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ALL TREATS ISSUE OCTOBER 30, 2021
VOL. 2 NO. 16
POST MEETING CHIT CHAT
NEWS-NOTES-NONSENSE
Don't forget to check out our Facebook and Instagram pages (links are available at the top of our main web page. Also, join our Facebook group.
Our weekly meetings will now be in the back room @ Julia's. Follow the corridor right then left to the promised land.
There's no noon meeting on Veterans Day.
Alton Little Theater Executive Director Lee Cox and Artistic Director Kevin Frakes made an enthusiastic presentation on Thursday. During the past 18 months the theater's 87th season sort of happened in fits and spurts, leaving significant financial deficits to deal with and a significant loss of season ticket subscribers.They now prefer to focus on the 88th season featuring seven theatrical productions and three entertainment events, one of which is on November 5th. (See flyer below for details.) ALT performance Information and tickets can be found @ www.altonlittletheater.org and 618.462.3205
FYI-We now have 2-7'X3' and 2-8'X1' RbE club banners that are available for use at any event. Additionally, we have 6 safety vests and 6 aprons with our club name/logo on them.
Early arrivals included AllenH,LoriP and JoeS.
Continue to keep RandyN and TommieM in your thoughts and prayers as they continue to deal with their medical issues.
Thanks to all who donated candy for the Eastgate Party on the Plaza and assisted with the rescheduled event on Halloween.
We will be sponsoring a COVID vaccine clinic on November 19th at the Keasler Rec Center, 1-4 PM. If you are available for an hour or more let LoriP know.
ChrisH will be assisting DonnaK with scholarship interviews.
Prez Lindsey distributed new member recruitment pamphlets and reminded everyone of our goal to have 60 members by next June.
LeonardB noted that the Pontoon Beach police officer slain early this week was the grandson of long time WR Club Secretary (and Boy Scout executive) Carl Timmins.
A shout out HenryS for his 52 years of Rotary service. MikeK and PaulG are celebrating their 22nd anniversaries as Rotarians.
MarkV announced that Salvation Army bell ringing will take place at the WR Wal Mart Market Place door on Saturday December 11th from 10AM-8PM, 1 hour shifts, 2 people per shift. Mark kindly requests that we have one person per hour slot before adding a second bell ringer to that shift.We will also ring the evenings of December 12th and 14th. The sign-up sheets are now moving around the room.
We found out that BradP and WendellR have real time approaches in shopping for Christmas gifts for their grandchildren.
JoeS was looking for 8 trivia players to fill a table on November 13th @ the Brick Hall in Bethalto. It starts @ 7PM, there's no charge for the players. It's a fundraiser that supports athletic awards for the five Riverbend high schools. According to PattiA if JohnP is at you table to answer all the Q's you win!
The Turkey Fund has grown to $285. All donations will be turned over to Operation Blessing. If you want to write a donation check, make it payable to Operation Blessing. The can will circulate weekly until Thanksgiving.
21 members dined on tasty fresh fried chicken and, who really cares what else.
Last to arrive included MarkV, LeonardB, GeorgeT and ChrisH.
JoeS announced it was last call for basketball t-shirt sponsors. The 5th & 6th grade basketball tournament is scheduled for Saturday November 20th. You may sign-up under the events link at our web site. We need a lot of help to make this event a success. Work shifts will begin at 7AM and end around 6PM. You don't have to have any particular skill set to help that day.
PattiA announced that the Edwardsville Rotary club will be selling boxes of fresh fruit for the holidays. If you would like a box let her know.
SAA LeonardB sewed some confusion among the already confused with the trivia Q's. Everyone threw in a $ and called it a day.
Opening duties were handled by Prez Lindsey, LeonardB and RodneyD.
The 50-50 jackpot continue to build after SteveD and LeonardB were foiled at their attempt to find the joker. Steve also won the scratch-off.
Ciao! Have a fine and dry weekend. Stay safe.
AND THE ANSWER IS...
CAN YOU ASSIST?
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ALL THINGS TRIVIAL
Capybaras-rodents that can reach 140 pounds-are swarming a huge gated community near what city?
A-Montevideo
B-Caracas
C-Buenos Aires
D-Boston
(Answer is found at the end of the newsletter)
Today is National Candy Corn Day
The United States’ first pizza restaurant opened in which city?
Buffalo, New York
Boston, Massachusetts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New York, New York
Italian immigrants first introduced pizza to the United States in the late 19th century, but it wasn't until 1905 that the first pizza restaurant opened. Gennaro Lombardi came to New York from Naples, Italy, where he had trained as a baker. He put those skills to use to open Lombardi's in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood. Lombardi's is still serving up delicious pies more than a century later in the same neighborhood. Lombardi’s is also often credited for developing New York-style pizza, one of the many beloved regional variations of pizza across the United States today.
