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PHASE 4 ISSUE
JULY 18, 2019
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
VIRTUAL FRIES
MarkA was the first to arrive with an amusing tale about nine dozen "personalized" golf balls.
Dick finally surfaced after a long winter hibernation in Florida.
Joe pointed out that there is a direct correlation between water line flushing and paying delinquent water bills.
Everyone did a smashing job of social distancing.
Paul arrived @ 12:16, last in.
Joe wanted to know how you harvest corn that's been blown over by high winds?
Prez Chris indicated that we may rotate between JJ"s and Mr. Pancho's until Julia's is up and running.
MarkA is heading off for his hot springs/Rocky Mountain High family adventure.
BradP is off to enjoy the white beaches of the Florida panhandle with his family.
If you see Joe's doctor let him/her know that he had spinach for lunch.
BradL was the official dine-'n-dasher.
MarkA wasn't sure what he ordered, but he enjoyed it.
ChrisH and Alex joined us via Zoom.
That's it, have a fine and dry weekend and stay safe. Ciao!
PROPER SPACING, ALWAYS!
TRIVIA
What does Walgreens plan to add to hundreds of its drugstores?
A-Registered nurses
B-Doctor's offices
C-Cannabis dispensaries
D-Lens grinders
Today is National Sour Candy Day
What was the original name of Vaseline?
Balm-O-Mighty
Dr. Robert’s Terrific Ointment
Wonder Jelly
Handy Healing Salve
When the product we now know as Vaseline debuted in 1870, it was called Wonder Jelly. Chemist Robert Chesebrough first got the idea for the item after noticing that oil workers in Titusville, Pennsylvania, were using a drilling byproduct on their burned or irritated skin. He began to study the byproduct, which was known as "rod wax," and realized he could refine and purify it into a lighter and more transparent substance. Afterward, he reportedly traveled around New York promoting Wonder Jelly by burning his skin (using acid or an open flame) and then immediately applying his new ointment. A couple of years later, he changed the name to Vaseline, a supposed combination of the German word for water, "wasser," and the Greek word for oil, "oleon."
On This Date-
1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
1936 – On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'etat starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
1942 – The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
1966 - Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1992 – A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
JULY 31, 2008
Current members serving in an official capacity-Lori, Cory, ChrisH, Rod, Dave and Rick
Two Rotarians from a club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa spoke to us about the devastating flooding that impacted their city in June.
The Rotary Banner returned after a nine week layoff.
Erin will be assisting Charlie Kunz with our scholarship program. She noted that her uncle made the final table in the World Series of Poker.
Paul is chairing the scholarship golf tournament Scheduled for Rolling Hills on September 19th.
Our foundation board will be meeting to make a decision about proposed changes to the scholarship program.
Rotary state of Illinois license plates are now available.
Do you remember Kevin Stuby?
APRIL 2014
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DATELINE:RI
Meet the 2020-21 Rotary President
Holger Knaack, a member of the Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Germany, began his year as Rotary International president 1 July. Knaack is an atypical Rotary president, and not just because he wears jeans and eschews ties much of the time. He’s the organization’s first German president, and came to that position in untraditional fashion. To read Holger's bio, link here https://www.rotary.org/en/young-heart
.AND I QUOTE
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."-Socrates
"Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth."-Kaylan Pickford
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."-Nicholas Sparks
"Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper."-Scottish proverb
SMILE
I changed my iPod's name to Titanic. It's syncing now.
England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.
This girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I'd swear I've never met herbivore.
I know a guy who's addicted to drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.
When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.
I got some batteries that were given out free of charge.
A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
A will is a dead giveaway.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Police were summoned to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He's all right now.
A bicycle can't stand alone; it's just two tired.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week is now fully recovered.
He had a photographic memory but it was never fully developed.
When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
Acupuncture is a jab well done. That's the point of it.
I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.
Did you hear about the crossed-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
When chemists die, they barium.
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.
Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end.
BY THE NUMBERS
Online grocery sales rose 65% to $6.6 billion in May from March. About 43 million customers shopped online in May, up from 39.5 million in March-Brick Meets Click
There are about 73.5 million children in the U.S. under age 18 and about 70% live with two parents-Census Bureau
In a May survey of cruise travelers 85% said they are likely to cruise again, 62% said they will cruise just as often in the future and more than half said they expect to cruise in the next 18 months-USB
The U.S. home ownership rate for those born in the 70’s is 52%, it’s 61% for those born in the 50’s and 63% for those born in the 60’s-John Burns Real Estate Consulting
PROPER SPACING, ALWAYS!
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