Serving the
Children of the World
October 5
Speaker: Dr. Tom Choice
Topic: Kishwaukee College
Greeter: John Simon
Invocation: John Simon
Dr. IK: John Simon
October 19
Speaker: Chuck Ridolph
Topic: Christian Senior Ministries
Greeter: Robert Schramer
Invocation: Robert Schramer
Dr. IK: Robert Schramer
November 2
Speaker: To Be Announced
Topic: Feed Them Soup
Greeter: Berni Schelkopf
Invocation: Berni Schelkopf
Dr. IK: Berni Schelkopf
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football. ~Author Unknown
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and
Hobbes
A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted. ~Author
Unknown
Read to Two Rivers Kids
9:00 A. M. – 4:00 P.M.
Subject Matter To Be Announced
(It depends on what unit they are studying at that time.)
Project Coordinator: Robert Ogle
Sycamore Pumpkin Festival
Prayer Breakfast, Thursday @ 7:00 A. M.
Root Beer Float and Nut Sales all Weekend
Essay Contest, Pie Eating Contest
Sign up to Help Wherever You Can!!
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The INFORMED KIWANIAN is a twice monthly publication of the Kiwanis Club of
Sycamore, Illinois sycamorekiwanis.org
or sycamorekiwanis.com
President: Lois Anderson-Hoffman
President Elect: Open
Vice President: Robert Ogle
Secretary: Roger Jacobson
Treasurer: Bob Higdon
Past President: Christel Springmire
Robert Armstrong
Richard Graham
Denis Jagodzinski
Ralph Johnson
Dave Leifheit
Rod McQueen
Fr. Frank Timar
As our country’s flag signifies
PURITY, VALOR, AND JUSTICE, may we as true Kiwanians exemplify those virtues as we serve the children of the world.
Please have all material for the
Informed Kiwanian to
Publisher/Editor, Rod McQueen, by
Noon on the Thursday before a regular meeting by calling 815-899-8878 or by e-mail at: mcqueen510@comcast.net
More Details to Come

10/05
10/09
10/12
Gary Crain
Skip Schramer
Christel Springmire
Ken Mundy 10/31
10/03 Diane McQueen
10/18 Jody McConnell
Scripture:
Don't be under any illusion: you cannot make a fool of God! A man's harvest in life will depend entirely on what he sows. If he sows for his own lower nature his harvest will be the decay and death of his own nature. But if he sows for the Spirit he will reap the harvest of everlasting life by that Spirit. Let us not grow tired of doing good, for, unless we throw in our hand, the ultimate harvest is assured. Let us then do good to all men as opportunity offers, especially to those who belong to the Christian household. Galatians
6:7-10
(J. B. Phillips Translation of the New Testament)
(Anonymous 17th Century Sermon)
Please be gentle with yourself and others.
We are all children of chance,
And none can say why some fields blossom
While others lay brown beneath the harvest sun.
Take hope that your season will come.
Share the joy of those whose season is at hand.
Care for those around you.
Look past your differences.
Their dreams are no less than yours,
Their choices in life no more easily made.
And give.
Give in any way you can.
Give in every way you can.
Give whatever you possess.
Give from your heart.
To give is to love.
To withhold is to wither.
Care less for the size of your harvest than for how it is shared,
And your life will have meaning
And your heart will have peace.
Amen
October 1, 1908 - Henry Ford 's Model T, a
"universal car" designed for the masses, went on sale for the first time.
October 1, 1979 - After 70 years of American control, the Panama Canal Zone was formally handed over to Panama.
October 3, 1974 - Frank Robinson was hired by the Cleveland Indians as baseball's first African
American major league manager.
October 4, 1582 - The Gregorian Calendar took effect in Catholic countries as Pope Gregory XIII issued a decree stating the day following
Thursday, October 4, 1582, would be Friday,
October 15, 1582, correcting a 10-day error accumulated by the Julian Calendar. Britain and the American colonies adopted the Gregorian
Calendar in 1752.
October 4, 1957 - The Space Age began as the
Russians launched the first satellite into orbit.
Sputnik I weighed just 184 lbs. and transmitted a beeping radio signal for 21 days. The remarkable accomplishment by Soviet Russia sent a shockwave through the American political leadership resulting in U.S. efforts to be the first on the moon.
October 6, 1927 - The first "talkie" opened in New
York. The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson was the first full-length feature film using spoken dialogue.
October 8, 1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago erupted. According to legend, it started when Mrs.
O'Leary's cow kicked over a lantern in her barn on
DeKoven Street. Over 300 persons were killed and 90,000 were left homeless as the fire leveled
3.5 square miles, destroying 17,450 buildings.
Financial losses totaled over $200 million.
October 11, 1939 - Albert Einstein warned
President Franklin D. Roosevelt that his theories could lead to Nazi Germany's development of an atomic bomb. Einstein suggested the U.S. develop its own bomb. This resulted in the top secret "Manhattan Project."
October 13, 1884 - Greenwich was established as the universal time from which standard times throughout the world are calculated.