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MEMORIAL ISSUE MAY 27, 2023
VOL. 3 NO. 38
WHAT DID OUR BOARD DECIDE?
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
On Thursday RickH presented a slide show about his recent trip to Ireland/Northern Ireland. The Irish love folks from the U.S. A bit of trivia-it's estimated that the population of Ireland is still fewer than before the potato famine of the late 1840's.
First to arrive included LoriP, RodC and AllenH.
LoriP has your Baseball Mania tickets. As of Thursday, she still had 12 packs of tickets looking for a home. Please adopt one.
Don't forget about registering for our Installation Dinner on June 22nd.
Everyone was in the house by 12:07, impressive. PaulH, MarioS and TylerL were among the last to arrive.
April Board of Directors minutes have been posted in the "documents" section of our web site.
23 members (our best attendance since Groundhog Day) dined on Asiago chicken pasta, Rotary g-beans, garlic bread, Caesar salad and cake. We do need some clarity about the dessert forks (diet?) and pink napkins (from Mothers Day?).
It's seems JohnP had developed a bad elbow by throwing peanut shells at his TV while watching his Cubbies play.
BradL was spotted scooting extra early.
The following members will be celebrating their service anniversaries on June 1st-BarbO-5,TyB-6, DarrenC-17, ScottL-32 and MarkS-49.
Looking for something new in dining this holiday weekend? PattiA suggests Food Affair in Eastgate. MarkSm like the Burger Bar on Ferguson.
RickH served as the sub-SAA and invited PattiA to serve as the designated lugmeister. Happy Fines were paid by MarkSm-Cali dreaming, RodneyD-wedding anniversary and MarkA-surgery recovery. Trivia topics included the local census, a hidden volcano, an Irish harp and Clydesdales. correct answers were hard to find. Not traveling out of state(s) this holiday weekend? pay a $.
Opening duties were handled by Prez Robin, MarioS and RodneyD.
RickH managed to pull his and Prez Robin's ticket, neither one found the joker. AllenH won the scratch-off.
Ciao! Have a fine and dry weekend.
Au revoir!
WHERE'S THE JOKER??
CAN YOU FIND THE CARDS SCORE?
ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
An ancient Hebrew Bible known as the Codex Sassoon sold for $38.1 million, the second highest price paid for a historical document. Which text still holds the record?
A-The Magna Carta
B-The U.S. Constitution
C-Leonardo da Vinci's scientific notebook
D-A Taylor Swift concert ticket
(Answer is found near the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Grape Popsicle Day
Where can you visit the original Legoland?
Nagoya, Japan
Carlsbad, California
Windsor, United Kingdom
Billund, Denmark
The LEGO company started manufacturing wooden toys in Billund, Denmark, in 1936, and it’s here where you can still visit the original Legoland theme park. The company — whose name comes from the Danish words “Leg Godt,” meaning “play well” — started selling its plastic “Automatic Binding Bricks” in 1949. During the 1960s, artist Dagny Holm built elaborate landscapes and buildings that welcomed visitors to the Billund factory. Her creative models and the large LEGO train were the main attraction when the first Legoland family park opened there in 1968. The second Legoland park opened in Windsor, England, in 1996, and Legoland California opened in 1999.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
Late-May 2017
PaulH made a presentation to fellow EA members about his recent German concentration camp visit. He also revealed that he just realized that SandyS is SherryT's auntie.
The WR Paul Harris Fellows would be gathering after today's meeting.
MarkS returned from his Minnesota fishing trip with a cooler full of crappie stories.
GeorgeM reported that each club had a net profit of $4,025 from the recent Disco Bingo event.
Early arrivers BiilP and AllenH were among the 25 EA members who dined on BBQ chicken.
Thanks were offered to DaveA for acquiring and installing a Rotary sign outside the church.
JoeS had to shout for his lunch.
DonnaK was researching a new supply source for Rotary banners.
MarkA announced that Habitat for Humanity would be building a house on Lincoln Av in EA.
PattyA was offering a variety of Rotary logo items.
