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(May 2006)
Established and Serving Mesa since October 1954
We have just celebrated Memorial Day. We remember those who have paid the price of our liberty. We have the obligation to remember The “Bill of Responsibilities” resting on our backs. All Together now…read.
Freedom and responsibility are mutual and inseparable; we can ensure enjoyment of the one only by exercising the other. Freedom for all of us depends on responsibility by each of us.
To secure and expand our liberties, therefore, we accept these responsibilities as individual members of a free society:
1. To be fully responsible for our own actions and for the consequences of those actions. Freedom to choose carries with it the responsibility for our choices.
2. To respect the rights and beliefs of others. In a free society, diversity flourishes. Courtesy and consideration toward others are measures of a civilized society.
3, To give sympathy, understanding and help to others. As we hope others will help us when we are in need, we should help others when they are in need.
4. To do our best to meet our own and our families' needs. There is no personal freedom without economic freedom. By helping ourselves and those closest to us to become productive members of society, we contribute to the strength of the nation.
5. To respect and obey the laws. Laws are mutually accepted rules by which, together, we maintain a free society. Liberty itself is built on a foundation of law. That foundation provides an orderly process for changing laws. It also depends on our obeying laws once they have been freely adopted.
6. To respect the property of others, both private and public. No one has a right to what is not his or hers. The right to enjoy what is ours depends on our respecting the right of others to enjoy what is theirs.
7. To share with others our appreciation of the benefits and obligations of freedom. Freedom shared is freedom strengthened.
8. To participate constructively in the nation's political life. Democracy depends on an active citizenry. It depends equally on an informed citizenry.
9. To help freedom survive by assuming personal responsibility for its defense. Our nation cannot survive unless we defend it. Its security rests on the individual determination of each of us to help preserve it.
10. To respect the rights and to meet the responsibilities on which our liberty rests and our democracy depends. This is the essence of freedom. Maintaining it requires our common effort, all together and each individually.
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From District
Please go the website and read up on the newsletter from the Guv
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Also, checkout our website and give us some ideas for improvement, if you will.
www.mesa.govnsertomaaz.org
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From International
We had a pleasant surprise in the spring issue of the SERTOMAN magazine. We were the feature story and had a cover picture. The CARE Partnership and Angel Ramos’ Sequoia School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing were highlighted. We give a huge thanks to Connie Hummiston in Headquarters for doing such a fine job on the article.
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Happy Birthday to:
Benton Mosley 6-3
Bob Baker 6-14
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May 10th Was our preliminary planning meeting for the July 4th Fireworks show at Mesa Community College
May 17th This was our Mother’s Day luncheon meeting. Having invited the wives and mothers of of our club members, we had the pleasure of hearing from Chalice Millett who was selected as Arizona Young Mother of the Year. She addressed some of the fundamental issues we are dealing with in our society today with respect to reverencing motherhood and recognizing the vital role each mother plays in nurturing children. We were also pleased to hear from Doug Clark of the United Families International. He spoke of that organization’s mission and goals in all parts of the world in trying to preserve the traditional marriage and the family. We join with them in celebrating those traditional values that have helped to make our nation great. The fight is not over
May 24th We had a very interesting report from Wayne and Martha Crismon who will be leaving us for a couple years to serve a mission in Uraguay S.A. We all learned some interesting things about their meeting and eventual marriage. We wish you good fortune while serving there and look forward to your return. We’ll miss you.
May 31st We had an impromptu July fourth planning and progress report followed by a 25 cent report on Dave and Maurio Fischbeck’s trip to China. I’m wondering if he is going to move there. He did say something about free enterprise and Communistic Government in the same breath. But then again, He tired of Chinese food during their 2 weeks there. We probably have nothing to worry about. Thanks Dave.
Upcoming Programs/Activities
June 7th Monthly Board Meeting
June 14th
June 21st
June 28th Final planning and coordination meeting for the fireworks show.
July 4th Fireworks Show
September 18th Constitution Week Celebration , Mesa Amphitheater
September 21st “Meet Out Founding Fathers” presentation, Heritage Academy.
September 23rd Boy Scout Citizenship in Nation Merit badge Workshop, State Capitol.
September 23rd The Making of America Seminar, The Heritage Academy
November 21st Constitution Essay Contest Awards Assembly, Brimhall Jr. High Auditorium
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Take Time for a Smile…-
One for the Sertoma Foundation…
An elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%.
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again."
The gentleman replied, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will
three times!"
Are you smiling?
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Hints…
What a novel idea! Wonder what they will think of next?
Family Fact of the Week: Family Day
"CASA created Family Day - A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children in 2001, as a national effort to promote family dinners as an effective way to reduce substance abuse among children and teens. Family Day is celebrated on the fourth Monday in September, the 26th in 2005. Family Day emphasizes the importance of regular family activities and encourages Americans to make family dinners a regular feature of their lives. Parental engagement is the single most potent weapon in preventing substance use and abuse among youth!" |
(Source: "About Family Day," The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University; http://www.casafamilyday.org/pages/about.html.) |
Family Quote of the Week: Dinner In
"'It's crazy, but having dinner together reinforces the family unit,' [Mrs. Powell] said. 'That's when we get to hear about their day. We ask them questions, and the other two can't butt in.' After decades of decline in the simple ritual of family dinners, there is evidence that many families are making the effort to gather at the dinner table. A random nationwide survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found a recent rise in the number of children ages 12 to 17 who said they ate dinner with their families at least five times a week, to 58 percent last year from 47 percent in 1998." |
(Source: Lisa W. Foderaro, "Families With Full Plates, Sitting Down to Dinner," The New York Times, April 6, 2006; http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/nyregion/05dinner.html.) |
Support our troops
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Words spoken by Andy Rooney on CBS "60 Minutes", Sunday May 28, 2006
"Tomorrow is Memorial Day, the day we have set aside to honor by remembering all the Americans who have died fighting for the thing we like the most about our America: the freedom we have to live as we please.
