Phather Phil’s Prayer

Heavenly Father we are over joyed to welcome You in our midst. You are our spiritual leader, our teacher and our motivator. We pray that we are the extension of Your love here on earth, by being Optimists and caring for Your kids. Be with us in our journey to bring out the best in kids and make this a better world than when we entered it. Help us make You proud For using our talents for the betterment of others. We’re drinking from our
saucer cause our cup of blessings runneth over. Amen!

CNO Election Season Week 3

Jean Pummill spoke to us about how the process works. This is the last of the 3 weeks. Two of the nominees got up and spoke for a short time. Summaries follow:

Jack Anderson, nominated for Vice-President, was humbled Larry asked. He is so glad that when he moved back to the Dayton area that he was urged to join CNO. Happy CNO 2.0 has gotten the traction with the help from the main club. Looks forward to being even more involved when vice-president.
Jess Gaither, nominated for a 2-year term for the board, thrilled that as part of his purchase of Minuteman Press from member Fred Polizzi, that he had to join CNO, obviously would have done it anyway after learning about our club. Enjoys being involved in all the club activities.

CNO Board’s Nominations All Stand

There were no additional nominations from the floor to run against the board’s recommendations. Therefore, we proceeded to confirm the board by acclamation. The voice vote confirmed the following people are elected to the CNO 2018-2019 Officers and Board of Directors:

Greg Griffin, President-Elect
Jack Anderson, Vice-President
Debe Dockins, Vice-President
Diane Arehart, Two-Year Member of Board of Directors
Beth Duncan, Two-Year Member of Board of Directors
Jane Fiehrer, Two-Year Member of Board of Directors
Jesse Gaither, Two-Year Member of Board of Directors
Sarah Umbreit, Two-Year Member of Board of Directors

Congratulations to all of you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclamation

Special Avenue of Flags Tribute

Tom Novak shared with us what our Avenue of Flags did for the community this week. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Derik Holley is one of the Marines that died in a helicopter crash in California. Avenue of flags paid tribute to a fallen serviceman. At every home on Ridings Blvd in Centerville, flags were placed to honor the fallen hero. Pictures of the display are here.

Today’s Speaker

Scott Langer introduced today’s speaker, Warren Davidson, a U.S. Congressman representing the 8^th district of Ohio. Born and raised in Ohio, he proudly served in the Army for 12 years.

He explained what the reality is when the news describes congress as being on vacation. This really means you are back in you home district and working there instead of Washington D.C.

He recently voted no to the 2232 page omnibus spending bill. It had several wins for our area especially WPAFB, but there too many things he couldn’t agree with, the biggest being the huge yearly budget deficit that keeps growing out of control. Additionally, the bill continued property seizure actions that he believes to be unconstitutional. The bill passed on 3/23/2018, and the year it applies to ends on 9/30/2018 and the process starts all over again.

He fielded many questions from club members. The rest of this article is based on some of the questions and answers.

In discussing the budget deficit, he mentioned that the theory many have is the U.S. is too big to fail. This may be true, but he pointed out that U.S.S.R essentially did go bankrupt. Now the biggest chunk left of the U.S.S.R, Russia, acts like they are still a big player on the world stage, but economically they are no where near their former place in the world. Unfortunately, they still have a lot of arms. We borrow over a trillion per year. That is more than the 700 Billion the military uses each year. It bothers him that we borrow more than we spend to protect ourselves – if we lost this ability to borrow from essentially enemies how will we defend ourselves?

He hopes someday as a country we find a unified policy on Iran or we’ll be in for another 4 to 5 trillion dollar war.

The Parkland shooting was mentioned. He said that we should govern by law not by emotion. His take on gun control and the second amendment is this: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights do not grant us rights. We inherently have rights. These documents are there to protect our rights. He thinks laws passed to help with school security should be created at a very local level, not even counties should dictate to their entire population, let alone the state. The federal government is providing grants to schools to assist with security. Six states have enacted red flag laws and that seems to help some in being proactive.

https://davidson.house.gov/

The entirety of the spending bill can be read here.

Today’s Guests

Guest	Guest Of
Judge Erik Blaine	Judge Jim Long
Warren Davidson	Speaker
Adam Hewitt	Speaker’s Guest
Jeffrey Schiavone	Charley Goodwin
Kal Tinka	Bob Collins

Birthdays

Member	Birthday
Steve Kohls	April 12
Rick Talda	April 13
Anne Kessler	April 15
Carol Burkman	April 16
Ellie Parker	April 16

Membership Anniversaries

Member	Month	Day	Joined	# Years
Ron Tinnerman	April	11	04/11/2005	13
Blanca Ortiz	April	16	04/16/2014	4
Joe Soucy	April	16	04/16/2014	4
Tzuling Kuo	April	16	04/16/2014	4

New Member Readings and Inductions

Name	Sponsor	1st 2nd 3rd Reading or Induction
Cheryl Probst	Christine Balsan	3rd Reading
Andrew Cain	Stan Fronzaglia	3rd Reading

Sergeants at Arms

Member	Infraction
Stan Fronzaglia	Told Mom at Easter Egg Hunt that 21 month old was too young.
Greg Griffin	Easter Egg Hunt minimum age requirement needs adjustment.
Pat Behn	Easter Egg Hunt minimum age requirement needs adjustment.
David Ladd	Washed car – now it looks like it will rain.

Happy Bucks!

Member	Reason
Mike Brubaker	Celebrating 40th Anniversary with his wonderful wife Sue Brubaker.
Greg Fay	Daughter receiving her Masters Degree
Julie Noeth	Happy that her friend Judge Erik Blaine came as a guest
Dan Beck	Kids moving back home
John Madden	25th Wedding anniversary to Mary Madden, he only paid 50 cents [of the Happy Buck] – Mary has to pay the other 50 cents since they share everything!
Beth Duncan	Happy she is still a member after her quarterly payment didn’t go through because she didn’t update her credit card information with the club.
Jean Pummill	Niece is part of Notre Dame Basketball Team that won the NCAA championship and their coach was named coach of the year.
Paul Stull	Amazed that Larry Lynde actually wanted to sit with him at lunch today.
Stan Franzaglia	21 month old child was not turned away from the Easter Egg Hunt.