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Kiwanis Kronicle Rancho Murieta, California Published by the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta, Inc. Editor: Skulz Inn Volume 12 Number 10 July 2011 Question box??? Question: What is this called? Answer: See page 5. Happy Birthday Aug 2 Priscilla Dunn (Twins?) Aug 2 Neil Strain (Twins?) Aug 11 Leon Sobon Aug 16 Herman Kramer Aug 22 Sondra D. Schulz President’s Corner “All Aboard” by President Paul Gumbinger Wow, what a success the pancake breakfast was. It gets better every year. With some new ideas that came up from the wind up of last year’s event and implemented this year, the lines moved so smoothly there was almost no backup. Many thanks to Elayne Sandusky, Chair of the 4 th of July “Breakfast by the Lake”, and the 60 volunteers who participated in making this an- nual event so successful. Also a very special note of grati- tude to Rod Hart and his RMA crew for all of their efforts in help- ing us setup the Gazebo venue, es- pecially the ramp which not only assisted some of our older guests, but also parents wheeling their young children in strollers to the Gazebo level. Rod even asked if he could help putting the tablecloths on the tables. Rod, who is an Honorary Member of our club, exemplifies the true meaning of volunteerism. Many kudos to the Pleasant Grove High School Key Club for taking over our meeting on July 7 th President Stanton Rucker and his officers and members did a superb job of running our meeting. Stanton even pronounced our members’ names correctly, a feat that is sometimes slightly botched by some of our own members. It inspired a confidence in our youth who will one day lead our world. I am looking forward to the Sheldon High School Key Club to “take over” a future meeting. The Maximum 24 member teams made up a full team for Kiwanis Walkers for a Cure and then we (Continued on page 2) Inside this issue Sac Metro FD Book Drive 3 Extremely Proud 4 Who attends what 6 Shavings from the board 7 Kiwanis Cuisine 8 Breakfast on the lake 11 Kiwanis Kalendar 13 Happy Birthday Rowland Jones July 4, 2011

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Page 1: Kiwanis Kronicle, July  2011

Kiwanis Kronicle Rancho Murieta, California

Published by the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta, Inc. Editor: Skulz Inn Volume 12 Number 10 July 2011

Question box???

Question: What is this called?

Answer: See page 5.

Happy Birthday

Aug 2

Priscilla Dunn (Twins?) Aug 2

Neil Strain (Twins?) Aug 11

Leon Sobon Aug 16

Herman Kramer Aug 22

Sondra D. Schulz

President’s Corner

“All Aboard” by

President Paul

Gumbinger

Wow, what a success the pancake breakfast was. It gets better every year. With some new ideas that came up from the wind up of last year’s event and implemented this year, the lines moved so smoothly there was almost no backup. Many thanks to Elayne Sandusky, Chair of the 4th of July “Breakfast by the Lake”, and the 60 volunteers who participated in making this an-nual event so successful.

Also a very special note of grati-tude to Rod Hart and his RMA crew for all of their efforts in help-ing us setup the Gazebo venue, es-pecially the ramp which not only assisted some of our older guests, but also parents wheeling their young children in strollers to the Gazebo level. Rod even asked if he could help putting the tablecloths on the tables. Rod, who is an Honorary Member of our club, exemplifies the true meaning of volunteerism.

Many kudos to the Pleasant Grove High School Key Club for taking over our meeting on July 7th President Stanton Rucker and his officers and members did a superb job of running our meeting. Stanton even pronounced our members’ names correctly, a feat that is sometimes slightly botched by some of our own members. It inspired a confidence in our youth who will one day lead our world. I am looking forward to the Sheldon High School Key Club to “take over” a future meeting.

The Maximum 24 member teams made up a full team for Kiwanis Walkers for a Cure and then we

(Continued on page 2)

Inside this issue

Sac Metro FD Book Drive 3

Extremely Proud 4

Who attends what 6

Shavings from the board 7

Kiwanis Cuisine 8

Breakfast on the lake 11

Kiwanis Kalendar 13

Happy Birthday Rowland Jones

July 4, 2011

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Kiwanis Help Line

(916) 354-0538 Need help?

Want to know where to get a wheel chair?

Want meals delivered dur-ing lunch?

Want to know about how to join Kiwanis?

Want to know about Ki-wanis sponsored activities?

