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Monthly Archives: March 2017

It’s the Year of the Honor Club

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It’s the Year of the Honor Club Optimist International President Jim Kondrasuk has declared the 2016-2017 administrative year to be the Year of the Honor Club. What’s this? Isn’t every year the year of the Honor Club? Each year, less than 25% of all Optimist Clubs earn the Honor Club recognition, so that means even fewer go on to receive the Distinguished Club designation. We can do better than that! Clubs that meet the Honor Club designation have completed the minimum steps to ensure their Optimist Club is healthy and growing to serve future generations. Clubs that earn the Distinguished Club

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Teachers are encouraged to #JoinanOptimistClub

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Teachers are encouraged to #JoinanOptimistClub For nine months each year, and sometimes more, teachers inspire children to learn and achieve. To me, it sounds like they are ready-made Optimists. For the second year, Optimist International agrees, and it has extended its popular Recruit-a-teacher membership incentive for the third quarter of the 2016-2017 administrative year. Beginning April 1 and ending June 30, your Optimist Club may add teachers or any school personnel to its roster for only $30!*  What a great deal to connect your Optimist Club to a veritable firehose of service opportunities. According to Optimist International, connecting with teachers

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Knock the “t” Off “Can’t”

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Knock the “t” Off “Can’t”   by: Neil Eskelin, Daily Jump Start Recently I took a sheet of paper and divided it into two columns: “Yes People,” and “No People.” Then I thought about individuals I knew and wrote their names in the appropriate column. What a shock it was to see the length of the “No” list. These were the people who heard someone say, “You can’t do that!” and they believed it. Now they were saying, “It can’t be done!” and their negativity was affecting the lives of others. If your friends made such a list right now, under

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Imperial Beach Celebrates Thirty Years

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Georgia Langhorst and Bill Zidbeck

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of IB Optimists is Georgia Langhorst and Bill Zidbeck at Sea 180 on March 11. Bill was a charter member of the IB club and Georgia is the co-founder of the Rainforest Project which serves the needs of children with cancer.  The IB club has a long history of supporting the Success Club which raises funds for pediatric cancer projects.

Great Expectations

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Great Expectations   by: Barry Spilchuk, Source Unknown Pete Rose, the famous baseball player, and I have never met, but he taught me something so valuable that it changed my life. Pete was being interviewed in spring training the year he was about to break Ty Cobb’s all time hits record. One reporter blurted out, “Pete, you only need 78 hits to break the record. How many at-bats do you think you’ll need to get the 78 hits?” Without hesitation, Pete just stared at the reporter and very matter-of-factly said, “78.” The reporter yelled back, “Ah, come on Pete, you don’t

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Gifts on Father’s Day

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Gifts on Father’s Day   by: Mary A. Aversano, , Source Unknown On December 5, 1998, my son, Jeffrey was in a serious auto accident. He was left a quadrapalegic. From the moment he left ICU, he has shown incredible strength of character and a spirit that has touched everyone he meets. Part of his strength has been his determination to develop the muscles that do work. His goals? Well, one of them is to hold his little eight month old niece in his arms and the other is to hug his darling four-year-old son. I am proud to say that

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Essay Contest Winners

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Lissette Soto, second place and Michelle Gonzalez, first place in Optimist essay contest sponsored by I.B. Optimists. Not pictured: Zaenab Al-Bassam, third place. All three winners are from the AVID class at Mar Vista High taught buy Filemon Jara.  Michelle’s essay has been sent to Cal South for District competition.

Adrift by Adam Khan

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Adrift   by: Adam Khan, , Self-Help Stuff That Works In 1982 Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He was out of the shipping lanes and floating in a life raft, alone. His supplies were few. His chances were small. Yet when three fishermen found him seventy-six days later (the longest anyone has survived a shipwreck on a life raft alone), he was alive — much skinnier than he was when he started, but alive. His account of how he survived is fascinating. His ingenuity — how he managed to catch

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Find social opportunities with an Optimist Club Young Professionals Group

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Courtesy Pacific Northwest District Find social opportunities with an Optimist Club Young Professionals Group Attracting new members to participate in a club or organization is always a challenge and many service clubs find attracting younger members to be a special challenge. As our organization has grayed, some might say they have lost their relevance. I beg to differ. Adopting a positive attitude and serving our communities with a focus on the youth is always a relevant pursuit. However, it might be that we need a different messenger. For that reason, among others, Optimist International is now encouraging a new group

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