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KT Lt. Gov speaks; New Members inductedHolly L. Travis2012

On Wednesday, April 4 our meeting was well at-tended despite the ghost town Glasgow becomes when schools dismiss for spring break. But one can always count on Kiwan-ians to hold the fort.

After the prayer, pledge and breakfast, President Stephen Jones gave the floor to the club for any announcements. Tim Doyle is taking orders from members for golf shirts with the Kiwan-is logo on them, Jesse Brown gave the latest update on the academic bowl and Terry Proffitt handed Wayne Davis his membership application. The morning started out good.

After Tom Fox gave the morning joke (which is shared every morn-ing but sometimes too lengthy to include in the column), Dale Hawkins, with daughter Abby join-ing him, had the quote for the day. “Dads don’t need to be tall and broad-shoul-

dered and clever. Love makes them so.” Sounds like a quote Abby picked out, sweet indeed.

Now that basketball season is officially over (college anyway, the pros are still playing) with the University of Kentucky wildcats winning the NCAA tournament (Hoo-ray!), it’s fitting that our speaker would be Hank Fuerst, broadcast and me-dia relations manager for the Bowling Green Hot Rods. He was introduced by long time Kiwanian Mack Emberton.

A native of Nashville and graduate of WKU, this is Fuerst 3rd year with the Hot Rods and 1st year as the main broad-caster for the team. Since 2009 Bowling Green has been enjoying the success of a minor league base-ball team, with attendance each year better than the last. The Hot Rods will open their 4th season on April 5 when they host the South Bend (Ind.) Silver Hawks. This will be the first time they’ve played at home on opening night. (They would win 3-0). Many of the players on the team are right out of college. Matt Moore, a WKU graduate, went on to play in the big leagues,

which is very exciting for the team. Last year the Hot Rods made the play-offs and hope to do the same this year. “It’s not whether we win or lose, but rather if fans have a good time in the family friendly atmosphere the Hot Rods try to promote,” says Hank. On the sched-ule are games designated for different themes or activities. One of their most popular is “Faith and Family Night”, which always brings a record at-tendance. The first one is on July 21 with Kiwanian Scott Lester’s daughter, an accomplished singer, performing the National Anthem. Hank appreci-ated the Kiwanis club’s

invite in allowing him to give an update on the ball club and all the support Glasgow fans have been over the years in attend-ing the games.

Kiwanis is a global or-ganization of volunteers, dedicated to changing the world, one child, and one community at a time. But who is your local club? Many may or may not know these individuals. Each week this column will reveal a member who invests their time, talents and treasures through our club. Our profile this week is B.C. McCand-less.

The youngest mem-ber of our club, Bobby

Clinton McCandless, Jr. was born in April 1986 to Clint and Debbie Mc-Candless in Metcalfe County, Ky. He is a grad-uate of Metcalfe County High School and West-ern Kentucky University, where he received a BA in communication. Since 2007 he has worked for the Glasgow Daily Times. Currently he is the minis-try assistant with Neal’s Chapel Cumberland Pres-byterian Church and on the advisory committee of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters organization in South Central Kentucky. BC’s passions lie in tech-nology, service to the community and minister-ing to those in need. He

plans to attend seminary through the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and becoming ordained into the ministry. It was an in-vite in August 2010 from Freddie Norris that BC and his father Clint joined the club.

The Kiwanis Club of Glasgow meets at 6 a.m. every Wednesday morn-ing at the Fine Arts Bistro. We welcome your feed-back. If you or your group is interested in member-ship, would like to speak to our club, or make a comment, please e-mail us at HLT@glasgow-ky.com or just show up Wednesday morning. Breakfast is on us.

B.C McCandless Pictured left to right are Mack Emberton and Hank Fuerst.

By Josh UnderwoodAt an early age, there

was a certain magnetic quality about the way Buddy Underwood played the tuba.

“The first song I learned to play was the Star-Spangled Banner,” he said.

“We had 15 cows (on our farm), and they all came running up.”

The openness of farm country allowed Under-wood’s music to be heard by people nearby.

“A neighbor across the road, he said he re-ally appreciated hearing the Star-Spangled Banner during the day,” Under-wood said.

Underwood told this story to Glasgow Ro-tary Club on Thursday at Glasgow Golf & Country Club as part of a Meet the Rotarians program. Shei-la Pruitt, Billy Ray and Henry Royse also shared bits of their lives with the club.

Underwood took up the tuba one day when his father, himself a tuba player, introduced it to him. He eventually joined the Glasgow High School band as a third-grader and played with the band until he graduated from high school.

He went on to graduate from Western Kentucky University and owns Cook, Downing & Un-derwood Insurance Agen-cy, where he has worked for more than 30 years.

Shelia Pruitt was the first Rotarian to speak Thursday. She talked about Big Meadow Oil, a company she co-owns with Betty Gentry. The business has grown expo-nentially over the years, garnering awards at the federal, state and local levels.

“At the time, I never thought it would become what it has,” Pruitt said.

Being a woman in the oil business has been “quite unusual,” she said.