Kiwanis Kronicle is a monthly newsletter published by the Kiwanis Club of Ran-cho Murieta, Inc. Club was chartered May 21, 1996. The address of the club is P.O. Box 855 Rancho Murieta, CA 95683-0855 (916) 354-0538

Club meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at the Villas Recreation Center 7083 Murieta Park-way (Enter North Gate) Rancho Murieta, CA 95683.

Boards of Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta Inc. and Kiwanis Club of Ran-cho Murieta Club Foundation Inc. meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the home of the President.

President…………………..Paul J. Gumbinger Imm. Past Pres………..Bernard Bowes, Jr. President Elect…………………..John S. Holm Secretary………………………..Beverly Powell Treasurer………………………….Virginia Wolfe Director…………………………..Virginia Macko Director……………………………....Greg Nelson Director……………………………..Carol Kramer Director……….….…………….…Sam Sandusky Director……………………………………….Al Swan Editor…………….....…………..John W. Seigal

The editor is solely responsible for the content. It is the intent to be 100% accu-rate. Articles labeled as Editorial repre-sent the opinion of the editor and may not represent the opinion of the Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta, Inc. nor Kiwanis Club of Rancho Murieta Club Foundation, Inc.

The address of the editor is P.O. Box 1131 Sloughhouse, CA 95683-1131 or email at:

[email protected]

President’s Corner

“All Aboard” by

President Paul

Gumbinger (continued)

and there is such community spirit and everyone pulls together to make it one of the biggest per capita events in the country. The organizers are so impressed with Rancho Murieta. We are so lucky to live in such a great community.

I want to give special recognition to Carole Kramer who spent endless hours researching Colorectal Cancer for our fight back message. She went far beyond expectations and supplied the team with information, handouts and posters and inspired the clever decorations for the site.

Dave Ward, one of our newest members, really stepped up to the plate (or barrel, in this case) to cook 40 lbs of Tri Tips and make delicious sandwiches for us to sell. We want to give a tremendously huge thank You to Peter McKenzie, for not only do-nating all of the Potatoes, but he baked them and provided all of the accompaniments as well.

I also want to thank Diann and Al Swan, who took care of the coordi-nation of the food serving and sales. Bronwyn Anthony and Michelle Hubbell did a beautiful job with the signage for our team. I also want to thank everyone else who helped out in endless ways to make it such a success, as well as all of the team members who walked in the wee hours and in the heat of the day. All in all, it was a great success.

As a result of our KANE presenta-tion at the June DCM, I received a phone call from Pat Brown, past president of the Auburn Kiwanis Club who heard about our KANE program and requested help for her husband (a Kiwanis member) who was being released from the hospital after back surgery. They were in a real bind be-cause they had no devises to assist him and the hospital was not going to release him without a walker.

Editor’s Note: For the rest of the story see related article on Page 7

Talking about Interclub visits, they are a great way to learn about other clubs’ service projects and how they run their meetings. It is also a great way to enjoy one another’s compan-ionship in carpooling to and from the meetings. So next year when the signup sheets are passed around re-member that we are committed to have at least four members of our club attend an interclub meeting at every other club in the Division. They are fun and interesting and it is a great experience to attend other clubs ‘meetings. I have found some

had more who filled out Kiwanis Walkers for a Cure #2 because we had more folks than the maximum and had to open up another team. They all participated in this year’s American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Rancho Murieta on July 23rd to 24th.

Our team surpassed their fundraising goal. A big thank you to Louise Gumbinger, Chair and her co-chair Judith Embree and to all those that helped make the event such a success. The Relay for Life has become an im-mense event in Rancho Murieta. The organizers are beyond amazed that this community raises so much money

(Continued from page 1)

Pun of the Month

A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

Aug. 18-20 are the dates for 91st Annual District Convention in San Diego - at the Town and Country Resort & Convention Cen-ter. Our club can send up to three delegates. Learn and vote!

great ideas And finally, Our Club Secretary,

Bev Powell, could use a little help with reports and letters. If you are interested, either call or email Bev. See the new Club Roster for her con-tact Information. One other request from Bev is that when you have in-formation that you would like to be disseminated to the membership, please send it to Bev. She has the most updated list and will be happy to send it out to all of our members.

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The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District (SMFD) is promoting liter-acy this summer through its part-nership with Reading Tree. The objective is to put books in the hands of local children to promote literacy, and to support recycling and reuse of unwanted books.

