COMING EVENTS December 29 Mr. Joe Sabah will talk on the subject of "I had a stroke and boy am I lucky." January 5 Board Meeting January 12 Opera, Peter Russell, Pres & Director, KOD: Reda Walsh January 19 Inner City Health Center, Kraig Burleson, KOD: John Forney January 26 Guide Dogs for the Blind, Clair Benson and Astoria, KOD Jon Farinholt ROCKY MOUNTAIN DISTRICT Pam Bilby, Secretary 303.462.5148 DIVISION 15 Carla Lopez, Lt Gov 303.758.3544 AURORA Thurs 6:30 pm Blossoms Restaurant 2888 S Heather Gardens Way Dick Jensen, Sec RGJCJ@earthlink.net CASTLE PINES NORTH Tues 12:30 pm Celtic Crossing Restaurant, Castle Rock Jim Clements, Sec CNeighborJim@cs.com CASTLE ROCK Thurs 7:00 am Village Inn Cynthia Mannschreck, Sec sco50601@allstate.com DTC CLUB Tues 7:00 am Mimi’s Café, Lonetree PARKER Tues 6:45 am IHOP Restaurant, Parker Gay Cirigliano, Pres beryessa@aol.com KIWANIS CLUB OF SOUTH DENVER PO BOX 101405 DENVER CO 80250-1405

OPENING: Lorene Moss lead the pledge and Jim Schlottman gave the invocation. GUESTS: Rob Farinholt and Dick Swanson, speaker’s husband. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Tito Chaverri announced the proposed trip to Costa Rica is pushed back to the middle of April. Prez Keith announced there are still nuts available and to turn in checks made out to Kiwanis Club of South Denver for $22 per box or can taken. HAPPY AND SAD DOLLARS: Dallas Mauk was happy to live in Colorado. Tito Chaverri had a dollar in memory of Swanee Page, widow of long time member Ray Page. Since Ray was blind, his wife would bring him to meetings, and Tito would often take him home. Tito has kept in touch with Swanee since Ray died many years ago, and reported that Swanee passed away last night. Bernie Polak reported that Dave Kelley has produced the brochure for the second annual road rally, that is now only 142 days away. Brochures were passed out so members can start publicizing the event. Dick Kem was happy to be back in Denver, and also gave in memory of spouses and members we have lost. Reda Walsh gave happy dollars for Kiwanians ringing the bells for Salvation Army, and particularly for one Kiwnian who had performed in this event for 50 years. Our club does not have anyone in that class, but some of us are getting along in this service. Joy Romero was happy because this is her favorite time of year. John Forney’s happy dollar was for all the SDK crew that rang bells last Saturday—in the cold. Bill Eade was happy to report the Foundation has already received about $1300 in memory of Ed Johnson, and that we have received notice the Foundation was also named in Ed’s will. Jon Farinholt was happy to have son Rob with us. If Jon’s 3 year old granddaughter had not been ill, the rest of the family would have been with us also. Ken Bradley was happy to be here. Jim Schlottman reported that he had seen Patti Hughes and she reported that John, whom we have not seen lately, is now also a member of Rotary. Joe Lavigne gave a happy dollar for the enthusiasm he is finding at the South High Key Club. Rob Farinholt was happy that yesterday was the 45th anniversary of his parents’ wedding. PROGRAM: Jon introduced his friend and neighbor, Kathy Swanson, who has been a docent at the Denver Zoo since 2001. The zoo is open 365 days a year, with an amazing amount of land in Denver—but with no room to expand. So they are continually redesigning the space they have to show off the animals in as natural a habitat as possible. The predator ridge is an example of this kind of display. The Denver Zoo is a breeding zoo, although no breeding is done without the knowledge of where there will be space for the newborn, throughout the country and the world. There is a global register that controls the zoo populations. For this reason, many of the animals are on birth control. Of course, the public flocks to see newborn animals. The Zoo is Denver’s Number 1 cultural attraction, and it costs about $18,000,000 to run per year. They are continually looking for ways to hold down costs—an example is recycled poop. They couldn’t hold expenses that low if they did not have the services of 500 volunteers, and they would be happy to increase that number. PRIZE WINNER: Dallas Mauk HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND WE’LL SEE YOU NEXT THURSDAY!