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MOM'S DAY ISSUE MAY 11, 2024
VOL. 4 NO.29
THAT'S A WINNER!
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
On Thursday we heard an energetic presentation from the East Alton Library Director, Jeremy Staicoff. He's an SIUE graduate and was appointed as Director in early 2022. Jeremy spent a few minutes reviewing all the programs that the library offers for both children and adults. Need video games, garden seeds, books delivered or WiFi devices? The library can help. The children's summer reading program starts on June 15th. There's also an adult version. All programs and events are free of charge.
Our Color Run is scheduled for June 1st @ Belk. We still need sponsors and runners. Runners can register @ Belk on the 1st. Registration opens @ 8AM with racing starting @ 9AM. Please share the particulars with everyone in your social media circle of friends, family and co-workers. Details are below. You can sign-up via the QR code or http://RotaryColorRun.com
Early arrivals included AllenH, RobinK and LoriP.
Mae and Issac, two EA-WR students, joined us for lunch. Both are members of the Riverbend Growth Association Young Adults Committee, which will be our program topic this Thursday. Mae also attended the recent RYLA event and called her experience "amazing".
It seems as though everyone has an opinion about what's wrong with the Cardinals. Care to weigh in?
Congrats to CherylM on her 11 years of club service.
For the second week in a row MikeK was the last to arrive @12:14 (at the same time!). LeonardB, GeorgeM and ChrisH arrived prior.
The SRI (slide right in) crowd was well represented.-MarkA, PaulH, JohnP, ChrisH, LeonardB and MIkeK.
Opening duties were handled by MarkSm, AllenH and JohnP.
17 members dined on roast beast, Rotary g-beans, rolls, salad and cuppies.
While SAA PattiA was off exploring the Costa Rican jungle, MikeK was busy finding the joker and claiming the $396 jackpot. Congrats to him! Mike then donated his winnings to the East Alton library. Bravo! A new deck is in order.
RBGA YOUNG ADULTS AND RYLA
GEORGE COUNTS, MIKE GETS TAX ADVICE FROM CORY
THE PROGRAM TABLE
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ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
Something in baseball is nearing extinction. What is it?
A-Umpires
B-Autographs
C-Switch-hitting
D-Starting pitchers
(Answer is found near the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Miniature Golf Day
What does a barometer measure?
Ultraviolet radiation
Rainfall
Atmospheric pressure
Temperature
A barometer is an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure. Changes in atmospheric pressure can have big implications for predicting the weather. Atmospheric pressure is measured in units called atmospheres (atm) or bars. The number of atm drops as altitude increases, and rises as altitude decreases.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
May 2011
The WR club heard a presentation about the Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation.
Current members serving as officers include-ScottL, ChrisH, LoriP, GeorgeM, GeorgeT and CoryG.
Scholarship students from EAWR HS broke bread with the EA members. RHS Junior Rotarians Brendan St. Peters and Kimberly Slaughter visited the WR meeting.
LoriP had gone missing, ErinP was found.
On the schedule for the WR club was a blood drive, Applebee's Dine to Donate and a social evening at Castelli's.
The $775 Queen of Hearts jackpot was unclaimed. Rose Sebastian found the joker and won the $65 jackpot.
JeanK served as the meeting greeter. ScottL introduced visitors.
MarkSp served as the treasurer in CoryG's absence.
Business of the Year nominations were being accepted by Rhonda Breslin.
JoeS was not wearing a suit, so he must not be presenting the program.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
DATELINE:RI
Rotary’s Give Every Child a Future program vaccinates 100,000 young people
The island countries of the South Pacific are tropically warm, economically diverse, and really, really far apart. In this region, which spans millions of square miles, even individual countries’ islands are scattered across vast distances. Public health workers face unique challenges in vaccinating the islands’ children.
“It’s hard to transport vaccines to the outer islands because of the distance and transport availability. Sometimes they have to wait one to three months to get a boat across,” says Rufina Tutai, who oversees immunizations for the Cook Islands. The 15 islands in her jurisdiction are spread over nearly 2 million square kilometers (770,000 square miles).
“Flights are expensive to charter, and we’re lucky if a flight can go to the outer islands in less than two weeks,” she adds.
Such obstacles didn’t deter the Rotarians of Australia, New Zealand, and several Pacific Island countries from organizing a major vaccination program in the islands. Called Give Every Child a Future, the effort – which celebrates 100 years of Rotary in the region – is providing three new vaccines to 100,000 children in nine Pacific Island groups: the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
“Public health programs in the developing world are some of the most effective forms of assistance we can provide. The payback is just enormous,” says James Allen, a member of the Rotary Club of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and the project’s director. “We agreed that the Pacific was the area we wanted to focus on because it was in both New Zealand’s and Australia’s backyards.”
Give Every Child a Future took about eight years to develop. At first, the Rotary members knew only that they wanted to raise enough money to have a major impact on childhood health – more than US$1 million. Their goal didn’t crystallize until they found a partner capable of helping them carry out the kind of effort they dreamed of. UNICEF, which has frequently worked with Rotary, was the ideal partner. At first, though, UNICEF officials weren’t certain the Rotary members could fund a comprehensive intervention. To continue reading, link herehttps://rb.gy/gucz80
AND I QUOTE
"Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures."-Vincent van Gogh
"I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance."-Michael Ruhlman
"Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it's good to be silly at the right moment."-Horace
"If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it … If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe."-Paul Bocuse
SMILE
I have a Polish friend who's a sound technician. Oh, and a Czech one too. Czech one too. Czech one too.
A woman walks into a library and asked if they had any books about paranoia.
Librarian: "They're right behind you!!".
What happened to the man running in front of the car?He was tired. What happened to the man running behind the car? He was exhausted.
The other day, my wife asked me to pass her lipstick but I accidentally passed her a glue stick. She still isn't talking to me.
Why don't ants get sick? Because they have little antybodies.
What's the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One is really heavy, and the other is a little lighter.
BY THE NUMBERS
Consumers bought groceries from an average of 20.7 different retailers between March 2023 and February 2024 according to data firm Numerator, up 23% from the same months between 2019 and 2020
More than $84 trillion in wealth has been, or is set to be, transferred by estates big and small between 2021 and 2045-Cerulli Associates
The share of cars that are 10 or more years old climbed from 16.9% in 1977 to 44.2% in 2022-Federal Highway Administration
In 2023, 32% of companies surveyed said they offered backup child care, up from 26% in 2019-Society for Human Resource Management
Chinese-made products accounted for 13.9% of U.S. goods imports last year, down from 21.5% in 2015-Census Bureau data
A simple ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence request uses nearly 10 times more electricity than a regular Google search. AI data centers could consume up to 25% of America’s power by 2030, compared with 4% today-International Energy Agency
(Trivia answer C)
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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