SMFD Fire Chief Curt Henke en-courages the community to drop off their gently used books at the Reading Tree book dona-tion containers located at SMFD stations starting June 17, 2011. SMFD will be hosting the Read-ing Tree bins through November 18, 2011.

Reading Tree and SMFD have partnered on this book collection

effort to develop in-classroom lending li-braries in Reading Partner Sacramento schools in the Sacra-mento region. All types of books are welcome,

including new, used, hardback and paperback. Quality children’s books are donated to local, early learning programs and elementary school-age children.

The Reading Tree was established in 2000 as a public charity. The or-

ganization has two missions. The first is to collect books from families who no longer want them, and deliver them to children, families, schools, and libraries that need them. The second is to keep books from contrib-uting to the saturation of the nation’s landfills. Reading Tree places and maintains book collection bins in communities across the country to collect and redistribute used books. Reading Tree supports children’s lit-eracy by getting books into the hands of children. Over 4 million books have been gifted to families, schools, and libraries since 2007.

Reading Tree invites members of the community to become involved by donating books they no longer need to aid the literacy crisis.

Donated books will go to change lives in our community. For more i n f o r m a t i o n , p l e a s e v i s i t www.readingtree.org, or call 888-402-BOOK.   

Sac Metro FD & Book Drive

The collection bin is located behind that fire truck near the fence.

Happy Birthday Kiwanis Club of Lincoln

10th Anniversary Years ago when John Thurston

was a member of our club, and also the Lt. Governor of Division 44, he organized a team and built the Ki-wanis Club of Lincoln.

Michael Storz was the first president. It was he who told us, “Rotary means graduated to Ki-wanis.” Later Michael Storz also became a Lt. Governor of Division 44.

John Thurston emails:

“Congratulations Lincoln on 10 years.

“It's hard to believe it has been that long.

“Building a new club can be one of the most arduous or one of the most pleasant tasks in a Lieutenant Governor's tenure.

“Helping get your club up and running is one of the fondest memories from my term.

“Ten years ago, we knew your club was going to rise to the top. I'm living in Idaho now, but still keep track of what's going on in your area.

“I know that you continue to shine and have a positive impact on your community.

“Keep up the good work. Good luck in your next 10 years.”

Bernie and Marge Bowes rep-resented our club at the 10th Anni-versary celebration.

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escorted to the cemetery. At the graveside service, after a Black-hawk Helicopter fly-over, our Scouts folded the U.S. flag that covered the coffin and presented it to the family. Hundreds of red balloons were released.

Thank you to all the Scouts who participated.

The Scouts have been asked to do a variety of community service activities over the years but Wednesday’s (June 29th) service was the most memorable, heart-breaking service which we have ever been asked to attend.

June 29th was the fu-neral for 7-year old Christopher Walters, a Rancho Murieta Cub Scout, who drowned in a backyard pool. The family asked the Boy Scouts of Troop 633 to participate in the memorial service and graveside service.

Most of our Scouts did not know Christopher and I was extremely proud of the 12 Scouts who served as the honor guard for a fellow scout. Four of the participants have aged out of the troop but gladly answered the call to help the troop - Andy Feldman, Alex Ousha-koff, Andy Schultz, and Jacob Wolhart. The other eight Scouts - Kyle Lucas, Greg Prouty, Steven Johnson, Luke Lentz, Scott Johnson, Cole Zenker, Aaron Correia, and Erik Oushkoff - served with pride and dignity.

Christopher's dad is a fire-man who also served two tours in Afghanistan with the US Army. Outside the church atten-dees were greeted by a local motor-cycle club all holding U.S. Flags paying honor to Christopher's mem-ory.

Inside the church at least 100 fire-man in dress uniform lined the walls as well as many military mem-bers dressed in full uniform. As you can imagine the service was difficult with over 600 people in attendance.

Towards the end of the service our

Scouts formed two side-by-side lines and marched towards the front of the church. When they got there, the two lines split apart and two young Cub Scouts (Aiden Prouty and Gavin Correia) in their blue uni-forms marched between the tall Boy Scouts and walked on stage and pre-sented a flag and plaque to Christo-pher's den leader, Theresa Pryor (Prouty) and Alicia Correia (Committee Chair for the Pack). The flag had been flown over the U.S. Capitol in Christopher's memory and the plaque was a Spirit of the Eagle Award. Capt Pryor made the presen-tation to the family.

