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WINTER'S WRATH ISSUE
JANUARY 12, 2019
NEWS,NOTES & NONSENSE
PAUL UPSELLS OUR NEXT ROTARIAN
Pastor Andrew was drafted by Allen to spend a few minutes talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Andrew believes that the discovery of the Scrolls in 1947 went a long way to quieting the skeptics who questioned the accuracy of the bible.
It was nice to have Pat and Ty back in the house. Pat has been taking care of his wife while she was recovering from pneumonia. Ty has recently changed positions with Chestnut.
The sign-up sheet for the basketball tournament on February 2nd is now circulating. Shifts are 7:30-12:30 or noon-close. Teams are still needed. Chris is looking for 5th and 6th grade girls and boys squads. There's a $50 entry fee.
Disco Bingo is scheduled for March 23rd. You recently received an email that had an event flyer attached. Please print and post and/or share via your social media stream. Only 300 tickets will be sold.
Julia's is still in deconstruction mode. A related kitchen snafu forced us to have a pizza party for lunch. Pies were accompanied by garlic bread, salad, colorful cupcakes and cookies.
The first of 20 members to arrive were Allen, Pat, Virgil and Bill. Randy, Patty, ChrisH and Paul were in the house before the pizza ran out.
After the meeting on January 31st we will head to the new ice cream shop for tasty treats. Wendell wants to know if anyone else remembers the Quality Dairy in East Alton?
In addition to Andrew, our other guests included potential member Alex and Tommie from Wood River. Alex is on the staff of the Growth Association.
Are you really ready for a song and dance routine from Randy and ChrisL? Yea, I thought so...
Not with us on Thursday: MarkA, Rhonda, Rod, Matt, Erin, DaveS, Sandy, MarkS, Dick, Sherry, MarkV and Jamie.
SAA Queenie drafted Randy to collect the $$ and collect he did! Not here last week? Pay a $. Did your phone ring during the meeting? Pay a $. Did you not bring a guest? Pay a $. How about these trivia topics-Cocker Spaniels, answering machines and the film Full Metal Jacket. We got 1 out of 3.
ChrisL was nominated to serve as our Prez during the 2020-21 Rotary year. He was elected by acclimation. Thanks for stepping up! For reasons hard to fathom, ChrisH and Bill could't be convinced to give it a go a second time.
Opening duties were performed by ChrisH, Bill and Dave. Considering we had neither a U.S. flag or the 4-way banner, we did a pretty good job.
The $19 50-50 jackpot was unclaimed by Lori and BradP. Did Randy win anything with the scratch-off?
That's all from here, have a fine and dry weekend. (Not going to happen) Ciao!
WHEN PATTY SPEAKS, BILL LISTENS
TRIVIA
In Australia, the Canberra suburb of Bonython is the site of some of the most advanced testing in the world which home-delivery technology?
A-Kangaroos
B-Drones
C-Robotic golf carts
D-Solar-powered scooters
January 12 is National Curried Chicken Day
More than 26% of mortgage borrowers who use FHA insured loans got assistance from a relative to make the down payment in the 12 months through September 2018, up from about 22% in 2011. The credit score of the average borrower declined to 670, the lowest level since 2008-Federal Housing Administration
Four years ago consumers upgraded phones every 24.4 months. During the last quarter of 2018 that number increased to 36 months-BayStreet research
Consumers on average owed $6,826 on their credit cards as of September, up 1.9% from a year before and up 11% from 2011-Experian
7 out of 10 cyberattacks start with a phishing email-McAfee Security
Of the 100 top-grossing movies released in 2017, only 10 were produced in California. 20 were filmed in Canada, 15 apiece in the U.K. and Georgia-Film LA
Origins:slipshod-The first slipshod people were men in the 16th century who walked the streets in slipshoes, a kind of loose slipper. Such men, slopping along shod in their slipshoes, were considered uncouth by respectable people, who soon coined the word slipshod for them, slipshod ultimately applying to anything done in a sloppy way.
What is the most visited paid monument in the world?
