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SINGING IN THE RAIN ISSUE
SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
NEWS NOTES & NONSENSE
DEEP THOUGHTS
Look for your next Rotary Banner on October 6th. Until then, chat amongst yourselves.
Marcy Jacobs, Client Services Coordinator for the Oasis Women's Center, presented a sobering program about battered women. Did you know that the Alton Police Department respond to an average of two calls each day for battered women? Madison County responds to about 1,100 calls each year. The center provides a variety of services including a 24 hour hotline, counseling and emergency shelter to 800-1000 clients per year. Marcy dispelled two widely held myths; the problem only occurs in certain socioeconomic classes and that drinking and/or drugs are the root cause. Neither are true. Oasis operates on a $1 million budget, 40% of that comes from local sources. Other than dollars, the greatest need is for household goods.
The wet weather forecast forced the cancellation of the Soap Box Race. If you signed up to work today (Saturday), stand down. The fire Department will still be selling yummy pulled pork starting at 11AM. Look for their tent next to the Fire Department.
MarkA announced that a brief open house ceremony will be held this Monday (10th) at 5:30PM for the new Habitat for Humanity house located at 429 Lincoln. All are welcome to attend.
Allen has an interesting story about "vitamin C".
Don't forget about the family streak fry on October 11th at Kendall Hill Park. SallyS will be coordinating side dishes. Dinner will be served at 6PM. What's your preference, steak or chicken? So state on the sign-up sheet.
Wendell returned from his Caribbean basin escapades with tales of demon rum.
A shout out to Lori on celebrating her 18th year as a club member, and almost that long as our Secretary. what would we do without her expertise?
SAA Queenie drafted Nate as the designated fine sweeper. It was a good day! Rod's birthday was celebrated. Fines were levied for not being with us the previous week, cheating (oh my!), arriving after Paul and not attending the Labor Day picnic with Queenie. Rick made an announcement about the revamped and renamed Gateway Arch National Park. Trivia topics include baseball, Gen X cartoon characters, Monopoly and the Academy Awards.
We missed you! Ty, Pat, Rhonda (off on ADG duties?), Darren, Matt, Virgil, Erin, DaveS, Sandy, Joe, Sherry and MarkV
Rod and Allen were the first to arrive. Paul and Mark's A & S were not too far behind. Among the last of 21 members in the house were DaveM, Patty, BradP and Randy.
Naked, sliced pork was the entree. The buffet table also featured mac 'n cheese, corn/peas combo, bread sticks, salad and the choice of carrot or red cake.
MarkA always treated his brother as a role model. Maybe not so much when it comes to dining.
Opening duties were performed by ChrisL, Nate and Bill.
Happy upcoming birthdays to Darren, Bill and BradL.
The $47 50-50 was left untouched by Emily and BradP. Paul's scratching netted him a broken finger nail.
That's all from here, have a fine and dry (maybe not) weekend.
THE BIG DEAL
TRIVIA
(The answer is found at the end of the newsletter)
What are exhausted new parents now using to try to get their babies to sleep?
A-Sominex
B-Hypnosis
C-Recordings of presidential addresses
D-Sleep coaches
September 8 is National Ampersand Day
53% of residents ages 25 and older have a bachelor's degree in metro Ann Arbor, Michigan, most in the USA. The St. Louis area ranks 39th-WalletHub analysis of Census Bureau data
An estimated 47% of millennials (age 18-35) have at least one tattoo; 37% have at least two; and 15% have five or more. 36% of generation X and 13% of baby boomers are inked-Harris Poll
51 % of U.S. workers say they were satisfied with their jobs in 2017, the highest level since 2005-The Conference Board
69% of parents are not too sure or have no clue about what their child does at work-LinkedIn “Bring in Your Parents Day” survey of 2,117 U.S. parents
Origins: paydirt-One authority traces this expression to the Chinese pei (to give) used by the Chinese miners in California, pay dirt thus meaning "dirt that gives gold." However, it more likely derives from the fact it is dirt containing enough gold dust to pay for working it. The expression is first recorded in 1856.
Which region of Germany officially recognizes beer as a food?