After the church service, the coffin was escorted out of the church be-hind an 8-member Sheriff's bagpipe and drum corps. With the CalStar helicopter hovering above the church, Christopher's coffin was placed on the back of a fire truck and

Extremely Proud by Scoutmaster Kent Johnson

Editor’s note The family requested in lieu

of flowers a donation be sent to Christopher Walter’s school, Bradshaw Christian.

(Y)our foundation did so and also sent a donation to the family to assist in funeral ar-rangements.

Sad indeed! Life is fragile.

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recessed into the road surface, and either reflective or non-reflective.

Botts' dots (low rounded white dots), named for the California Cal-trans engineer Elbert Botts, who invented the epoxy that keeps them glued down, are one type of a me-chanical non-reflective raised marker.

Generally they are used to mark the edges of traffic lanes, frequently in conjunction with raised reflective markers.

Botts' dots are also used across a travel lane to draw the drivers at-tention to the road. They are fre-quently used in this way to alert drivers to toll booths, school zones or other significant reduction of speed limit. They are normally only used in warm climates since snow plows usually remove them along with the snow.

Rumble strips are commonly used for the same purpose. A rumble strip can be a series of simple troughs (typically 1/2 inch deep and 3 3/4 inches wide) that is ground out of the asphalt.

That is the modification used on the Jackson Highway.

Their main way of function is cre-ating a strong vibration when driven over that will alert a driver to vari-ous upcoming hazards both by sound and the physical vibration of the vehicle.

Paint, sometimes with additives such as reflective glass beads, is generally used to mark travel lanes.

It is also used to mark spaces in parking lots or special purpose spaces for handicap parking, load-ing zones, or time restricted parking areas.

“My Model T Ford and I found our-

selves face to face with a truck on the paved highway. It did not take me long to choose between a sandy berth [sic] to the right and a ten-ton truck to the left! Then I had my idea of a white line painted down the center of the high-ways of the country as a safety meas-ure.”

White center lines were used in the United States until the 1971 edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which mandated yellow as the standard color of center lines nationwide

Yellow was adopted because it was already the standard color of warning signs, and because it was easy to teach drivers to associate yellow lines with dividing opposing traffic and white lines with dividing traffic in the same direc-tion. In turn, this greatly reduced head-on collisions and improved road traffic safety.

The major downside to the MUTCD white-yellow system is that yellow has slightly less contrast than white, espe-cially at night, so for maximum con-trast, bright yellow—and highly toxic—lead chromate was used to paint yellow lines through the end of the twentieth century. As a result, U.S. transportation workers must take special precautions when disturbing or removing yellow lane markings.

Mechanical devices may be raised or

Road markings

Road surface markings are used on paved roadways to provide guidance and information to drivers and pe-destrians.

The Jackson Highway (Highway 16) has recently been re-striped.

I contacted CalTrans to get more information about the type of mark-ings. I was told that all accidents are reported to the Traffic Safety Sec-tion. It is there that the accidents are reviewed to see if there is something CalTrans can do to prevent more accidents.

The Jackson Highway was restriped for several reasons. To make sure motorists know when to pass and when not to; to alert motorists if they should tend to nod off or fall asleep; and to indicated where the center line is.

Uniformity of the markings is an important factor in minimizing confu-sion and uncertainty about their meaning.

In the United States, two states claim to be the first to have devel-oped center lines.

According to the state of Michigan, painted white center lines were de-veloped by Edward N. Hines, the chairman of the Wayne County, Michigan.

The first highway centerline was painted along M-15 (later a section of US Highway 41 or M-28) in 1917,

by Kenneth Ingalls Sawyer. It delineated the road formerly nick

-named as “Dead man’s curve.” According to the state of California,

Dr. June McCarroll was the first to develop center lines, in 1917.

In the fall of 1917, McCarroll was driving on the road leading to her office near Indio, California.

She was literally run off the road by a truck, as she recalled many years later:

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As a Kiwanian (new or old) think about who attends what meeting?

Club meetings (1st and 3rd Thursday 7:00 am) all members are ex-pected to attend. There is a program at each meeting

Committee meetings (1st Thurs-day 8:00 am) all members should at-tend. The committees meet to conduct business and to prepare proposals to the board meetings on the third Thurs-day each month.

