Song- Jerry Boyce
Pledge- Ben Brown
Prayer- Charles Rea
Introductions- Jodi Moscona

The Feb. 11 meeting was held at Springhill Suites with lunch from The Jambalaya Shoppe. Julie Dauzat organized the meeting.

Last Week’s Speaker:  Marketa Garner Gautreau, Leadership Team Member for Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana

Marketa Garner Gautreau, of Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana, spoke at the Feb. 11 meeting. She spoke about the unique services the program provides to parents. 

PCA offers free counseling to parents on how to deal with frustrations arising from raising children and ways to avoid becoming violent in these situations. The organization also encourages the building of parks because recreational activities build healthy relationships between parents and their children.

Announcements:

The Feb. 18 meeting will not be held at The Great Wall as previously announced. The Great Wall has postponed the grand opening of their new location. The meeting will be held at the Springhill Suites (off of Essen Lane). Lunch will be catered by Semolina’s. Please RSVP to Brandt.

The guest speaker for the Feb. 18 meeting will be Ed Buggs. Buggs is the host of the Ed Buggs Show on talk radio 1300 AM. 

The board approved the resignation of Chad Olivier at the February meeting.

Port of Baton RougeField Trip- Our Feb. 4 meeting was held at the Port of Baton Rouge. Members were treated to a box lunch from Jason’s Deli in the Port board room, where an informational video was shown. The tour began at the sugar warehouse and then proceeded to a storage warehouse and the docks. The tour concluded at the construction site of the dockside container transfer facility, where members learned about the barge stacker machine.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. 
—Chinese Proverb

Happy Birthday

Allan Brent, February 3
R. Dale Hodges, February 12
Benjamin C. Brown, February 16

K-fact: The Objectives of Kiwanis

-To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
-To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
-To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.

Next week: More Objectives of Kiwanis.

Jason Schwartzenburg successfully proposed on Valentine’s Day.

Newsletter Team

Ben Brown, Editor, riptidebcb@hotmail.com
Mandy Michel, Copy Editor
Aimeé Shultz, Designer