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PROUD TO SERVE ISSUE
NOVEMBER 9, 2019
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
LEONARD'S GETTING "THE SCOOP"
On Thursday Prez Brad coordinated the introductions for the twelve veterans in the house. VA repBrenda Elfgen provided a brief overview of the Whole Health program offered by the VA. Thanks to all who served and/or brought a vet to lunch. On a related note, it was nice seeing MarkV's father, Bill, who was a long-time Postmaster of Bunker Hill.
The East Alton Veterans Day event will be held this Monday (11-11) at 11AM at Veterans Park, located at Main and Shamrock Streets. All are welcome to attend.
22 members co-mingled with our guests to bring the overall head count to 31. Early arrivals included Allen, Darren, Rodney and Rod. Among the post-nooners were Joe, Paul, Sandy and ChrisH."Uncle " Leonard from Wood River was our sole visiting Rotarian.
According to Dave "Nobody kicks ass without taking gas."
Bill began circulating the sign-up sheet for the Christmas Wonderland event on December 10th.
Emily's Highland Bulldogs won last week's playoff game and play round two today. Good luck!
Rodney circulated a flyer promoting the Empty Bowls fund raiser on November 20th. It's co-sponsored by the Metro East Rotary and the SIUE Rotaract clubs. It will be held in the Meridian Ballroom on the SIUE campus from 10:30-1:30PM. 20 local restaurants will be serving soups, salads, sides and dessert. All you can eat for $10.
"Pasta Paradise" was our lunch entree. Mexicorn and baby carrots also found a spot in a chaffing dish. Rolls, salad, cookie, pudding and mixed fruit rounded things out.
It's worth noting that Paul, Dave and former EA Rotarian Mark Kratschmer all served as Presidents of the Growth Association.
The tentative date for the basketball tournament will be January 25th.
Rhonda announced that our Christmas party will be during our December 5th regular noon meeting. Please bring a guest. Fun and games for all! You can respond to Lori's email to confirm attendance.
The Turkey Fund is now at $262. All donations will be given to Operation Blessing to purchase Thanksgiving food items. If you are donating via check, make it payable to Operation Blessing.
We will be ringing bells for the Salvation Army on December 7th from 10AM-8PM at the Wood River Wal Mart.The sign-up sheet is circulating.
Opening duties were performed by Dick, ChrisH and Bill.
Lori announced that our January 30th meeting will be held off premises and hosted by The Refuge program at Riverbend Family Ministries.
Alex announced that he and ChrisL have interviewed the scholarship candidates at EA-WR High School. Roxana is up next.
Time was short, so sub SAA Alex fined everyone for being present.
The $140 +/- rolled after Bill and Dick wiffed. Lori took the scratch-off back to the office.
That's it, have a fine and dry weekend. Ciao!
I'LL TAKE TWO
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SHOP AMAZON AND BENEFIT OUR
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TRIVIA
A recent steakhouse trend is "vaca vieja." What is it all about?
A-Meat aged at least eight years
B-Meat aged at least two years
C-Beef cut from animals slaughtered at an advanced age
D-Senior discounts for diners over 75
Today is National Scrapple Day
St. Peter's Square in Vatican City was designed to look like what?
A key
Open arms
A scepter
A cross
Vatican City is the center of Catholicism and the home of the Pope, but St. Peter’s Square is arguably the key focal point of this city-state. The Piazza San Pietro was designed and built in the 17th century by famed architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini. During his planning, Bernini was determined to build its portico, as he stated, with “an open-armed, maternal welcome to all Catholics.” And the two outstretched prongs of the portico really do extend like open arms, mounted with statues of key figures in the Catholic Church. The Vatican Basilica and Saint Peter’s dome can be seen from miles around the city, so Bernini no doubt achieved the effect he was going for.
On This Date-
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – The mutilated body of Mary Jane Kelly, believed to be the final victim of Jack the Ripper, is discovered in Spitalfields, London, England.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
1998 – A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offenses
FROM THE ARCHIVES
NOVEMBER 16, 2006
Club officials included: BradP, Lori, Allen, Paul, Rod and Rick
MarkV was willing to share a secret with a basketball coach looking for an edge
Pat had a make-up from Florissant
Allen was eagerly awaiting his Girl Scout cookie shipment
Cory and Bob Dannenberg had finalized the selection of our four EA-WR scholarship students
Paul made it to his wedding on time.
Larry Lacher shared some of his experiences from his recent trip to India.
Dick and Rick failed in their attempt to identify the joker
Our Christmas party would be held on December 7th at Martha's Tea Room.
Salvation Army bell ringing was scheduled for December 16th.
Prez Debbie Brazier called for nominations for Prez elect.
A HERZOG FAMILY HOWDY!
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WATER, AN INSTRUMENT FOR PEACE
By Nataliya Chemayeva, Rotary Scholar, Water Cooperation and Diplomacy Program
The Central Asian region has been the focus of global water catastrophes for almost two decades now. No one is indifferent to the problems that we share as a region. There are multiple layers to the problem that have transformed political discourse within the countries and have affected relationships between water experts.
All of this personally was ambiguous to me until I started working for the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea. In my commission, we deal mostly with environmental issues and have some exposure to water-related events. This is what sparked my interest in the topic. I soon developed an understanding that technical solutions alone were not going to bring about desired results without a balanced diplomacy.
When I learned about the Joint Master’s Degree on Water Cooperation and Diplomacy, I recognized that it could teach me the skills that will be necessary to bring innovative water management solutions to my region. So I made the life-changing decision to quit working for a while and go back to school. To continue reading, link herehttps://bit.ly/2WNhRNA
AND I QUOTE
"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer."-Peter Drucker
"Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near."-Helen Rowland
"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."-Thomas Paine
"Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil."-Eric Hoffer
"Dogs have masters, Cats have staff."-Anon
SMILE
According to OpenTheBooks.com here are some taxpayer funded programs:
Testing shrimp on treadmills-$1.3 million
Space Racers: An animated children's cartoon-$2.5 million
Frog mating call study in Panama-$466,991
Meditation breathing mobile app-$687,989
279 interior designers at Veterans Affairs-$67.1 million
Video game for your future-self-$1.4 million
Virtual weight loss game-$228,830
Comedy club holograms-$1.7 million
Cigar taste test-$114,375
Virtual shoe fitting-$902,789
Talking to saguaro cactus-$10,000
BY THE NUMBERS
52% of Americans believe that much of the work now done by humans will probably be performed by robots or computers within the next 30 years-Pew Research
An estimated 6.8 million Americans donate blood each year, about 3% of age-eligible people. (less than 38% of the population is eligible to give blood or platelets)-American Red Cross
By 2025 about 27.6% of warehouses globally will deploy commercial robots, compared to around 3% in 2018-ABI Research
Automobile dealerships made an average of $908 per new vehicle in 2018 on their finance and insurance business vs the $420 they earned off the actual vehicle sale-J.D. Power.
Of the 25,000 students who earned a personal-trainer certification through the International Sports Sciences Association last year, 10% were more than 40 years old and 5% were over 50. Five years ago, the number of students in that age range was “almost zero,”
The average American spends 51 minutes a day in a car-AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
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A HERZOG FAMILY HOWDY!