TODAY IN HISTORY
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Sourced from the Make-Up and Banner newsletters
Late-October 2010
WR Halloween Parade candy donations were still being accepted at GeorgeT's office.
MadCo Veteran's Assistance Commission Director, BradL, provided the program at the EA meeting.
Congrats were offered at the WR meeting to SamB on the 50th anniversary of the Rosewood Chiropractic Clinic.
DickBell made-up at the EA meeting and offered a few words of wisdom.
The WR board authorized a $500 PolioPlus donation.
MarkV announced at the EA meeting the name of his new business, Franklin & Vaughn, LLC.
JohnP was "empowered" by the WR board to determine a January date for the Rotary Mouse Derby.
EA members were reminded that Halloween Parade trolly would begin boarding @ 6:15.
RHS Junior Rotarians Drew Bollinger and Amanda Ashley were introduced at the WR meeting.
EA SAA RickH fined everyone who was not wearing a yellow safety vest.
The WR club partnered with the Granite City club to purchase a Riverbend Rotary banner that would be presented to the new club at an upcoming meeting.
SteveD was fined at the WR meeting for not doing any yard work the previous weekend.
It was announced at the recent EA Steak Fry that the club would be sponsoring a Lawn & Garden Show in the spring of 2011 at the St. Louis Regional Airport.
GeorgeM paid a Happy Fine in order to brag about his 20th wedding anniversary to wife Teresa.
PaulG served as the WR program chair.
DATELINE:RI
HOW TO BRING IN NEW MEMBERS
By Tom Gump, immediate past governor of District 5950 and a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Edina / Morningside, Minnesota, USA
Rotary’s recently launched Membership Society for New Member Sponsors has created a high level of enthusiasm for bringing new members into our organization and forming new and innovative Rotary and Rotaract clubs. How do you attract new members into your club? Or form a core of people interested in launching a new Rotary club? As someone who has brought in more than 50 new members (Membership Society Gold Level), I want to share a few thoughts.
Know why people join Rotary
A great starting point is to review the research we already have for why people join Rotary. Data from Rotary International’s last global survey shows that a majority of respondents said they joined Rotary or Rotaract for local community service and friendship. Respondents also listed personal growth, professional development, and professional connections as important reasons for joining. With this in mind, it’s good to make sure your club can provide these things, and that you advertise them to prospective members.
You have to Ask!
This might seem obvious. But you know what, if you don’t tell them about Rotary AND ask them to join, most people won’t. The survey showed that more than 85% of new members found out about their clubs because a Rotary member personally invited them. Don’t miss out on the opportunity. Ask your family members, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and other acquaintances to come to a meeting or event, and then follow up on any interest with an invite to join.
"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back."-Oscar Wilde
“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."-Epicurus
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."-Joseph Campbell
"I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."-Bill Gates
SMILE
Police calls as reported in the Flathead Beacon newspaper-
3:56 a.m. Four bears were trying to get into the chicken coop.
10:58 a.m. A family was unhappy with a deal they made when buying a car.
4:46 p.m. A woman got “smashed” drinking out of a flask at a nail salon.
7:20 p.m. A woman reported she and her husband were no longer arguing, but calmly talking after she told him she had cheated on him.
10:56 p.m. Suspicious lights in a vacant parking lot were just headlights from a car where a couple was enjoying the evening.
2:52 p.m. A caller received an alert on her computer telling her to call Microsoft and move her accounts to another bank, after which she wired $50,000 to the person on the phone.
5:56 p.m. A car was swerving all over the road on the way to the post office.
8:25 p.m. A woman bought a car on Facebook, and her grandma threatened to sue the seller after there were some issues with the car.
9:42 p.m. Some people went to the police complaining their friends wouldn’t let them crash in their hotel room.
8:09 a.m. The bears were in the apple trees again. 1:32 p.m. Someone was throwing lit cigarettes at employees.
5:31 p.m. An officer returneda set of keys that someone had thrown into the woods.
BY THE NUMBERS
In the first quarter of 2020, a company could ship goods by sea for $1,600 per 40-foot equivalent unit, or roughly one large shipping container. By September 2021, the bill had climbed to $10,200-Bernstein
In the first six months of this year, 17 million vinyl records were sold in the United States, nearly double the amount from the same period in 2020-Recording Industry Association of America
There will be some 2.5 million weddings in the U.S. in 2022, the highest number since 1984-The Wedding Report
Americans check their phones 96 times a day, a 20% increase from two years ago-Asurion
Customer satisfaction is at the lowest level since 2005, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which tracks behavior of 200,000 consumers across 46 industries
There are about 600 1959 Gibson Les Paul “burst” guitars in existence, each one has a value of at least $200,000
