Thursday, April 5, 2007

the Swiss and weapons per capita

Yesterday, I mentioned how the Swiss who serve militia duty are issued an assault rifle which many of them keep in their home, and how Switzerland is one of the safest places in the world even though it has more firearms per capita than just about any other place in the world. I got this tidbit from the book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, on page 131. (I had misattributed this to James Surowiecki and The Wisdom of Crowds, which I read about the same time.)

All this was as a followup to Elmer's wanting us all to be sure to read Feagler's Wednesday piece on punks and guns and the Fleet area (I don't want to call it Slavic Village any more.). In case you missed it, you can read it here.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

April 4th Speaker's Program for SouthEast Kiwanis

Thanks to Tom McLeary, our twice monthly speaker series continues at Southeast Kiwanis. Tomorrow our speakers will be Emily Lee from the American Lung Association of Ohio and Linda Kimble, Project Coordinator of the Cleveland Clean Air Century Campaign. These ladies will speak to us about their organizations and talk about a fundraiser for the asthma initiative on June 25th.

Tom is hoping that we can help these lovely ladies with their fundraising goals and they are going to tell us how. Sounds like this is one of those projects that is just down our alley, folks.

We will hold our meeting in the dining room at Holy Name Parish located at 8328 Broadway Avenue thanks to the generosity of Father Tom O'Donnell.

The meeting begins at Noon. Lunch will provided.

Sunday, April 1, 2007

latest Kiwanis bulletin and change of president



I got this by email a few days ago--




Hello all,

Attached is your latest Kiwanis bulletin. Olga, after speaking with Dave and Barb after today's meeting, has stepped down from her role as president of our club . . .. Bob Deskins, as vice president of the club, will assume the position of president for the remainder of Olga's term . . .. See you next week!

Ellen