BillP provided an unusually short (especially for a minister) invocation.
PaulG was looking for ideas for a Community Service Award.
DATELINE:RI
ROTARY SAVES LIVES WITH
STOP THE BLEED
By Juliet Altenburg, governor of District 7390 (Pennsylvania, USA), a member of the Rotary Club of Mechanicsburg-North, and executive director of the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation
A10-year-old boy was riding his bicycle down a hill with his friends in 2021 – something he had done many times before – when his fun morning turned tragic. As he entered an intersection, he collided with a car he didn’t see coming. In an instant, he broke both of his arms and had uncontrolled bleeding that could have killed him within four minutes.
Fortunately, the accident happened near a police station where officers quickly called 911. As a team of emergency medical responders headed to the scene, the officers applied tourniquets to each of the boy’s extremities. The EMS team examined the boy and transported him to a local pediatric trauma center, which quickly diagnosed his injuries and surgically corrected them. Weeks later, he was discharged to his family and assigned a team of rehabilitation specialists.
By any standard, this is a heart-warming story of how local police officers, medical responders, and hospital personnel saved a boy’s life. What makes it even more amazing to me is how my Rotary club, my Rotary district, and The Rotary Foundation helped to save him.
In 2019, I invited our local trauma center nurses to my Rotary club meeting to speak on a national awareness campaign administered by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma called STOP THE BLEED.® It was launched as a result of a meeting after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a national team of medical experts discussed how more lives could have been saved. They realized that if teachers and others on the scene had been educated in bleeding control techniques, it could have made a difference.
After the presentation, my club applied for a district grant which allowed us to get a $2,500 match and purchase 300 tourniquets for a local township police station. Those police officers were educated by the local trauma center on their use, and it was those tourniquets that saved the life of the boy in the bicycling accident.
What makes this especially personal for me is the fact that my entire professional career has been dedicated to working in or overseeing trauma centers. In the first part of my career as a nurse, I cared for trauma patients and worked in a leadership role to advance trauma care in my hospital. In my current statewide role, I serve as executive director of an organization that accredits trauma centers in Pennsylvania.
This year as district governor, my vision was to advance partnerships between trauma centers and local Rotary clubs to bring the STOP THE BLEED® campaign to Rotarians and the public. We’ve educated more than 200 people during Rotary club meetings, community health fairs, our district conference, and separate STOP THE BLEED® classes at a local community college. Through all these activities, I’ve come to realize more deeply how combining one’s professional interests with the power of Rotary can provide huge results.
AND I QUOTE
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”-Theodore Roosevelt
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."-George Washington
If you know how, you'll always have a job. if you know why, you'll be the boss.
To finish sooner, take your time.
SMILE
Vagueness is the key to something.
I've just replaced my car engine with a motor from my washing machine. I'm going to take it for a spin later.
I used to be a wrestler. I would get a guy in a headlock and write my name on his forehead. It was my signature move.
I have this weird talent where I can identify what's inside a wrapped present. It's a gift.
I've been diagnosed with a chronic fear of giants. Feefiphobia.
BY THE NUMBERS
The debt of Americans in their 30s has jumped 27% since late 2019 — to more than $3.8 trillion-New York Federal Reserve
A 2022 paper studying automation and job categories, led by economist David Autor, states that “roughly 60% of employment in 2018 is found in job titles that did not exist in 1940
13% of all mortgages originated in 2021 were by people 65 years of age and older (over 1.9 million mortgages)-Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Physical store openings exceeded closings on an annual basis last year for the first time since 2016-Coresight Research
Last year's national average babysitting rate was $22.68 an hour for one child, $25.37 an hour for two and $27.70 an hour for three-UrbanSitter
The number of Gen Zers interested in influencers has dropped 12% since 2020, and the number who take note of what influencers wear has fallen 16% since then-GWI
(Trivia answer-B)
THE OBJECT OF ROTARY
The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
First:The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
Second: High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
Third: The application of the idea of service in each Rotarian's personal business, and community life.
Fourth: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
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