Board meetings (2nd Thursday 7:30am) all board members are to attend. One board is for the Kiwanis Club and the other is for the Kiwanis Club Foundation. Separate organiza-tions but the same board members.

Committee chairs and other club members are invited to attend board meetings and see how the club and foundation is administered.

Service projects Club members are expected to participate in the service projects of our club.

Interclubs These are meetings when four or more attend another Ki-wanis Club meeting. Generally it is an eye opening experience. You get a chance to see how others do it. Some things you can adopt and use, and some things… well let us generally leave it unsaid.

Socials Special events just to have fun and socialize.

Mid-Year Conference A one-day educational and motivational confer-ence designed for all club officers, committee chairmen and members. It is planned so Kiwanis members can drive to the conference together, par-ticipate in an Inter-Club, attend a few workshops and then be back home the same day. The conference promotes fellowship as well as provides an op-portunity to learn more about Kiwanis.

A Division Council Meeting (DCM) is a meeting in which the clubs within the Division come together and are given the opportunity to network; share experiences and best practices; and promote upcoming club events.

Conventions: The Kiwanis family is too large to gather at one time. So representatives from the Kiwanis fam-ily meet at conventions to conduct organizational business, elect board members, amend bylaws and conduct leadership training etc. These conven-tions are generally held annually at the district or International level.

Who attends what? Stop ID Theft in two ways

There are two effective ways to stop ID Theft. Kiwanian Greg Nelson tells how. #1 Shred those important documents so the thieves do not have access

to your private and confidential information. #2 Purchase a special stamp that quickly over-stamps your name and

address to keep prying eyes to obtain this information from your trash. Stop by and see Greg at the Rancho Murieta Business Center for details.

DCM’s

A Division Council Meeting (DCM) is a meeting in which the clubs within the Division come together and are given the opportunity to network; share experiences and best practices; and promote upcoming club events.

In our Division 44, each club is given an opportunity to host a DCM.

That means other clubs may see the style of leadership the host clubs offer.

The DCM is held at Oak Avenue Free Methodist Church 8790 Oak Avenue Orangevale, CA 95662-2449. For our wide spread division this is a conven-ient location and convenient for our current Lt. Governor Andy Webb, who is the pastor there.

The cost is $10.00 if you are going to eat and $5.00 is you are only not going to eat but only have a drink.

The Fellowship group of the church provides comfort food for meals.

Our club hosted the last DCM. We wowed them with 22 members attend-ing.

Paul ex-

plained what KANE was all about. See page 7 for a related arti-cle.

Art and Lana Sims gave testimony about KANE.

Peter

Telfer stood guard and kept our bell secure!

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Shavings for the board meetings

New name tags are being ordered. Bernie Bowes reports club instal-

lation dinner is being worked on . Both corporations reported balances

of financial accounts. All bills received have been approved and paid.

Phil Fitch will be in charge of the Kiwanis Detail to assist Cosumnes River Elementary School for the traffic and crowd control for its opening days.

Jarvio Grevious and Dan Leahy were appointed to study the sales tax issue regarding the State of Califor-nia.

Reports on recruiting events for our Builders Club and a possible Circle K Club at Folsom Lake Community Col-lege.

The Circle K Club will be co-spon-sored by the Kiwanis Club of Folsom Lake and us.

Club approved the recommendation of the board, to have Bernard Bowes Jr. to be our club’s delegate at the Cal-Nev-Ha District Convention in San Diego.

Carol Kramer will work with Ginny Macko to explorer a sister club rela-tionship with the Kiwanis Club of Kiev, Ukraine.

Editor’s note: Refer to Kiwanis Kronicle of June 2011 for an article about this club.

Collect labels! Support

Cosumnes River Elementary School!

Deposit items at collection

boxes at Plaza Foods And RMA

Here is a Kiwanian Moment for Ivor and I.

Carrie and Bob Achilles at-tended the June DCM and a pres-entation was made by the Rancho Murieta Kiwanis Club on the KANE Project.

This project offers walkers, bath stools, etc. to people when they are recovering from a hospital stay free of charge.

When you no longer need the equipment return to Rancho Murieta Kiwanis Club.

This really hit home for us as Ivor had back surgery June 14 and needed some of these items to help with his recovery.

I contacted Paul Gumbinger

about KANE and wow! within a day, he lined up a walker and bath chair.