No official day to remember is adequate for something like that. It's too formal. It gets to be just another day on the calendar. No one would know from Memorial Day that Richie M., who was shot through the forehead coming onto Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, wore different color socks on each foot because he thought it brought him good luck.
No one would remember on Memorial Day that Eddie G. had promised to marry Julie W. the day after he got home from the war, but didn’t marry Julie because he never came home from the war. Eddie was shot dead on an un-American desert island, Iwo Jima.
For too many Americans, Memorial Day has become just another day off. There's only so much time any of us can spend remembering those we loved who have died, but the men, boys really, who died in our wars deserve at least a few moments of reflection during which we consider what they did for us….They died.
We use the phrase "gave their lives," but they didn’t give their lives. Their lives were taken from them.
There is more bravery at war than in peace, and it seems wrong that we have so often saved this virtue to use for our least noble activity - war. The goal of war is to cause death to other people.
Because I was in the Army during World War II, I have more to remember on Memorial Day than most of you. I had good friends who were killed.
Charley Wood wrote poetry in high school. He was killed when his Piper Cub was shot down while he was flying as a spotter for the artillery.
Bob O'Connor went down in flames in his B17.
Obie Slingerland and I were best friends and co-captains of our high school football team. Obie was killed on the deck of the Saratoga when a bomb that hadn’t dropped exploded as he landed.
I won’t think of them anymore tomorrow, Memorial Day, than I think of them any other day of my life.
Remembering doesn’t do the remembered any good, of course. It's for ourselves, the living. I wish we could dedicate Memorial Day, not to the memory of those who have died at war, but to the idea of saving the lives of the young people who are going to die in the future if we don’t find some new way - some new religion maybe - that takes war out of our lives.
That would be a Memorial Day worth celebrating."
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>Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot (10K Run)
*City of mesa Constitution Week Celebration
*CARE Partnership http://www.carepartnership.org
*CHAP Community Hearing Aid Program (Affiliated with the EAR
Foundation) www.earfoundationaz.com #
*Junior Achievement http://jaaz.org
*Making Waves City of Mesa
http://www.ci.mesa.az.us/parksrec/TimeOut.asp#Aquatics_-_
*Mesa Food Bank www.unitedfoodbank.org
*Mesa Foundation for educational Excellence www.mpsaz.org
*Mesa Little League
http://www.google.com/search?q=mesa+little+league
*Mesa Pub. Schools Audiology Dept. Scholarships
http://www.mpsaz.org/speced/HI/index.htm #
*MPS Constitution Essay Contest
http://www.mesa.govnsertomaaz.org/EssayCompetition.htm
*National Special Olympics Committee
http://www.specialolympicsarizona.org/home/main.asp
*Sequoia School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing –
http://ssdhh.k12.az.us #
*Sertoma Speech & Hearing Foundation
http://www.sertoma.org/%5EFoundation/Foundation.htm #
*Sertoma American Heritage Week Program presented to all 8th
graders in the Junior Schools in Mesa
*State of Arizona Constitution Commemoration Committee
*St Vincent de Paul Food Bank
http://www.cpes.com/advocacyresources/communityassistance/food_banks.htm
# On November 15, 1960, the Sertoma Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, was formed to strengthen the partnership between our International organization and our clubs, where SERvice TO MAnkind takes place on the local level. In 1963, after a long search for an International sponsorship, Sertoma clubs were encouraged to assist the more than 24 million Americans who have speech and hearing disorders. This sponsorship continues to be of utmost relevance, as there are currently over 50 million Americans with speech and hearing disorders.
Through its varied programs, scholarships, grants and endowment campaigns, the Foundation has a far-reaching impact in perpetually producing benefits for Sertoma programs. Sertoma International primary charitable focus is on speech and hearing impaired people and relevant support organizations. However, the Foundation provides the funding for grants and scholarships. It was a founding member of the Council for Better Hearing and Speech Month. In 1986, the Foundation coordinated Better Hearingand Speech Month for the entire country. Local clubs are autonomous and are therefore free to provide support to whatever additional charitable needs they choose locally.
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Robert Bowden (Jerri)
Martha Crismon
Wayne Crismon
Barry Dickerson (Carolyn)
David Fischbeck (Maurio)
Harry Friedlander (Mary Lou)
Joe Galante (Clair)
James E. Holland (Jonnie)
Keith Lalliss (Nancy)
Steven K Larson (Linda)
Benton Mosley
Margie D Mosley
Bryon N. Nichols
Angel Ramos
Marla Ramos
Mike Sheridan (Valerie)
Joe Sorenson
Barbara Taylor
Joseph Taylor
Jolene Wells
Lance Wells
Walt Zimmerman (Lela)
President Walt Zimmerman
Vice President Jim Holland
Secretary-Treasurer Joe Sorenson
Board Chairman Joe Galante
Sergeant at Arms Bentom Mosley
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