La Sagrada Familia
Stonehenge
Colosseum
Eiffel Tower
If you can’t imagine a world without the Eiffel Tower, you’re not alone. Every year, over 7 million people climb to the top of the iconic monument to take in the views of the City of Love. And all those people, come at a price. $544 billion worth to be exact. That’s how much the tower is worth to the French economy, taking up almost a fifth of the country’s GDP. Coming in a not-so-close second, Rome’s Colosseum is still worth a whopping $114 billion.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
JANUARY 13, 2011
Current member(s) in a leadership position: Prez ChrisH, Dave, Lori, Cory, Paul, Rhonda, Rod and Rick
The program presenter was David Craig, a member of the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
24 members and guests were in the house for our first meeting at Julia's. No word if Rotary g-beans were on the buffet along with the roast beast and mac 'n cheese
It seems as though Rhonda and Cory headed to the Keasler Rec Center instead
Nominations were sought for President-Elect and Treasurer. Cory accepted the "Treasurer For Life" designation
Dave briefed us on the upcoming Lawn and Garden Show
Do you remember Eric Barger?
JULY 2010
DATELINE:RI
ROTARACT CLUB CREATES COMMUNITY
By Evelyn Aaron, Communication Director, Rotaract Club of Canal Fulton, Ohio, USA
If you ask any one of the members of the Canal Fulton Rotary Club why they joined, they will tell you it’s the sense of community that binds us all together. Many of us have spent significant portions of our lives in the greater Canal Fulton area, and we want to provide our children and our town with the same helping hands that we have been offered our entire lives.
Canal Fulton’s Rotary Club is tirelessly active in our community. The annual Mother of All Races event, held on Mother’s Day weekend, is a huge hit. And they are currently one of the driving forces behind our town’s forthcoming YMCA (just to name a few projects). In the last two years, the Interact Club they sponsor at Northwest High School has grown from 25 to over 60 student members, taking on countless projects every year. While these are strong clubs and major forces in our community, there was a gap to be filled. There was no Rotary-sponsored club for young adults to stay active in the community.
Our Rotaract Club quickly grew from the one person who started the group to the five people she contacted and met with in just days, to the 15 friends that came to our first meeting. That base of people has encouraged new people to join as members or simply take part in our service projects. To continue reading link herehttps://bit.ly/2TEPBd9
AND I QUOTE
"Success is relative: It is what we make of the mess we have made of things."-T.S. Eliot
"Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid."-Marie Colvin
"Nothing makes me more nervous than people who say, 'it can't happen here.' Anything can happen anywhere, given the right circumstances."-Margaret Atwood
"Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months."-Oscar Wilde
SMILE
Advertisement in a Long Island shop: "Guitar for sale. Cheap. No strings attached."
Ad in hospital waiting room: "Smoking Helps You Lose Weight - One Lung at a Time!"
On a bulletin board: "Success Is Relative. The more the Success, the more the Relatives."
My grandfather is 80 and still doesn't need glasses. He drinks straight out of the bottle.
You know your kids have grown up when your daughter begins to put on lipstick, or when your son starts to wipe it off.
Sign in a bar: "Those of you who are drinking to forget, please pay in advance."
Sign in driving school: "If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way."
Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman.
The reason men lie is because women ask too many questions.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is the fact that it has never tried to contact us.
Sign in a barbers' saloon: "We need your heads to run our business."
Sign in a restaurant: "All drinking water in this establishment has been personally passed by the manager."
THE BOTTOM LINE
A 7-year-old who reviews toys is the highest-paid YouTube star, earning $22 million last year. Ryan, of RyanToysReview, has garnered 26 billion views and 17.3 billion followers since his parents set up his channel in 2015. Nearly all the money is generated from ads shown before the videos, which he posts nearly every day-Forbes
Starkist, Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea still command 80% of canned tuna sales, consumption of which has dropped 42% over the past 30 years-The Wall Street Journal
Facebook remains one of the country's best places to work, but the scandals have taken a toll. In Glassdoor's annual employee survey, it fell to seventh in 2018. Google came in eighth. Apple was 71st, up from 84th in 2017-Azios.com
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