He and his lovely wife, Louise were attending an Inter-club in Grass Valley and deliv-ered it to me at Starbucks at Bell and 49.

I was able to then go directly and pick up Ivor and bring him home. It doesn't get much better than that. What a great program and Kiwanians helping Kiwanis is priceless. We are so proud to be members of Kiwanis. Thank You!!

Ivor and Pat Thomas,Auburn Kiwanis Club

Kiwanis moment by Pat Thomas

Think ink!

At the Rancho Murieta Business center, Greg Nelson, is demon-strating the wide supply of ink cartridges to by, and at the same time recycle the old ones and LASER cartridges to benefit our Kiwanis Fam-ily House.

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Kiwanis Cuisine By Sondra Schulz

Quinoa...the ancient Incan seed that has nutritional superpowers, (with all nine essential amino acids, it’s a complete protein) delicious fla-vor and rainbow colors, is popping up on trendy restaurant menus and ho-listic health websites alike.

Since the Kiwanis Kronicle is a

“trendy” newsletter, it seems fitting that I put some of my favorite recipes in this month’s column.

Quinoa is easy to digest and quick to prepare, but the seeds, which are coated with saponin* must be rinsed before cooking to remove bitterness.

Some cooks prefer to soak the seeds for a few minutes, before plac-ing them in a fine-meshed sieve un-der running water. Choose your method: just make sure you rinse before cooking.

Quinoa Black Bean Salad Serves 8-12

· 1 ½ cups cold water · 1 cup quinoa · ½ tsp salt

First soak the quinoa in cold water for 15 minutes, rinse and drain.

Put quinoa, cold water (again) and salt into a small saucepan . Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover and continue cooking for 15 minutes. Let sit for 5 minutes.

Add: ♦ 2 cans black beans, drained and

rinsed ♦ ½ cup celery, chopped ♦ 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and

minced ♦ 1 garlic clove, minced (or 1 tsp

garlic powder) ♦ ½ medium red bell pepper,

seeded and chopped ♦ ½ medium yellow bell pepper,

seeded and chopped ♦ 1 large red tomato, chopped ♦ ¼ cup chopped green onions ♦ 4 Tbl chopped fresh cilantro ♦ 1 ½ tsp cumin powder ♦ 1 ½ tsp coriander powder Dressing: ♦ 2 Tbl fresh lime juice ♦ ¼ cup olive oil ♦ 1 tsp salt ♦ Fresh ground pepper, to taste ♦ ½ tsp chili powder ♦ A pinch of cayenne pepper Gently fold in the dressing. This

salad tastes better after it has been refrigerated for at least 8 hours…overnight is even better!!!!

Note: I used ½ red and ½ yellow bell peppers. It was plenty for my taste. Also, mangoes are very good in this dish. The sky is the limit…add away and make it your own!!!

Cranberry Walnut Quinoa Salad Serves 8-12

♦ 1 cup quinoa ♦ 1 ½ cups cold water ♦ ½ tsp salt ♦ 1 cup dried cranberries ♦ 1 cup frozen green beans, de-

frosted ♦ ¼ cup walnuts, chopped ♦ ¼ cup green onions, sliced ♦ ¼ cup balsamic vinegar ♦ 1 ½ Tbl olive oil ♦ 4 cloves garlic, minced ♦ ½ tsp salt ♦ ¼ tsp pepper Using a strainer, rinse quinoa under

cold water. Drain well. Combine quinoa, salt and 1 1/2

cups water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover and continue cooking until all water is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes.

In a medium bowl, combine cooked quinoa, dried cranberries, green beans, walnuts and green onions until well mixed.

In a small bowl, whisk the balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and garlic until well blended. Pour over the quinoa mix-ture. Toss until well blended. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 min-utes.

Quinoa Pilaf Serves 4 ♦ 1 Tbl olive oil ♦ ½ onion, chopped ♦ 1 stalk celery, chopped ♦ 2 carrots, diced ♦ ½ cup quinoa ♦ 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth or

hot water ♦ 1 bay leaf ♦ 1 Tbl lemon zest ♦ 1 Tbl lemon juice ♦ ½ cup frozen green peas, thawed ♦ Salt to taste ♦ Ground black pepper to taste

Pour oil into a medium saucepan, and place over medium heat. Add onion, celery, and carrots; cook and stir for 10 minutes, or until vegeta-bles are tender.

