Dunwoody Kiwanis Club

Congrats to Addie and Trey for being selected into Georgia Kiwanis Leadership positions!

Trey as Lt. Governor for Division 14 and Addie for Chairman of the Past Lt. Gov. Association.!

Members of the Dunwoody Kiwanis Club have formally challenged members of the Dunwoody High School Key Club to a game of Dodge Ball.

The truth will be settled on the court as the experience and wisdom of the Kiwanis Club will defeat the inexperience and youth of the Key Club.

Let the games begin.

Congressman Tom Price has rapidly emerged as a leader in Georgia, diligent and tireless worker, and problem solver. Colleagues in the Georgia Senate twice elected Price as their Minority Whip and in 2002 as the first Republican Majority Leader in the history of Georgia. In August of 2004, Tom Price won the Republican nomination for Congress in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District, comprised of Cherokee, Cobb, and Fulton counties. Price was elected without opposition in November of 2004.
In Congress, Price's priorities are reforming the tax system, strengthening healthcare and education, bringing common sense to the litigation system, and finding transportation solutions for Atlanta's residents and commuters. Price is currently working to eliminate the capital gains tax, enact the FairTax plan, and secure the future of Medicare. Tom Price favors allowing individual states the autonomy to improve their schools and end burdensome regulation. Price serves on the Committee on Financial Services, as well as the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Congressman Price was appointed as freshman member to the Whip Organization by Majority Whip Roy Blunt as Deputy Assistant Whip. In addition to this leadership position, Price also serves on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Executive Board.
As a medical doctor, Congressman Price is a leader in the healthcare arena. His credits include legislative efforts to increase patient choice in a more flexible healthcare system, to enact Medical Savings Accounts, and to reform the Medicaid System in Georgia. Congressman Price has been the leading sponsor of civil justice reform legislation to ensure patient access to quality health care and bring down skyrocketing medical malpractice premiums. Other legislative successes include primary co-sponsorship of Georgia's Greenspace Program, reducing income taxes for senior citizens, improving employee screening in childcare facilities and strengthening laws against internet child predators.
Congressman Price received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Michigan and completed his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Emory University. Price established an orthopaedic clinic just north of Atlanta. After nearly twenty years of private practice he returned to Emory University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor. Price was most recently Medical Director of the Orthopaedic Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, teaching resident doctors in training.
Price is active in his community, is a past President of the Roswell Rotary Club and has service on Boards of the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, Orchestra Atlanta, the Arthritis Foundation, the North Metro YMCA, and the Northside Bank. Congressman Price with his wife, Elizabeth, and son, Robert, reside in Roswell. The Prices are members of the Georgia Ensemble Theater, the Fulton County Taxpayer's Association, the Chattahoochee Nature Center, and active members of Roswell Presbyterian Church.

Deputy Consul General Aviv Ezra began his current diplomatic assignment in the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast in the summer of 2002 as the second-highest ranking diplomat in the region. Ezra was previously assigned to the Department of Israel-Middle East Economic Development in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He worked to enhance the economic relationships between Israel and its neighboring countries, including Egypt, Jordan, and Mauritania.

In August 2000, Ezra was stationed in Cairo, Egypt as the head of the Economic and Trade Affairs Division at the Embassy of Israel where he focused on the practical angle of the economic and commercial relationships between Israel and Egypt, especially in the areas of agrotechnology and energy, among other issues.During his tenure he was a member of the Israel-Egypt Joint Agricultural Committee.

Mr. Ezra was born in Israel, in the coastal city of Ashkelon. He completed his military service in the Israel Defense Forces, serving as an officer, and then received his Bachelors Degree in Economics and Political Science from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He then worked in the advertising field as a Deputy Managing Director for a private company before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a cadet.

Mr. Ezra is a newly wed, marrying Einat Harel in September 2003.

Biographical Outline: Steve Owings

- Native of Augusta, Georgia
- Graduate of Richmond Academy
- BBA from University of Georgia
- Worked in Corporate America for 20 years in numerous roles of ever-increasing responsibility, mainly in Atlanta
- Resigned from senior management position in 1997 to pursue entrepreneurial career in financial services industry
- Joined the Goodwin Agency of the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
- Attained CLU, ChFC and CFP credentials faster than anyone ever at the firm
- Was voted the agent of the year by his peers in 2003
- Following the tragic loss of their beloved son, Cullum, in a crash with a tractor trailer, Steve and his wife, Susan, along with their surviving son, Pierce, founded Road Safe America
- This non profit organization is dedicated to reducing the number of collisions between big trucks and passenger vehicles

Spark Plug has given the keynote presentations for many Fortune 500 companies such as Georgia Power Company, government agencies, leadership conferences, managers' meetings, CEO meetings, sales meetings or any other meeting where the topic of leadership is discussed.

Spark Plug was raised in a poor family with a father who physically abused his mother. His presentations on overcoming the odds and building a successful business and leadership strategies are filled with entertaining and unforgettable personal stories about perseverance. Spark is often heralded as the highlight of meetings and conferences.

“The Spark Plug” has sold everything from pots and pans from the trunk of his car to advertising. While working for a sporting goods organization, the president, John Smith, was so impressed with his sales ability, energy and enthusiasm that he bestowed upon him the moniker, “Spark Plug”. After being named top sales person numerous times, he began his own advertising business where he found great financial success. Public speaking is his love. When you see him, you’ll feel it.
Spark Plug is the human spark plug for ACDelco, the largest automotive spark plug maker, a distinguished graduate of Mercer University, a volunteer for the American Lung Association, Habitat for Humanity, and American Red Cross. He also serves as a mentor to an elementary school student at East Fayette and is the recipient of Atlanta’s prestigious Phoenix Award for community service. He’s a humanitarian, entrepreneur, U.S. Navy veteran, tennis player, snow skier, biking enthusiast, art collector, author of two books, photographer, and publisher.

Kudos to the Dunwoody High School Key Club and Division 14 Kiwanis Members for an excellant presentation in the 2005 Dunwoody 4th of July Parade.

Established in 1986, Friends of Disabled Adults and Children (FODAC) exists to provide medical equipment to disabled people in the metro Atlanta area who could not otherwise afford it (we cannot ship items--sorry!). Thousands have been helped by the ministry which was started in the home of Ed and Annie Butchart. The Butcharts now have an advisory role in the ministry. Chris Brand oversees the day-to-day operation as Executive Director. The ministry is housed in a 64,000-square foot facility in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Our growth has only been possible because of God's unbelievable blessings. We thank Him for the opportunity He has given us to serve others.