RKC (ROSEMEAD KIWANIS CLUB) REPORTER WEEKLY E-MAIL – 6/13/2010

 

Greetings to our K-Family (Kiwanis affiliated partner group of clubs), RKN (Rosemead Kiwanis Network) and other friends. 

 

         WEEKLY FAX OF LIFE INSPIRATIONAL E-MAIL

 

This week’s Fax from Scott’s Valley Kiwanis is titled

Time for a Smile :) ; - please see Weekly Fax of Life section

below for a direct link to this inspirational monograph on the rosemeadkiwanis.org website.

 

              This issue of the weekly RKC Reporter also includes:

 

·        NEWS: Recent developments and activities related to Rosemead, with emphasis on city government activities .

     

·        EVENTS: Activities in and around Rosemead, this issue with emphasis on June Kiwanis club speakers .

 

               SPECIAL REPORT – Garvey student to represent California in national

               history finals. See story at bottom of this issue of the RKC Reporter

 

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        NEWS

 

Student honor: A Rosemead student, William Nguyen, will be representing California at the upcoming National History Day competition – see Special Report below

 

Group Discounts: Los Angeles Sparks Ladies Basketball tickets are available through the Parks and Recreation Department for Rosemead Night July 1.  Please contact the Park’s and Recreation Department or Rosemead Kiwanis to participate.

 

Summer Events: The Summer, 2010, edition of the Rosemead Parks and Recreation Activities Brochure, which includes the June/July, 2010, issue of the city’s Rosemead Resources publication, is now available on line via the rosemeadKiwanis.com website.  Just click on the underlined title above

 

Highlights:

 

4 public concerts in Garvey and Rosemead Parks.

A poll on proposed designs for a 9/11 tenth anniversary Memorial to be erected at City Hall

Rosemead’s Independence Day parade July 3

Catalog of Recreation Department classes and activities for various age groups beginning July 3

City sponsored summer excursions –

      July 9 – Magic Mountain

      July 30 – Knott’s Berry Farm

      August 8 – Los Angeles Zoo

      August 14 – Raging Waters

Health Fair August 3

 

Greensheet Highlights: From last week’s Rosemead City Greensheet: 135 incidents of graffiti were detected and removed for the two week period ending June 9    … Dinsmore House (Rosemead’s city history repository) has had high pressure sodium security lights installed … the upcoming City Planning Commission meeting on June 13 will feature consideration of a variety of signage variance requests

 

 

        UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS:

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2010 – RKC MEETING  (Special location)*

 

Science Olympiad Team – Rosemead’s Muscatel Science Olympiad team will illustrate the program that was utilized at the national championship competition in Illinois on the weekend of May 22, 2010. Please note that this meeting will be held at Muscatel Middle School!

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2010 – RKC MEETING  (Regular meeting)*

 

                    Estate Planning - Attorney Hung Ban Tran will talk about the importance of estate planning

 

 

                           * - unless otherwise indicated, Kiwanis meetings are at 12:10 in

                                 California Mission Inn chapel’s multipurpose room, 4807 Earle

                                 (north of Mission and south of Grand ½ block on west  side of

                                 the street), Rosemead. Street parking is normally required.

 

WEEKLY FAX OF LIFE INSPIRATIONAL E-MAIL

 

This week’s Fax from Scott’s Valley Kiwanis is titled Time for a Smile ; click on the underlined title to access this story on the rosemeadkiwanis.org website

 

Special Report

 

                            GARVEY STUDENT IN

            NATIONAL HISTORY DAY COMPETITION

 

June 13, 2010 – A Garvey Intermediate School 8th grade student, William Nguyen, will be representing California this week in the National History Day competition in Maryland. The Rosemead Kiwanis Foundation has contributed towards his expenses for the event.  

 

William already competed for the school in both the regional event held at Azusa Pacific University this past March and the California State Finals held in Pasadena three weeks ago.  His history topic was “Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin”.  His event was Intermediate Individual Performance. 

 

In his presentation William actually assumed the role of Eli Whitney and explained to the audience what impact his invention had on the history of our nation.  His teacher, Pat Kasababian, has had the class participate in the History Day competition for over 30 years

 

The History Day competition involves almost a half million students across our nation in the event each year.  Begun nearly 40 years ago, History Day seeks to involve students in doing basic research on historical topics.  Each year the theme changes but they have maintained the three basic divisions of Elementary, Intermediate and High School student.  They allow several modes of reporting the results of their research – written research paper, poster, display, performance, and the recently added webpage.  Students are allowed to compete individually or as a member of a group of up to six. 

 

We wish William the best of luck in the competition and hopes he brings home Garvey’s second National Division trophy.

 

                      - based on information supplied by Bob Bruesch