Using a strainer, rinse quinoa under cold water. Drain well (drying on a towel works well). Stir into the vege-tables; cook and stir for 3 minutes, or until lightly toasted and aromatic. Add broth/water, bay leaf , lemon zest and lemon juice; bring to boil. Cover, and reduce heat to medium low. Simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, or until liquid is absorbed and quinoa is tender.

Discard bay leaf. Stir in peas, and season to taste with salt and pepper.

*Saponins are glycosides with a distinctive foaming characteristic

Quinoa (/ˈkiːnwɑː/ or /kɨˈnoʊ.ə/, Spanish: quinua, from Quechua: kinwa), a species of goosefoot (Chenopodium), is a grain-like crop grown primarily for its edible seeds. It is a pseudo-cereal rather than a true cereal, or grain, as it is not a member of the grass family. As a chenopod, quinoa is closely related to species such as beets, spinach, and tumbleweeds.

Available at: Plaza Foods

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KFH Cans

      

When you are out and about in the shopping center, you will see these coin cans at:

♥ Mar-Sha-Tes ♥ Plaza Foods ♥ Rancho Murieta Ace

Hardware ♥ Rancho Murieta Busi-

ness Center Please thank them!

On a weekly basis the cans are swapped out, money counted, and deposited to be sent to our Kiwanis Family House.

It is part of our commitment of support as a Sponsor Club.

During such a collection this was found in a can:

It was in a plastic envelope

with one $5.00 bill; 12 $1.00 bills; and eight quarters.

Kiwanis Teen Event

Saturday June 18th was the date for the Ki-wanis Teen Event. It was a performance by Ap-ple Z. Who advertises themselves as High En-ergy Rock.

The location was Lake Clementia. There were various food vendors offering

sandwiches and special treats.

Key Club takes over

July 7th was a refreshing change of pace meeting. Our sponsored Key Club at Pleasant Grove High School took over the meeting and ran it very efficiently.

Shown above is Stanton Rucker, Key Club President.

The Happy/Sad dollars were do-nated to the Key Club ($108).

Lydia Thung, Lt. Gov-elect for Key Club Division 7 spoke on the

recent Key Club International Con-vention.

She shared with others the great fund raiser “Awake-A-Thon”.

Adviser Robert Tabares (shown above with President Stanton Rucker) also attended.

He mentioned he and six mem-bers of this Key Club as at the re-cent Cache Creek Employee Appre-ciation event at Woodland.

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Interclub Calendar

Report from Interclub Chair: Louise Gumbinger

Please add to calendar and plan on attending!

For the month of June there are several meetings that must be fulfilled.

For the Round Robin Award we will need to attend:

DCM Division 44 Installation Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church 11427 Fair Oaks Boulevard Fair Oaks, CA 95628 Monday, Sept. 12, Cost TBA 5:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Bernie Bowes will be in-stalled as the Lt. Governor for Division 44!

Speaking of Interclubs

Bernie being coached!

Granite Bay President James

Chambers III, is shown coaching Bernie Bowes Jr. about what it takes to be an effective and suc-cessful Lt. Governor.

James served two terms as Lt. Gov. of Division 44, 1994-95 and 2008-09.

The secret: “Walk softly and... carry a big gavel”.

The Phillies sign is in front of who’s home?

a. Carl Gaither b. Bev Powell c. Frank Hashorva

Hint below

Answer: See page 12

New member Lynne Erpeld-ing attended her first inter-club at Granite Bay in June.

Her re-sponse:

“Outwardly simple,

“Inwardly… priceless.” Attending the interclub at Gran-

ite Bay: ♦ Bernie and Marge Bowes ♦ Judith Embree ♦ Lynne Erpelding ♦ Patty Favero ♦ Louise Gumbinger ♦ Loretta Lutz ♦ Jack Seigal There was also in interclub at

Roseville. Attending that one were: ♦ Bernie and Marge Bows ♦ Doris Lighty ♦ Jack Seigal ♦ Al Swan ♦ Diann Swan Trivia: The Kiwanis Club of Rose-

ville, meets at the Pacific Street Café in Roseville.

What is the street address of the Pacific Street Café in Roseville?

Answer: 301 Lincoln Street, in Roseville.