Pruitt said her great-est accomplishments, though, are her children.

She loves spending time with her “beautiful grandchildren” and also enjoys playing golf.

Pruitt noted how re-warding it was to distrib-ute jackets to children during last year’s Ro-tary coat drive with her 13-year-old grandson.

“I like doing service for our community, and I

think that is what Rotary is all about,” she said.

Henry Royse was the next Rotarian to speak Thursday. Royse, presi-dent of

Royse Radio, noted that this was the second time in his life he had participated in a Meet the Rotarians program.

“That’s how long I’ve been around,” he said.

Royse joined Rotary in 1985 in Paris, Tenn., and eventually served as pres-ident of Glasgow Rotary Club from 1999 to 2000.

He graduated from Glasgow High School and later Western Ken-tucky University, where he double-majored in mass communications and government, the lat-ter of which to please his mother, who he said had wanted him to become a lawyer.

In 1999, Royse was asked to join the board of directors at T.J. Samson Community Hospital but feared he did not have the time to devote to the task.

Royse said his mother told him he should do it because it would look good on his “resume of life.”

Royse eventually ac-cepted the position and today serves as chairman of the board.

“I feel good that she knew I was going to try to make a difference,” he said.

Billy Ray was the final speaker Thursday.

The superintendent of Glasgow Electric Plant Board, Ray has worked at EPB since 1983. Prior to that time, Ray worked as a draftsman at Bowling Green

Electric Plant Board af-ter having graduated from Western Kentucky Uni-versity with a civil engi-neering degree.

Ray said he is passion-ate about fly fishing, a sport he first witnessed in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

He is active in promot-ing Sustainable Glasgow, an effort to reinforce Bar-ren County’s local econ-omy, and cited the book “Deep Economy” as help-ing spark that interest.

Ray is also a cycling enthusiast. He started rid-ing a bicycle to work one day and said the experi-ence was “really cool.”

“Since then, I’ve be-come a hard-core cyclist,” he said, adding he tries to ride 100 miles a week.

The program was put on by Jerry Ream.

In other Rotary meet-ing news:

•Julie Pate read the de-votional entitled “Just for Today” written by Sybil Partridge: Just for today I will be happy. This as-sumes what Abraham

Lincoln said is true – “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Happi-ness comes from within; it is not a matter of exter-nals.

Just for today I will try to adjust myself to what is; not try to adjust every-thing to my own desires. I will take my family, my business and my luck as they come and fit myself to them. Just for today I will take care of my body. I will exercise it, care for it, nourish it, not abuse or neglect it, so that it will be a perfect machine for my bidding. Just for today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will learn some-thing useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and con-centration. Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways – I will do someone a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two chores I don’t want to do, as Wil-liam James suggests, just for exercise. Just for to-day, I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, speak diplomatically, act courteously, be liberal with praise, criticize not at all, nor find fault with anything, and not try to regulate or improve any-one. Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do things for 12 hours that would appall me if I had to keep them up for a lifetime. Just for today I will have a program. I will write down what I expect to do every hour. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. It will eliminate two pests: hur-rying and indecision. Just for today I will have a quiet half hour by myself and relax. In this half hour sometimes I will think of God, so as to get a little more perspective into my life. Just for today, I will be unafraid. Particularly, I will be unafraid to be happy, to enjoy what is beautiful, to love, and to believe that those I love, love me. Pate concluded

with this prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things

I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wis-dom to know the differ-ence. Just for today.

•Dr. Mike Smith at-tended the meeting as a guest of Sam Dickinson.

•Dr. Jerry Ralston delivered the sergeant-at-arms report, telling a story about a wife who “shows a lot of love for her husband,” who sus-tained injuries in a “ter-rible accident.” Her hus-band’s name was Tom Smith. The pastor asked if anyone in the congre-gation would like to ex-press praise for answered prayers. Suzie Smith stood and walked to the podium. She said, “I have a praise. Two months ago, my husband Tom Smith had a terrible bicycle wreck and his scrotum was completely crushed. The pain was excruciat-ing, and the doctors didn’t know if they could help him.” Now, you could hear a muffled gasp from the men in the congrega-tion as they imagine the pain that poor Tom must have experienced. And she goes on, “Tom was unable to hold me or the children, and every move caused him terrible pain. We prayed as the doctors performed a delicate op-

eration, and it turned out they were able to piece together the crushed rem-nants of Tom’s scrotum, and they wrapped wire around it to hold it in place.” Again, the men in the congregation cringed and squirmed uncomfort-ably as they imagined the horrible surgery per-formed on Tom. “Now,” she announced in a quiv-ering voice, “Thank the Lord, Tom is out of the hospital, and the doc-tors say that with time, he should recover com-

pletely.” Now, all the men sighed with unified relief. The pastor rose and tenta-tively asked if anyone else had something to say. A man stood up and walked slowly to the podium. He said, “I’m Tom Smith.” The entire congregation held its breath. “I just want to tell my wife the word is sternum.”

Court Appointed Spe-cial Advocates (CASA) is the scheduled topic of this week’s program.

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