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LUV YOUR MUM ISSUE MAY 13, 2023
VOL. 3 NO. 36
RHS RYLA & SCHOLARSHIP STUDENTS
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
On Thursday ScottL shared some of his experiences with families trying to arrange the burial of a loved one without specific instructions from the deceased. It's problematic. He urged everyone to make sure your wishes have been clearly shared with family members. Better yet, put them in writing. LeonardB added that everyone should have both health care and property Power of Attorney documents available to help guide your end of life journey.
First to arrive included AllenH, RodC and MarkV.Followed by a long pause before LoriP arrived at 11:52.
LoriP has your Baseball Mania tickets. Pickup your 10 pack today or give Lori $100 and she will put your name on 10 lucky tickets.
See your recent emails about registering for our Installation Dinner on June 22nd and the Rotary Day at the Ballpark on July 29th.
Congrats to CherylM on 10 years of Rotary service.
In Prez Robin's absence, RodneyD was the designated bell ringer.
Be careful wearing a cap around AllenH.
Anyone beside WendellR remember Carol's Drive-In in Wood River?
Among the last to arrive-PaulH, ScottL and ChrisH. Special recognition to LeonardB for his pre-noon arrival (11:59).
If bear or turkey hunting and/or mushrooming are in your future, ChrisH can offer sage advice.
19 members dined on meaty loaf, steak fries, rolls, salad and roll cake.
SAA LeonardB accepted Happy Fines from JohnP and BillP. We had a Rotary Magazine quiz. The results were mixed.
In an effort to improve his distance off the tee and his wicked slice MarkA had shoulder surgery on Thursday. Here's hopin' for a fast recovery.
LoriP was recognized by JohnP for being our lone female Rotarian attending Thursday's meeting. She was also given a shout-out by TylerL for an recent park assist.
SAA LeonardB recruited RodneyD as the lugmeister. MarkV paid a significant scooter fine. After sharing some thoughts about his recent DC museums tour Leonard assessed a just-because fine on everyone.
Opening duties were handled by RodneyD and JohnP.
Congrats to BradP on his big 50-50 win a few weeks back. On Thursday PaulH and CoryG failed to find the joker. ScottL pulled his ticket for the scratch-off. By the way, all three were seated at the same table.
Ciao! Have a fine and dry weekend.
Au revoir!
PICK A DECK, ANY DECK
ANOTHER GREAT RYLA WEEKEND
POST-MEETING BRAIN PICKING
ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot recently died at age 84. which of these wasn't one of his songs?
A-"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
B-"Ig You Could Read my Mind"
C-"Early Morning Rain"
D-"Sunup"
(Answer is found near the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Frog Jumping Day
What is the smallest country in Central America?
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Belize
El Salvador
El Salvador is not only the smallest of the seven Central American nations, but also the most densely populated. The country, which borders the Pacific Ocean, is roughly 8,124 square miles in size, slightly smaller than Belize, the second smallest Central American country.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
Early-May 2013
The WR club program was presented by long time Telegraph reporter Andy Yakstis. The EA club heard about the soon to be shuttered Mississippi Valley Christian School.
The WR Installation of Officers Banquet was slated to be held at Belk Park with Chef Bob, the "KIng of Gravy" doing the catering.
ChrisH and MarkV assisted with opening duties.
JohnP was revamping the WR club website.
ErinP introduced the EA-WR scholarship students to fellow EA members. Everyone dined on Julia's fried yardbird.
Anniversary best-wishes were offered to Jean and SteveK and Henry and DoloresS.
LoriP was spied sporting ho-down boots and a WR make-up.
TommieM had the opportunity to win the $185 jackpot. Didn't happen.
Who can name all the kids from the Brady Bunch TV show? ErinP!
PaulG paid a Happy Fine.
It was last call at the EA club for Business of the Year nominations.
DaveA was the meeting greeter and PattiA the program chair.
NEW WORDS
Words that were listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary for the first time in
By Haresh Ramchandani, Rotary Club of LIFE, Montego Bay, Jamaica
Since I joined Rotary in 1997, we’ve had many presidential themes. There’s a new one every year, and they all focus on one or more aspects of our core values: service, fellowship, integrity, diversity, and leadership. But I would like to spotlight just one of those values – leadership – because I think it’s the most important and sometimes gets overlooked. It is by developing leaders that we change the world.
Author John Maxwell said:
“The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders, and continually develops them.”
In Rotary, we often focus on service. And service is important. But I have often wondered why leadership gets less billing. Around the world, organizations find leadership to be an elusive target.
After studying a lot of books on leadership and experiencing it firsthand, I think I have a better understanding of why that is. I believe it’s because leadership is hard to measure and quantify, so people feel it doesn’t work. We focus on areas we can measure.
Take service: What’s the impact? How many people will benefit? Is it sustainable? – All these are measurable.
Or fellowship: How many people showed up? Did they have a good time? Again – measurable.
But just because something is harder to measure doesn’t mean it’s not effective or isn’t working. To continue reading, link herehttps://tinyurl.com/2unazzh8
AND I QUOTE
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”- Ernest Holmes
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”- Kahlil Gibran
"I cannot give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.”-Herbert B. Swope
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't spent the night with a mosquito.” ~ African proverb
SMILE
What do you call a reluctant potato? A hesitater.
The Institute of Unfinished Research has concluded that 6 out of 10 people
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
What does the farmer say to his cows at night? it's pasture bedtime.
What did the buffalo say when when his son left for college? Bison.
BY THE NUMBERS
70% of Americans aged 18 to 29 said they read print books,42% read e-books-Pew
U.S. Construction spending related to manufacturing reached $108 billion in 2022-U.S. Census Bureau
In the 12 months through February, a monthly 406,000 workers were absent on average due to paid or unpaid parental leave, up 13.5% from 2021-U.S.Department of Labor
The U.S. consumer-price index for vehicle maintenance and repair rose 12.5% from a year earlier in February- Bureau of Labor Statistics
Since the start of the year, sales of prepared meals at grocery stores are more than 30% higher than 2019’s level-Circana Group LP
In 2021 the annual marriage rate was 28 marriages per 1000 unmarried people, down from 76.5 in 1965
(Trivia answer-D)
ROTARY'S AREAS OF FOCUS
These have been identified to help build international relationships, improve lives and create a better world to support our peace efforts and end polio forever
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