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Special to all members and friends of
the Rosemead Kiwanis Club
MEETING CHANGE NOTICE: Due to a daylong Xmas CMI event there
will be no Rosemead Kiwanis Club meeting at
the California
Mission Inn
ON Thursday December
18.
Instead we will be having an
interclub with the El Monte Kiwanis Club at
a special location: the Byron
Thompson School for
Orthopedically Handicapped Children, 4544 Maxson
Road El Monte. (see Reservations and Directions
below). Time will be 12:00 noon on the same day.
SPECIAL CHILDREN’S PROGRAM: Featured will be a presentation of Xmas songs by the
Thompson School’s Bellringers Choir, made up of physically
challenged students from the school. The group has been featured in
presentations at numerous locations and is comprised of special needs
kids from the fourth thru the eighth grades, organized and directed
for the last thirty two years by Wayne Martin of the Whittier Lion’s Club.
According to an article in the May, 2008, issue of “The Main Lion” this group is “the
result of a long held dream of teaching these kids to play and perform.
They use a variety of adaptive techniques and modifications to the bells
that allow even the weakest child to be included in the choir. Wayne has
done most of these modifications himself and the group is “world renown”
with performances at Disneyland, the L. A. Music’s Center’s Special Arts
Festival, the National Convention of the Council for Exceptional Children,
and Chapman College.”
RESERVATIONS: Pizza and Mojos
from Shakey’s are being specially ordered, so we
have been asked to provide a head count by Wednesday at noon. Please
respond by email or call Art Landing at 626/292-6550 and leave a message.
DIRECTIONS: The best
way to reach the Byron
Thompson School
is to go two blocks south from the intersection of Maxon
with Lower Azusa Road
(three bLocks East of Peck
Road or two intersections west of the off ramp
from the 605 freeway).
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