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DON'T BE FOOLED ISSUE
APRIL 1, 2017
NEWS, NOTES & NONSENSE
The program was presented by Cheryl and Ed Maher. They told us all about their 2016 trip to Israel and the Holy Land. The video is posted.
Sandy, Sherry, Mark 1 and Pat represented the early arriving vanguard. Dave, Paul, Bill and Brad 1 were at the rear of the food conga line.
After a pow-wow with Julia's staff, Sherry shared the news that our regular server, Karen, was involved in an auto accident on her way to Julie's. It doesn't sound too serious, but she was going to the ER to get checked out. She wanted to make sure that we were well taken care of.
A perusal of the serving line uncovered BBQ chipped pork, cheezy noodles, Mexicorn, broccoli rice, salad and cake.
Mark 1 has adopted the philosophy of "let there be light!"
Allen has returned from his continuing education adventure. He looked smarter, he really did. almost like he slept at a Holiday Inn Express on Wednesday night.
"Weather maven" Dave, arrived with his smartphone glowing with the impending heavy rain.
Lori promised to distribute Baseball Mania tickets real soon.
Bill reported that we have received a check from Grandpa and his Gang in the amount of $400 for our Winter Wonderland work in December.
Our solo guest was Nate. He was hosted by Fred.
What happened to Sandy's German choco cake? Wendell knows.Then her $$$ disappeared.
Rod and Mark 1 have returned from their snow bird winter assignments to brighten our weekly meetings. All was well in Arizona and Florida.
Wendell's wife Deisy attended her naturalization ceremony this past Wednesday. They then paid a visit to the Social Security office for a records update and to the Post Office to apply for a USA passport. We welcome her as a newly minted citizen of the United States of America.
SAA Bill recruited Sandy as his 'bag lady". Wendell and Brad 1 had announcements. Trivia questions included Rotary Rotaract and John Denver
Roger and Rick took turns drawing cards for the $12 50-50, neither won. Fred took the scratch-off.
That's all from here. Have a fine and dry weekend.
TRIVIA
(The answer can be found at the end of the newsletter)
Lego is closing in on which company as the world's biggest toy-maker when ranked by annual revenue?
A-Ferrari
B-Mattel
C-Hasbro
D-Glock
April 1 is National One Cent Day
Smartphone users have an average of 389 photos on their device (those ages 18-34 average 621 photos).-CVS photo survey of 2,107 adults
APRIL 4, 2007
Current members in a leadership position were: Brad 1, Lori, Allen, Paul, Rod and Rick
The program was presented by the new East Alton School Superintendent Virgil Moore
Wendell shared a slogan he had seen on a trash hauling vehicle in St. Martin, "We haul what our competitors talk"
Mark 2 announced that child #5 is on the way
Our baseball road trip to Marion was scheduled for June 24th
Lori distributed Baseball Mania tickets
The Roxana High School scholarship students would be attending our next meeting
We were looking for someone to chair the golf event. Joe would serve as "advisor"
Bethalto club member Ken told us that they were selling trees as a fundraiser. To date, they have sold 63 trees with a net of $1000
Do you remember Bob Dannenberg?
DATELINE:RI
Visiting water-deprived communities in western Ghana
By Nana Konduah Dickye, Rotary Club of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
On 12 November, I led a three-member team to visit seven communities my Rotary club is responsible for as part of the multi-year Rotary-USAID International H2O Collaboration in Ghana. The aim of the collaboration is to provide water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure and advocacy to deprived communities.
The total journey to these seven communities – Akwaso, Samfifire, Amoada, Kyeikrom, Nkakaa, Bonuama and Anyabream – began at Takoradi and covered a distance of 800 kilometers. It is one thing to hear about communities without basic water supply and sanitation needs. Actually having been to these communities and experiencing the kind of hardships they go through is quite another.
In each community that we went, we first met with community elders to inform them of our mission, as is customary in Ghana. On the average, each community has a population of about 1,500, and 80 percent of the working population are engaged in subsistence farming.The remaining 20 percent are made up of table top food staff sellers and various handicraft artisans. Only Akwaso, which is a mining town, had access to a municipal water supply and a complement of other boreholes. The rest of the communities get their water supply from streams and ‘’Sachet Water” which basically is 500 ml normal pipe-born water packed in plastic sachets for drinking. To read more, link herehttp://bit.ly/2nzxRRU
SMILE
ATROCIOUS PUNS
LEFT BANK: What the bank robbers did when their bag was full of money.
HEROES: What a man in a boat does.
PARASITES: What you see from the Eiffel Tower.
PARADOX: Two physicians.
PHARMACIST: A helper on a farm.
POLARIZE: What penguins see through.
PRIMATE: Remove your spouse from in front of TV.
RELIEF: What trees do in the spring.
RUBBERNECK: What you do to relax your wife.
SELFISH: What the owner of a seafood store does.
SUDAFED: Brought litigation against a government official.
PARADIGMS: Twenty cents.
BOTTOM LINE
The number of Americans older than 60 with student loan debt quadrupled from 700,000 in 2005 to 2.8 million in 2015, making the over 60 set the fastest growing age group with student debt.-Qz.com
Amazon now uses 45, 000 robots, deployed in 20 of its delivery fulfillment centers, relying on the bots for tasks like fetching merchandise and lifting heavy pallets. That's up 50% from the 2015 holiday season.-The Seattle Times
LAST WORD
"WHEN SOMEONE SHOWS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM THE FIRST TIME."-Maya Angelou
"WHEN ACTION IS NEEDED, OPTIMISM, EVEN THE MILDLY DELUSIONAL VARIETY, MAY BE A GOOD THING."-Daniel Kahneman
