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MAY RAIN ISSUE
MAY 4, 2019
NEWS,NOTES & NONSENSE
ALL SMILES
Our guest speakers are both Master Gardeners associated with the University of Illinois Extension Service. Kim Schoenfeld and Nancy Orrill touched on several gardening topics of interest. The local group has a small demonstration garden in Godfrey, located behind the Godfrey Village Hall. (They are sponsoring a big garden sale Saturday (today) from 9-1.) The demo garden has been used to show how to garden in small spaces, attract butterflies and build a bug hotel. Kim spent a few minutes telling us how much better native plants are than non-native species. If you are gifted a plant, and want it to survive, never say 'thank you", but offer some other form of "thanks". Now you know!
ChrisH wants to know if we combine with the Wood River club, must we sing? If we combine with the Bethalto club, where will we meet? Where do they meet now? We are fortunate to be members of a heathy club.
Dave gave us a flood alert. How high's the water mama?
After getting called out by Randy in the food line, ChrisL decided to pay it forward and jump all over Lindsey for not being current with Game of Thrones. (Arya took care of business and saved the bacon of all the major characters.) Sort of related-Paul promises to bring in his K of C 4th degree sword and give us all a demo of his swordsmanship.skills Can't wait!
Cory announce that he received the
Glo Bingo check for $4782, comparable to the last two years. Once again, thanks to Rhonda for serving as our point person and to all those who donated, worked and participated.
Will Randy's boat float in the flood? Watch for that hidden stump!
The buffet entrees featured BBQ beef and chicken on a stick (made from pork, according to Randy). accompanied by Rotary g-beans dressed with bacon, cheezy taters, bread stix, salad and dessert.
Patty reminded us about Rotary Day(s) at the Ballpark this summer. June 22nd will be the Cards vs Albert. The September 28th date will be vs the Cubs.
Banner scanning continues. Issues thru 2003 can now be viewed at our web site.
It was nice to have Sherry back in the house. She recently spent time in South Florida visiting relatives.
Are aliens really living in ChrisL's neighbors unkempt grass?
We know that Candy Runion/Mark was our first female member. Who was #2,3,4,5...? Wait for it...Thursday, time permitting.
Bill indicated that Jesus did, in fact, rise from the grave, at least in Bethalto.
The first person to arrive was...one of our guest speakers. Allen followed and was trailed by MarkS, ChrisL and BradL. BradP, Cory, Dave and ChrisH represented the post-noon crew. Not arriving at all included: MarkA, Ty, Pat, Rhonda, Darren, Nate, Matt, Virgil, Erin, DaveS, Sandy, MarkV and Emily. Hope to see some of your smiling faces on Thursday.
SAA Quennie drafted Randy to provide collection service. Missed the National Day of prayer? Pay a $. Not here last week? Pay a $. Bill sang Joe's praises for his Day of Prayer presentation. If you need Alex's phone #, just ask...him. Trivia topics included tonsils, gym membership, what you eat, or don't, and fear of vomiting.
Queenie found out that good things happen when you buy your own 50-50, you win! She pulled the joker to win $81. BradP was left with the scratch-off.
That's it, have a fine and dry weekend. (Good luck with that.) Ciao!
3-WAY TEST
TRIVIA
Vegan and other innovative jerkies are booming-including a bitlong variety. What's that?
A-An extruded version "built up" by 3-D printing
B-An air-dried style originally from South Africa
C-A jerky made from cumin-laced Indonesian mushrooms
D-A paper-thin jerky roll traditional to Malaysia
May 4th is National Star Wars Day
What is the world’s most populous island?
Java, Indonesia
Honshu, Japan
Luzon, Philippines
Madagascar
Java is only the world's 12th largest island, but it is home to over 140 million people. Although densely populated, the island contains plenty of natural splendor, with thick rainforests that are populated by over 5,000 species of plants and a large variety of animals, including the rare one-horned rhinoceros. They are among the most endangered mammals in the world with only around 50 adults surviving in Ujung Kulon National Park. The island is also famous for the discovery of "Java Man" in 1891, which demonstrated that a cousin species to Homo sapiens known as Homo erectus lived on the island around 1.5 million years ago.
On This Date-
1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1836 – Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1932 – In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
1945 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
1949 – The entire Torino football team is killed in a plane crash.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
MAY 2 ,2013
Current members in a leadership position: Rhonda, Lori, Cory, Paul, BradL, MarkA, and Rod
The program presenter was Loretta Gobel, who spoke about her book "A Life in Parts"
The Roxana High School Rotary Interact Club officers broke bread with us
Prez-Elect Rhonda provided a recap of the District Assembly
MarkA and ChrisH each wiffed on the $51 50-50. Rick had similar luck with the scratch-off
LaShonda Delivuk was recently featured in a Rotarian articled titled “4 questions about attracting young people to Rotary.” As the 28-year-old president of the Rotary Club of Lynchburg Morning, in Virginia USA, she definitely knows a thing or two about younger leaders. And leading, in general. Here is the link to her interesting audio interviewhttps://soundcloud.com/rotaryinternational/4-questions-about-attracting-young-people-to-rotary-lashonda-delivuk
AND I QUOTE
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."-Martin Luther King
"If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell, I will help them. It's my job."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Life teaches you how to live it, if you live long enough."-Tony Bennett
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."-Mae West
SMILE
Stealing someone's coffee is call mugging
Pasteurize: too far to see
Whoever invented "knock-knock" jokes should get a
no-bell prize
I put grandma on speed dial. I call that instagram
Energizer bunny arrested: charged with battery
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery
The other day I held the door open for a clown, it was a nice jester
BY THE NUMBERS
82% of polled retirees are optimistic about their ability to live comfortably in retirement, up from 75% last year. Among those still working, 67% are confident in their financial prospects during retirement, up from 64% last year-Employee Benefit Research Institute
There are now 75 million active camping households in the U.S., with 1 million being added each year since 2014. 38% of these households are millennials-The new York Times
Last weekend the AMC theater chain screened the new movie “Avengers:Endgame” 58,000 times. The Fandango movie ticket site reported 8,000 sold out screenings of the movie before the weekend began.
In1990, when Americans were asked to participate in the Labor Department’s population survey, which is used to calculate the monthly unemployment rate, 4% declined. As of 2018, the nonresponse rate nearly quadrupled, to 15.2%.
58% of people deep clean their homes in the Spring. 16% in Winter, 13% in the Summer, 8% in the Fall and 5% never do-ACI National Cleaning Survey
32% of restaurant foods labeled gluten-free contain gluten-American Journal of Gastroenterology
