been one of the star attractions at that
event. They also have another tap dance team, plus some other
students that are becoming adept at performing. It is
inspiring to see these 80 year olds so physically fit. The
tile area is why she was with us, to ask for help in replacing
the tile. The condition of the present tile is hard for the
tap dancers legs and bones. They would like to have a
floating floor to make it easy for the teams to dance. It
would make it a more desirable place to rent.
Many trips
are available to the senior. They don’t make anything on
their trips, so they can keep the cost low. There are
computer programs where they have to buy books, software and
maintain the computers. The prices they charge for classes
are low, so they just break even. The only way to keep the
center going is by rental. They would appreciate any help
they would receive.
Every
month they have a theme luncheon. The luncheon has a member
of the month drawing and volunteer of the month award. Each
month they have a speaker and this month they are having the
speaker from Blue Bell Ice Cream. There was a picture in
their newsletter of one of their cookquette. The luncheons
are \cooked by Charlie Hughes and a group that has come to be
known as their cookquette who help with luncheons. The
picture of the cookquette is when she was 20 years old. This
month everyone is asked to bring a picture of them when they
were 20 years old. The pictures will be put on a display
board and people will be asked to guess who the gorgeous babes
are, matching the pictures with people.
There are
many things to choose from; exercise classes, etc. If you are
over 55, you don’t have to pay to attend the classes. Low
stress aerobics on Monday, stretch and balance classes are
held on Wednesdays and Fridays. The Wednesday and
Friday instructor was a dance instructor that had a
stroke. She was paralyzed on her right side. She developed
exercises to recover the coordination she lost. Those
exercises are used in the classes to build muscles back up and
improve coordination.
There is a
computer program called “Meet the Computer” that introduces
seniors to the use of computers. They have classes that teach
e-mail, etc.
Many
members don’t have anyone. Once a month they have a birthday
tea. People are overcome when they are given a birthday
party. Depression among senior causes many ills, including
Alzheimer.
Kathryn
who has a beautiful voice sang 3 songs, “You Are the Wind
beneath My Wings”, “A Kiss of Springtime”, and “Embrace Me”.
It was a treat to hear her sing.
LAST
WEEK'S
GUESTS
Pete
Summer had John Cruise, Manager of Steak & Shake as
his guest.
Scott
Powell had Jerry Reynolds as his guest.
George
Wilson was joined by his daughter, Laura, on leave
from the Air Force.
ENTERTAINMENT
Our own Elvis,
Al McLellan sang an old Hank Snow favorite, “Still in Love
with You”.
THOUGHT
FOR THE
DAY
Mike
Winstead said sometimes rushing through the week we
don’t slow down to think how great our God is. Moses in the
desert with his people; what was he going to do with them. He
had to feed 2-3 million people; required a lot of food. The
Quartermaster of the U.S. Army reported Moses would have
needed 1,500 tons of food a day. He would have needed 11
million gallons of water a day; about 5 gallons a day. To
cross the Red Sea at night; if they were double lines it would
have been 800 miles long and take 35 days. If God took care
of Moses’ problem, don’t you think he’ll take care of you?
PERFECT
ATTENDANCE
President Wilkinson presented El Kidd with a 23
year perfect attendance pin. El said he gets up early any way
and is happy to have survived another year. You are an
example to follow, El.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The
Board meeting will be Thursday, July 24th
at Al McLellan’s office.
Pete Summer
showed a book about the B-29. On the back cover was a picture
of Pete and his crew who flew B-29’s, 58 years ago. You were
a handsome fellow, Pete.
DISTRICT
CONVENTION
The District Convention will be held August 1st
& 2nd at the Conference Center in Auburn. Pete has
applications for registration. If you sign up early there is
a reduced fee. Members are encouraged to attend and meet
fellow Kiwanians and learn more about Kiwanis.
President Wilkinson would like to have more interclubs.
There will be an announcement about some forthcoming
interclubs. |