Bavaria
Hesse
Hamburg
Bremen
Bavarian beer is famous around the world, and for good reason. It is commonly served in one-liter mugs and can contain up to 6% alcohol. In its early days, beer was considered food just as vital to the diet as bread. But after many citizens fell ill after consuming beer in 1516, the Duke of Bavaria, Wilhelm IV, issued the first food law in the world regulating the purity of Bavarian beer. The law stated that only water, barley and hops could be used to brew beer (yeast was added later) and this strict rule has remained in effect for most German beer-makers. The region has over 600 breweries and also has the oldest brewery in Germany.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
SEPTEMBER 4, 2003
Current members in a leadership position: Lori, MarkS, Paul, Rod and Rick
The program was presented by Patti Brown from the Nature Institute
Allen volunteered to help grill the steaks at our upcoming Steak Fry. Gig Gwinn would make a program presentation about 10 amazing places to visit
MarkV served as acting SAA and fined everyone who had not sold Entertainment Books or helped with Cardinal concessions
Rod received the $5 birthday treatment
Joe won the 50-50 jackpot and donated his winnings to the centennial clock fund
MarkS and Rose Sebastian are serving as co-chairs of our Chili Supper
As the sun sets over the Minnesota River, it casts a nearby hotel into silhouette. Young people trickle through the hotel’s front doors and gather at a long wooden table in the bar for happy hour. It’s not actually happy hour, but that’s what they call this casual gathering before their club meeting.
Rotary Club of South Metro Minneapolis Evenings members Ashley Taylor, left, Krysta Peterson, Matt Lunde, and Kristen Schlough.
Twice a month, the Rotary Club of South Metro Minneapolis Evenings (SMME) meets here. It’s a nontraditional club, but that has less to do with the members’ average age – 33 – than the fact that they meet after work and tend toward activities not usually associated with Rotarians, such as rock climbing, WhirlyBall, and escape rooms. The club also organizes one or two social outings (such as rock climbing) every month, and another focused on community service. Those have included serving breakfast at the local Ronald McDonald House, planting trees, and reviewing résumés for English as a Second Language students.
SMME’s mix of social and service – of doing and giving – has been key for drawing young people. Take Matt Lunde, who, at 36, is now one of the club’s elder statesmen. He sits at the far end of the table and has brought a prospective member, a woman who once skied in the Junior Olympics. Lunde was one of SMME’s charter members, and, like many in the group, he isn’t from the Twin Cities. He came from Fargo, North Dakota.
Not long after he moved to Minnesota in 2008, Lunde learned from a fellow Fargo transplant about a new Rotary club that might interest him. “I liked the concept of it being after work,” he says, “not in the middle of the day, and not every week – but still being able to have some sort of community and to give back.”
When happy hour is over, the group walks down a carpeted hallway to a conference room that feels a little too cavernous, though no one seems to mind.
“Eli, you want to recap paintball?” asks Ashley Taylor, the 2017-18 president.
Eli Johnson is succinct: “We shot balls of paint at each other. It was really fun. And it only kind of hurt.”
There are two guest speakers: Karen Walkowski, a member of the Rotary Club of Lake Minnetonka-Excelsior, who talks about ending human trafficking in Minnesota, and Mark Hegstrom, of the Rotary Club of Edina/Morningside, located in a suburb of Minneapolis. Hegstrom helped get SMME started in 2009, but tonight he is here in his capacity as past governor of District 5950 to present the club with a Presidential Citation for adopting Rotary’s online tools, donating $4,400 to The Rotary Foundation, and focusing on membership attraction and engagement. To continue reading link herehttps://bit.ly/2ChK7S2
AND I QUOTE
"It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."-Steve Jobs
"A great nation ought not to be a hammer, but a magnet."-G.K. Chesterton
"I would rather fail at something I love than succeed at something I hate."-George Burns
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear."-Oscar Wilde
SMILE
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.
Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end.
When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Americans are eating out a lot more, with the annualized three-month gain in sales at dining and drinking establishments rising 25.3%, to $61.6 billion. That'a the fastest surge since 1992, acxording to a Commerce Department report-Bloomberg.com
The world's middle class now totals 3.7 billion people, according to the Brookings Institution, or 48% of the world population. More than half the world should be in the middle class by 2020-The Washington Post
Emotional-support animals on U.S. airlines have increased 56% in one year, to 751,000. Delta now carries roughly 700 emotional-support animals and service dogs each day, up from 450 a day in 2016. Animal related incidents on airplanes have increased by 84% since 2016-The Wall Street Journal
Americans have increased their personal savings rate from 3.3% to 7.2%. That comes to $613.5 in additional savings, enough money to purchase more than 20 million Ford F-150 pichup trucks or 600 million iPhone Xs-The Wall Street Journal
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