Cache Creek Casino, hired Fun Events, Inc. to put together the casino’s employee appreciation day at the Yolo County Fairgrounds in Woodland, CA.

It all came together June 28th, 29th, and 30th. That included a day to set up, the event itself, and a day to take down. Fun Events asked Kiwanians to make it hap-pen.

A call when out to Kiwanis. The response was terrific. See Dia Ut-terback above. Our Kiwanis Fam-ily House benefitted by $5,500.

Cache Creek Event

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Breakfast on the lake (a.k.a. Pancake Breakfast!)

I want to take this opportu-nity to thank you for your tire-less contribution to the Pancake Breakfast on July 4th.

A very special "thank you" to the following:

Clint Souza, co-chair; Nick Arthur, RMA liaison; Steven Stewart, safety/sanitation; Leon Sobon, cooking area; Neil Strain, cooking equipment; Al & Diann Swann, food/supplies; Sam Sandusky, publicity; Patty Favero, decorations; Phil Fitch, rental furniture; Judith Embree, volunteer sign-ups; Sandy Scarzella, serving area; Loretta Lutz, cafe manager; Paul Gumbinger, gazebo sche-matic/set-up; Louise Gumbin-ger, condiments/drinks center; Jarvio Grevious, event treas-urer/pre-sales coordinator, Vir-ginia Wolfe, club treasurer, Frank Hashorva, official greeter and Jack Seigal, crowd control.

These great people, combined with myriad other volunteers, totaled 60+ people who worked together, like the workings of a clock, to make our 8th Annual Breakfast the best it could be.

Many arrived before 5:30A and stayed through clean-up. We walked away from the gazebo at about 10:15A. Then...the Swans re-turned unused food items to the Plaza, Neil and others cleaned the equipment for re-storage and the Strains graciously of-fered to take uncooked/unused food to Kiwanis Family House. What a crew!

The pancakes were light and delicious, eggs cooked to perfection, sausages browned perfectly. Coffee, hot choco-late, tea, water, orange juice. Wow! Lots of compli-ments and everyone enjoyed the music of our D.J., Jared Huntsinger. Compliments to all!

Elayne Sandusky P.S. “The event was a model

of precision. Congrats to the clock maker.” Al Dolata

Ticket Sales Summary By Jarvio Grevious

♦ $4,775.75 Total ticket sales revenue deposited (last year it was $4716)

♦ Ticket detail 722 adults 127 children 849 total (Last year 814) 42 complimentary 891 subtotal tickets used (last year 888)

♦ 849 tickets sold 42 complimentary 47 free under 938 number served based on tickets

First in line for 2011: Gregory Caron.

For additional pictures: Email Peter Telfer

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Kiwanis Ag Report re: Davis Ranch

At last, there is a safer way to access Davis Ranch from the Jackson Highway (Route 16).

Note the new turn lane and it did not take much time to com-plete, once CalTrans put its mind to it.

Store Manager Jim Ayers, reports the recent Corn Festival was a great success and thanks all who attended.

Besides turning in for the corn, there are pumpkins available if you want to do some baking, and vine ripened tomatoes.

Melons (cantaloupes, honey dews, and watermelons) will be ripening before the end of the month.

Independence Day

Some might consider Independence Day July 4th. Not Alan Brown! He retired as postmaster effec-

tive July 1st. Fred Reese is now the Officer in Charge.

Fight the Bite

Prevent West Nile Virus. This poster was designed

by Brayden Plumb, age 7 Third Grade. Provided by Sacramento Yolo Mosquito and Vec-

tor Control District.

Answer to question on page 2: c. Frank Hashorva

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Looking forward: ♦Kids’ Koncert (Music Mike) Sunday Sept. 18th 3:30 p.m. ♦Blues and Brews Sat. Sept. 24th

Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.

August 2011

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 7:00 a.m. At Villas. Club Meeting Program: Leesa Dupree

5 6

7 8 9 10 11 7:30 a.m. Board Meetings. At home of President.

12 13

14 15 16 17 18 7:00 a.m. At Villas. Club Meeting Pro-gram: John Pratt “Life in the Family Part 2”

19 District convention in San Diego. Starts the 18th

20 District conven-tion in San Diego.

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31

August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.

This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman cal-endar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days.

In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Caesar Augustus. He chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

In common years no other month starts on the same day of the week as August, though in leap years February starts on the same day. August ends on the same day of the week as November every year.