Summer Social in Pine Valley

Last night was our summer social. We went to Pine Valley and had a pot luck dinner at Derrill and Lana Larkin's cabin/home away from home. Thank you Derrill and Lana for being great hosts. The weather accommodated our evening get together. We enjoyed a great meal and good company. Floyd Holm installed our new club officers for the coming year and our recent past presidents were presented with a Club President Plaque. Our new club officers are posted on the right column of the blog, titled "2009-2010 Club Officers and Board Members". Thank you to all those who attended our social and to those who missed out, you truly missed out. Better luck next year.

Lymphatic Drainage (pronounced drrra-naudge)

Today's speaker was Cynthia Hedden. Cynthia is a massage therapist that specializes in lymphatic drainage. She educated us on the benefits of lymphatic drainage and shared some interesting facts about our body. Our lymph system is the body's detoxification system. In fact, did you know that without our lymph nodes our bodies would only survive for about 20 hours. Also, we have on average 740 lymph nodes in our body.
Cynthia Hedden, CMT at Green Leaf Massage Therapy, 435-632-5535.

Southwest Behavioral Health Center

Today's speaker was Michael Cain, Associate Director at Southwest Behavioral Health Center and Ryan Forbes, Program Cordinator for Independent House.The southwestern region of Utah has experienced enormous growth over the past decade. Many of the social support systems, long a part of Utah tradition, have been stressed by growing issues of mental illness, substance abuse, child abuse, youth crime, and lack of housing. The collective impact has left families and communities struggling to find answers with limited fiscal and professional capacity.

The county commissions of Washington, Kane, Garfield, Beaver and Iron Counties have joined with the State of Utah to create Southwest Center for the provision of comprehensive mental health and substance abuse services. Southwest Center is proud to be a member of a strong human service delivery system which is helping our communities to address very difficult individual, family, and community problems.

The Southwest Center is committed to continuing the partnership with our communities to insure a healthy and drug free future for Southern Utah's citizens.

The mission of Southwest Center is to promote, restore, and maintain well being by providing treatment, education, and advocacy services appropriate to the mental health and substance abuse needs of our communities. All services will be consumer oriented, collaborative and performed in a quality manner.

Prizes were also drawn at the end of the meeting, the winners are: Mark Loosli, Tom Bayles, Ralph Flanagan, and June McAfee. Congrats!

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Mayor's Walk Origin

As told by Kent Perkins - Director, St George City Leisure Services Department

Just to keep history accurate, I attended the Honolulu marathon in 1987 and was excited to see their Mayor's Walk begin just after their marathon start. Upon returning I asked Mayor Karl Brooks if he would like to support us in starting a Mayor's Walk of our own. Mayor Brooks agreed to support and participate in a Mayor's Walk, and invited Bart and his entourage to join him and the public for the first walk. Bart was invited each year thereafter and we printed in our publicity, "come walk with Mayor Brooks/ McArthur and Ranger Bart Anderson"...

Now you know the rest of the story.

Mayor's Walk

Just to keep history accurate, I attended the Honolulu marathon in 1987 and was excited to see their Mayor's Walk begin just after their marathon start. Upon returning I asked Mayor Karl Brooks if he would like to support us in starting a Mayor's Walk of our own. Mayor Brooks agreed to support and participate in a Mayor's Walk, and invited Bart and his entourage to join him and the public for the first walk. Bart was invited each year thereafter and we printed in our publicity, "come walk with Mayor Brooks/ McArthur and Ranger Bart Anderson"...

Now you know the rest of the story.

Student of the Year Essay

The Youth: Stepping Forward to Change the Beat of America
by Stephen Anderson
District Representative for Student of the Year

“The Youth: Stepping Forward to Change the Beat of America” begs three questions: what is “the beat of America;” secondly, why do we need to change it; and finally, why have the youth be the ones to step forward and be the changers?

Click here to read the full article.

(CM)² = Clean Mouth, Clean Mind

by Stephen Anderson
District Representative for Student of the Year


I like to stay busy. I enjoy helping others and having as much of a good impact as I can. I am an Eagle Scout and Student Body President of Pine View High School. I am very proud of both those accomplishments. But, I have an accomplishment I am even more proud of.

When I started football I noticed the crude language that was being used by some of the kids on the team. I talked to my parents and through that discussion I realized that how you speak reflects what you think and from there I came up with the idea of “Clean Mouth, Clean Mind” or (CM)². I felt that (CM)² would be a simple reminder of what morals we could all strive to keep. I started by making wristbands that I passed out to my friends. Others asked after them and soon the idea caught fire and now there is a website, www.cmsquared.org, and members in over 20 states and 5 countries. There are also t-shirts, rings and hats. (CM)² continues to grow and my hope is that it will help make this world a nicer place to live as we strive to live by “the code”.

Grand Opening - HOST Business Services!

We had Scott Wilson with HOST Business Services come and present to us. We have signed up for their free service they are providing to service clubs.

Here is the information about the Grand Opening:

Join us for our Grand Opening open house, ribbon cutting, and great food!
Come see our office at 321 North Mall Drive Bldg R, St. George, UT, 84790 on JUNE 16, 2009 from 1-4pm for our grand opening. Attendees to our Grand Opening will receive 30 days FREE and NO set up fee!

Time is a precious commodity. Everyone wants and needs more of it. HOST Business Services provides its clients with exactly that—more time – time to focus on what you do best! HOST was founded and designed with the purpose of supporting small businesses. To provide owners and operators with more time to focus on growing their businesses and less time dealing with the non-revenue generating tasks. Automation, technology, and on-demand staff; have been combined in such a way that HOST can provide efficiencies in your business that no one else can provide in one location or from a single source.

Historic Event!

Today we witnessed a historic event that required photo documentation. For those who were not present at club, here is the proof:

Jinks Actually made good an all his IOUs. Thank you Jinks. Now all our bills can be paid.

Lawn Bowling

Wayne Pace and today's Know your Exchangite Floyd Holm

We had quit the ball at this mornings meeting. Today's speaker was Wayne Pace, professor, author, researcher, and lawn bowler. Currently the only place to lawn bowl in St George is at Sun River which restricts access to residents of Sun River only. Wayne has been working with the City of St George to get a Lawn Bowling facility in St George that is available to the general public. We were educated on the history of Lawn Bowling and given a live demonstration. Many were able to give the ball a spin themselves to see how easy and fun this sport is. To find out more about this sport visit their blog.